Interactive Media

Reflections (2020) for Improvising Violinist, Video, and Four Channel Audio. Reflections is a video score for improvising violinist, and was composed as a close collaboration with friend and virtuoso violinist, Ilana Waniuk. The sonic material was developed from prerecorded material that was captured through conversations about comfort, expressive performance, and our combined improvised languages.

Lechuguilla (2019)

Spelunking (2019)

Like a Tune (2021) for Trombone and Live Electronics.

Like a Tune is the first piece in my Suite for Reality TV and was written for Jeff Albert. Based on a Jerry Springer episode where a participant accuses her romantic partner of 'playing her like a tune'. This piece explores the registers and repetition that were experienced in the episode.

Like a Tune for Trombone and Electronics (2021). Like a Tune is the first piece in my Suite for Reality TV and was written for Jeff Albert. Based on a Jerry Springer episode where a participant accuses her romantic partner of 'playing her like a tune', this piece explores the registers and repetition that were experienced in the episode.This is the first piece in the suite.

Gradients for Bass Ensemble is an exploration in texture and timbral shifts. It is part of a set of pieces for performers that are improvisers and perform notated music, the idea is to give four improvising bass players the freedom to be present in the affect of a performance space and electronics while keeping a tension between melodic material and gradient timbres. The score features graphic and written notation along with electronics.

Ink is an interactive piece that uses my sound painting app (makes an abstract playing based on what you play - measuring amplitude, xyz coordinates of physical movement accelerometer/gyroscope, rhythm, and pitch), 2 channel sampling (in Max MSP), and live trumpet.

Physical vs. Virtual intimacy is a live performance video installation that explores the disconnect between what we are willing to share publicly in contrast with what we will say when we are separated by devices. The video on the pixel wall is a manifestation of the intimacy shared in the 1's and 0's of the cloud. It is tender, passionate, sometimes violent: the manifestation of subtext. The actors in the installation, however, are cold, distant, and detached; communicating only through phones. This is often how we are with each other in our lives, holding our emotions at distance and unwilling to be honest face to face.

Aine Lu- Projections, projection mapping, video, set design and construction
Alexandria Smith- projection mapping, video, interactive audio and composition
Rebecca Etzine- Directing, Video and set design, and construction
Hallie Schwartz- Actress and set construction
Ryan Cooper- Actor and set construction