Artist Statement
As an instrumentalist and composer, I explore music's tactile and sensory experience as a vibration-based medium. Inspired by processes that center intuition and instinct, my music channels all these ideas into compositions by focusing on how music feels when played and heard and exploring how sonic vibrations affect the body, weaving my experiences as an instrumentalist into works that transcend time. I borrow from and elaborate upon traditional notation and improvisatory techniques, alternating between metered and clock-time approaches and improvised and notated instructions. I use a digital clock as a conductor to mark sections, duration, and cues. The indicated time frames on the score direct musicians to move freely between sections, creating an overlap of sonic textures. These principles are applied to my work for music ensembles by utilizing a collective improvisational vision that prioritizes an intentionally fluid style. The performers navigate indeterminacy during the compositions via time-based scores. I balance these principles with metered notation to shape the overall form of the pieces. Through the spaces left open within the structures, the musicians re-create the compositions together each time they perform. In this way, my music intersects the New Music, Jazz, and Classical genres, creating experimental work while establishing a collaborative relationship between the individual musician and larger group performance. When we perform collectively, we continue to develop the skill of responding to a score and each other, building our ability to perform a model of connectivity rather than isolation.
This is an image from the livestream premiere of Lull for string octet and soloists from 2020.