COMPOSITIONS
portraits/landscapes
an audio-visual double EP, 2022
“portraits/landscapes” is an hour long audio-visual ambient-folk album which features visuals ranging from videographic still lifes to generative abstractions, and music spanning genres from ambient music to indie folk to experimental pop and the spaces in between. created in 5 channel video and ambisonic audio, the work was originally designed for presentation in the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater at the University of North Texas, and is currently being adapted for presentation in a variety of alternative formats, including 3 channel video and virtual reality/360 video.
all visual work, text, and audio created and recorded by myself.
stills from the work:
christian service songs
three short works for large ensemble
2021
this series consists of source material from an old hymn book found in the attic of my great grandmother’s farmhouse in Guymon, Oklahoma. I have taken small melodic fragments from the hymns bookmarked by previous readers of the book and morphed, divided, and stretched out these elements to create an abstraction of this music which was once so profound for my grandmother and her community, and which has since been to some extent forgotten and abandoned. in doing so, I hope to embody the state of my own connection to my great grandmother, to worship music, and to the christian god, which was once strong and alive and is now similarly gone, past, and forgotten, in many ways existing only in small artifacts and memories.
Music for Sitting
2019-2021
My “Music for Sitting” series is a collection of electronic pieces aimed at an exploration of music that doesn’t take the listener anywhere and isn’t focused on a destination. This music presents a variety of static spaces with an emphasis on a certain stillness and focus. These pieces either remain focused on a singular idea or employ a transition from one sound space to another.
GUYMON, OKLAHOMA
"Clearly a descendant of modern and modal jazz, this work is relaxing, but fascinating, to explore as a listener." - Danlis Music, Composer's Toolbox
"Guymon, Oklahoma” is album I finished recording and producing in 2018, but which I began working on in some capacity as early as 2015. This album sees me diving into more experimental territories from a background in alternative rock, featuring less conventional approaches to instrumentation, groove, harmony, and form.
