Video
Referring to the concert A above middle C, at a frequency of 440hz, a440 is considered by those who consider such things to be the reference frequency for the calibration of orchestral instruments–a pitch against which other pitches are compared and a reason why I will never be a professional trumpet player.
~90 exploits an unfortunate tendency to drift out of time. After making 90 recordings of hitting things with a mallet exactly 3 times every 2 seconds, I combined the recordings into pulsing textures. The phasing is me trying and failing to play in time.
pond folk
In 2020, stuck at home, I scooped 2 gallons of water, rocks, and sludge from a duck pond in Vancouver and poured it all into a small aquarium. I watched and recorded the life that emerged. I was also listening to the news, podcasts, youtube, and a lot of spacey, generative musical systems.
Over the course of a year, I added things to the aquarium — a 3D printed building, a clear plastic orb, concrete blocks, drinking straws, microscope slides, a bit of stained glass, and a ping pong ball. The aquarium became a space to think about scale and time relative to human perception and the camera became an opportunity to work in shared time with macroscopic life.
I created a compilation called Pond Sample for online kindergarten science time, which also serves as an accidental teaser for an eventual archival installation…
Older Work
Footage from a train in 2007, recorded on MiniDV tape. The sound is made from field recordings and instruments performed live into the Adding Machine.