Artist Statement

I am an experimental musician who explores the sonic possibilities of percussion. Seeking to understand the unknown through improvising and collaboration, I value idiosyncratic techniques, aesthetics, and applications. Interests that guide my music include perception, acoustics, repetition, process, immediacy, and spontaneity. My music varies greatly but can sometimes draw from the experimental improvisation, contemporary classical, minimalist, drone, and noise traditions. I believe sound speaks for itself and its raw materiality is its living body. I refuse classification and I do not intentionally impose genre into my performances and artistic decisions.  


One current focus is vibraphone. My intensely repetition-driven performances are a study on the possibilities of sound and acoustic phenomena. Sound  floods the room with music one would only expect from amplification or supplementary electronics. Bars are bowed for sustained durations producing an effect similar to a sine tone, and textural adjustments occur spontaneously. Slowly evolving ostinatos result in pulsating, dissonant overtones whose frequency beatings bring about scintillating clouds of polyrhythms. As bars are bowed, struck, scraped, and touched, I explore the vibraphone hoping to surprise myself. 


My practice is not purposefully political. Regardless, I acknowledge that nothing exists in a vacuum. My approach is egalitarian, non-hierarchical, and prioritizes the autonomy of each performer and musical process. Because of this, I conclude that my practice is anarchist, anti-capitalist, anti-patriarchal, and anti-colonial.


While performing, I am dreaming about what is possible. I am trying to sculpt an environment where respect, agency, and love is prioritized and protected. I hope to inspire audience members to reconsider what is possible, and to dream of a better future for us all.