Interdisciplinary Projects
No Remembering Becomes Memory
research | performance | film | memory | place
Ongoing research through interdisciplinary artistic inquiry into collective memory, historical responsibility, and the resonance of place. Developed through research and travel in the United States and Germany, the project brings together performance, spoken text, field recordings, documentary materials, and moving image. This Is the Land, an 8:29 single-channel video work, emerged from this inquiry.
The Innocents
social justice advocacy through performance | wrongful conviction/exoneration
Created with Allen Otte, The Innocents is a long-term performance project exploring wrongful conviction and exoneration through percussion, spoken text, and electronics. Over two decades, the project has developed through performances, residencies, and collaborations with innocence organizations, exonerees, legal scholars, students, and other artists.
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TRIGGER: Artists Respond to Gun Violence
speaking percussion | commissioning | recording | socio-political advocacy
TRIGGER is a collaborative commissioning and recording project exploring artistic responses to gun violence in the United States. The project brought together composers and performers to create new works for speaking percussionist combining sound, text, and performance, culminating in a 2022 album released by Albany Records.
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Music + Poetry
speaking percussion | language | performance | collaboration
I work at the intersection of music and poetry, exploring ways of bringing poetry from the page into a performative space through sound, voice, and physical gesture. Through collaborations with poets and writers—including sustained body of work with Nick Lantz—I am interested in how performance can transform our experience of language and how language can reshape musical experience.
Nick Lantz
Nick and I have collaborated since 2013, when I began incorporating his poetry into works for speaking percussion and other multimedia compositions. Our collaboration has included creating and performing works together, exploring the intersection of poetry, sound, and performance.
Daniela Danz + Monika Cassel
My work with poetry also became an important part of No Remembering Becomes Memory. This Is the Land incorporates German poet Daniela Danz’s “Das ist das Land” in an English translation by poet and translator Monika Cassel, bringing the poem into dialogue with moving image and sound.
Philip Metres
Nick introduced me to the work of Philip Metres and to documentary poetry, a form that resonated deeply with my work on The Innocents. That connection led me to create a realization of Metres’s Cell(ph)one (A simultaneity in four voices) bringing the poem from the page into a performance space through sound, voice, and gesture.
Ann McCutchan
Ann McCutchan was my earliest collaborator in exploring the intersection of music and poetry. A writer and musician herself, Ann and I worked together on several projects, including one of my earliest works for speaking percussion, Possible Paths, based on her narrative poem of the same name.