I’m honored to be starting a music commission from artist Michelle A M Miller, for her book installation, “Convergence”. We got to know each other’s work last year at the Atlantic Center residency, and she is a treat to work with. Her project centers her Nicaraguan Miskito mother’s voice, memories and cosmology, interwoven with bio […]
Recordings
Full Fathom Five
I have felt the music of “Below” deeply within the pandemic and the uprisings these past months. I’ve been imagining summer, swimming in ice cold rivers, and walking along the Oregon coast. It’s predicted to be the hottest summer on record, which will be an additional stress to the ongoing struggles for human rights. Below […]
Colonies! (the good ones)
To the casual observer artist residencies or colonies can sound a bit pretentious (and in the old days they could sometimes be just that), where artists get to be Artists, or badly behaved solipsists. But the reality is nowadays that these places diverge enormously in terms of their demands, intentions, and environments they operate in. […]