Teaching, Community, Mentoring
Since 2019 I have taught dozens of sold-out music production workshops at, Stanford University’s D-School, I/O Music Academy, and the Gray Area Institute for the Arts, where I run an NEA-funded program that provides free-to-all electronic community events and a synthesizer lending library.
If you would like to book me to run one of my workshops, get in touch.
I offer one-on-one, mentoring/creative coaching and hands-on studio sessions, shaped around whatever you're working on — learning a tool, finishing a track, or finding where your music is trying to go. Beginners to working pros, in my studio @ Gray Area, or online. Get in touch to start learning together.
Ableton Live — novice to advanced: composition, sound design, arrangement, mixing, mastering, live performance, and hardware integration, drawing on twenty years of professional use.
Finishing your tracks — take a loop or half-formed idea to a complete, release-ready mix.
Genre & composition studies — make tunes like the artists you love, and learn why they work.
Modular synthesis — my system, VCV Rack, or yours; patching fundamentals through generative composition.
Hardware instruments — drum machines, synths, guitar, fx. I've never met a synth I couldn't figure out.
Coaching & mentorship — find your voice, build confidence, and figure out your next step.
Learn how to make Ambient Music and Ableton Live at the same time. From classic Eno studio techniques to modern sound design and generative composition.
Free community workshop showing the creative bounty and limitations of making music on a vintage 8 track tape machine.
An NEA-funded synthesizer and electronic instrument lending library, free-to-all modelled on public libraries, founded in 2020 at the Gray Area in San Francisco. Come borrow something and make music!
My studio. High-end monitoring, I/O, modular and vintage synthesiszers, drum machines, vintage and modern, guitars, amps, creative fx, and even an analog video synthesizer.
Free, community Synth Session. I think this one was about programming drum machines.
Another free Synth Session, I think this one was all about FM Synthesis.
Two day Techno music workshop. Together we compose, automate, mix and arrange a techno track from scratch using classic hardware techniques inside Ableton Live.
VCV Rack workshop - learn modular synthesis - the building blocks of all synthesizers and drum machines - from the ground up to advanced generative patches across two days using this free open source software.