About

I'm a product designer who turns musical abstractions into instruments you can play.

In my head there's a mythological Pythagoras scratching the circle of fifths into the dirt with a stick. What he couldn't have imagined is that one day the diagram itself could become the instrument. That's my work. I take musical abstractions (harmonic languages, voice-leading systems, transition networks) and turn them into things you can play. I first presented this idea at NIME 2019 in a peer-reviewed paper, and I've been building on it ever since.

Scale Navigator turned harmony into a shared state that every instrument in a session follows. Ensemble Jammer let non-musicians improvise together with no wrong notes. SNaPS let samples survive harmonic changes instead of restarting. Early Downhome Blues turned a 1920s musical idiom into something you could generate and play with. I design the interaction model, prototype, build, ship to the App Store, and refine after real people use it.

Before this I was a product manager on creative software at SPG Studios and FutureCare. I hold an MFA in Music Technology from CalArts and a BA in Vocal Performance from UC Santa Cruz.

Some musical ideas make more sense when you can play them than when you can read about them. Those are the ones I like building.