4 years ago, my bud John Andersson and I got together and composed a 60 minute score to a story we wrote titled "The Devil's Orchestra." We then started Camerata and headlined it every week. We didn't have a name yet so we went as the Devil's Orchestra. We played there for 72 weeks straight until we decided to stop, sit down, record, and finally think of a band name. Symphonic Circles was born. We immediately released a 3 song e.p. of demo's we recorded at our house. In February of 2011, we released our first full length album "The Familiars" which is more on the classical piano side. Our next album "The Obscure Purist" is aimed to come out this Spring and is in an entire different musical direction.

In 2009, projectionist Michael Allen asked me to play at the Burning Man festival with his live electronic band "Soul Or System." They were comprised of a circuit bender (Vince Wong), a drum machine/synth player (Mid-Air), a harpist (Ricky Rasura), and Michael on projections. Being able to put live drums on their set was a blessing. Mid-Air and I really hit it off both musically and simply as friends. When we came back to LA we decided to do a gig at Camerata under the not-so clever name "Mid-Air & Elmo." We ended up doing gigs around town for a couple months. People seemed to really be diggin what we were doing but we needed an actual name. Dirty Murdered Birds? Sure.

I started playing with Christina in September of 2010. I was given a cd of some of her song ideas, and a few really grabbed me. We got together for 1 week and went over her songs and wrote full band parts for them. The very next day we recorded a live 6 song e.p. titled "Ocean Way Sessions." The next day after that we played our first show (which happened to also be Christina's first show ever) at the Santa Barbara Bowl (sold out) supporting her idol Jason Mraz. 3 weeks later Ocean Way Sessions came out and hit #1 album on the iTunes pop charts. We went in and made her debut full length in January with producer Joe Chicarelli. It debuted at #4 on the Billboard charts. And now we're touring it off all over the everywhere.

I met Rob 12 years ago on my first tour ever. He was in a live hip hop band "Que Estey" from Jacksonville, FL, and I was playing in my band "Limitpoint." I was 15. We toured the whole country together and became good friends. About 2 years ago Rob's solo career started to do well. I booked him at Camerata and played drums for him at the show. It went well, and he asked me to play with him on his tour to CMJ in New York. We've been giggin together since. Playing with Rob is fun for me because I get to hype the crowd up and double lyrics with him, which is out of the ordinary for a drumming gig.