Canadian artist Mark Templeton utilizes a background in acoustic music and instruments such as the guitar, banjo and accordion to compose electro-acoustic music using a variety of effects processes. Since the release of his critically acclaimed 'Standing on a Hummingbird' in 2007, his sound has been called 'pastoral', but also 'painterly' in an attempt to describe how his instruments are crumbled and reconstructed into new forms; a process further developed and realized on his 2009 release, 'Inland'.