R.S. Pearson has been played on NTS in shows including Belec, featured first on 26 January 2020. Songs played include Sleeping.

Composer R.S. Pearson got his first synthesizer at the age of 12, a PAIA kit that he built with the help of an older neighbor kid. The year was 1975. In this early part of his career, Pearson gave out his music more to other composers than to music reviewers. Among composers who received his music and gave him a favorable response were Colin Newman (Wire), Amy Denio, Al Margolis (Pogus, If Bwana), Dave Prescott, Richard Frankecki, and over a dozen lesser known composers. Then in 2000, the composer finally started taking the professional output of his music more seriously. Works that were over 15 years old began to get favorable reviews.

Pearson at the present time is more well-known as an author and the owner of the small but stable ParaMind Brainstorming Software, which makes a brainstorming program to "exhaust the interactions of words coming up with every idea possible." As a music theoretician, he is just as optimistic, using a simplistic vintage sequencer from an old Casio model that is unique in electronic instruments.
Although he can compose from scratch without any sequencers or loops, his idea is very akin to visual art ideas, such as those of Max Ernst. Ernst created background images automatically through various processes and the used his trained painting techniques to create figurative embellishments. Pearson started out with classical lessons and used to compose everything on paper, until in his mid-teens he realized he could go further if he simply used a recorder. Always learning and trying to get to new areas, he is going back slowly to something like the compose-on-paper-first route, wanting to explore where that might lead him.

Pearson grew up in NY but came to Seattle in 1982 and has been there pretty much ever since.