“Voice of Ether” is an eclectic sound of synth, folk, and ethereality. I am primarily a singer and pianist with a focus in improvisation. I produce all of my own music and art. My style revolves around haunting textures and powerful harmonies to build immersive soundscapes.

BIOGRAPHY (so far)

I was born and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I grew up performing locally in church bands and musical theatre, but the music that interested me most were soundtracks for video games. My childhood was a slurry of gospel/bluegrass, show-tunes/standards, and electronic/orchestral.

I eventually moved to Chicago to study Audio Design, but was disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Voice of Ether” began as a whisper in my mind when I moved to Colorado in 2020 to escape the midwest. My identity was dissolving and everything I knew before the pandemic became void—it was from this void that a voice began calling.

I moved back to Chicago with this whisper that continued to grow. I got a studio downtown, and I completely shut myself away for months. As the world stood still, I cocooned myself—looking over the skyline as I underwent creative metamorphosis. At the end of this isolation, I emerged with my debut album “Home in the Shade”.

The next several months I spent traveling from place to place. I eventually moved to LA for winter, where I finished my second album “Voice and Key”.  The day after completing the album, one of my high school music teachers passed away unexpectedly. I didn’t write anything for the remainder of my time in LA.

When I moved back to Grand Rapids, the grief hit me during her memorial at my old high school.  A few months after, my childhood music teacher passed away unexpectedly, too. I thought these deaths in succession would destroy me, which they did—for a while. As I tended to my grief, I unearthed something greater than myself…the weight of a legacy, a fire stoked by the ones before me.

I spent the next couple months furiously creating. I wrote an elegy, “It is with Her” in honor of my old teachers. I wrote “Lesser Vices”, one of my most character-defining songs. I independently produced two music videos for each of these songs. Using these projects as a crucible for my grief was almost essential for my recovery, and showed me power that I wouldn’t have discovered otherwise.

I feel that I’ve only scratched the surface of this power, and it brings me great joy to share it with others. Who knows what I will do next?