MCM 0710A - Introduction to Filmic Practice

Hi Professor Montgomery - please find below a short selection of my creative work to supplement my application to MCM 0710A. Please feel free to browse any other works on my website as well. Thank you for your time and consideration!

note: all audio has been mixed and spatialized for binaural headphones/speakers.

2020 Fall, Threat

This piece is a collaboration between myself and video artist Sicheng Wang. The piece began as an installation with projections, but COVID-19 forced us to rethink our project and adapt it into a video piece. Sicheng and I collaborated on both the visual and aural aspects of the piece. The work is constructed entirely of found materials, collaging together military footage, ancient artworks, and musical artifacts to render an unstable tapestry that points to the destructive potentials of nationalism and xenophobia that have found new life in our time. You can read our full program note here.

Virtual Immunization Project

I contributed the sound design and music to these short works (another collaboration between myself and Sicheng Wang).

...'vinit,i'mlovin'it,i'mlovin'it,i'mlo...

collage piece for electronics​

please continue

This piece was written for LIGAMENT Duo, and juxtaposes the literature of psychedelic trip reports against the political treatment of those same substances by the American government. All electronics used in the interludes/postlude are derived and appropriated from presidential speeches from the Nixon administration to October 2020. If listening from the beginning, I recommend skipping to timestamp 0:45 (m. 7), as the piece starts with an extended monologue. You can view the score here.