I am an American improvising electronic musician, researcher, and educator based in Belfast, N. Ireland.
I value machines for their patience and capacity to remember.
I am interested in superhuman prolongation; supramachine opacity; the re-signification of archaic tools & materials; and parallels between the physical properties & social meanings of spaces.
When I create work with archival materials specific to the performance context, I use the pseudonym 'mehetabel.'
My projects have received support from the Adrian Piper Foundation (Berlin), EMS (Stockholm), INA/GRM (Paris), the Goethe Institut [DE], MassMoCA [US], the New Museum [US], New Music USA, STEIM (Amsterdam), Swissnex [CH], and Villa Albertine [FR].
It has been released on pan y rosas discos (Chicago); Infrequent Seams (NYC); and Full Spectrum Records (Oakland), published by parallax; Feminist Media Histories; and Ugly Duckling Presse, and has been heard in fifteen countries on four continents performed by/with artists such as Nava Dunkelman, Fred Frith, Forbes Graham, Brad Henkel, Seiyoung Jang, Ava Mendoza, Roscoe Mitchell, Robbie Lee, Lydia Moyer, Ryan Muncy, Liew Niyomkarn, Erin Rogers, and the William Winant Ensemble.
I am employed as a Senior Lecturer of Music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast. I was previously employed as an Assistant Professor of Electronic Production and Design | Creative Coding at the Berklee College of Music, Boston; a lecturer at the University of Virginia; as an instructor-of-record at Mills College; as well as a digital archivist and reference librarian by the New York Public Library, among other positions.
My former students include (in roughly reverse chronological order): Primrose Ohling, kYesh, Diego Peralta Gonsales, Ghost Weather, Alice Cohen, Ruby Poile, P3PPIN, Alex Wu, Taijee Shavers, Joanna Friedrich-Sroka, Jaxx Michele, Ning Xin Zhang, and Natalie Epstein-Hogue.
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