Projects

The electroacoustic experience drives my video work, which engages with themes of struggle and relief, futility, anxiety, consequence, corporeal duality and transformation, ritual, repetition, and origin. The imagery retains an aura of fantasy and portraiture, and invokes an awareness of unity between environment and individual.

Electronic and electroacoustic music pieces utilize elements of formal composition to explore noise, silence, and ambience through traditional instruments of electronic and computer music (turntable, ARP), field recordings, found sounds, and samples.

The sound employed in my three-dimensional work explores bioacoustics, as well as the social and cultural functions of sound and noise while recording and playback techniques elicit modes of self-referentiality and liveness.

My most recent project, Compulsory Figures and ∞ extends my practices of sound and installation into the realms of performance and drawing. In the sport of figure skating Compulsory Figures is a technical exercise that demonstrates control and accuracy, and tests the efficacy of a skater’s poise, precision, and skill. As this division of the sport was discontinued from competition in 1991, practice (or “patch”) sessions have become a rarity at figure skating clubs, and Compulsory Figures and ∞ serves as a unique tribute to this fading tradition. This dual exhibition presents a series of recorded patch sessions as a sound installation in the gallery, and performative time-based drawings on the adjacent street. Compulsory Figures and ∞ juxtaposes soundscapes of precise etchings on ice with clumsy, impermanent markings on pavement to approach notions of absence and revitalization, and the philosophy of athletic performance.