ME, MYSELF, AND I…

The son of a perpetual tinkerer and gadget-head, it wasn’t a stretch that I’d be spending my days surrounded by things that make noise. I came to this much like anyone else… I was the kid in the band with a four track, in my father’s basement. My high school bandmates one day figured out that I had replaced all their parts and played them myself. The band broke up, and I continued recording. That’s where my story started.

I briefly flirted with academia, in the discipline of film, which was and perhaps is still my deepest love. Bard College welcomed me with open arms, and a far less open financial requirement. I left after not so long, and continued in the affairs of the recording elite. I sold high end audio equipment to pay the bills, and recorded at night. After a spell, I was finally able to make regular rent payments, and I began working with bands I liked, through the early 2000’s. That eventually gave way to working with artists who I respected.

After several years of calling The Clubhouse (Rhinebeck NY) my home as senior engineer, I left to build my own studio, The Isokon in 2008/2009, in Woodstock NY. And in 2021, I packed up and moved again, reclaiming a corporate/industrial boardroom in a former IBM facility in Kingston NY, and then in 2022, to a former 1940’s Ford dealership warehouse.

In early 2024, I bought a ranch in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, with my partner and wife, Monik Geisel, who is a brilliant photographer and artist. We set out to live our life long dream of having a modest horse ranch, with my studio right on site. We renovated a barn on the property to become the new Isokon.

The rest as they say, is history…. now I work primarily out of The Isokon, though I often will travel elsewhere to track, always returning to mix at The Isokon. Recently, I’ve begun working with a fully equipped mobile recording outfit which has turned out to be compelling way to find creative and inspirational spaces, that aren’t the typical recording studio.

I tend to be politically opinionated, and I’m a voracious consumer of political literature. I love podcasts and classical music. I’m a film buff, and I am a member of a 6 piece kraut/jazz/avantgarde outfit called ULTRAAM, as well as my own musical endeavors under the monikers BALTIC and SNOWFLAKE.