I am an American 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 Bastard Countryside (Pueblo); 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 studied French horn performance (BMus), digital media (MLIS), music composition (MA), and music composition and computer technologies (Ph.D.) at the City University of New York, San José State University, Mills College, and the University of Virginia, respectively.
I am employed as a Senior Lecturer of Music at the Sonic Arts Research Centre, Queen's University Belfast [UK].
I previously held teaching and research positions at the Berklee College of Music, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Groupe de Recherches Musicales [FR], and the New York Public Library.
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