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Capped Brood (2023)

2023-2024
These objects emerge from a series of works about honeybees and about the plight of pollinators more broadly. In them, hot beeswax is poured directly onto sounding speakers and the results are captured as both video and audio.

Scorched Honey Archive (2023)

2023-2024
A multisensory meditation on human disruption of pollinator ecology that includes sculpture, immersive sound, and video. A central tapestry of wall-mounted steel plates forms a rough map of US states that are recording bee populations. Eight fragrant beeswax speakers emit the spatialized sound of burning honey – each sizzling sound that emerges, played at a volume that at times teeters on the edge of audibility, links to one of the steel plates which bears the charred honey remains. A peculiar box, lined with orange acoustic foam is, in fact, the small sound stage where the honey was burned and recorded. Finally, in a large video projection, bees crawling across the surface of a hive are reduced to wisps of smoke. The Archive includes comfortable lounging platforms that invite visitors to linger and listen.

Colony (2022)

2021-2022
COLONY is an immersive sound installation that probes the complex relationship between bees and humans. It weaves together recordings of bees with interviews that explore our co-existence with these insects as well as our compulsion to understand them through a human lens. Voices include a blind beekeeper; a social practice artist who created an installation of hives in the shape of the notorious Pruitt Igoe housing complex; an architect designing a bee sanctuary in Tanzania; an author of a book about being raised among bees; and a Michigan beekeeper working in the field. All reverb applied in the work was recorded live in the cold war era surveillance radar station in Port Austin Michigan.

The Airborne Library – Teton Arts Lab (2022)

2021-2022
I am one of five artists selected for the Uncommon Art Residency in Jackson Wyoming. I will be working with local artists to enact a series of sound interventions that explore Charles Babbage's notion that sounds, once uttered, circle the globe for eternity.

Zion – Artist in Residence (2022)

2021-2022
I am one of three individuals selected to be an artist in residence at the Zion National Park in 2022. I will be in living in the park for the month of February recording, interviewing and seeing where the location takes me. I am the first sound artist to be selected for the program which has existed since 2010.

ArtEcho (2021)

2021-2022
A commissioned prototype for Cooper Hewitt Interaction Lab's Activating Smithsonian Access. ArtEcho explores a selection of the museum's artifacts through sound.

Green screen & other exercises

2021-2022
This ongoing series of experiments on a green screen work surface combine sound improvisation with post processed video images.  These sketches are a chance to "limber up" to let ideas happen and then to contextualize them visually after the fact.

You’re gonna be ready to burn it as soon as you tape it (2020)

2019-2020
This audio work was created for the project "The Dream Had Me" for Earlid, Curated by Joan Schuman. It recontextualizes unearthed minidisc recordings I created between 1999 and 2007. A revised audio biography and sonic reverie.

Earth’s Centre by Sterling Basement (2020)

2019-2020
Audio work created for Project Inferno, a celebration of the 700th Anniversary of Dante's Inferno presented at Cities & Memory. It explores the idea of gravity and as Dante and Virgil get close to Lucifer at the center of the planet, strange things begin to happen.

The Painlevé Exercises

2019-2020
This was a pandemic activity in which I created soundtracks for the remarkable films of Jean Painlevé. When brain-activity is challenged, let the images suggest the sounds.

Frozen Words at Local Project Art Space (2020)

2019-2020
Multi-channel sound installation. Immersive sound and glass objects forge an unlikely connection between an absurd work of 16th century literature, the ancient pseudo-science of alchemy, and political hate speech.

Warp and Weft / Warf + Wept – with Sandra Lapage (2019)

2019-2020
4-channel live sound performance at Ground Floor Gallery. A collaboration with the artist Sandra Lapage and a conversation with her installation Warp & Weft.

The Vein Flows below (2018)

2017-2018
Audio work created for the online project Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman that features recordings captured at the Marble House Project in Dorset Vermont, the site of an abandoned marble quarry in a village of abandoned marble quarries.

Pushing Buttons (2018)

2017-2018
Installation exhibited in the group show Pushing Buttons at Agnes Varis Art Center in Brooklyn, NY. It includes glass objects, dry ice, video, and viewer interaction that determines the playback of audio.

Symbiotext – with John Burns (2018)

2017-2018
A collaboration with research Scientist John Burns for the LIGO Project. It is a sound installation that explores connections between language and the transmission of genetic information.

2009 Squeak, tick-tick, crash! Storm Cow

2005-2009
Just added from the archives! a 2009 kids workshop in which we worked together to recreate the sounds of a storm.

Frozen Words Hot Air (2017)

2017-2018
Live performance at UrbanGlass with glass blowing, percussion and sound manipulation. It combines the alchemical qualities of glass, Rabelais’ Gargantua and Pantagruel and the words of Donald Trump.

Stone Cold Groove (2017)

2017-2018
A series of related works created during a Family residency at Marble House Project in July 2017. The title alludes to the three-part structure of the work with each word of the tile acting as an organizing theme.

The Internal Machine – Curated by John Roach (2017)

2017-2018
An exhibition that I curated for the Center for Book Arts in NYC inspired by the work of Italian designer and artist Bruno Munari.

Ocean Imaginaries – with Emma Critchley (2017)

2017-2018
A collaborative installation with Emma Critchley for the exhibition Ocean Imaginaries at RMIT in Melbourne. It combines her video with my sound installation.
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