Hello, I was born on March 30, 1977 in New Kensington, PA. When I was around 15 months old I was diagnosed with Otitis Media. My ears had filled with fluid and I was unable to hear correctly for several months. I had surgery and was sent to ear specialists that introduced me to the world of test tones and perceptual challenges.

Music has always been a part of my life. My father played guitar and sang me Beatles songs and sometimes his own self penned songs when I was young. My Grandmother and Aunt also played piano and sang Italian influenced songs. They all seemed happiest or at least at peace when they were playing music. I guess perhaps through imitation I decided I wanted to play music as well. For as long as I can remember I was playing something, hitting something, making some kind of noise. I first started out playing chord organ and toy xylophone. I can still remember holding out long tones on the chord organ. I remember that I loved to just hold down the chord buttons for as long as I could. Oddly enough one of my first musical performances was for Ralph Nader. I was probably around 5. My mother was doing a video interview with him. I was on the floor underneath them banging on my toy xylophone. I doubt he was impressed. In school I took up clarinet and played with the school band. At the time I hated it, but now looking back I realize that I learned the fundamentals of music on a B Flat clarinet.

Aside from various art projects I took up, I don't remember ever wanting to do much other than just being in a band. I started my first one when I was 13 or 14. I met some local kids that were playing together. I ended up singing for them. We were called Lurch. A very strange, I guess emo-type, band that included a bass player with a hunchback. This went on for a few years, until guitarist Chris Pecoraro and I decided we wanted to be a little freer and more experimental. I was still singing and I took up drums. Chris still played the guitar. This became Eskimo 88. We did this for the rest of our high school careers. We recorded and released to cassettes Open Your Ears and Hear a Sound and Inside Outside.

In 1995 I went away to Edinboro University. Instead of going to class I spent all of my time reading and writing music. I decided to try to learn the guitar. I made over 200 recordings of myself trying to learn the guitar. I was reading as many books on 20th century composition that I could find and then after trying to figure out what it all meant, I tried to apply it to guitar.

I dropped out of school at the end of the semester. I came back to Pittsburgh and started playing with Ken Camden and Brian Camphire. This was the start of Meisha. Shortly after Brian left, Pete Spynda joined. We recorded several times and released Meisha, Meisha Returns, Meisha Forever, The First Lessons in New Era Time: The Universal Orchestra of Pituitary Knowledge Sing Om to the Disturbed Onlookers, Who were Meisha and Robin Anyway?, The Fourth Lesson In New Era Time: The Republic of Meisha, On A Clear Day You Can See Forever, Meisha Machine Music, and A Celebration of Life.

I returned to Edinboro University to study and make films. While there Pete Spynda and I formed Arco Flute Foundation with Matt Mcdowell, Rob Dingman and Jeff Komara. We recorded and released The Second Lesson in New Era Time Exploring the Possibilities of New Wave Villains; And What of Boy?, The Third Lesson in New Era Time: Running Slow-Motion Marathons With Purple Rejoice; Who Killed the Party House?, Everything After The Bomb Is Sci-Fi, Everything After Everything Is The Bomb Is Sci-Fi, I Ate Tony Conrad's Pierogies, The Fifth Lesson in New Era Time: The Unconsciousness of Yukon Steve. We also created a new system of time that was 3 hours and 14 minutes behind Eastern Standard Time.

Both bands did several tours and imploded leaving the shattered ashes for all to see. I now play alone and am always recording, painting, making films and video, listening to music, studying Enthobotany, thinking or watching T.V.