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We-C (Spring-Summer 08)
Project development and teaching for the We-C program designed and directed by Dorit Cypis. We-C, sponsored by Cisco Systems and Zero1, is a comprehensive media arts program for creative at-risk young adults of the Bill Wilson Center who are moving through difficult life transitions. We-C, is designed to introduce these youth to professional artevents and practices spanning music, dance, theater, film/video and the visual arts...to model for them that adults can be highly creative, inspirational and may choose to offer their gifts to society





(October 2006)






(Spring 2006)

Each One Teach One Mentoring Project: a project of the Community Day School. Mentoring Oakland youth in self-expression using poetry and rhythm. Our efforts culminated in three recording sessions that I engineered, produced and mixed. The recordings were organized into an album showcasing the students' hard work and creativity.







Corridor (Spring 05)
A sonic, site specific, installation, co-conceived and produced with composer Barry Threw. Sound is fed from other sites on location, processed spectrally, and then diffused throughout the space through an array of plastic bottles. The resonant frequencies and harmonics of the plastic bottles filter the incoming sound, and excite the bottles. These resonances are then moved between bottles to achieve a textural effect.







Third Floor : Designed Obsolescence (Spring 05)
An art show set in an alternative space. The third floor of an abandoned Office building in Lubbock Texas was "inhabited" by myself and five other collaborators. The space was the main source of our artistic materials. I created three sound art pieces for this show utilizing abandoned office machinery, field recordings made within the building and hand built circuits. I also performed a duet playing hand built electronic circuits and circuit bent battery powered toys with fellow collaborator Szu Han Ho on violin. The opening night was March 4th 2005. 3rd floor was reviewed by Susan Platt and is published in the summer issue of Artlies.