Biography
When I was fourteen years old, I watched a professor at a jazz camp demonstrate the program GarageBand. While my peers were intrigued, I was floored! The potential I saw for sonic creation in that moment was mind blowing. After months of waiting, I finally got an Apple laptop with GarageBand installed. I couldn't put it down. Since then, sound has been my thing.
Throughout high school, I experimented with music technology as much as I could. Whether writing music using MIDI, recording myself and my bands, or reading books on audio technology, I couldn't get enough. When I decided to finish my last two years of high school at the Interlochen Arts Academy, I brought my equipment with me and continued to experiment with technology. I even assisted on recording sessions at the Interlochen Public Radio station. I studied classical percussion at Interlochen which allowed me to improve as a performer and to develop critical listening skills. Those skills helped me earn a scholarship to Berklee College of Music.
Before the end of my first semester, I was accepted into two very challenging majors at Berklee: Music Production & Engineering and Electronic Production & Design. The following summer, I interned at Shock City Studios in St. Louis, Missouri. While there, I watched and assisted the staff engineers, gaining valuable insight that I applied to my studies. Returning to Berklee, my hard work was recognized. I was awarded the 2010 Berklee College of Music, Music Production & Engineering and Electronic Production & Design Dual Major Award.
While at Berklee, I studied many areas such as acoustics, composition, electrical engineering, audio engineering, record production, percussion performance, software programming, and sound design. While I have interests in all of these fields, I discovered that none of them interest and fascinate me as much as sound design. I see a picture with no sound as a blank slate, and filling it sonically is my way to creatively help tell the picture’s story. From ambiences to explosions, I love to acquire, create, and manipulate sounds to fit a scene. Putting my sound design work together with music and dialogue, to mix the final sonic vision of a film, is one of my favorite things in the world. Since then, I have made it my priority to be a professional sound designer and re-recording mixer for television and film. In my free time, I continue to write music and play my various musical instruments.