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Bioluminous
This two-track, 28-minute EP combines modular electronics and samples in expansive, slowly-building pulses and shifting rhythms. Fragments of audio are embroidered in both real and…
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(else)where is a collaboration with sound artist Bruno Duplant and photographers TJ Norris + Harrison Higgs, consisting of two CDs and 10 cards in a…
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The Red Door Project is an award-winning nonprofit “leveraging the arts to bridge the divide between the public and law enforcement.” My video and sound…
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Composed 2018, remixed 2023.Dance video collaboration with choreographer/performer Lu Yim. Release #2 in a 50th-year digital series.
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This 7-track, 30-minute EP is a collection of dark ambient drones, an ode to the corrosive and decaying aspects of nature. Layers of modular synth…
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Chromesthesia
A generative, six-speaker sound installation. Three doorways with two-way mirrors display three rooms filled with saturated color and sound. Each room contains a set of…
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Unknown Atmospheres
With 7,000 individual LED bulbs and 8.2 channel audio, Unknown Atmospheres is a room-sized immersive light and sound installation. A fully-mirrored wall reflects everything in…
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AUXART – To The River
A 16-channel generative, site-specific composition, this collaboration with sculptor Philip Krohn was installed on the banks of the Willamette River for six weeks during the…
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Cyclical Traces
Digital EP released Feb. 2022. These five pieces, created over a period of five days in May – June 2021, were composed from field recordings,…
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AUXART I by Philip Krohn
My surround sound composition for a sculptural environment was created from detuned piano, modular and software synths, field recordings, and found objects. Created over a…
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(eco)systems (with Bruno Duplant)
CD released on Stellage, 2021. (eco)systems is a mix of acoustic instruments, field recordings, digital and analogue synths, structured in algorithmic cycles, random fluctuations, slow…
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m_puls
Digital EP, released April, 2020. Anonymous spaces, silent inhabitants, dramatic inquiries, narrative suggestions. Random impacts, borrowed objects, fragmented voices, FM synthesis, room tone. Sudden junctures,…
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N-tor.6
In this short film, two friends find unique ways to send messages through time and space. With Cat Ross & Gabi Villaseñor. This track is…
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Skew / Flume
CD, Opal Tapes, released 2019 Comprised of two EP’s on one CD/digital release. Skew / Flume marks a continuation of the long-standing work of American…
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Linda Austin Dance – A World, A World
My original sound score for this dance piece reflected the wildly divergent approaches in the two halves (or “worlds”). In the first, sonic fragments were…
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Hand2Mouth Theater – Psychic Utopia
This experimental, interactive theater piece was created by the cast, based on dozens of interviews with current and former residents of communes in the Pacific…
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Bill Will – Fun House
I accompanied Bill Will’s exhibition of kinetic sculptures Fun House with a four-channel generative sound installation. An extensive library of individual sound events were randomly triggered and…
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SNKR (with Kelly Rauer)
SNKR was a collaborative project with movement and video artist Kelly Rauer, resulting in videos, sounds, performances and hybrid combinations thereof. SNKR began with a…
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This video backdrop for the percussion ensemble Secret Drum Band combines extreme macro footage of mushrooms, leaves and plants with extreme telephoto footage of the…
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Bounds
LP, 39:30composed 2012 – 2013Aufabwegen AATP47 Bounds treats recorded sound as infinitely malleable; from grains to pulses to pitches to rhythms, loops and cycles; interruptions, repetitions,…
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Hand2Mouth Theatre – Time, a Fair Hustler
https://vimeo.com/167062691 My sound design for this theatrical reimagining of Gus VanSant’s “My Own Private Idaho” combined remixes of original music by Peter Holmstrom (Dandy Warhols)…
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This music video for my track, Stint, was a collaboration with sculptor and photographer Harrison Higgs. From the album Skew/Flume.
Keep readingHeidi Duckler Dance Theatre NW – Well Worn
This 4-channel video installation was created to accompany a performance by Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre NW at The White Box Gallery, University of Oregon. I…
Keep readingKelly Rauer – Locate
My sound design and camerawork for Kelly Rauer’s three-channel video installation concentrated on swooping, twirling motions. White noise, sine tones and pulsing drum machines were…
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Lair
Cassette, 26 min.Draft Records D020, edition of 100Artwork by Harrison Higgs. Meticulously edited studio constructions composed of metallic rattles and impacts, vocal whoops and grunts,…
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Kelly Rauer – Weight
My sound design and camerawork for this installation captured dancer and video artist Kelly Rauer leaping, jumping and crawling through the empty space of a…
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A Portland Circus on Cage’s Silence (with Linda Austin)
This performance, celebrating the 100th anniversary of John Cage’s birth, was curated by Mack McFarland at the Pacific NW College of Art. Dancers, musicians and…
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Linda Austin – A Head of Time
My sound score for this dance performance was developed through an extended series of improvisations with the company, in rehearsal and various in-progress showings. I…
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Children’s Games
Children’s Games was an evening-length performance combining cinematic images with sung and spoken voice, abstract sound, and performative actions. The piece drew inspiration from the…
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Furl
Sonoris sns-09 CD. Composed 2007 – 08, released 2010.Cover art by Harrison Higgs. Reviews Open clusters, animal patterns, resonant “ghosts”, dynamism, percussive bursts…
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Bandage a Knife (with Linda Austin Dance)
This dance performance, created and co-directed with Linda Austin, was based on a strategic “forgetting” of Seijun Suzuki’s 1967 cult yakuza film, Branded to Kill. …
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Linda K. Johnson – Promenade
This outdoor dance performance was the culmination of Linda K Johnson’s year-long artist residency amid the construction of the South Waterfront. Promenade responded to a rectangular park…
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Knives
Senufo Edition 01 LP, numbered limited edition of 180composed and released 2009 Physicality, suspense, cinematic effects, rhythmic ruptures, and dynamism. Compositional processes include improvisation, blind…
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Flock & Tumble
This performance combined 6-channel recorded sound with 12 live vocalists and 4 video projections. The performers flashed colored lights and moved through the large warehouse…
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Flock & Tumble
CD, 53 min.Sonoris sns-06composed 2006 – 07, released 2008Cover art by Harrison Higgs Choral clusters, animalism, extended spaces, natural acoustics, awkwardness, percussive bursts. Site-specific improvisation, blind layering,…
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Ecllipses (with Matt Marble)
CD, 48 min.And/OAR and/30Composed 2002 – 2005, released 2008 Rustling and jumbled textures, rhythmic rolling, ideophones, free exchange, blind layering, room tone, micro-envelopes, “creatureality”, re-recording,…
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Linda Austin Dance – Circus Me Around
My original score for this dance piece featured 4-channel sound, spread throughout a reclaimed warehouse. Audiences were seated in one of three performance areas while…
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Sillage (with Brendan Murray)
CD, 43 min.Sedimental sedcd049Composed 2003 – 2006, released 2007 Jagged sounds, abrupt breaks, propulsive tempos, sudden pauses, re-use of scraps, digital distortion, spun speakers, banned fades,…
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Amnemonic Site
CD, 46 min.Alluvial Recordings, composed 2004 -06, released 2007. Percussive bursts, linked events, micro-envelopes, spatial dissonance and crowd noises, Amnemonic Site: a “place of forgetting”…
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FO A RM Magazine
FO A RM magazine was a publishing project with Bethany Ides, Matt Marble and Joseph Bradshaw. Over the course of 6 years, five issues, three…
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Circus Me (A Round) (with Linda Austin)
This collaboration with choreographer and dancer Linda Austin used the camera to extract and reconfigure a solo from her larger project Circus Me Around. By…
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Gyre (with Jgrzinich)
CD, 41 min.cut 018Composed 2005, released 2006.Cover image by Jason Kahn Location recordings, continuous abrasion, open environments, compositional drift, site-specific improvisation and free exchange. Sources…
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Stria (with Jgrzinich)
Stria is the companion album to Confluence. CD, 45 min.Erewhon CDWhon008Composed 1998 – 2001, released 2003 Sources include voice, bowed metal, pebbles, motor-driven instruments, beans…
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Uva
mini-CD, 20 min.20City 20-9Composed 2001, released 2003 Sequential transformations, the slow revealing of hidden sonic events, linking of sonic layers, re-recording inside resonant objects and…
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Umbra
CD, 42 min.edition… xxvComposed 1999 – 2001, released 2003. Continuous pitched sounds with an undercurrent of white noise. Air on the edges of tone, amplified…
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Sunder, Unite (with Olivia Block)
CD, 38 min.Sedimental sedcd034Composed 1999 – 2001, released 2003Cover photograph by Carmen Resendez Audio ‘chopping’, mutual destruction, improvisation, live recordings as raw material, free exchange. …
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Confluence (with Jgrzinich)
Confluence is the companion album to Stria. CD, 50 min.Intransitive Recordings INTO22Composed 1998 – 2000, released 2002 (Particle [Cell] > Wave [Body])The following piece Confluence…
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From Cloud to Seed
LP, 37 min.Alluvial Recordings ALL004Numbered limited edition of 300Composed 1998 – 99, released 2000 Organic and synthetic materials in collision, the layering of divergent acoustic…
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Tracing the Skins of Clouds
CD, 53 min.Kaon ao98Composed 1997 – 98, released 1998Cover image by Derek Pollard Rubbed, dragged and scraped sounds of friction, with micro-pitch artifacts, acoustic reverberations…
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