Isaac (born 1989, Phoenix, AZ ; raised Little Rock, AR) is a composer/improviser and multi-woodwind performer based in Los Angeles, CA. He recently graduated from UC Irvine's Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology PhD program where he specialized in 20th- and 21st-century music notations. His dissertation "Scoring the Unknown: Rethinking Fixity and Openness in Western Art Music Notation" is now available via UCI's library and via eScholarship.

In 2018, he received his MFA in Music Performance and Literature from Mills College (requiescat in pace) where he studied composition/improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell, James Fei, Fred Frith, and Zeena Parkins.

His scholarly and creative work centers on music notation, open-form composition, musical modernism, the American jazz tradition, and the creative legacy of the AACM. He is also a passable guitarist, draughtsman, and film photographer.