Ray is a musician and guitarist known for his versatile playing style that spans multiple genres, classic rock, blues, metal, and jazz. He has been teaching guitar now for over 25 years and is a highly accomplished guitarist with a very diverse background in music. Co-founder of New Jersey instrumental prog duo Gematria, The duo formed in 2017, sharing a myriad of musical influences and a love for esoteric studies and explorations.

The songs on their full-length release, Gematria II: The Spindle Of Necessity, were composed using elements of gematria, a qabalistic numerological system of relating words to numbers, the I Ching, sacred geometry and the writings of Aleister Crowley and Austin Osman Spare to help generate rhythmic and melodic ideas.