I am a New York-born, Berlin-based saxophonist, composer, improviser, writer and organizer. I have never been interested in genre, but my music has been variously described by others as noise, jazz, free jazz, musique concrete, improvised music, art rock, new music, sound art, brutal prog, electro-acoustic music, etc. If there is an abiding principle in my work, it is dialectic: by endlessly interrogating my artistic practices, choices, and ways of living, I am trying to get nowhere. And in a world where everywhere seems terrible, nowhere is where I want to be. One can think of this as a kind of endless, disciplined searching, that I realized long ago was doomed to fail.

As a bandleader and soloist, I have toured throughout Asia, North and South America and Europe. My touring (as leader or co-leader) has taken me to major international festivals such as Sapporo International Arts Festival in Japan, Moers Festival in Germany, Jazz Jantar in Poland, Jazz Festival Lima in Peru, Wels Unlimited Music Festival in Austria, Jazz Festival Saalfelden in Austria, Meteo Mulhouse Festival in France, Jazz Cerkno in Slovenia, and the Observatory in Singapore. In New York, my music has been presented at Roulette Intermedium, ISSUE Project Room, in a residency at the Stone, and at countless DIY venues throught the City. My writing has appeared in Arcana (edited by John Zorn), a Japanese-language book on Kaoru Abe, and in many articles in the now defunct Sound American, where I was on the editorial board. I have also taught workshops and lectured on my music at Rice University in Houston, University of Coimbra in Portugal, Meteo Mulhouse Festival in France, and Sound Disobedience Festival in Ljubljana. Some of my projects are: solo saxophone performance, a constantly evolving audio-visual electro-acoustic piece “Irrational Rhythms and Shifting Poles”, my band CP Unit and a longstanding duo with Otomo Yoshihide. I have also performed with Axel Dörner, Keiji Haino, Mazen Kerbaj, Tony Buck, Wendy Eisenberg, Nate Wooley, Miya Masaoka, Paul Lytton, Peter Evans, Weasel Walter, Jaimie Branch, Chris Corsano, Oli Steidle, Luke Stewart, Elias Stemeseder, and Tyshawn Sorey.

I have recorded around 35 albums as a leader or co-leader and appear on many more.

As an organizer, I presented over 100 concerts independently in New York from 2013 until 2022 when I relocated to Berlin. In Berlin I co-curated the program at Sowieso in 2023 before co-founding a new venue, Richten25 and its parent-verein Odamusic e.V. in 2024. In 2025 I founded the Hard Listening Festival–a Festival for adventurous music/non-music in Berlin.