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New Ghosts (2022) is a string quartet premiered by the JACK Quartet as part of their residency at the University of Iowa.  In New Ghosts, I looked to explore the inherent instability and inconsistency of the self, setting up a system with “standard” musical elements; melody, harmony, delineated parts; and then using the cello as an “outside” agent to that system, reshaping and reworking it into something that, like the original system, is fleeting, but still whole and recognizable as itself. 

New Ghosts is also a continued exploration of just intonation, and the blending of temperaments as a narrative device. 

Burner (the dust we breathe in) (2021) is an electronic performance piece that relates my personal experience with transphobic violence. It layers improvised synthesizer textures with recorded descriptions of those experiences, stream of consciousness responses to those experiences, and readings of transphobic conspiracy theories sourced for various places online. these sounds are then processed using feedback in MaxMSP. These sounds, as well as the "physical sounds" from a number of cassette players, accumulate over time until they become unbearable, and the audience is invited to join in an action to stop them. 

Content Advisory: Violence, Slurs, Transphobia

Manifest (2022) is a semi-improvisational piece, created as part of my ongoing research into the role of the voice and text in electronic music performance. I recorded textures from a Buchla Easel onto cassette tape loops, and improvised with those loops, a granular processor, and a feedback vocoder I have been developing. At the midpoint of the piece, there is a written monologue concerning the government of Texas and its abhorrent actions against trans youth and their families. Manifest was originally performed the day after Texas announced it would investigate parents that affirm their trans children for child abuse.

Content Advisory: Transphobia

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