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Current Events & Recent News

  1. 12.05.09

  2. TERRIBLE THINGS is now open to the public at PS-122 for three weeks only. I contributed a sound design for the show, and I must say that it is one of my favorites. Granted, every most recent thing that I make tends to always be my favorite, but I feel that this show will stay up there at the top for quite awhile. There are some beautiful and strange images throughout the show - scenic, light, word-based, and physical.

  3. Music from the show is in the player below. Images and music are here.

  1. 12.28.09

  2. The Tiny Dance Film Series - my collaboration with Peter Kyle Dance - will be on view in New York during the 2010 Dance On Camera festival, January 28 - February 4 at the Walter Reade Cinema lobby in Lincoln Center. If you haven’t witnessed the magic that is the Tiny Dance Film Series, this is the best time to do it!

  1. 02.15.10

  2. heARTh  is an art party that’s happening in my Washington, DC neigborhood on Saturday, February 27 at 8:00. It takes place at the home of Aadika Singh, and will feature new work from New York & DC-based artists - myself included! The new piece is a peripatetic audio & video piece.

  1. 03.01.10

  2. The heARTh party was a huge success! Rebecca and I are really happy with the first iteration of SILOSPHERE (aka The Big Moon Head); we learned a lot from all the guests who walked around the party with it. More pictures are here.

  1. 03.25.10

  2. You can listen to some of my design for METAMORPHOSIS in the player below. It’s a new imagining of Kafka’s story adapted and staged by director Derek Goldman. My  design incorporates 14 live microphones, some Dvorak songs, a hint of Curtis Mayfield, and a bunch of freaky bug sounds made manifest by John Milosich’s processed voice.

  3. Tickets can be purchased here.

  1. 04.05.10

  2. Some really great photos of the METAMORPHOSIS rehearsal process are on the Web here. The show opens this Friday, April 9!

  1. 04.21.10

  2. METAMORPHOSIS opened on April 9, and it’s earned some nice reviews and citations. The show is Helen Hayes Recommended and it’s an Editor’s Pick at The Washington Post. Tim Treanor at dctheatrescene.com calls my sound design “among the best I have ever heard, any theater, any place, any time.” It still makes me blush. More reviews are here:

  3. DC Theatre Scene

  4. DCist

  5. Washington Examiner

  6. Metro Weekly

  7. Showbiz Radio

  8. WeLoveDC.com

  9. Washington Post

  1. 05.05.10

  2. The SILOSPHERE is making an appearance in Baltimore at the MEGAPOLIS Audio Art Festival!!. Rebecca and I are psyched to share the weirdness that the silosphere has become. It all goes down in Charm City May 15 and 16. From the looks of the schedule, a whole lot of kooky (but potentially KILLing) stuff is happening all weekend. Don’t miss the fun!!

  1. 05.19.10

  2. Megapolis was an absolute BLAST this past weekend. Photos & video of the silosphere as worn by the megapeeps are here. Maria Papadomanolaki of free103point9 has posted a great interview with us here.

  1. 05.23.10

  2. MARY ESTHER, a new play produced by East 3rd Productions is showing in New York for 3 nights only, May 27-29. I’ve been working on this show for a few months with one of my best friends, Chris Petit. He’s an amazing director, and I feel that we’ve crafted a beautiful and complex new play with playwright Nick Zagone and actors Bethany Caputo and Clark Gookin. Tickets & Info.

  3. You can listen to music from the show in the player below.

  4. Images and music are here.

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  1. 06.06.10

  2. I made some theme music for 32 TEAMS - THE REAL FANTASY FOOTBALL SHOW. It’s a podcast that my friend, Heath Kelts hosts every Tuesday night at 7pm Eastern. Tune in!

  1. 06.15.10

  2. A Tiny Dance Film Series kiosk will be on view during the Dance/USA 2010 Annual Conference. This is the first opportunity for the DC community to experience the Tiny Dances in person. So, if you're affiliated with the professional dance field in any way, you're invited and welcome to attend the conference. It's being held through June 19 at the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Pentagon City, VA. The Tiny Dance kiosk will be on view each day until 6:00pm Saturday, June 19.

  1. 06.17.10

  2. I’m going to DJ a set of soul and funk (sunny, good-time) music outdoors at the brand new Columbia Heights Community Marketplace! It takes place every Saturday from 9am-2pm at 14th Street and Park Road, NW in Washington, D.C. (next to the Col. Heights Metro stop). I’ll be there this Saturday, June 19.

  1. 07.08.10

  2. New SILOSPHERE documentary!! Check it out on the Megapolis site or just a few pages away on the very same site you’re lookin’ at now.