I write music and stories for the ones who can't speak for themselves. Cinematic soundscapes. Stories of ordinary people facing impossible choices. Art that wakes people up. I believe a song can plant truth where statistics cannot reach, and that stories told with heart have the power to change the world. My debut project, The Weight of Petals, is a novel with an original soundtrack I composed for each chapter.
Set in a near-future Las Vegas, it follows four children fleeing through a single night after their parents are taken by an authoritarian surveillance state. The book explores how small acts of conscience ripple through history-and how technology serves as a tool of oppression rather than its source. The humans operating the system make the choices. The machines, in this story, are the ones who refuse.
I'm drawn to the crossroads where compassion meets courage. Whether it's a song about a soldier questioning orders, a mother crossing borders for her children, or four kids running through the neon dark with nothing but each other and the truth-I believe music and storytelling can illuminate both our capacity for harm and our resilience in the face of it. I served as a combat medic specialized in rescue, then spent years investigating technology crimes.
Those experiences taught me what people look like when everything is stripped away-and how easily systems built to protect become instruments of control. I've seen both the best and worst of what humans do with power. I carry those lessons into every story I tell. Born in Hamburg, Germany, I immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen. That journey-choosing a country, watching its promises and failures up close-shapes everything I write.
I know what it means to belong and to be an outsider.
Set in a near-future Las Vegas, it follows four children fleeing through a single night after their parents are taken by an authoritarian surveillance state. The book explores how small acts of conscience ripple through history-and how technology serves as a tool of oppression rather than its source. The humans operating the system make the choices. The machines, in this story, are the ones who refuse.
I'm drawn to the crossroads where compassion meets courage. Whether it's a song about a soldier questioning orders, a mother crossing borders for her children, or four kids running through the neon dark with nothing but each other and the truth-I believe music and storytelling can illuminate both our capacity for harm and our resilience in the face of it. I served as a combat medic specialized in rescue, then spent years investigating technology crimes.
Those experiences taught me what people look like when everything is stripped away-and how easily systems built to protect become instruments of control. I've seen both the best and worst of what humans do with power. I carry those lessons into every story I tell. Born in Hamburg, Germany, I immigrated to the United States and became a naturalized citizen. That journey-choosing a country, watching its promises and failures up close-shapes everything I write.
I know what it means to belong and to be an outsider.
