Though trained as a sociologist, I've been working with recorded sound for 20 years, beginning on cassette multi-tracks recording my own bands as a teenager. Now in the era of DAWs and plugins, I regularly work with DIY bands that play hardcore, punk, indie, garage rock, grind, powerviolence and other sounds from the underground. 

My expertise lies in making DIY recordings really shine and to make them ready for release. To do so, I treat every recording as if it were my own, working as hard as I can and with as much attention to detail to make even the most grimy of recordings stand out.

I call my studio boredom&terror in homage to cultural studies scholar Lawrence Grossberg who, writing about youth culture, said that "[music] empowered them to escape the boredom of everyday life ... And, at the same time, [music] empowered them to escape the shadow of a public terror" of nuclear war and environmental catastrophe. Though he said that over 30 years ago, I believe it to be an accurate reflection of music's role in our current era: providing expression and agency amidst the alternating feelings of de riguer excitement of obligatory consumerism and the terror of climate change.

In addition to mixing and editing, I'm also a musician. I've done time on bass in bands like Pittsburgh's Brain Handle, Chicago's Birth, Dead Senses, and in the backing band for Ashton the Terrible.