About me

In my music I hope to open up doors to worlds that might oth­er­wise not exist, draw­ing to­gether ma­te­r­ial con­texts for human per­form­ers that are re­sis­tant and re­quire col­lab­o­ra­tive ef­fort. I am in­ter­ested in work­ing with un­sta­ble and con­tin­gent sit­u­a­tions that both de­mand re­sponse and af­ford free­dom to those in­volved. For ex­am­ple, my string quar­tet union–seam asks per­form­ers to share an in­stru­ment, at times pro­duc­ing a sin­gle sound through com­mu­nal ac­tion, stag­ing an in­ti­mate re­spon­sive­ness to one an­other and their in­stru­ment’s res­o­nance.

In ad­di­tion to my com­po­si­tional work, I have taught along­side Profs. Claire Chase, Chaya Cz­er­nowin, George Lewis, and Hans Tutschku, cov­er­ing im­pro­vised and ex­per­i­men­tal music, stu­dio com­po­si­tion, and col­lab­o­ra­tive cre­ative prac­tice. I taught music tech­nol­ogy at the Uni­ver­sity of Leeds (2021), com­po­si­tion at Uni­ver­sität Kas­sel (2022), and cur­rently teach com­po­si­tion and elec­tronic music pri­vately. I de­vel­oped a suite of ped­a­gog­i­cal tools for teach­ing cre­ative audio pro­gram­ming and have worked reg­u­larly as a tech­ni­cal as­sis­tant to the com­poser Clara Ian­notta. Fall 2018 saw the pub­li­ca­tion of a spe­cial issue of CR: The New Cen­ten­nial Re­view on music and crit­i­cal the­ory, co-edited with philoso­pher Irv­ing Goh.

I grad­u­ated from the doc­toral pro­gramme at Har­vard Uni­ver­sity (USA) where my dis­ser­ta­tion com­mit­tee in­cluded Profs. Chaya Cz­er­nowin, Vijay Iyer, and Hans Tutschku. I pre­vi­ously stud­ied on the ‘Cur­sus 1’ pro­gramme at IRCAM (France), sup­ported by an En­tente Cor­diale Schol­ar­ship, and at the Uni­ver­sity of Man­ches­ter (UK) where I re­ceived Bach­e­lors and Mas­ters de­grees in music and com­po­si­tion, study­ing with Ri­cardo Cli­ment. Other im­por­tant mu­si­cal en­coun­ters have in­cluded dis­cus­sions with Pier­luigi Bil­lone, Michael Pis­aro, Re­becca Saun­ders, Steven Kazuo Taka­sugi, and Jen­nifer Wal­she and work with the mu­si­cians of the JACK Quar­tet, en­sem­ble mo­saik, en­sem­ble recherche, soun­dini­tia­tive, Talea En­sem­ble, Trio Atem, and Yarn/Wire, amongst many oth­ers.

Last up­dated: 28 June 2022