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August 6-10, 2009
Toronto Electroacoustic Symposum. I will be presenting an abbreviated version of my dissertation, focusing on three of the pieces (Baffin Bay, (Not) For Tape, and Presets). There will also be a listening session, and For Tape will be played then.

Past Events


June 27, 2009
rarescale presents a concert of duets for alto flute, including the premiere of my new piece Searching for Coincidences.

June 14, 2009
I participated in the Open Studio Day at the Monroe Center for the Arts in Hoboken, New Jersey. This all-afternoon (12-5pm) event features visual artists and other exhibits. I performed selections from Late Frost, with some improvisations in between.

May 26 and 27, 2009
I performed selections from Late Frost at two of my friends' houses. I had a great time!

April 4, 2009
New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival at the CUNY Graduate Center. Petrichor (performed by Asuka Yamamato), plus works of many other fine composers

March 13, 2009
University of Illinois. Obedience School is a last-minute addition to a concert curated by Daniel Swilley.

December 12, 2008
Graduated with distinction from Queen's University Belfast.

December 5, 2008
New Music Hartford at University of Hartford, Hartford, CT. Another performance of Arachnida.

November 2008
Relocation: I am now based out of New York City.

November 5, 2008
Tadej Kenig in recital at Musikakademie der Stadt Basel, Basel, Switzerland

November 3, 2008
Tadej Kenig in recital at Conservatorio della Swizzera Italiana, Lugano, Switzerland

October 27, 2008
Academy of music Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Slovenian clarinetist Tadej Kenig will play Petrichor along with works by Berio, Reich, Musgrave, and Boulez.

October 21, 2008
Evan Merz interviewed me at EMM for his Computer Music Blog.

October 16-18, 2008
Electronic Music Midwest at Lewis University, Romeoville, IL (near Chicago). Obedience School.

October 1-3, 2008
Harvest Moon V Festival. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada. I composed Mare Serenitatis, an 8-channel piece that never falls below 2 kHz, specifically for this festival.

September 27, 2008
Chicago Miniaturist Ensemble at Ossia Fine Arts Space, Chicago, IL. Another performance of Arachnida.

September 25, 2008
Music at 1, University of Alaska at Fairbanks. Caleb Herron premiered my percussion solo ...the silver-plumed reeds tremble. Recording/video soon to come!

September, 11, 2008
Artsaha!: The Microscore Project. University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE. Premiere of my new miniature, Arachnida for violin and cello. All of the pieces on the program are 30 seconds or less.

September 12, 2008
Dissertation completed and handed in!

September 9, 2008
A day-long presentation of the work by SARC MA students. In the early afternoon we premiered Obedience School and in the later afternoon we premiered Five Pieces for Laptop Quartet.

June 5, 2008
From Across the Pond: SARC, Queen's University Belfast. A diffusion recital in SARC's Sonic Lab, featuring works by Chris Arrell, Douglas O'Grady, Saturnin Sektor, and Mitchell Turner. Lights by Ezequiel Borges Ippolitov.

May 21, 2008
Student's Union, Queen's University Belfast. My new installation Recycled Wind was on display this day, along with an installation by my classmate Christopher Chong.

April 10, 2008
Composition Environments II Concert: Sonic Lab at QUB. Premiere of my piece More Money Than You Know What To Do With, featuring my instrument "Tuppence-a-board." Also many other fun and quirky instruments demonstrated by my classmates.

February 29, 2008
"Signals of the Vitruvian Man" concert: Sonic Lab at QUB. Mondrian, Straphanger, Petrichor (tape-only version), and premieres of The Sonic Generator and Parallel Lives, in conjunction with works by Ezequiel Borges Ippolitov.

January 28, 2008
Unseen Forces: Electronic Music by Atlanta Composers. Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA. Featuring Straphanger and works of other Atlanta-based composers.

January 17, 2008
"Rainy Commute: An Open Recording Session." Sonic Lab at QUB, Belfast, UK. Straphanger and Petrichor installations, supplemented by improvisers.

December 7, 2007
Praecepta - "BGSU Art Extravaganza." Wood County Public Library, Bowling Green, OH. Behind the 8-Ball.

October 14, 2007
Praecepta - "Bookworks." Wood County Public Library, Bowling Green, OH. Behind the 8-Ball.

October 9, 2007
neoPhonia New Music Ensemble - "The Extraordinary Ordinary." Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Petrichor - Kenneth Long, clarinet

September 24, 2007
Began MA studies at the Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen's University Belfast.

May, 2007
Completed MM in Music Composition from Georgia State University

May 3, 2007
Ohio State University Composers Forum Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Through The Canopy

April 17th, 2007
neoPhonia New Music Ensemble. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Straphanger

April 13, 2007
16th Annual Florida Electroacoustic Music Festival. University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. Five Movements on Mondrian

April 11, 2007
Georgia State Undergraduate Research Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Straphanger

April 1, 2007
"Stack the Dectet" concert. Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Gallery, plus works by Brian Bondari and Daniel Swilley.

February 13, 2007
neoPhonia New Music Ensemble, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Three Haiku

February 19th, 2007
Turned On: Atlanta Composers Group. The Five Spot, Atlanta, GA. In Flanders Fields (since withdrawn)

February 2nd, 2007
Graduate Recital: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Nympholepsy, Five Movements on Mondrian, Through the Canopy, Straphanger, Deviations, Dead Broad on Broad Street*, Djinn, In Flanders Fields,* Three Haiku
*now withdrawn

December 8, 2006
GSU Society of Composers Chapter Recital - Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Five Movements on Mondrian, Through the Canopy, and Djinn.

September 23, 2006
Beacon Dance with Adam Scott Neal. Davidson-Arabia Mountain Nature Preserve, Lithonia, GA. Three Haiku

June 5-10, 2006
June in Buffalo Festival 2006: SUNY Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Deviations - New York New Music Ensemble

April 28, 2006
GSU Society of Composers Chapter Recital: Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA. Travels