Meet the composer.
What began as innocent play in childhood—with toys, improvisation, and world creation—matured into a deep love for exploring the imaginations of others through music and video games. Music became my training ground for pattern recognition. I used improvisation to discover the rules behind the surface, and reverse-engineered what I found into compositions of my own. I learned form and structure.
After high school, I carried an engineering mindset and had already begun 3D work through CAD and Rhino in school. I completed a transferable A.S. degree from community college. During that time, I picked up guitar and spent my days bouncing between Nintendo, PlayStation and PC—and my Fender and Ibanez. I researched my hobbies incessantly.
When I moved on to university, I explored different areas of study while pursuing a Computer Science degree. After a strong first semester, I changed majors to Electrical Engineering—but it was more out of fear than vision. I had taken on multiple complex systems courses at once. That became a symbolic fall. I "dropped out" after a self-imposed difficult second semester and turned to composing and playing live music, social life, and working to manage the debts I’d taken on.
I found success in music a few years later after moving back home and forming a band with musicians from high school. We got prematurely signed to a major metal label (no actual drummer yet, transparently) ended up touring the West Coast and most of Europe. The entire time we juggled fill in drummers due to their unstable personalities. I met wild, interesting people and lived deep inside another life full of freedom and simultaneous occasional abusive emotional entrapment.
Eventually, I left the band in search of something greater (Lack of permanent drummer/drive/structure). I started a home-based recording and production business working with musicians (WaveTouch Studio) Later, I co-founded a second business making and selling skateboards and longboards (another childhood obsession which turned into business and marketing knowledge)
That’s where I encountered betrayal, and began to see the structure of dialectic manipulation up close. It changed everything I understood about human behavior. I burned my ties to that creation and cut all ties with my ex-partner. The following years were spent in mental fragmentation and painful clarity—reflecting, rebuilding, and seeing the hidden patterns for what they really were. I found a truth.
