I am a composer, performer, and digital media artist serving at Smith College as the Sherman Fairchild Artist-in-Residence in Arts and Technology. Before coming to Smith, I spent a year at Arizona State University as a postdoctoral researcher in the Arts, Media, and Engineering Program. I played in the AMP ensemble, contributed to the Reflective Living group, and the K-12 Mediated Learning group. Prior to ASU, I worked at Brown University, where I taught courses, managed the studios, and conducted research for the Computer Music and Multimedia program. I completed a Ph.D. in Computer Music and New Media at Brown University through the Special Graduate Studies program. In 1988, I completed a bachelors degree in Music Composition at the University of Northern Colorado. I have been active for many years in the areas of composition, performance, installation, audio and video art, as well as music/technology education. In 1995 I released a self-produced CD (Sun at Midnight) which was featured on the National Public Radio program, Music from the Hearts of Space.
Media works include a real-time TV/sound installation entitled channels, which was presented during the Archeology of Multi-Media Symposium at Brown University, and motion study #5, an interactive digital video painting presented at the MIT Center for Advanced Visual Studies. Recent/ongoing sound works include, three meditations, for prepared piano and computer, the series, sonic improvisations #N, and eighth nerve, an improvisational piece for prepared electric guitar and computer, and beginners mind, for sound maker and computer-mediated performance system. Recent performances include beginner's mind at NIME in Vancouver and off-ICMC in Barcelona, duo improvisations with David Birchfield at Visione Sonoras in Mexico City, the SPARK festival in Minneapolis, and the Enaction in Arts conference in Grenoble, just intoning w/ Pauline Oliveros at the International Society for Improvised Music inaugural conference in Ann Arbor, and silent movies at the NWEAMO festival in Boulder and the NIME conference in Genoa.