About Me
Beethoven was my first love. Then it was jazz, rock, free jazz, free improv, and the avant-garde. Then lofi, banda, EDM, punk, and ska. I spend most of my creative time now in the spaces between Pure Data, Ableton, noise music, black metal, Indian classical, Terry Riley, John Coltrane, synthwave, Bach and Haendel.
The beginning of my career was spent as a musician, teaching at the International School of Music in Washington DC and playing contemporary music on the East Coast. I worked with really cool artists including Tom Delio, Ron Stabinsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, Rhonda Taylor, Kjell Nordensen, Stanley Zappa, Michael Foster, Michael Evans, Robert Morris, Andrew Mead, The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, The The Great Noise Ensemble, and Inscape Chamber Orchestra.
In 2011, I co-founded JACK (jackny.org), a Brooklyn based performing arts space which focuses on modeling equity and justice in the experimental arts. JACK won an OBIE and has developed into an incubator for voracious emerging artists. I developed JACK's music programming which to date has presented hundreds of internationally renowned artists in Clinton Hill Brooklyn. including Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans, Daniel Carter, Louise D.E. Jensen, Joe McPhee, Cactus Truck, Ingrid Laubrock, Brian Chase, Mark Dresser, Tatsuya Nakatani, Kojo Roney, Borbetomagus, Ron Stabinsky, William Parker, Ron Anderson, Isabelle Dutoit, Michael Foster and others.
While at JACK, I also started getting work as a sound designer for theater and other types of live performance. A personal artistic renaissance began, with immersive productions of Hoi Polloi productions including Baal, Toshiki Okada's Quiet, Comfort, Plato's The Republic, WGRG-TV, Beckett, etc. Because I came from outside the theater scene, I didn't have the same mental constructs of what theater "is" or "should be"; I just focused on what was novel, moving, and unique. It turned out to be a great outlet for creative and interactive composition.
Since then, I've worked hard to integrate the sound designers' tool kit into my professional work. Over the past decade, I've developed hardware and software audio solutions for a diverse list of applications including performance spaces, commercial audio products, interactive systems for audio processing as well as producing sound/music for original work by an extensive list of critical contemporary voices (playwrights) including Zora Howard, Emily Feldman, Lily Padilla, Anna Moench, Steph Del Rosso, Ella Rose Chary, Keiko Green, Kate Hamill, Nathan Davis, and Charles Smith. I've taught sound design/music performance at the University of California San Diego and Ohio University.
Even though I'm passionate about live performance, I'm also a total tech nerd. I get artistically inspired by digging down into digital signal processing, audio algorithms, and analogue synthesizers. I like to think that by understanding the hidden truths and maths behind existence and storytelling, I can make art that is cutting edge yet completely relevant. My upbringing in the Pure Data programming paradigm set the stage for creating all kinds of cool computer music "instruments", working with interactive processes and generative musical systems. Immersion has also manifested in my work in the form of binaural rendering methods (HRTFs, BRIRs), spatial audio paradigms, and multi-channel composition and processing.
One of the great joys of this type of work is travel. I've toured across the US, Europe, and Korea. In 2022 I joined the Board of the International Computer Music Association and attended their conferences in Utrecht and Seoul.
My mentors include: Jean-Michel Goury, Shahrokh Yadegari, Miller Puckette, John Sampen, Tom DeLio, and Dale Underwood. I am eternally grateful to all of my teachers for their perspectives, attention, and for what they helped me to discover; I'm still working to pay them back.
The beginning of my career was spent as a musician, teaching at the International School of Music in Washington DC and playing contemporary music on the East Coast. I worked with really cool artists including Tom Delio, Ron Stabinsky, Tatsuya Nakatani, Rhonda Taylor, Kjell Nordensen, Stanley Zappa, Michael Foster, Michael Evans, Robert Morris, Andrew Mead, The Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, The The Great Noise Ensemble, and Inscape Chamber Orchestra.
In 2011, I co-founded JACK (jackny.org), a Brooklyn based performing arts space which focuses on modeling equity and justice in the experimental arts. JACK won an OBIE and has developed into an incubator for voracious emerging artists. I developed JACK's music programming which to date has presented hundreds of internationally renowned artists in Clinton Hill Brooklyn. including Evan Parker, Thurston Moore, Okkyung Lee, Peter Evans, Daniel Carter, Louise D.E. Jensen, Joe McPhee, Cactus Truck, Ingrid Laubrock, Brian Chase, Mark Dresser, Tatsuya Nakatani, Kojo Roney, Borbetomagus, Ron Stabinsky, William Parker, Ron Anderson, Isabelle Dutoit, Michael Foster and others.
While at JACK, I also started getting work as a sound designer for theater and other types of live performance. A personal artistic renaissance began, with immersive productions of Hoi Polloi productions including Baal, Toshiki Okada's Quiet, Comfort, Plato's The Republic, WGRG-TV, Beckett, etc. Because I came from outside the theater scene, I didn't have the same mental constructs of what theater "is" or "should be"; I just focused on what was novel, moving, and unique. It turned out to be a great outlet for creative and interactive composition.
Since then, I've worked hard to integrate the sound designers' tool kit into my professional work. Over the past decade, I've developed hardware and software audio solutions for a diverse list of applications including performance spaces, commercial audio products, interactive systems for audio processing as well as producing sound/music for original work by an extensive list of critical contemporary voices (playwrights) including Zora Howard, Emily Feldman, Lily Padilla, Anna Moench, Steph Del Rosso, Ella Rose Chary, Keiko Green, Kate Hamill, Nathan Davis, and Charles Smith. I've taught sound design/music performance at the University of California San Diego and Ohio University.
Even though I'm passionate about live performance, I'm also a total tech nerd. I get artistically inspired by digging down into digital signal processing, audio algorithms, and analogue synthesizers. I like to think that by understanding the hidden truths and maths behind existence and storytelling, I can make art that is cutting edge yet completely relevant. My upbringing in the Pure Data programming paradigm set the stage for creating all kinds of cool computer music "instruments", working with interactive processes and generative musical systems. Immersion has also manifested in my work in the form of binaural rendering methods (HRTFs, BRIRs), spatial audio paradigms, and multi-channel composition and processing.
One of the great joys of this type of work is travel. I've toured across the US, Europe, and Korea. In 2022 I joined the Board of the International Computer Music Association and attended their conferences in Utrecht and Seoul.
My mentors include: Jean-Michel Goury, Shahrokh Yadegari, Miller Puckette, John Sampen, Tom DeLio, and Dale Underwood. I am eternally grateful to all of my teachers for their perspectives, attention, and for what they helped me to discover; I'm still working to pay them back.