He teaches at Western Washington University, co-directs the B'ham Electronic Arts Festival (BEAF), and runs the Spectropol micro/netlabel. Hamilton has been composing, improvising, and recording with xenharmonic temperaments and scales since 2009. Some of his albums feature xenharmonic/microtonal music, most notably Compulse (as Skiks), an all-microtonal release on the split-notes netlabel. Spectropol has released several xen/microtonal albums, including those by Joe Evans, Dan Stearns, Paul Rubenstein, city of the asleep, Brendan Byrnes and Joel Taylor; as well as the Possible Worlds compilation series (2011, 2013, 2014).