My practice centers on transforming, layering, and (re)assembling field recordings into “soundsketches” that traverse the border between documentation and fabrication to explore the rich possibilities of sonic textures, emotions, and experiences that surround us.
In sound compositions and installations, my work seeks to make the familiar into other, other into the familiar. I play with sequence and forms of repetition to wonder about time, duration, and temporality. I hope the work will provoke personal and collective exploration about how memory, habit, and tradition channel the valuing and imagining—and destruction—of our sonic worlds and artifacts.
Rooted in a curiosity nurtured by the Sonoran Desert, water is a primary location for and provocateur in these soundsketches. I listen and record with rivers, canals, pools, irrigation systems, wetlands, and reservoirs. I walk the porous seams between “natural” and “engineered” water systems.
In doing this, I am interested in attending to not only the “meditative” and recuperative aspects of water and more-than-human settings but also their power, unpredictability, uncontrollability, and precariousness in the face of climate change and human interventions.
My practice recursively informs conservation efforts on behalf of the Verde River watershed and efforts to engage with sound to deepen connection and appreciation of the Verde.
