I'm a composer, clarinetist and saxophonist based in Los Angeles, CA. I recently graduated from the Integrated Composition, Improvisation and Technology PhD program at UC Irvine where I specialized in 20th- and 21st-century music notations. My dissertation "Scoring the Unknown: Rethinking Fixity and Openness in Western Art Music Notation" is now available via UCI's library and ProQuest (as well as on this site).

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

I tend to be most interested in musical modernism, hybrid music notations, algorithmic composition, cross-modal fixed/free musics, the American jazz tradition and the music of the AACM. I'm also a passable guitarist, draughtsman and film photographer.