Compositions & Performances

Vortex (2010)
for Computer and Vorb
Debut: April 2010 Chocolate Factory
Long Island City, Queens, NY

Together / Apart (2010)
for Voice, Guitar, & Computer
Debut: April 2010 Chocolate Factory
Long Island City, Queens, NY

One Surface and Boundary (2010)
for Pemade & Computer
Debut: April 2010 Chocolate Factory
Long Island City, Queens, NY

A Passing Thought (2009)
Debut: Sept 5-12, 2009
Dublin Fringe Festival
Rex Levitates Dance Company
Dublin, Ireland
  • for Piano, Jegogunk, Bass Harmonica, and Whispers

Steam / Fans (2009)
Debut: Feb 19th-21, 2009
The Kitchen
New York, NY
  • Steam bursts and oscillating fans create a melancholy industrial environment
  • For Jodi Melnick and Burt Barr's Fanfare

Hooked the Scratcher (2008)
Debut: Dec 13th
Starr Space / Catch 33
Brooklyn, NY
  • For bass harmonica, sitar, and toy piano

Must Pass (2008)
Debut: Sept 4th and 5th, 2008
Stella Adler Theater
New York, NY
  • 30,000+ raindrops and 300 thunderclaps scored alongside evolving melody.
  • Live melodies triggered and pitched by throwing rocks into a bucket filled with water and using a hydrophone to capture the sound.
  • Accompanied Your Beautiful Grunt by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • 30 minute performance consisting of 8 performers, 3 video monitors, and video
  • Developed using the Java Music Specification Language (JMSL)

Keys to the Crumbling City (2008)
Debut: May 31, 2008
The Chocolate Factory
Long Island City, NY
  • Autonomous synthesized Balinese Gamelan orchestra playing melodies loosely based on Gamelan Kong Kebyar structures.
  • Accompanied My Meaty Showers by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • 20 minute performance consisting of 5 performers, 2 video monitors, and video (live & pre-recorded)

  • Developed using the Java Music Specification Language (JMSL)

Incandesentient (2007)
Debut: November 15, 2007 / 7-10 PM
New York Center for Arts & Media Studies (NYCAMS), New York, NY
  • A real time audio environment & composition consisting of harmonically aware synthesized fire
  • Accompanied Are You Going to Sweat on my face, again? by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • 3-hour performance consisting of 10 performers, 3 video monitors, neon, 4-channel video component (live & pre-recorded)

  • Developed using the Java Music Specification Language (JMSL), Wire, and Java

Watch What You Say / Learning to Speak (2007)
Debut: August 25, 2007 (WWYS)
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
  • A real-time multimedia exploration using genetic algorithms to evolve words and sentences from random letters for silent film intertitles
  • Developed over 6 years using Java, and Mbrola voice synthesis

Perhaps I'll See You Again (Someday) / Demo (2006)
Debut: November 30, 2006 / 7-9 PM
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
  •  a real time audio sample windowing and progression program to deconstruct multiple audio tracks and reconstruct them into longer pieces in rhythm at variable and user controlled tempos.
  • Accompanied I want to see you limp with pleasure by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • 2-hour performance with 12 performers, 5 video monitors, 5-channel video component (live & pre-recorded)
  • Developed using the JMSL and Java

Aquarium (2006)
Debut: July 8, 2006 / 12PM -12AM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
  • An audio environment & composition consisting of an underwater instrument and live audio processing
  • Accompanied Aquarium by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson – a 12 hour performance extravaganza

  • Instrument consisted of a Fish tank, hydrophone, metal pipes, balloons, tubes, and computer processing via Wire

You Have Access / My Cold Limbs (2006)
Debut: March 15, 2006 / 8-10 PM
New York Center for Arts & Media Studies (NYCAMS), New York, NY
  • First incarnation of the real time audio sample windowing and progression program to deconstruct multiple audio tracks and reconstruct them into longer pieces in rhythm at variable and user controlled tempos.
  • Accompanied You have access to my cold limbs by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • 2-hour performance / installation with 12 performers, 6 video monitors, 2-channel video component (live & pre-recorded)
  • Developed using the JMSL and Java

(s)warm (2005)
Debut: July 30, 2005 / 9-11PM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
  • A swarm of insects follow and play a score
  • Accompanied Spring Fever by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • 2-hour performance / installation with 5 performers, 4 video monitors, 2-channel video component (live & pre-recorded), 800lbs of dirt
  • Developed using the JMSL and Java

Sunset Beach (2004)
Debut: September 25, 2004 / 9PM -10:30PM
Projects in Transit (P.I.T.), Brooklyn, NY
  • An autonomous surf-rock band creates and performs pseudo-random instrumental music
  • Accompanied Sunset Beach by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • Developed using the JMSL and Java

Big Bang Theory #1 (2001)
Debut: May, 2001
New York University, New York , NY
  • Demonstration piece for a sonar controlled MIDI instrument, the Sonaphone
  • Composed while at NYU for a classes in Advanced Computer Music Composition and Java Music Systems
  • Developed using the MIT Handyboard, a Polaroid Sonar transducer, and interactive C

Somnialis (2001)
Debut:  May 10, 2003 9-11PM
Space 317, Brooklyn, NY
  • Composition based on slowly evolving melodies and syncopation
  • Accompanied In/On Strap[ing] by Holly Faurot and Sarah Paulson
  • Developed using JSML, MIDI, and Java


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