My collaborations range from long-distance projects to cramped, shoulder-to-shoulder live performances and often mingle sight, sound, movement, and unusual events.
I collaborate to transform what I do into something I cannot make myself. I have collaborated with Alex Keller as rebreather, Stefan Tcherepnin, Brendan Connelly, PearlDAmour & Shawn Hall, Grand Openings, the Seattle Phonographers Union, Steve Barsotti, Sparkle Girl, and Artemiy Artemiev as well as improvised live with Liz Allbee, Bill Horist, Tom Swafford, Tari Nelson-Zagar, Open Graves, … well, the list is incredibly long. Here’s a sampling:
Cycle 4 (excerpt from How to Build a Forest) Created by Pearl DAmour and Shawn Hall, How to Build a Forest is an installation constructed and disassembled over 8 hours. Brendan Connelly and I created the sound world; I prototyped the score in Max/MSP and performed live in AudioMulch, improvising for 8 hours to an approximate score for the entire show’s run at The Kitchen in the summer of 2011.
windpower (Grand Openings at MoMA day one) Grand Openings, a collective that puts together amibiguous happenings and provocative events, asked me to shadow them and create short pieces based on field recordings for them every day during their residency at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. You can hear all of my pieces made for Grand Openings in this soundcloud playlist.
Grand Openings follows the mail (Grand Openings at MoMA day ten) Grand Openings, a collective that puts together amibiguous happenings and provocative events, asked me to shadow them and create short pieces based on field recordings for them every day during their residency at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. Clad in rubber shroud-like ponchos, Grand Openings danced, crouched, cavorted, and otherwise followed the afternoon mail as it is delivered throughout MoMA. You can hear all of my pieces made for Grand Openings in this soundcloud playlist.
Solar Speech (collaboration with Artemiy Artemiev) Released on 57 Minutes to Silence by Electroshock Records, this collaborative album with Artemiy Artemiev is an atmospheric agglomeration of interplanetary whispers, sunspot-inspired static, and epic, empty expanses of space.
Six for 54 (live collaboration with Stefan Tcherepnin) Released on Heavy Analog Electronics vol. 1 by banned production, I performed on touch-controlled transistor circuit boards while Stefan played his Serge analog synthesizer. Recorded live with no edits.
