Recent Highlights
What Is Possible (2025) – upcoming
Instrumentation: voice, live electronics, fixed electronics
Duration: TBD (7-12 minutes)
“This is how I would live if I could choose:
this is what is possible…”
A setting of Adrienne Rich’s poem of the same name examining the act of creation under the duress of a marginalized identity.
Spiritscapes (2025)
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, piano, voice, cello, and laptop, live electronics
Duration: 30-40 minutes
Spiritscapes is a four-movement work for chamber ensemble and live electronics. The piece grew out of collaborative improvisations with Laura Cocks (flute), Madison Greenstone (clarinet), and Tom Kraines (cello) with myself playing piano, singing, and controlling electronics. Metaphorically, Spiritscapes explores the idea of inner states as ecological biomes. Narratively, it explores a journey of processing traumatic experiences, redefining self-narrative, and constructing a truer self-identity.
Recording coming Fall 2025.
how the cinder bears the seed (2024)
Instrumentation: amplified string quartet and voice
Duration: 12-15 minutes
“how the cinder bears the seed”, is the second entry in a multi-year cycle working through some of the difficult emotions that arise for me around the climate crisis. It focuses on the personal experience of grief, cultivating a reflective atmosphere through empty space and gentleness. The music unfolds in the time of the body, with the players’ embodied motions dictating the speed of phrases, before returning to metrical time with an incantation of growth and rebirth in the setting of Susan Stewarts’ poem “Cinder”.
The Forest Inside of You (2023)
Instrumentation: flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, voice, and live electronics (flexible)
Duration: 10-15 minutes
Composed through a process of collaborative improvisations with the TAK Ensemble, The Forest Inside of You explores the memory of places that evoked a sense of ecstatic wonder. In this piece, there is no meter or exact duration. Musical time is felt rather than counted, with performers collaboratively deciding the speed at which the musical material unfolds.
All That You Touch You Change (2023)
Instrumentation: voice, laptop, and live electronics
Duration: 5-7 minutes
This piece utilizes a custom laptop synthesis instrument that makes the laptop speaker gesture-responsive with no external hardware through feedback. The title comes from the opening of Octavia E. Butler’s acclaimed sci-fi novel Parable of the Sower, in which she directly interrogates the twin feedback cycles of the climate catastrophe and the relationship between personal belief, agency, and action.