Collaborating with the environment and electricity

My music is largely defined by an experimental aesthetic, collaborative approaches to composition and performance, and the use of electronic sound. I often employ experimental or spectacular technologies as the basis of performing or experiencing my works. Recent work explores virtual and augmented reality to immerse the audience, geolocate sound in parks and farms, and animate graphic scores. My interests include small, quiet, spatialized sounds that juxtapose synthetic and organic materials to draw attention to the details found in the world we inhabit. This is a fundamental aspect of my ecosystemic works, which model the behavior of objects from the natural world in electronic sound, creating interactive sonic ecosystems. These pieces are intimately tied to the space they occur in, magnifying sound’s underlying physical nature and revealing what physicist Denis Gabor labeled the ‘quantum level of sound.’ With or without human interaction, repeat performances produce unique results—sometimes subtle, sometimes drastic—that are the result of hands-on experimentation and collaboration.