Born in New York and now based in Berlin, he is a saxophonist, composer, improviser, writer and organiser. He has never been interested in genre classifications, although his music has been described as noise, jazz, free jazz, musique concrète, improvised music, art rock, new music, sound art, brutal prog and electroacoustic music.

As a bandleader and solo artist, he has toured across Asia, the Americas and Europe, performing at festivals including the Sapporo International Art Festival, Moers Festival, Jazz Jantar in Poland, Lima Jazz Festival, Unlimited Music Festival in Wels, Jazz Festival Saalfelden, Meteo Mulhouse Festival, Jazz Cerkno and The Observatory in Singapore. In New York, his music has been presented at Roulette Intermedium, ISSUE Project Room and during a residency at The Stone. His writing has appeared in Arcana, edited by John Zorn, and in a Japanese-language book on Kaoru Abe. His projects include solo saxophone recitals, the evolving audiovisual work Irrational Rhythms and Shifting Poles, the band CP Unit and a long-running duo with Otomo Yoshihide. He has collaborated with artists including Axel Dörner, Keiji Haino, Mazen Kerbaj, Tony Buck, Nate Wooley, Peter Evans, Chris Corsano and Tyshawn Sorey.

He has recorded around 40 albums as a leader or co-leader. As an organiser, he independently produced more than 100 concerts in New York between 2013 and 2022. After moving to Berlin, he co-curated the programme at Sowieso between 2022 and 2023, and in 2024 co-founded the Richten25 venue and Odamusic e.V. In 2025, he established the Hard Listening Festival — a Berlin festival dedicated to exploratory music and non-music.