News of my activities, upcoming performances, and site updates.
February 28, 2013
I’m finishing Live at Occupy Wall Street (provisional title) which will debut at festivals in Richmond and New York later this Spring. Look for To The Cooling Tower, an exploration of a serpentine tunnel underneath a decommissioned nuclear power station, to come out on 3 Leaves this summer.
February 8, 2013
My sound work Remote is part of the exhibition “Your Content Will Return Shortly,” which explores how contemporary artists harness the in-between moments of our television experiences. Curated by Terri C. Smith, the exhibition is on view from January 24 – March 24, 2013, at Franklin Street Works in Stamford, Connecticut.
Thrill: A Love Song is now closed, but the College of William & Mary produced an elegant short documentary about the installation.
January 17, 2013
My installation Thrill: A Love Song is running at the Andrews Gallery at the College of William & Mary. Showcasing an unsettling yet seductive version of “You’re My Thrill” sung by four singers – Josephine Howell, Kelley Johnson, Dawn Clement, and Greta Matassa – the installation runs January 17-31, 2013 Monday through Friday 10 am-5 pm.
January 5, 2013
I have several releases slated for 2013, including Phonopolis: Urban Field Recordings volume 1 (Masters Chemical Society), a retrospective of sampling/sound collage/plunderphonic pieces, No Sound Is Stolen: Fair Use Music 1983-2013 (Alterity 101), and a live EP by the Seattle Phonographers Union slated for banned production. Two other projects are in the works: a sequel to Favorite Intermissions, Intermissions at the Opera, as well as To The Cooling Tower, which documents my exploration of a serpentine tunnel underneath a decommissioned nuclear power station.
December 3, 2012
Favorite Intermissions is part of the exhibition Sounds Like Silence at the Hartware MedienKunstVerein in Dortmund, Germany, along with many works which explore forms of silence by John Cage, People Like Us, Bruce Nauman, and many others. The exhibition has an accompanying, eponymous CD and a short guide in English (pdf).
November 10, 2012
I contributed Live at Occupy Wall Street, May Day 2012 to “Ethnology of Crisis,” a month-long exhibition at Brandon LaBelle’s errant bodies space in Berlin which ran November 12-30. This work is one section of a larger work to debut late Spring 2013.
My work appeared in tandem with When we make sounds about something we believe in, who listens? by Ylva Bentancor with Gustavo Bentacor and Mike Majkowski; Jeremy Woodruff’s Can we re-tune the economy with sound?; and participants from the graduate seminar collaborate on “Sights and Sounds of the Crisis.”
October 22, 2012
I resonated smoke alarm chirps, slurring glockenspiels, wind, and rain through metallic surfaces for molting, a moody piece for choreographer Joan Gavaler, who premieres the work at Dancevent (Oct 25-27 at the College of William & Mary).
September 25, 2012
Two of my pieces are on new compilations! An excerpt of SF Variations appears on Sounds Like Silence, a catalog of silences released by Gruenrekorder. Also, part 1 of Silences normalized from the complete organ works of Olivier Messiaen is on El Peligro Rojo, a 3-inch CD as well as a free download, from Mute Sound.
August 28, 2012
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August 2, 2012
I have several albums in the works including Phonopolis: Urban Field Recordings, vol. 1, a sequel to Favorite Intermissions, Intermissions at the Opera (provisional title), and an as yet not-titled Moog record excavating pieces I made in the late 70s (when I was barely a teenager) and combining them with works made recently and in the 80s.
July 26, 2012
Since spring of 2011 I’ve been bidding farewell to my oddball collection of instruments through donations, gifts, and unexpected manifestations. Take a listen to my proposed SoundCloud Fellowship application to help me continue the process!
July 6, 2012
I’m currently cooking up new projects, mainly making pieces for an upcoming album and creating objects for installations & an exhibition or two.
July 1, 2012
Tomorrow, I begin teaching an experimental music class at the College of William & Mary! On the docket: various forms of sound synthesis and field recording along with EVP, vocoding, aural illusions, and more.
June 30, 2012
I performed in New York at The Invisible Dog (51 Bergen Street in Brooklyn) in collaboration with video artist Chika Iijima. Audio coming soon!
May 3, 2012
I presented Wallingford Food Bank on May 2 at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York as part of A Survey is a Process of Listening, a 2012 Whitney Biennial residency organized by Arika.
March 14, 2012
My article “The flap-o-phone, a site-specific turntable” will appear in the next issue of eContact! along with revised instructions (with photos!) for the flap-o-phone. If you need revised directions now, contact me.
March 8, 2012
Cyclic Defrost reviewed my album Perforate Silence, which you can stream or download free from Spectropol.
March 7, 2012
I just finished a short piece, “Hymn Tone (to the memory of Maryanne Amacher),” for a pledge premium compact disc for Miniature Minotaurs on WFMU. I can’t wait to hear the entire disc as it has tracks by a slew of compelling sound artists including Bonnie Jones, Jon Rose, Nate Wooley, and Olivia Block.
March 2, 2012
This site has been completely revised and revamped with more for the ears and eyes. I checked my archive and this is my first site overhaul since 1998 (gasp!). It was long overdue. Let me know what you think!
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