I play the bass (electric & upright), guitar, hammered dulcimer, avant-garde cajón, and (enthusiastically, but mostly aspirationally) drums. I also write and record music, in addition to regularly hosting DIY house shows and running live sound.

In non-chronological order, here are some of the projects I have been involved with :

• [ 2021 - present ] I play guitar and upright bass in an indie band with folk, punk, and blues influences. Lisa, Claire, and I are Totally Fine. Yes, we are toooootally fine. (We formed during the pandemic.) In 2024, we released our debut album, Good Enough. That release, which I also recorded and mixed, fulfilled my long-standing dream of putting out an album on vinyl, but now I have a lot of copies in a box in my house in case you happen to want one. (Please?) We play a couple of times a year throughout Chicago and the surrounding areas.
  


• [ 2013 - 2018 ] When I lived in Pittsburgh, I played bass (among other instruments) in a post-rock/math-rock band called Dispersion Theory. We secretly released an album that I recorded, and we inadvertently sold one copy of the album even though it was intended to be free.
  Ride The Bears


• [ 2015 - 2016 ] My former housemate Molly and I had a duo in which we covered songs by Joanna Newsom. We called ourselves Joanna Twosome and asserted that we were Pittsburgh's premiere Joanna Newsom cover band. Neither of us lives in Pittsburgh anymore. Furthermore, nomenclature became more complex when the awesome Mary-Kate joined as our third member. Molly and I played encores as a series of other cover bands, most notably an Angel Olsen cover duo called the Angel Olsen Twins. I made a website with recordings of one Joanna Twosome show, and we're currently (very slowly) mixing some more formal recordings.
  Peach, Plum, Pear
  The Book of Right-On
  Three Little Babes


• [ 2011 ] While I lived in Debrecen, Hungary, three good Hungarian friends and I co-founded Rosszhal ("Badfish" in Hungarian). To my knowledge, we are the only band ever to mix acoustic ska-punk Sublime covers mixed with Hungarian folk music. We even made the front page of the Napló newspaper. You can download (for free) our LP called "Diffúz bizonytalanságérzet."
  Kis Kece Lányom + Badfish
  Santeria
  Slow Ride (+ Hull a Szilva a Fáról)


• [ 2001 - 2003 ] In high school, I was in a band called Moto, named after the venerable Iron Chef Japan. You can download both of our records (.zip) for free.
  Save The Day
  Aftergo
  Mudslide


• [ 2003 - Present ] My New Jersey friends and I liked to have jazz jams. I liked to record those jams. I'm currently sitting on recordings with people like Caitlin Nicholas (trumpet), Melissa Keeling (flute), Steve Plesnarski (drums), Peter Godart (keys), and others. One day, I might mix and release them as the "Live From Kossuth Street" EP. Below is a rough mix of Steve, Peter, and me.
  Improvised jam


• [ 2011 ] I was inexpicably in a Hungarian hard-rock cover band called The Rattlesnake that played shows in Hungary and Romania.


• [ 2009 - 2010 ] I played rhythm guitar and sometimes bass for Eighty East, a NJ-based Pakistani rock band. We sounded like this.


• [ 2007 - 2009 ] Growing up in Edison, I ended up being part of the desi music scene. I played bass for a video session with Nivla, one of three finalists in the Doritos Crash the Super Bowl contest. In Fall '09, I sat in on bass for a show with Ali Zafar, the "Prince of Pop" (of Pakistan).


• [ 2003 - 2004 ] I realized it would be awesome to have my own big band. I wrote a bunch of arrangements in Sibelius, we practiced twice, and then we played two concerts under more than two different names.
  Inspector Gadget / Chameleon


• [ 2003 - 2004 ] I played bass for one year with the Harvard Sunday Jazz Band, which included a concert in which Jim Hall sat in with the band.


• [ 1999 - 2003 ] Throughout high school, I played in the jazz bands and percussion ensemble of Andy DeNicola's (Dean's) band program at J.P. Stevens High School.