BAT // MAN (2016)
A ritual performance that examines how living creatures navigate space and memory using sound. Featuring a live audio feed of 1.5 million bats, a conch shell ensemble, a community megaphone choir, and handmade echolocation devices.
The performance took place under the largest urban bat colony in the world and created in a series of public workshops with students from the Hispanic Alliance for the Performing Arts and Austin Soundwaves, an El Sistema music program.
Sanctus (2021)
Salvaged brass, parabolic sound dishes, copper tubing, concrete acoustic mirrors, birdseed, psalms of Hildegard von Bingen
Sanctus is a sanctuary for birds and people. The copper sculpture plays four liturgical psalms by 12th-century abbess Hildegard von Bingen, whose work explored sound’s healing power. These psalms ring through five brass bells and are refracted by parabolic dishes. Embedded WWII-era acoustic mirrors—once used for surveillance—now serve as makeshift bird feeders.
FIGHT SONG (2022-present)
FIGHT SONG is an installation and performance featuring a National College Athletic Association (NCAA) marching band performing sonic meditations. The project examines themes of healing, injury, and labor in football, drawing from legacies of sonic therapy.
FIGHT SONG materializes in two forms: as a sculptural installation and as a halftime-style performance. The installation works like an immersive musical composition featuring an ecosystem of automated sonic sculptures made from salvaged marching band instruments. As audiences come into the gallery, they enter a constellation of invented instruments suspended from above and around them – like an exploded technical drawing of a marching band.
Parallel with the installation, the project includes a series of video works featuring an NCAA marching band performing sonic healing meditations in public spaces.
Sonic Meditation for Solo Performer (2022-present, for Pauline Oliveros and Alvin Lucier)
A constellation of salvaged marching band instruments that plays a musical composition made from the brainwaves of a single viewer.
The viewer wears an EEG brain monitor and reads a series of silent meditations. The viewer’s brain activity is then translated, via custom Max/MSP patch, into a 16 part musical composition that is played through the instruments hanging above.
Sonic Medtiations for NCAA Marching Band (2023-present)
A silent sonic meditation played by a 300 member NCAA Division I marching band at the Alamodome and other public spaces.
These meditations were developed in collaborative workshops with a marching band exploring the work of Pauline Oliveros, the practice of Deep Listening, and sonic meditation.
The Eyes of Texas are Upon You (2023)
Prepared vinyl record of The Eyes of Texas, plastic football figurines, confederate soldiers, books, speakers, pennies, pom-poms, sound
An LP of the University of Texas at Austin Fight Song is prepared with a graphic vinyl score made from abstracted football plays. The manipulated sound from the prepared record, generates the kinetic activity for the sculpture, animating small confederate soldiers, football figurines, and pennies.