Philosophy |
I make sound designs for live performance.
I make music. Fundamentally, I believe these are the same. My designs treat performances musically (plays, choreography, and installations) as compositions -- moving structures over time. This idea has produced compositions, sound synthesis, algorithmic and probability based interactive structures, immersive performative environments, research into computer learning and applications maximizing interplay between performers and soundscapes. My work currently deals with textures of varying intensity and opacity which combine to create intricately woven webs of sound. The vector that my music has followed intersects with the influences of Beethoven, Bach, Haydn, Wagner, Berio, Stockhausen, Parker, Xenakis, Cage, Coltrane, Varese, Hendrix, Braxton, Evan Parker, Ronald Stabinksy, Peter Evans, Merzbow, Emile Beaulieu, Borbetomagus, Michael Foster, among the countless others. I generate my source material using both analogue instruments and via digital mechanisms. Often, I manipulate acoustic sources using interactive digital processes to generate compositional structures or as an effects with which I improvise structures. Additionally, modeling human interactivity characteristics in the synthesis process creates what I feel like are "living" sounds. In order to define new and relevant scales of frequency I enjoy building synthesis systems to model and mutate generative sound concepts for each production. While this tends to be a more rigorous process, I find that it gives each piece it's own distinct personality and energy. I also find these structures enable deep listening on a variety of levels. It is this ability to explore the piece anew which engages me compositionally and which I enjoy about my favorite artists. |
EXPERIENCE & AFFILIATIONS |
Co-Founder and Board Member - JACK
Independent Composer/Designer - New York/California Lecturer of Sound Design - University of California San Diego Director - International School of Music, Washington DC Instructor of Woodwinds and Theory - International School of Music, Washington DC Member - International Association of Computer Music |
SOFTWARE |
Pure Data
MaxMSP Ableton Live Reaper Avid Pro Tools Meyer Sound MAPP online XT Vectorworks Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator, In Design, Premier Pro) Qlab |
THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS
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Every Brilliant Thing
Theater of Music Season The Wind and the Breeze How to Defend Yourself Mothers You Under Construction Cotton Candy & Cocaine Waiting for Godot Machinal Vieux Carre Angels in America: Perestroika Quiet, Comfort Go. Please. Go. Precipitate Movers & Shakers Exit Cuckoo Rhinoceros The Brothers Size Translation Play Angels in America: Part 1 Death of a Driver 3 Women in 4 Chairs Hamlet The Third Thing Really Fall Golden Boy A Brief History of Japanese Theater WGRG-TV Plato: The Republic Beckett Solos: Cascando, Footfalls, Rockaby Night Blooming Jasmine Alarmed The Georges Outcry Baal Billy the Kid: First Exhumation |
Duncan Macmillan & Johnny Donahoe
Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble Nathan Davis Lily Padilla Anna Moench Edward Tucker Charles Mee Ella Rose Charry Samuel Beckett Sophie Treadwell Tennessee Williams Tony Kushner Toshiki Okada Emily Feldman Gehmann & Tracy Deborah Stein Lisa Ramirez Eugene Ionesco Tarell Alvin McCraney Emily Feldman Tony Kushner William Snider Emily Feldman William Shakespeare Gehmann, Tracy, Aust, Apple Yolande Snaith Clifford Odets The Georges The Georges Hoi Polloi Samuel Beckett Israela Margalit Hoi Polloi Hoi Polloi Thais Francis Bertolt Brecht Redd Shifft |
Sound Designer
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Cynet Theater, San Diego
City Theater, Pittburgh Cygnet Theater, San Diego La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Hall and Mirrors Productions, Los Angeles Without Walls Festival 2017, San Diego Theatre C, Queens NY La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego San Diego CA, Oakland CA, Brooklyn NY La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego University of California San Diego JACK, Brooklyn NY La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Sound Designer La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego UBUNTU Theater Project, Oakland La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego UBUNTU Theater Project, Oakland University of California San Diego Qualcomm Center, San Diego University of California San Diego La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego University of California San Diego La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego JACK, Brooklyn NY JACK, Brooklyn NY Brooklyn NY, Durham NC JACK, Brooklyn NY Theater Under St. Mark's, Manhattan NY Dixon Place, Manhattan NY The Public Theater, Manhattan NY JACK, Brooklyn NY JACK, Brooklyn NY Washington DC Fringe Festival |
August 2018
July 2018 May 2018 April 2018 April 2018 Nov 2017 Oct 2017 Sept 2017 Spring 2017 Jan 2017 Nov 2016 Sept 2016 Aug 2016 May 2016 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 Feb 2016 Nov 2015 July 2015 June 2015 June 2015 April 2015 April 2015 Feb 2015 Jan 2015 Nov 2014 Oct 2014 June 2014 April 2014 Feb 2014 Oct 2013 May 2013 April 2013 2013 Jan 2013 Aug 2012 Aug 2009 |
RECENT MUSICAL PERFORMANCES |
VENUES
The Loft, University of California San Diego Kava Lounge, San Diego Joe's Pub, Manhattan Danspace, Manhattan Dixon Place, Manhattan ABC No Rio, Manhattan Spectrum, Manhattan Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center, Manhattan The Secret Theater, Queens Goodbye Blue Mondays, Brooklyn 739 Franklin, Brooklyn The Collapsable Hole, Brooklyn JACK, Brooklyn WKCR, Columbia University La Maison des Etats Unis, Paris FR La Sorbonne, Paris FR Conservatoire Nationale de Region Bolougne-Billancourt, Paris FR Russian Cultural Institute, Washington DC Pyramid Atlantic Arts Center, Silver Spring MD Northwestern University Eastman School of Music Catholic University of America South Carolina University Youngstown State University West Virginia University Bowling Green State University |
COMMISSIONS & DEDICATIONS |
Nathan Davis - Cipher for baritone sax and electronics
Robert Morris - Knot Lilacs for solo alto saxophone Thomas DeLio - Transparent Wave VII for solo alto saxophone Kyle Johnson - The Time Then Was Now, literally for saxophone and mixed media Stephen Lilly - Edgeplay for saxophone and MAX Chan Ji Kim - Bamboo Forrest for saxophone quartet (s,a,t,b) Andrew Mead - Schema solo soprano saxophone, Schemata (2 performers: s,s,a,a,t,b,b,bs) Heather Figi - Moon Big soprano saxophone + string quartet Blair Goins - Concerto for soprano saxophone & chamber ensemble |
EDUCATION |
Doctor of Music in Performance and Pedagogy
University of Maryland Mentors: Dale Underwood and Thomas DeLio Master of Fine Arts - Sound Design University of California San Diego Studies of aesthetics and engineering with Shahrokh Yadegari Independent research in interactive real-time processing with Miller Puckette Studies of music analysis with Roger Reynolds Studies of directing with Gabor Tompka Master of Music University of Florida Mentor: Jonathan Helton Thesis performance of works by Wuorinen, Berio, Lauba, Rosse, and Deall Diplome des Etudes Musicale Music Performance and Chamber Music Conservatoire Nationale de Region, Paris, FR Mentor: Jean-Michel Goury Premiere prix a la unanimite de la jurie Tours of northern and southern France with the Grand Ensemble des Saxophone Boulogne-Billancourt. Bachelor of Music Bowling Green State University Mentor: John Sampen Thesis performance of works by Lauba, Desenclos, Husa, Dahl, Denisov, Stockhausen |