About

I am a composer and creative engineer currently living in Berkeley, California.

A lot of my time is spent searching for, recording, and making music from unusual sound sources. A mandolinist by trade, my practice now involves writing for unconventional musical instruments, and every once in a while, inventing new ones. 

Much of my thematic work focuses on the triumphs and pratfalls of human communication. My interest in this field developed over the course of several decades working as an educator, designer, and researcher, and now permeates most of my art, be those compositions, films, or written works. I aim for my audience to reconsider their relationships to sound—be those the quirks of natural language, distortions introduced by digital compression, or one’s conceptualization of physical space based on recordings.

Outside of my work as an artist, I am the founder and creative director of Dogbotic, a studio and audio laboratory that creates weird and strange sounds for weird and strange people. We create music and sound design for all sorts of multimedia projects, from feature films to interactive installations. Through Dogbotic Labs, we teach a variety of hands-on workshops on topics such as homemade synthesizers, experimental photography, and media theory.

I cut my sandwiches diagonally.