WORK SAMPLES
Housing Matters Artist Residency
SAMPLE #1
Title: Sugar Stains
Role: Performer, Composer, Sound Producer
Year: October 2018
Location: MSA Annex, Tucson, Arizona
Sugar Stains was a world premiere and headlining performance collaboration w/ internationally acclaimed Mexican performance artist, Niña Yhared. The soundtrack uses both live and pre-composed samples created from recording amplified sugar on metal, and is layered with live looping of distorted violin melodies based on a Mexican folk song. The Binational Encuentro was a ten day conference hosted by the University of Arizona bringing light to the female migration and border crossing experience. This composition includes electronic violin looping based on a Mexican folk song.
Suggested viewing:
See marker 2:47 for start of folk song
SAMPLE #2
Title: The Grief Manuscript
Role: Director, Video Editor/Producer, Composer, Stop-motion
Date: March 2021
Location: Tucson, Arizona
The Grief Manuscript is a multi-media collaborative response to the raw and imagistic language of the book by Frankie Rollins speaking to the dream-like and repeating gestures of loss we experience on a personal and global level, while illustrating the power of art-making as salve.
Selected feature in Creation In Isolation, Groundworks Art Show Cast, Tucson, AZ, April 2021
SAMPLE #3
Title: Idealism
Role: Composer, Producer, Performer & Recording Engineer
Date: June 2021
Location: Tucson, Arizona
“Idealism” is from my solo EP “Etudes” a collection of acoustic-electric songs that is in itself an étude in which each piece is a production exercise implementing a different musical technique. The collection also seeks ways in which we might find catharsis and overcome narratives of our younger selves.
SAMPLE #4
Title: ANTI/body: There in the Distance
Role: Audio Producer, Composer
Date: June 2021
Location: Tucson, Arizona
ANTI/body is a site specific installation event in multiple locations around Tucson and an emergent collaboration between the Tucson Art+Feminism Collective and local artist Natalie Brewster Nguyen.
ANTI/body is a social response to the pandemic crisis and a springboard for creation; Nguyen has invited local artists to respond to a broad spectrum of inquiries linking to the guiding theme of this year’s Art+Feminism Campaign, Art+Activism. The artists are all women/trans/non-binary/queer/POC artists whose work crosses genres and mediums. They are collectively using this moment to demonstrate the incredible adaptability and relevance of art in hard times.
Note: soundtrack accompanies a map of visual art installations around the city
SAMPLE #5
Title: Oceans
Role: Composer
Date: January 2021
Commissioned by LuftBassoons with the support of the Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona. Selected for virtual premiere at the International Meg Quigley Vivaldi Bassoon Symposium 2021. Selected in January 2022 by the same symposium for a group performance 0f 60+ bassoonists from around the world (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ).
Suggested viewing Intro (00:42") and Mvt: III: Sea Life (05:33")
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