Music

[Audio]
"Artificial Virtue and a Fabricated Strength" - for organ and electronics
"Heart of the Lily" - for harp, piano, violin, cello, flute, percussion, and electronics.
"Puppet Show of Memory" - for soprano saxophone, cello, piano, and electronics.
"Frenetic Disintegration" - for bass clarinet and electronics.
"Empyrean Tides" - for alto flute and electronics.
"Life is" - for baritone saxophone and electronics.
"Tangled Illusions" - for koto and electronics
 "Alchemy"  - for violin and surround fixed media. Like the process of alchemy, turning lead to gold, this work moves from noisy, grittier sounds into higher, purer material.
"Vesper" - for 5.1 fixed media. Made primarily out of sounds recorded from the bell ornaments off of my family's Christmas tree. (The recording here is in stereo mp3 formatting.)
"Seraphineas Flint" - for fixed media. This was created completely with sounds recorded from my bicycle.
"Scattered Unity" - for fixed media. This was part of a collaboration between the art, music, and chemistry departments at Western Michigan University. We first took a brewed beverage -in our case an IPA from Boatyard Breweries in Kalamzoo, MI- and analyzed it through mass spectrometer and gas chromatography. Our chemistry student interpreted this data to us, the artist and musician. The artist, Sara Wild, created the sculpture to the right based off of this data, and I put together the fixed media piece. We presented this at a Kalamazoo Art Hop in April, 2017.

Heart of the Lily
"She listened to the music of the spheres;
We thought she did not hear our happy strings;
Stars diademed her hair in misty rings,
And all too late we knew those stars were tears.

Without she was a temple of pure snow,
Within were piteous flames of sacrifice;
And underneath the dazzling mask of ice
A heart of swiftest fire was dying slow.

She in herself, as lonely lilies fold
Stiff silver petals over secret gold,
Shielded her passion, and remained afar

From pity. Cast red roses on the pyre!
She that was snow shall rise to Heaven as fire
In the still glory of the morning star."

-Maurice Baring
[Video]
Written for speaking pianist, live and fixed electronics, and video, Stay wrestles with the concept of grief in its many forms.
Not many are aware that Indiana actually has a beach! This was the first of several videos for which I produced music as part of an immersive learning project at Ball State University. This project received the Honor Award as part of the 2014 ASLA Student Awards. See here.


This short video was made to promote the South Shore Rail that runs from Indiana to Chicago as part of the same project mentioned above.