I'm a composer and first-year master's student at UC San Diego. I primarily work with electronics+live instruments and sound design.
In the year 2007, (after learning to use a siphon), I brewed a massive cup of Japanese sencha in my neighbor's hot tub, with the help of partner-in-crime Paul Child (M.M. music theory, U of Indiana.)
Since that time, I have been enticed by the idea of organizing surrealistic scenarios both concrete and abstract. In 2009, as part of a collaboration, I created the sound design and co-wrote the story for an experimental production entitled "Down the Rabbit Hole," which, in its finished version, was a humorous, morbid, gender-bending spin on Alice in Wonderland. It was performed at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2009.
Here is a link to a theatrical piece for actress and sound design, written in 2009: [1]
A link to my most current piece, for soprano, cello, and bass: [2]
I am currently curating and organizing an installation/concert at the Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institute of Oceanography, featuring UCSD composers, performers, artists, and Scripps collaborators. It will be held on April 14th, and includes musical selections ranging from Saariaho's Sept Papillons to free improvisation to ambient sound design to American folk music. Here's a link to the event [3].
Interests
Since 2009, I am fascinated by patterns of the subconscious, recording movements of the subconscious via music as a way to project chaos, suppressed instinct, and "animal" awareness. I am intrigued by the relationship between memory, dreams, and reality; this contributes to my desire to build waking dream scenarios.
Other important interests include:
Music as a behavior performed by humans (representing a phenotype)
Movements of music evoking characters or behaviors
Creation of surreal sound environments or ecosystems
Extended phenotypes
The concept of free will from a scientific standpoint
The possibility of subverting the super-ego and ego in art
My collaboration interest
I am suited to create sound environments (including live-processed design), write music for acoustic or electronic instruments, and write/outline processes and dramatic schemas. I am proficient in Max, PD, and a variety of DAWs and waveform editors, as well as Finale.
I am interested in working with an artist, particularly one who is interested in environments, ecosystems, dreams, or offshoots and tangents of these things,
Or anyone who has a solid background in scientific method. However, I am open to many possibilities.
Project Idea
Incipiently:
-The creation of interactive, dreamlike habitats designed to stimulate various facets of the id
-A project that blurs boundaries between scientific experiment and art, (e.g. staging a real experiment as performance art while actually gathering useful data at the same time. The data gathered could be used in a "part II.")
Platforms
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