WITF Music: Lysdexia

• Joe Ulrich/WITF
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  Joe has been interested in audio and music since he was a kid. What started as a fascination with his parents’ vinyl records and cassette tapes turned into a love of both performing and recording. He grew up in Elizabethtown, Pa. and moved to Pittsburgh in 1999 where he majored in Photography at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  In 2004, he attended the Conservatory of Recording Arts & Sciences in Tempe, AZ. He returned to Pittsburgh to work at a recording studio.
  
  In 2008, Joe arrived at WITF, where his skills have found a good home as an on-air host, audio engineer and producer of WITF Music. In 2016, Joe earned a National Edward R. Murrow award for Best Use of Sound.

Dave Zienkiewicz of Lysdexia performs at WITF Music on January 13, 2026. (Joe Ulrich - WITF)

Central PA band Lysdexia talks about their beginnings and explains a mostly remote writing process—sending ideas, building a roadmap, then rehearsing—while embracing genre flexibility ranging from “balls to the wall” metal to more progressive and ambient elements, with complex time signatures and shifting riffs. They also talk about early-musician lessons, favorite albums, surprising tastes, first concerts, onstage mishaps, hobbies and gear/software preferences.

A collection of interviews, photos, and music videos, featuring local musicians who have stopped by the WITF performance studio to share a little discussion and sound. Produced by WITF’s Joe Ulrich.

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