About

I've been making music for as long as I can remember, and I've spent the last 15 years trying to figure out how to never stop.

I started piano at the age of five, mostly classical. Guitar followed in grade school, alto saxophone in middle school (a guest jazz musician played improv for our class and I was hooked). By high school I was conducting orchestral rehearsals, writing jazz arrangements for the school's jazz band and orchestra, and gigging around Chicago with a local rock and blues band called The Lowdowns, performing keyboards and saxophones at venues like Fitzgerald's and Reggie's.

Junior year I became the Drum Major for the big band ensemble. During my last two years, my saxophone quartet performed with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Center, and the jazz band played the Chicago Jazz Festival.

In my final year, after finishing my AP Music Theory coursework early, my teacher sat me down in the back of the room with Pro Tools and let me learn it during class for the remainder of the year. Little did I know that this would stick with me for many years to come.

I got a music scholarship to DePauw University, to pursue Music Education and Piano Performance. Around the same time (late 2011) I fell down the Bitcoin rabbit hole. That obsession persisted for 15 years and counting.

What followed was a long stretch of working day jobs and producing music in my room — teaching myself Logic Pro 9, then Ableton, then releasing tracks across Spotify, YouTube, and everything else starting around 2015. The jobs paid rent. The music kept me sane.

I was furloughed from AMC Theatres while finishing a Network Systems Administration degree. I used the downtime to go deep on Ethereum, learning the ins and outs of Etherscan and any other analytics platform I could find.

In 2021 I applied to become a Nansen Scout (mostly hoping for free platform access). It worked. I spent nearly 3 years at Nansen, moving up from a Scout → Community Manager → Community Lead → User Operations Manager.

In 2024 a former colleague brought me an offer to apply to the Jito Foundation, and I couldn't pass it up. For the first time in my life, my music and work weren't separate jobs.

Today my music is featured across @jito_sol's content on X, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Everything I write is improvised and arranged in post. Everything is improv.