Multimedia Projects
Dance, Film, and Visual Art Collaborations and Commissions
Music For Film and Visual Arts
Life Narrated by Nature (2021) by Rhonda Lashley Lopez
Composer, vocalist, sound designer
Work for exhibit in Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts.
“In the world I imagine, we people understand we're just a small part of life on this planet, taking only what we need instead of all we can get, giving all we can so other species of flora and fauna can survive. Because in truth, we are connected to the extent that our very lives depend on one another.”
“The Stag’s Mirror” (2017) by Robin Starbuck
Assistant composer, voice, flute
“Filmed in Chiapas Mexico, ‘The Stag’s Mirror’ is an allegorical response to this intricate story described in Rosario Castellano’s novel, The Book of Lamentations. The film combines footage of Chiapan life with animation, spoken text, and un-synched sound. Both the visual and aural components of this film interrogate conventional narrative structure and how this is represented in documentary film.”
Oblationem (2014) by Hannah Rifkin
Composer, sound design
Short film for the final project for the course - “Collaboration in Audio and Moving Image Technologies” at Sarah Lawrence College.
Dance Projects
I began working with dancers as an undergrad in 2014 in the Dance and Music Improv class at Sarah Lawrence College. We made a sometimes parallel, sometimes intersecting journey together into the depths of inspiration, creativity, flow-state, and and community. Working with dancers, for me has been incredibly healing through the compassionate and provoking collaborative process.
Dance and music captivates my emotions in a way nothing else quite does. I’ve always seen images in my head while I listen to music. Sometimes it’s a kaleidoscope of color, or a scene from a play. Other times it’s movement, form, emotions. So it was an epiphany when I began to collaborate with dancers and choreographers - to be able to begin the journey of learning how to reverse engineer my synesthesia.
When I compose for dance, it helps me to understand music on a deeper level; to see the differences visually between unison, harmony, dissonance, contrary motion, parallel motion.