Deep Listening Certificate

Proud to be a Deep Listening Certificate holder from the Center for Deep Listening at Rensselaer!  Certification requirements involved a year-long course and participation in listening, moving, and dreaming groups.  It was a fantastic and restorative process and I highly recommend it. If you would like help finding a local Deep Listening group or if …

Illuminations Codex

This is a video rendering of a limited edition printed codex that I have published. There are currently 3 copies in existence.  If you would like to own one of the three copies, they are $150 each.  If you just want a digital copy The Illuminations codex is a book of scores. Download it for …

Sound Vision Sonic Meditation

SOUND VISION: A Collection of Sonic Meditations Introduction Every object in the environment both emits and reflects sound.  Every material, as we know, reflects or resonates sound in a particular way.  That is why we make walls from stone and use wood to build an organ and not the other way around. In our normal …

Listening to Richard Nonas’ “the Man in the Empty Space'”

Richard Nonas' "The Man in the Empty Space" is an exibition intended to "fundamentally alter our sense of space, time, landscape, and architecture."   Sound is space and time, and we can use sound placed within constructed-space (architecture) to explore how we sense place.  This is a sonic meditation about presence. Sonic Meditations are pieces that …

Listening Room Manuscripts

These are some shots of my large-format illuminated manuscripts

Illuminated Manuscript Phonograph Project

In this project, I have tried to find an ideal way to viscerally experience and explore sound in image.  This is still an open question.   Obviously, at any point I could have bought a record player and recording sound is very simple these days.  This does not solve my problem.  Record players do not operate …

Building Acoustic Instruments

This is an ongoing project where I am building various acoustic instruments to explore the different ways that sound is produced through resonance in wood. One of my points of historical focus is traditional violinmaking.  It is an interesting craft to study because so much of it is steeped in an almost religious reverence of …

Nearly Silent Wind Chime

Silence is a luxury. In a world where machines, radios, and phones are constantly making noise, it feels wrong to take a rare silent space and add sound.  That is why I made this wind chime.  I hoped to bring the listener’s attention to the silent beauty of the area around the wind chime rather …

Sap Diamonds

Sap diamonds is a time-sensitive process and art practice installation created in October 2013. During Autumn in pine woods, the trees drip sap from their branches.  The sap runs crystal clear when the temperature is cool (but not too cool) in the morning.  When the sap drips it will occasionally land on the rocks.  On …

Phonograph Building

My intent with this project was to understand what it felt like to engineer the tinfoil phonograph. I constructed the phonograph from plumbing supplies.  It worked  only for a brief period of time (early phonography is inherently destructive to recordings), but it was truly an amazing experience to hear a ghostly little voice come out …