I play the bass (electric & upright), guitar, hammered dulcimer, avant-garde cajón, and drums. I also write and record music.

Here are some of the projects I have been involved with:

• [ 2013 - 2018 ] I played in a post-rock/math-rock band called Dispersion Theory. We will shortly be releasing an album on which I play the bass (and a number of other instruments). I also recorded the album. While the band is nominally Pittsbugh-based, most of the band has since moved away from Pittsburgh.
  Ride The Bears




• [ 2015 - Present ] My former housemate Molly and I have a duo in which we cover songs by Joanna Newsom. We call ourselves Joanna Twosome and like to assert that we're Pittsburgh's premiere Joanna Newsom cover band, even though neither of us lives in Pittsburgh anymore. Nomenclature has become more complex, though, since the awesome Mary-Kate joined as our third member. Molly and I have 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 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)



• [ 2010 - 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 will mix and release them as the "Live From Kossuth Street" EP. Below is a rough mix of Steve, Peter, and me.
  Improvised jam


• [ 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


• [ 2011 ] I was 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.