About

Chronology

95 – 05 Debut release on Kaon (FR) — Tracing the Skins of Clouds — built from recordings of dragged plate glass, long lumber, bowed metal. Recorded collaborations with Olivia Block, John Grzinich, Matt Marble, Brendan Murray. Albums on …edition, Sedimental, Intransitive, Alluvial, etc.

05 – 15 MFA in Music/Sound, Milton Avery School of Fine Arts, Bard College — studying with Maryanne Amacher, Pauline Oliveros, and others. Curriculum development in experimental sound, video art, and sound design at Pacific Northwest College of Art and Washington State University. Collaborations with dance and theater artists Linda Austin, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Kelly Rauer, and others. Releases on Cut, Sonoris, Senufo Editions, Draft, etc.

15 – 25 Teaching as creative practice at PNCA and Portland State University. Performance videography and documentary production as Paradise Meow. Collaborations with installation artists and galleries including Philip Krohn and Hopscotch Gallery. Releases on AufAbwegen, Opal Tapes, Stellage, 15 Min of Anonymity, etc.

Now Live hardware and video projection as Haptic Syntax. Studio collaborations with Olivia Block and Loren Chasse.  Multichannel installation collaborations with Linda K Johnson, Jonathan Walters, Hopscotch LA. Video production for artists, nonprofits, art organizations, and educational institutions.

Statement

My sounds mutate through networks and fracture across a replicative, recursive process, embed in lamination, cluster in grains, accrete around a decision, layer the past with the present.  Digital/electronic compositional practices work within a time machine / spaceship paradigm. Sound evokes physiology, describes nonexistent spaces, is made kinetic by immersion. Sound is the most efficient way to physically experience an alternate future unfolding.