selected sound

Most of these sound works combine sampled audio, original field recordings, various software, voice, and live instrumentation. They are designed to be experienced wearing headphones.


2024 — existential detective

Sound sculpture iterating upon guitar elements from 32.5784° N, 110.8514° W, 11 min 52 sec.

 

2023 — 32.5784° N, 110.8514° W (demo)

Demo recording of 32.5784° N, 110.8514° W, performed live on 9 December, 2023 at MASS Gallery, Austin, TX.

 

2022 — BACK\SLASHER

Audiobook excerpts from BACK\SLASHER, a science fiction novella, originally published by Do Not Research.

 

2020 — Can You See Texas Up There On Your High Horse?

Sound collage composition with appropriated audio, field recordings, original instrumentation, and looping, 69 min 26 sec.

Presented in multiple group Zoom listening sessions, April and May of 2020.

LISTEN (full track, designed for headphones):

 

2020 — LIEUTENANT, WE’VE GOT MOVEMENT ON THE FREIGHT ELEVATOR

Part of SoundSpace: Not Bad Muzak at the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX, curated by Steve Parker, January 26th, 2020.

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2019 — LOCAL CABLE ACCESS CULT FIGURE

Played through the speaker system of a rented Toyota Camry for Transmission at Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX, organized by Partial Shade in collaboration with Emily Lee and Henry Smith.

 

2019 — Guided Studio Soundscapes for Experimentation and New Media

Commissioned by The Creative Independent, Transmissions Series (08).

  • 01: Southwest [NIGHTTIME] Desert Sounds w/ Drippy Twang for [NIGHT VISION GOGGLE] En Plein Air Painting — Sonoran Landscape

  • 02: Extremely Online [DARK WEB] Modem Squelch w/ Bitcrushed Polyrhythmic Tabla for [MANIC] Net Art — Viral Shitpost

  • 03: Sustained [A-MINOR] Chord w/ Shifting Energies for [REPEATED SINGLE GESTURE] Performance Art — Museum Audience

  • 04: Fabricating [COR-TEN] Steel w/ ASMR Oxidation for [REDEFINING PUBLIC SPACE] Outdoor Sculpture — Municipal Government Building Square

  • 05: Wet Work [CONTEMPORARY] Studioscape w/ Active Kiln Reverb for [SLOPPY] Ceramic Gesture — Summer Group Exhibition

 

2018 — Autumn Meditation — Screedle / Relax / Study [10-min] *EXTREME *AMBIENT *MINDFULNESS

Commissioned by Bureau, New York, for bureau.audio.

Album art for Autumn Meditation — Screedle / Relax / Study [10-min] *EXTREME *AMBIENT *MINDFULNESS

Album art for Autumn Meditation — Screedle / Relax / Study [10-min] *EXTREME *AMBIENT *MINDFULNESS

 

2018 — Custom Sound Collages

Person-specific sound collages composed for some online friends.

 
 

2018 — Outlaw Bozos and Yahoos (Strangling Fruit)

Performed live with video piece at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY.

 

2013 — NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL MILWAUKEE

Released as a mixtape for solo exhibition Algonquin for the Good Land at Bahamas Biennale, Milwaukee, WI. Read a review of the album in the Shepherd Express, Milwaukee’s alternative weekly, here. A follow-up article appeared in the Milwaukee Record in 2019.

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