Signal Flow is the annual festival of new works by Mills graduate students and includes diverse performances and installations over four days. This spring I will present my thesis piece Contested Reconstructions on Friday Night.
"Contested Reconstructions" explores the dichotomy between a double mastectomy as part of treatment for breast cancer and top surgery as part of gender transition/transformation. The music and text work together to explore the fracture and (re)construction of physical embodiment. I am not interested in portraying a straightforward picture of transness or femininity, of queerness or heterosexuality, but am interested instead in the boundaries and the ambiguities, the struggle for definition when there aren’t words. This piece revolves around a medical procedure that carries intense circumstantial/contextual meanings, and the contradictions of investment in surgery as necessary cure or chosen vehicle of transformation.
Mills College offers the second of three fall collaborations with the CJM with a series of live performances of computer network compositions by students in the Mills College Computer Music seminar, directed by Chris Brown. My piece Oblique Strategies was presented on this concert.
Regina Schaffer's thesis concert for her MFA in music performace at Mills College. I participated in the final movement of Einstein on the Beach by Phillip Glass.
Signal Flow is the annual festival of new works by Mills graduate students and includes diverse performances and installations over four days. I presented On the Limitations of Language.
A relatively informal presentation of the semester work of the graduate composition seminar at Mills College. I presented On the Limitations of Language in its preliminary form.
An awsome concert of music featuring the ReacTable, a "multi-user electro-acoustic instrument with a tabletop interface." I participated in Chris Skebo's piece for trumpet and ReacTable. A video of the performance can be found on youtube.
Severed Ground was chosen to represent the composition department on the 2008 Oberlin Commencement recital series.
Ice Eden was written for this event, the senior reading of poet Ted Roland, althor of the text of the piece.
Outside Over There was accepted into this presentation of work by Oberlin student composers.
My senior recital was the premier for Allowing for Ambiguity.
A shared recital with William Heubler, this concert saw the premier of Outside Over There and the second performance of Severed Ground.