Music for Mineral Springs is a concert of sensory pairings with water with sound created in collaboration with students at Skidmore College. The multi-movement work examines regional springs through music, light, and water. The concert/tasting was casual, richly sonic, and a bit wet.

Tang Teaching Museum, 2015

Ferment is a multi-sensory performance, presentation and tasting that explores milk’s leap into cheesehood. The project utilizes field recordings and oral history from the cheese making process. The recordings and cheese come from the same source, with a focus on terroir, taste, and experience. The project has gone through a number of iterations and reinterpretations to fit a variety of performance contexts from museums to people’s homes. Ferment is the result of a collaboration between Sue Conley of Cowgirl Creamery and the artist.

Machine Project, Los Angeles, 2010

Berkeley Art Museum, 2010

Southern Exposure, San Francisco, 2012

Pasadena Arts Alliance, 2014

Fondation d’ Enterprise Ricard, Paris, 2015

Consider the Oyster

Consider the Oyster is a document of place, culture, and a window into oyster farming in West Marin. It is based off of three basic facts:
1. Oysters reflect the place in which they are made. This recording documents the process of farming oysters with field recordings and two channel video.
2. Oysters are equally, a grounded and celestial food: flavored by the tides, created by the rotation of the sun and moon. They put us in touch with our own position in relation to movement of our planet. Two drones are sounded to represent the sun and the moon, proportional to their gravitational pull on the tidal waters.
3. Oysters are bivalves, and so is a pump organ. I performed on pump organ throughout the piece as a musical analogue for our beloved oyster.

Headlands Center for the Arts, 2013