Began studying 'cello at age 8, continuing through college. Began composing music in a classical romantic style at around age 12, composing "Andante for Strings", which was performed by the Willowbrook High School Orchestra in Villa Park, IL throughout the 1973-74 school year. Studied Theory and Composition, and Electronic Music at Northern Illinois University from 1974-77. Joined I.R.S. Records recording artist Wazmo Nariz in 1978 as keyboardist, which toured the United States and Europe both as headliner, and in support of such groups as The Police, Devo, XTC and the B-52s. The band was dissolved in 1981. Relocated from the Chicago area in 1983 to Los Angeles. Working with Larry Grennan a.k.a. Wazmo Nariz, played keyboards on, an arranged "Yahoo EEEE!" and "Kramtorn Avenges the Puttbundles", both composed by Mr. Grennan, and appearing in the Jonathan Demme films "Something Wild" (1986) and "Married To The Mob" (1988) respectively. "Yahoo EEEE" was released as a 12" single on Big Time Records in 1986. In 1993, composed music for “Super Illusion”, which toured 11 cities throughput Japan with the Bolshoi Circus from Moscow, Russia. Before traveling to Belarus and Russia later that year, composed music for “Horror Illusion”, which played at the Holiday Spa Health Resort in Japan and featured magician Greg Wilson. Played keyboards on the Stan Ridgway song "Right Through You" from the album "Partyball" (Geffen Records, 1991). In 1994, composed music for magician Franz Harary’s segment of the NBC special “The World’s Greatest Magic”, which aired November 23 of that year. Composed music for Mr. Harary's live performances. In 1995, began to pursue visual art (painting and multimedia). By 1997 I began to assemble a video editing/graphics/animation home studio, and created Blank Stare Productions with Jim Piper. Blank Stare created the 3D Animation “Long Ago Down Below” which, in 1998, showed at the CSUN Animation Festival, and won the Bronze Award at Worldfest Houston. In 1999, Blank Stare created motion graphics for the film “Three Strikes”. In 2003, returned to electronic music composition,  collaborating with wife, Mona Jean Cedar PAS d'ASL to create “Burning Bird”, which was performed at the 2003 Burning Man Festival. In 2004, began the first of several collaborations with choreographer Rudy Perez. The first of these was “Double Play”, performed October 9, 2004 as part of the Tender Land: Pasadena Festival of Art, History, Music and Science in Pasadena, CA. The next was “Double Play Revisited”, performed at the REDCAT Theater in the Walt Disney Concert Hall complex in downtown Los Angeles, as part of the NOW Festival. This was followed by “I Like A View, But I Like To Sit With My Back To It”, performed at Highways Performance Space September 15th& 17th, 2005, as part of the Latino New Works Festival. In 2004, joined the band Zef Renirhs. Performed at Bent 2005,  the 2nd Annual circuit bending festival, held in New York City. In 2005, performed in the first "Circuit Bending Orchestra" at the Fusion Arts Museum as part of the HOWL Festival in New York City. July 18, 2006, played keyboards with Wall of Voodoo at the Pacific Amphitheater, opening for Cyndi Lauper.