Maladapted (2024)

2023-2024

Performance with Thessia Machado, Ranjit Bhatnagar, Concetta Abbate and Jesse Greenberg Alchemical Studios, Manhattan, NY July 31st, 2024 🐌 A program about evolution and maladaptation…

The Foulbrood Orchestra (2024)

2023-2024

Performance by the Foulbrood Orchestra BioBAT Art Space February 17th, 2024 at 5:00 pm John Roach, Thessia Machado, and Ranjit Bhatnagar perform with unconventional instruments…

Rockfall (2024)

2023-2024

Radio mix of a work created during a residency at Zion National Park in Utah. The work was first broadcast during On Air - On…

Capped Brood (2023)

2023-2024

The third in a series of works that explore honeybees and the plight of pollinators. Hot beeswax is poured directly onto speakers as they play…

Scorched Honey Archive (2023)

2023-2024

2022 Version 1 exhibited at NARS Project Space Brooklyn, NY 2023 Version 2 exhibited at BioBAT Art Space Brooklyn NY

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…

The Airborne Library – Teton Arts Lab (2022)

2021-2022

The Airborne Library is an immersive sound and augmented reality project that explores 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…

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.
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