About

Hi, depending who you ask I am a musician, lyricist, systems engineer, independent scholar or author.

Safe to say I've been birthing a few projects lately. Before this creative stint, I was leading a small team of engineers building industrial simulations for educational industry leveraging my background in engineering physics and bioelectronics where I thought I would apply physics to neuroscience until I dropped the physicalist ontology and found home in a process relational ontology. There's something rewarding about making a simulation/system feel immersive, alive and responsive, but without beingness it can feel a bit uncanny, maybe thats why I digest such ponderings with my Dark Ambient Metal music. 

Two central questions of the nature of reality and the nature of mind had always been guiding questions, in addition to existential and ecological concerns. It wasn't until my research and writing that they all merged together and you could say my guiding question is now to understand and enact Collective Agency. You'll often find me bridging the technical , sociological and psychological domains, always adjacent to cognitive science, AI, knowledge management, Haptics, collective sensemaking, socioeconomic reform.
 
My music is headed into Dark Jazz/ Orchestral directions with my upcoming Domesticated Minds album, and you may see a bit of my Philosorapper side come out if we meet in person. Needless to say the name Domesticated Minds has been resonant in soo many ways, so I'll leave it up for interpretation. But I try to bridge both extremes of tension and release in a cathartic and hypnotic vortex between technical death metal in funky time signatures and long dissonant transitions.

I've been  living in a converted bus to be adaptive and in contact with nature, largely in British Columbia, connecting with intentional communities and spent several months at monasteries in India and abroad.  

I  hope you join me, finding your own connection to the nature of reality, mind and agency.