About Me

Not your average American in Europe!

I get my thrills writing and releasing music (obviously 😎), performing stand-up comedy, acting, musical theatre, and more recently cosplay and lightsaber combat (as one does when surrounded by Imperials!)

My songs are really just an ongoing attempt at keeping a journal. Themes typically revolve around identity, desire, curiosity, neurodiversity, and whatever the heck else I feel like exploring.

Musically, I wander between alt rock, indie, and pop I guess, but I really hate having to force stuff into a genre. So sometimes I just say JournalPop.

Anyway, I'm a self-taught, self-produced, and self-assured (?) independent artist seeking to collab and connect with interesting people, bands, musicians, producers, and other creative misfits. If you've got an interesting idea, hit me up

These days, I write, record, arrange, and produce my music from scratch in my DAW. I'm still learning, still experimenting, and having a ridiculous amount of fun along the way.

A note on generative AI and my music...

I no longer use generative AI music tools in my songwriting or production process.

Today, I write, record, arrange, and produce my own music from scratch in my DAW. I'm also not interested in collaborations involving AI-generated music as I want to get my hands as dirty as possible these days.

Some of my earlier releases, including Neuroemergent and Shanties of Shadow & Sol, involved generative AI tools. I used my own ideas, lyrics, melodies, and raw recordings as inputs to help create more fully produced songs as a shortcut as a producer.

As I learned more about how these tools were trained, and developed my own music production skills, I made the decision to stop using them.

Those early releases are still part of my creative journey, and I believe in being transparent about how they were made. Today, I'm much more interested in exploring what I create myself and with other artists. The learning is half the fun (and performing with/for peoples is the other half. 🤘)