I have been a freelance radio author, producer, sound designer, recordist, and audio engineer since 1978 -- first at my New York studio and currently in my private studios in New York and Berlin. 

I've made radio productions for broadcast in the United States, many European countries, New Zealand and Australia. My work can be heard as part of the permanent audio installation at the Ellis Island Museum of Immigration and was featured as part of the closing event at one New York City Garbage Transfer Station.
I have created, produced and otherwise worked on sound installations that have been featured in locations from the Chicago Museum of History to a portable "SWATCH Audio Adventure."

From Sacramento California, where I was born in 1948 to Berlin, Germany, where I resettled in the 90's, has been a circuitous, at times torturous journey. After a detour into the US Navy where I was an Electronics Warfare specialist in the Vietnam War, I studied Political Philosophy and Peace Studies at the Universities of California, Santa Cruz; Oslo, Norway; and Bradford, England. Then, after the Navy, the University and a few years working as an anti-War, 
-Apartheid, -Nuclear Weapons activist in San Francisco, I left California for New York.

Was radio a calling? 
Were early adventures in surreptitious recording of my parent's card games a sign, or perhaps the radio receivers built in high school, 
or the late night "pirate radio" we broadcast over the USS Hornets cable system in the Tonkin Gulf?

During the early days in New York, on the dial, WBAI, the local Pacifica station was easy to find, the plea for volunteers hard to resist. Five days and 60 hours of newsroom experience and I saw the future. Radio.

It was there, in New York, at WBAI in 1980, that I first heard Peter Leonhard Braun's "Bells in Europe" -- radio as it's seldom heard in the US.
Radio and Berlin were calling. 

Recently:
In 2001 I had the opportunity to spend days in the studio with Wynton Marsalis when we produced a 30 part series, "Jazz for Young People.
In 1993, I collaborated with Los Angeles based author, Dennis Cooper, and produced the radio drama "The Undead" which received a commendation as best radio drama at the1995 Prix Futura Berlin. In 1991, I was co-recipient of the Grammy Award for best spoke word production for the "The Civil War," based on the book by American Filmmaker Ken Burns.

Over the years I've given radio production seminars in Berlin, at the Academy of Art, at New York University and at the University of Leipzig.

Along the way:many other programs, other awards, commendations -- acclamations from the Secretary of Navy, from the Peabody's.