I’m the founder of eTonal Media, Inc. which owns and operates the WholeNote.com website for guitarists, the ActiveBass.com website for bassists, ActiveMusician.com, an on-line retail musician store, and FunkyKids.com, an on-line toy and musical instrument store. Our sites have received accolades from such publications as The New York Times, Guitar Player magazine, Acoustic Guitar magazine, and Bass Player magazine.
Before that, I spent time at Yale’s Center for Studies in Music Technology (CSMT), the Banff School of the Arts, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Berklee College of Music, Microsoft Research, Interval Research (RIP), and Organic.
Together with Sean Kelly, I have a US patent in the field of music technology which was the basis for both our thesis in grad school and the Wholenote.com site. Since 2003, I’ve taught the Dynamic Web Development course at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU, which focuses on the LAMP approach to web-based applications, along with jQuery, web services, Facebook apps and the like.
When not playing the occasional gig in NYC, I can be found entertaining at the neighbors’ pool parties with my guitar and fair-to-middling voice, or for my wife and toddler daughter with a combination of Beatles and Thomas the Tank Engine tunes.
