Thank you for visiting. This portfolio is tailored for the Artica Svalbard application. It has three representative works. Scroll down to see excerpts and more.
Double Refraction (2023)
Double Refraction was a work that explored the effects of social technology through a unique blending of music and choreography. The work was made in collaboration with Genene Wallis-McGrath, who choreographed and performed the work. I used the wearable music technology/instruments MiMu Gloves and Instrument of Things’ SOMI-1 Bands to create a work where the performer (a keyboardist) and a dancer/choreographer were totally dependent on each other to create sound.
East End Echoes (2024)
East End Echoes is a GPS-enabled musical experience—a semi-permanent work of public art located in Houston’s Historic East End. This project captures and documents the stories of Latino/a/x/e immigrants and their descendants who have settled in the area, offering a unique way to explore Houston’s Historic East End’s. It’s a part documentary part sound design work and installation.
The work exists both as a sound installation (click the button below) and as an album (to the right).
Helah (2023)
Helah is a chamber opera in the cuicatl-opera style that tells the story of an indigenous mother who dies while giving birth to a mestizo daughter. The work occurs in a place outside of time and space, as they both imagine each other. This works marks the first time that cuicatl was performed on U.S. soil, and it marks many other firsts in the United States, including the first time that the nahuatl poem adapted for the text of the work (by the pre-contact poet Tlaltecatzin of Cuauhchinanco) has been activated in performance style in the entire history of the United States.