A geek is born...
Me and Dad
A geek is born...
My Early Years
Few people believe that I remember seeing (and hearing) The Sound of Music at the age of 3 and instantly knew that I wanted to create music, but it’s true.
I started writing songs at 11 years old when I taught myself guitar and then started teaching myself piano at age 13. I started experimenting recording my songs and adding harmony parts by bouncing from one tape machine to another.
My love of music was equaled by my love of technology which started with my father who was a gadget geek and dabbled in editing home videos. He lit my passion for anything techy. He always had the latest FILL IN THE BLANK and now I have inherited that same addiction.
At age 19, I bought my first 4 track recorder and I was hooked and felt destined to become a recording engineer. I started performing as an artist at 18 and moved to Austin in my early 20’s where I put together a 9 piece band and won the Austin Chronicle’s Best New Band and Best Pop Band awards. In the early 80’s, after performing at the Dell Computer company picnic with my band, I was given my first PC that booted up from a 5 inch floppy disk. It was then that I discovered music software and recording with a computer.
During that time, I started working in recording studios in the Austin area. I decided that I wanted to get more professional experience working in world-class studio, so at 24 years old, I moved to New York City. While working in amazing studios, I finished my bachelors and masters degrees at NYU while performing with my new band. I loved NYC and learned so much there but after 10 years there, I decided to move back to Austin in my mid 30’s. I’ve been here ever since and I love it.
The evolution of Blue World...
Blue World has been my world since 1991 when I was living in a small town outside of New York City, named Blauvelt. It was actually my father who informed me that the name of my town was German for “blue world”… hence the name….
Blue World #1 was in Blauvelt with money I won in a jingle contest as a student at NYU and fed my gear addiction working a brief stint as an Apple Education Consultant finishing my masters.
Blue World #2 was in the back room of my apartment in Greenwich Village. I put an ad in the Village Voice and was quickly engineering for a roster of very colorful clients. It was during these years that I started my lifelong love affair with digital audio.
When I wasn’t out chasing fame with my band as an artist, I was constantly in the studio. Looking back, I enjoyed my engineering much more than rehearsing and performing.
Blue World #3 was in a commercial building in Chelsea. It felt like my first real studio. I started getting hired for some amazing projects. Everything from jingles, film scores, artists, bands, a few broadway demos and any time left, I was writing and producing my own work.
In 97, I decided to move home to Texas, bring all of my big city digital audio gear and create Blue World #4. I decided to build an all digital studio in the very analog music town of Austin.
It took me a while to get the Austin boys to embrace recording without their tape machines, but I hung in there. For 10 years, I have loved this room in the Texas Hill Country and had the honor of working with so many brilliant artists, producers, musicians, bands and songwriters.





eSession.com - 2006 - 2013
ahead of our time...
As I was running my studio business in Texas, it was the late 90’s and technology was evolving more every year.
What used to costs hundreds of thousands for studio gear was forever changed as more and more writers and musicians started creating home studios.
There were very few people who knew the latest trend of recording to disk, so I started helping my studio musician friends and artists and engineers around the country create home studios.
I consulted with them on gear and software and started to gradually create my own network of engineers and musicians.
As internet speeds increased, I started teaching them how to work remotely.
So, in 2004, I decided to create a new tech startup; a network of world-class talent and create a website that allowed anyone to hire and collaborate with professional musicians.
I built a software team with my friend and renown engineer, Kevin Killen, and in 2007 we launched eSession.com.
We had a few pretty good years and I learned so much. But in 2013, I decided to sell the site and move on to my new passion





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