In late February, I published an article with New Music Box, a "web-based advocacy magazine and portal dedicated to the music of American composers and improvisers and their champions. . . sponsored by the American Music Center." The article is a thesis on how architecture and context help to define how music functions. Check out Place, Space, and Music:

The Walker Art Center Residency was a blast, installing a four channel sound piece in an igloo, serving tea to the people of Minneapolis, improvising to works by Sol LeWitt, and exploring the sonic architectures of the Walker. It was a very satisfying collaboration with Emily Lacy and Joshua Beckman who presented thoughtful work within my igloo-installation. I will have documentation

This week, I'll be presenting a sound installation in an igloo at the Walker Art Center. Machine Project is sending poet Joshua Beckman, singer Emily Lacy, and myself to perform in a 'Bigloo' created by Minneapolis-based artist, Sean Connaughty. My piece is a four channel installation utilizing teakettles as speakers. A fifth teakettle will be used to make tea

On Wednesday, Dec 1, I'll be documentation of the Fence for the Amargosa Desert on Alan Nakagawa's experimental music webcast: Ear Meal. You can tune in at 9pm PST and check out a small interview and video about the installation I created while living in Nevada this past June.

photo by Alex Stephens Just returned from an excellent week at MCA Denver as part of Art Meets Beast, a three day nose-to-tail bison roast. Documentation to come! - for now, rest easy knowing that I sound-designed a bison stampede that interrupted dinner, and knocked silverware off tables thanks to Colin Bricker and his 10,000 watt 5-channel PA system. Thank you,

I'm going to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver representing Machine Project. I've been collaborating with Sam Meister, and Mark Allen on creating a Bison Stampede (via quadraphonic sound and MAX/MSP) for the BEAST ROAST on Thursday, November 11. It will periodically interrupt the bison dinner. Additionally, I've been altering bison horns to create instruments for the dinner.

My new piece, winter strengthens the happiness of inhabiting // for jules loh will be performed by James Klopfleisch and Brendan Carn (contrabasses) on Sunday, October 24 at 5pm at the Wild Beast at CalArts. The performance is part of the Experimental Music Yearbook's annual journal. I will also be performing a new work by John Hastings during the

I'll be guest teaching at Pomona College this week in Mark Allen's Sound Art class working on basic piezo electronics. Later in the day, Mark and I will be interviewed about our 2010 work on experimental, ambulatory, and incidental music at the Hammer Museum. Listen in on KSPC, Pomona's college's radio station at 88.7 if you happen to be in

Thanks Machine Project for letting me do this. Here is the post by the LA Times for this weekend's Top 10. I hope people understand its in a coatroom.

Saturday, September 25 from dusk til 3am The Glow Festival is an all night interactive art festival. I'm working with Machine Project to curate nine hours of music, poetry, and sound installations on the Santa Monica Pier's carousel, along with designing my own piece to be installed on saturday. Its going to be a lot of fun, so come on out,

Machine Project has received some good press from Art Review for our Museum Interventions at LACMA, Hammer, and the St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum. You can find that article here. Also, the Hammer Museum has put up a video of our "experiments in incidental, dispersed, and ambulatory sound performances" that I have curated with Machine Project throughout 2010. Enjoy!---the

Colin Woodford and myself will be playing inside/around/on top of Josh Beckman's Sea Nymph, an installation at Machine Project. Our set will consist of both amplified trumpet and cymbal set spatially around the boat. Our duo explores the interior sounds and resonances of our instruments through improvisation, and the use of amplification. I hope you can come visit for

Machine Project did some incredible documentation of everyone in a place, my installation piece performed by patrons at the Hammer Museum. Thanks to Mark Allen, Allison Agsten, and Elizabeth Cline for their support and faith in this project. Included in the video are performances by Colin Woodford on amplified cymbal, Elisabeth McMullin's Bell Santa Gamelan, and Jake Smith, Tina Raymond,

My piece, everyone in a place will be presented as a day-long installation at the Hammer Museum on Saturday, July 17 from 11am to 6pm. Admission to the museum will be free to all participants! During the day Beth McMullin, Colin Woodford, and an African Bell Quartet will be presenting bell-related pieces within the installation. I hope you all

Matt Sargent and I are returning from the desert with manmade mountains and underground rivers, a forty-minute piece for trumpet, guitar, and electronics/field recordings, which was created during our experiences living and working as artists-in-residence at the remote Goldwell Open Air Museum in Rhyolite, NV in June 2010. Our work at Goldwell is based entirely on materials gathered from Rhyolite and the Amargosa

Living in Rhyolite, NV.

FERMENT is sold out following a very nice piece in the LA Times found here! For all of you who would still like to hear/see/taste the project, Sue Conley and I have plans to perform the piece again in the fall.  Look out for following projects on fermentation in beer and bread in the coming year. A small note of thanks to Mark

April 29, 2010 6-9pm [thursday] Hammer Museum // Permanent Collection "Can you rip some sweet licks on that VanGogh please." Come check out another Live Museum Soundtrack at the Hammer Museum from our resident guitarists, Eric Klerks and Dylan McKenzie. Eric and Dylan walk visitors through their time in the collection improvising music to the art they view