Selected works from the past 25 years.
2023 | Jomox Studies
Improvisations and variations with the Jomox XBase 09 analog drum machine, with accompanying video studies. Performed at the MICA Sound Art Vigil, Baltimore, BİLGİ 12th New Music Festival, Istanbul, 2021; and Studio 96 WERA/Arlington radio, 2019.
2018, 2021 | Fundamentals; Dimensions
Two techno and ambient EPs created with technical and conceptual prompts, e.g.: Does electronic sound have a surface? What sound design techniques manifest sounds with lightness or weight?
2020–present | #studiotime #practicing
Short, informal videos recorded while practicing instruments or working in the studio, offering intimate glimpses of a usually private side of composition practice.
2012–2015 | Gear Demos
A series of short videos that play with the conventions of virtual performance, amateur musicianship, gear lust, and domestic space that characterize online instructional videos about music technologies.
2006, 2018 | Ocean State; sketches for piano + analog noise
Two projects, several years apart, that center acoustic piano improvisation while exploring the juxtaposition and intermingling of ontologically different kinds of sounds, such as noise and field recordings.
2008–2011 | Synthesizing Sound
Archival research and writing on the cultural history of synthesized sound and the role of metaphor in audio-technical discourse. Essays examine the liveliness of electronic sounds, wave metaphors and narratives of voyage and discovery, a history of the idea of synthesis, and young women in the 1950s as expert fans of the RCA Synthesizers.
2005–12 | Patterns of Movement
Various sound and multimedia projects exploring relationships among data, sound, landscapes, and experience. Includes Resolutions, a self-portrait in which the artist’s voice “speaks” pixel data; and sand, snow, breeze, a series of time-lapse photographs of weather events translated into spatialized noise. Presented in a solo exhibition at Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, 2012.
2006 | Butterfly Effects
A four-channel computer music composition of open-ended duration, written in SuperCollider and informed by behavioral patterns and ecosystem dynamics of monarch butterflies. Awarded the IAWM New Genre Composition Prize (2007) and presented in various galleries and festivals.
2002, 2013 | Upper Limits of Normal; Slow Time
Experiments in multi-instrumental sampling, looping, and beatmaking.
2000–2010 | Pink Noises
A website and book documenting contributions by women of various generations and backgrounds to electronic music history and culture. Celebrates and encourages a wide range of creative methods in music- and soundmaking.
Still image from Analog Tara, Gear Demos video series, 2015.