SKILLS
Proficiency in multi-media authoring tools including (but not limited to): Max/MSP/Jitter, Max for Live, Ableton Live, Pro Tools. Processing, Nodebox, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, SketchUp, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Cut Pro
Proficiency in sound design and music composition using a variety of hardware synthesizers, modular synthesizers, drum machines, and samplers
Computer programming experience in: Java, JavaScript, C++, SQL
EDUCATION
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
B.F.A. Digital Art (Video), May 2007
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
M.F.A. Studio Art Fall 2009-Spring 2011 (degree not yet conferred)
Valley Permaculture Alliance, Permaculture Design Consultant Certification, June 2011
EMPLOYMENT
01/21 – Present
Faculty Associate
Arizona State University, Popular Music Program
Phoenix, Arizona
• Faculty instructor in electronic music, music technology, sound design, modular synthesis. Responsible for developing curriculum and teaching courses taught in the Popular Music Program.
• Classes taught in-person and online
• Software taught includes Ableton Live, Logic, Pro Tools, Max/MSP, Max For Live, and VCV Rack
8/14 – Present
Adjunct Faculty Instructor in Electronic Music and Sound Design
Paradise Valley Community College
Phoenix, Arizona
• Faculty instructor in electronic music, music technology, and multi-media design. Responsible for developing curriculum and teaching courses taught in the Music Industry Studies program at PVCC.
• Classes taught in-person, online, as well as private instruction.
• Subject matter taught includes electronic music production and sound design for film and video games.
• Software taught includes introductory, intermediate, and advanced levels of Ableton Live, Max For Live, Pure Data, and VCV Rack
• Hardware taught includes a variety of Moog Synthesizers, 5U modular synthesizers, Eurorack modular synthesizers, and various effects pedals
• Courses taught: MTC191 (Electronic Music I), MTC192 (Electronic Music II), MTC291 (Electronic Music III), MUC122 (Sound Design I), MUC222 (Sound Design II), MUP181 (Multi-Media Ensemble), MTC193 (Computer Based Sound Synthesis)
6/13 – Present
Interactive Media Designer, Sound Designer, Composer
Echo::system
Phoenix, Az
http://ame2.asu.edu/projects/echoSystem/
• Responsible for sound design and interactive systems design for dance performance and art installation, using Max/MSP/Jitter
2/08 – Present
Library Information Specialist Senior/
Library Assistant Senior,
Arizona State University, Downtown Phoenix Campus
Phoenix, AZ
• Spearheaded the development of a library maker space
• Provide daily in-person and online reference and technical support to faculty and students
• Circulation and reserve desk duties associated with assisting students, faculty, and public patrons
• Assist faculty with course reserve requests
• Pull books from shelves placed on hold
• Process inter-library loan and document delivery requests
• Supervise student workers
• Assisted the health sciences librarian in an extended (2 year) project involving the preparation of catalog records from an auxiliary collection to be transferred into the main ASU libraries catalog
• Circulation staff hiring committee member
6/07- 9/07
Primary and Elementary Art Instructor,
Desert Garden Montessori
Ahwatukee, AZ
• Responsible for designing curriculum and teaching art classes to children ages 3-13
Selected Performances
2021
Steve Roach’s SoundQuest Fest – solo live-stream performance
2018
NIME 2018 conference (music composed for Matthew Bender Mosher's interactive sculpture Tributaries of Our Distant Palpability), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
2017
Between Vibrations: A sonic conversation with James Turrell's Mohl Ip - solo, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Mesa Spark Festival (music composed for choreographer Juan Coel Rodriguez), Mesa, Arizona
Breaking Ground Dance Festival (music composed for Jessica Rajko's Me, My Quantified Self, and I), Tempe, Arizona
2016
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, (sound design for Grisha Coleman's echo::system), San Francisco, California
Selected Published Work
2019
Pagan Oceans, CD , Home Normal
The Ergonomics of Desirecassette/ digital, Schematic Music Company/ Sunwarped
2018
The Topography of Vibrating Bodies, digital, 3 audio tracks that appeared on the Nagual 4 USB compilation,, txt recordings
2017
purification verses- a series of small deaths, CD, Whitelabrecs
A Hero by Mistake, digital,1834
2016
Two Parts Helium (with Slender Loris), CD, Edgetone Records
Dovetail, CD, Whitelabrecs
2015
Whisper Collector, CD, txt recordings
Selected Residencies
2016
MANCC, Florida State University (Jan4-Jan17, sound design for Grisha Coleman's echo::system), Tallahassee, Florida
2014
Ohio State University (interactive systems and sound design for Grisha Coleman's echo::system), Columbus, Ohio
Related Experience
2014
The Still
Music composition and interactive systems design for dance performance. Performed at ASU Emerge 2014
http://vimeo.com/89630802
Inside Out, Music composition and interactive systems design for dance performance
2013
I AM SHAKTI (sound track), Music composition for video installation created by artist Lisa Corine von Koch
http://vimeo.com/74964482
2011
Partitions of Unity (sound track), Music composition for video installation created by artist Lisa Corine von Koch
http://vimeo.com/30204493
2009 - 2010
Jeff Newton Photography; Audio recording, mixing, and mastering for various commercial video shoots:
Steve Nash Commercial Video Shoot, starring Phoenix Suns basketball player Steve Nash. Aired at Olympic Complex for 2010 winter Olympics in Vancouver, BC.
Red Chair Interviews, online campaign for Park & Co. advertising agency
UTI:60 Broadcast Commercial, commercial advertisement for Universal Technical Institute
2009
Little Devil Stadium, Interactive Museum Exhibit, Tempe Historical Museum, Tempe, Az; Using Max/MSP I programmed custom built motion sensing software for a permanent exhibit at the Tempe Historical Museum
Art Space, after-school art and performance instruction, Phoenix, Az; Along with other instructors I helped elementary and middle-school aged children compose a sound score for their own dance videos.
2008
Fruit Machine; a multi-media performance composed by Hilary Harp and Suzie Silver. I was instrumental in the design of multi-media software built in Max/MSP/Jitter as well as sound design.
2007-2008
Pause Between Desires; with Andrew Marcus. Sound design, lighting design, and interactive software design for single channel video. Shown at the 11th Biennial Symposium on Arts and Technology at the Ammerman Center for Arts and Technology at Connecticut College in New London, Connecticut.
Andrew Marcus Performance, Tempe, AZ, Duties included graphic design, web design, stage lighting and design, interactive multimedia performance software design and programming, and audio/video editing.
Pure Point Golf, Phoenix, AZ, Developed Pure Point Golf: Swing Analyzer Video Software.