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Artistic Statement
My work focuses on the impact of technological mediation on the human experience. I explore it through building performative environments that highlight the ephemera of live and mediatized performance: performance in/as research. This single focus has led me through a variety of fascinating domains of creation:
- Liveness: live sampling and improvisation
- Intermedia collaboration
- Metacomposition: algorithmic and feedback systems
- Organology and instrument design
- Involving students in engaging the public
Most of my works involve multiple domains. The following are links to works organized as they apply to each domain.
Research, Teaching and Service Statement
I am a composer focusing on creative works that interrogate their own situations: My technology-based performances wake a world mediated by ubiquitous technology, exposing its artifacts and impacts on the human experience. They respond to a culture built from co-opting prior forms of expression by short- circuiting that process to let the voice of the system itself emerge and be known. My broader intermedia works advance this same mindset more generally: to view the world like a creative “life hacker,” mindful to oft-overlooked connections and opportunities, the life blood of original creativity.