Artistic Research
My artistic research investigates the relationship between gesture, synthesis, and spatial presence. I am particularly interested in how historically grounded electroacoustic instruments intersect with contemporary modular systems and performance technologies.
Currently areas of inquiry include:
Gesture & Expressive Control
Exploring tactile interfaces such as ribbon controllers, pressure surfaces, joysticks and MPE devices as extensions of embodied musical thought and expression. I'm interested in the shortening of the distance between thoughts / emotions and gesture / performance. This includes work with the 4U modular format Sextuple Quadraphonic Spatial Director I co-developed with Kilpatrick Audio.
Historical Electronic Instruments
Engaging deeply with the modular electronic systems developed by Don Buchla and Serge Tcherepnin, alongside the ondes Martenot and Mixtur-Trautonium, with the aim of preserving, promoting, and progressing their capabilities, repertoire, design philosophies, and place within contemporary music.
Improvisation as Compositional Method
Treating solo and group improvisation as a rigorous structural practice, in which form emerges through constraint, attentive listening, and intuitive decision-making.
Multidisciplinary and Spatial Performance
Composing for and performing in quadraphonic and multidisciplinary environments where spatial and human movement operate as structural, gestural parameters. Investigating spatialization as rhythm and engaging with the historical legacy of multichannel electroacoustic practice and the relationship between music, dance and the visual arts.
Audio-Reactive Systems
Developing techniques in which modular signal paths translate sound and rhythmic structure into video feedback, laser projection, and liquid light processes, allowing image and sound to evolve within a shared feedback architecture.
Biofeedback Systems
Researching the translation of neurological activity, including EEG and sleep-state data, into sonic and spatial structures, with emerging interest in non-human biological systems as additional generative agents.
Synthesis Architecture & Development
Engaging in research and prototyping across wavetable architectures, multi-operator FM systems, convolution techniques, and multiband signal processing, exploring their application in future hardware and software instrument development.