MUSIC & PERFORMANCE

SIDEWALK CHALK (26:08 performance) 5:52 Video

2023

Wearing a white shirt and white shorts, I walk into frame and pull a "child's" briefcase of colorful chalk out of a another, "adult" briefcase. I proceed to unlatch my case, pick out a piece of chalk and slowly outline my seated body. It evolves as my body becomes increasingly active and I continuously trace myself in chalk without pause, except to change color.

I am insisting on my own existence. Questioning our perception of growing over time and the ways in which one might engage with the world as an adolescent and as an adult. The performance ends when I'm done working for the day.

ASU ACME CONCERT SPRING '24

(45:45 begins painting performance of graphic score "December 1952 by Earle Brown)

Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble, Arizona State University, Katzin Hall

2024

In collaboration with the ASU Arizona Contemporary Music Ensemble (ACME), I developed a framework with which to musically interpret Earle Brown's "December 1952: FOLIO" graphic score, which is one sheet comprised of many small rectangles of various sizes and proportions.

Which the concept of home in mind, a "place" or "non-place" or body that houses the dualities of human experience, the good and bad, conflict and joy... the score was mathematically divided into four sections with four parts per section for the musicians to activate each rectangular gesture at calculated times. This would in turn inform the gestures I made with paint on canvas. Each section corresponded to a color (yellow, red, blue, neutral) to determine how the musicians would approach their gestures.

THREE FLUXUS PERFORMANCES 6:49 Video

2023

I perform here in three Fluxus art performances for the sake of taking personal orchestration seriously, you will see three acts sequentially that give three different spaces of viewer entanglement. Are you a captive audience member who silently applauds alongside the successes and failures of finding resonance in various spaces?

Attune by Larry Miller:

"Find which note in the octave is yours."

Two Durations by George Brecht:

"red

green"

Rainbow No. 2 for Orchestra by Ay-O:

"A totally inexperienced orchestra plays a 7 note major scale on various instruments."

A FLUXUS ORCHESTRA: Across Five States (asynchronous group performance) 1:29 Video

2023

This is the result of Fluxus score: Rainbow No. 2 for Orchestra by the artist Ay-O, in which I asked people to participate through social media. "A totally inexperienced orchestra plays a 7 note major scale on various instruments."

Featuring: Guitar 1 (Jake Rinker), Guitar 2 (Mike Coles), Piano 1 (Pam Rinker), Piano 2 (Cindy Sharitt), and Wind Instrumentation - Piccolo, Flute, Clarinet {with no reed} (Michael Isgett).

Special thanks to these folks for collaborating on this performance.