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I was born and raised a Parisian. My interest in music started when I decided at 10 that I wanted to play Bach on the Organ. So I enrolled at the local conservatory. I got interested in composition early on and was lucky enough to study with Bernard Labadie, who performed and wrote for a slew of famed performers including Edith Piaf and Django Reinhardt. We became close and he taught me composition and piano in addition to the organ. He hated Bach.
I hated bands, and got into computer music and sequencing during the late 80's

During that time, I Somehow discovered the music of Pierre Boulez and Edgard Varese, which changed my whole outlook on music and sparked my interest in sound design and electronic music.

After spending a year in Israel, studying things I can't quite remember now, I moved to Boston to attend Berklee College of Music. Back then, it was one of the few schools in the world to offer a program on music technology and synthesis, and how was I to know better at the time? Soon however it became painfully obvious than the school was closer to Jan Hammer's Miami Vice aesthetics than to Varese's Poeme Electronique. I did take a Csound class with Dr Richard Boulanger, stopped practicing the piano and started writing music and soundscapes entirely with computer code, not to touch an actual musical instrument for many years to come.

During and after college I did quite a bit of work in local post production houses, from video editing to sound for video games. A few years after graduating I decided to get a masters in electronic music and composition, moved to LA, and attended the California Institute of the Arts. I got the opportunity to study with Morton Subotnick, Tom Erbe, Mark Trayle, and many other well known composers and artists. Still an avid coder, I worked in Java to create music out of data collected on rat brain experiments (thank you Cheryl Cotman, Sun Microsystems and UC Irvine) and continued working with Csound.

Some of my efforts eventually got noticed when I got a phone call from Trent Reznor to work on the first demo for the video game DOOM 3, as well as a few other things here and there.
Since then I have written original music for many artists and clients, taught at the Institute of Audio Research, Touro College in NYC, SAE Institute, New York University, started using musical instruments again, wrote more computer music, mixed several album, designed sounds for theatre and dance companies etc...