2024Max for Live device for organizing music by macroharmony, the frequency distribution of pitches in recent memory. Analyze macroharmony from any MIDI input or draw your own, generate random notes based on the same distribution, and create tonality map to travel and blend.
2014-2024Helped found non-profit dedicated to serving musical communities in prisons Program director at Sing Sing Correctional Facility (NY) and Lansing Correctional Facility (KS) Have run over 100 workshops and produced 25+ concerts in correctional facilities since 2015
2024I am designing a new course for the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at NYU Tisch called Music Design & Discovery for Fall 2024. As ITP students are not necessarily musicians, we will approach music as a design problem, grounded more in information theory than music theory. Coursework will explore efficient heuristics for compositional play that sidestep the need for traditional music theory. Category Teaching
Creative Music Intensive
2022-
Two week summer retreat at Arts, Letters and Numbers (Albany, NY), and online. Faculty include Elliot Cole, Michael Harrison, Aleksandra Vrebelov, Payton McDonald, and the Bergamot Quartet. Workshop topics include composition, counterpoint, Just Intonation, music production, Classical Indian rhythm and raga, and more.
2022Video course designed to help you learn how to compose music while learning how to use Ableton Live Material covers two semesters of what I teach at Juilliard and the New School Beginner/intermediate level Learn by doing, guided by 142 short videos
2020-Evolving collection of games, improvisation scores, and sonic meditations employing the flowerpot Since 2020, Flowerpot Music has been an special project of Make Music Day, and is performed in dozens of cities each year on June 21 Events are promoted and supported by Peter Ferry Note: Not the same piece as Flowerpot Music No. 1, a fully notated duo, which probably needs a new name!
2013-Software for musical modeling and exploration Aided composition of many of my works, including Bloom Suite + Trio, Facets / Well of Whales, New Year’s Day, Flows, Nocturnes, Hashflowers.
2022-2023 A nine-hour cycle of raga-based music for voice, Just Intonation piano, and Prophet synthesizer. Created with Michael Harrison, Ina Filip, and Benoît Rolland, with lighting by Nina Elder. Commissioned by the Turchin Center for the Arts in Boone, North Carolina, and exhibited July-December 2023.
Category Raga,Compositions
2021Celtic-baroque-rock-opera by me and Fiona Gillespie, for a big band of old and new instruments (Makaris). Story comes from a 16th century Scottish ballad.