Music

Recordings from the electromagentic fields all around us, from trains to spinning disk drives. For this collection of recordings I used tools such as coil pickups and antennas to convert these waves into sound. Please sample and use these recordings as a way to think about electricity as a living force.

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Headrush is an ambient soundscape commissioned for an art installation at the Cal Poly College of Architecture. The piece was made using granular synthesis and tape looped clarinet recordings to envelop the space with rich sonic textures, complementing the intricate and futuristic model designs.

Photography by Jennifer Li

London Nocturne

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London Nocturne  follows a kind of sound walk through the hills and ponds of Hampstead Heath park in London on a particular damp evening in late October. Meditating not only on the natural vibrations running through the parks connective tissue, but the mechanical and industrial energy running through the park as well. Upon first entering the park, I found its soundscape to be wide reaching and subtly balanced. Sounds seemed to drift effortlessly in a pool around the landscape from the crunch of gravel footsteps to train tracks clinking away in the distance. The occasional flight of helicopters overhead could be a possible intruder into the calm, but their rumble and phasing soon blended in with the swaying of trees in the woods and falling droplets of rain. In creating this piece I follow this vision of a growing connectedness forming out of more disparate elements, involving mainly the change in soundscapes between the tube and moving out to the Heath. To create a performative element I recorded myself improvising with a feedback loop of the recorded soundscapes physically resonated into a glass jar and picked up again by a contact microphone. This helps to create multiple feedback loops in the sonic environment and exhibit the varying levels of chaos in the soundscapes around Hampstead Heath.