About
You
Sincerely, thank you for inviting me in to your life experience. I appreciate the time you've taken to come here and learn more. What you do matters, and hopefully we can make the world a brighter place to live in, together.
Me
I'm a creative born and based in the Midwest USA. I express myself through problem solving in the forms of music composition, design, and making things. My stories are open to your interpretation and reveal more with intent observation.
My Music Journey
Learning Guitar
I started playing music on acoustic guitar around the age of 12 and moved to electric not long after, gravitating toward classic rock and metal. I learned music the way most people do at that age: by ear, feel, and playing things until they made sense. Reading sheet music and working through scales in a traditional sense never fully stuck, but I developed an innate sense for writing rough riffs I enjoyed.
I started playing bass a couple years later, joined a cover band that played one show before dissolving, and then turned my attention to original material. I was writing rock and metal songs throughout high school while occasionally exploring acoustic pieces that pointed somewhere else entirely. After another band I was in didn't end up panning out I decided to focus on solo projects.
How I work now
Every piece starts with a concept. The idea shapes which instruments I reach for, and those choices deliberately limit the variables so I can focus on what matters. From there the process is slow and meditative. I'm less interested in productivity than in getting the feeling right.
The thing I keep returning to is independent voices. Parts in my music don't strictly share the same rhythmic or harmonic roles. Each one carries its own melodic line, and when they lock together it's an intentional, structural moment. The music sounds one way in isolation and a different way in full; that gap between the two is where I thrive.
Branching into Programming
During college, space and noise constraints reduced my desire to play guitar, but I didn't stop making music. I wrote music for a game my friends submitted to a competition, took music theory classes, and studied digital music creation. My guitars gathered grime as the years passed. For roughly five years after college I focused almost entirely on programmed music.
When the world went quiet in 2020, I picked guitar playing back up, and something unexpected happened: I was better. Not technically, but in terms of how I heard and thought about music. Years spent working with independent layers, orchestration, and synthesis had rewired something. I came back not as the guitarist I had been but as a composer who uses music to express what I mean. This realization evolved my process.