I was born in Los Angeles in 1992, and lived there until going to school at Oberlin College in Ohio in 2010. I moved to Oakland, CA in 2014 for an MFA in Electronic Music and Recording Media at Mills College, where I studied composition and performance with Zeena Parkins, Fred Frith, and Pauline Oliveros.

In 2016 I began work as a recording engineer at Tiny Telephone Recording in San Francisco and Oakland, and later at a collective warehouse studio in Oakland called The Creek. I organized the Lucky Cloud concert series in Oakland from 2015 to 2020.

In 2021 I moved back to Los Angeles for an MA in Musicology at the UCLA School of Music, where I researched social histories of recording technology and geographies of improvised music communities; and taught classes in popular music history and environmental sound. 

I’m currently working as an engineer and producer at The Acorn: a retreat-style studio I built in a cabin high in the San Gabriel Mountains, an easy drive from Los Angeles.

I write songs as Abe Hollow and with Marissa Deitz in Tuckamore. I play saxophone, mostly as a free improviser, and I compose electroacoustic works that combine field recordings, synthesizers and Max/MSP programming. I’m also working on becoming a better klezmer clarinetist and sitar player.

I organize The Acorn Series, a program of monthly underground concerts in Los Angeles. I am constantly DIY-touring across the USA in my Volkswagen hatchback, and hope to keep doing it forever.