current projects

tides: estuary

installations and compositions based on aspects of tidal flows in estuaries (water patterns and cycles, the dynamic equilibrium of environments in flux, and how life adapts to these changing conditions, and more), musical instruments include salt, water, shells, mud, sand, rocks, and kelp - a collaboration with visual artist rebecca haseltine

Including the forthcoming site-specific performance/installation for illuminated corridor at middle harbor shoreline park, spring 2009

music for rocks and water

a series of compositions and improvisations that use water and amplified rocks as instruments and are influenced by motions and gestures from the natural world

ziran

water, rocks, feathers, bones, pinecones, flowers, roots, ice and wood are cultivated as instruments in a collection of compositions inspired by Chinese wilderness poetry from the Tang Dynasty

 

instruments in trees

a composition for arboreal materials (sticks, twigs, leaves, needles, pinecones, bark, and lichen) and upside-down string quartet (two cellos, viola, and violin) investigating cycles and processes inherent to trees