For twenty years I've worked in machine learning and signal processing, and maintained an active career as a performer and composer. The through-line, across all of it, is the relationship between structure and what grows from it, like how jazz chords are to the improvised melody as the recipe is to the dish.
Applied machine learning and signal processing for real systems: bio-signals, acoustics, ecology, and recommendation systems.
Focus areas have included FDA-facing diabetes algorithms, machine listening, and music discovery systems used by Apple, Spotify, Google, and Amazon.
I spent nearly a decade performing in New York and Los Angeles, with credits spanning Birdland, Dizzy's Club Lincoln Center, Broadway national tours, and venues in Europe and Japan. Selected credits include a double Grammy-nominated recording with Patrick Williams, performing with Foo Fighters at the Grammy Awards, and performances with John Paul Jones, Ravi Coltrane, and David Liebman. Winner at the National Trumpet Competition, Washington D.C.
I have a hand-tool woodworking studio in Bentonville — mostly joinery, no power tools. I cook. I spent a semester at Brightwater Culinary School. I'm a certified Arkansas Master Naturalist, which mostly means I spend time in the Ozarks paying close attention. I grew up fly fishing for trout in northern New Mexico and have kept it up for twenty-five years.
Based in Bentonville, Arkansas, close to the Ozarks and far enough from anywhere to stay focused. Current work is remote data science and ongoing composition and performance through TechTet.
Graduate study in Music Technology at Georgia Tech is part of the longer formal background behind this music-technology work.
For TechTet performance, booking, and programming information, visit the TechTet main page or the presenter page.
If you want the technical record, a consolidated list of research publications and patents is available.