I am a musician and artist from the midwest United States. I play bass and write music with saajtak and Lovely Socialite.
Using improvisation as a path into interdisciplinary collaboration, I have spent much of my career making work with dancers, visual artists, writers. I have been able to work with many inspiring artists, from the legendary dancer Sally Gross, to Guggenheim Fellow Pope.L, to transgressive novelist Kathe Koja - with whom, over the 7 years I lived in Detroit, I worked on numerous immersive theatre works.
My collaboration with dancers has given me a concept of motion that inspired me to teach myself to animate. Working primarily in frame-by-frame animation combined with mixed media elements, I've now worked as an animator, director, and editor on numerous projects. In 2024, my music video for the band Throwaway's "Kyubabe" screened in competition at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, and won the Best Michigan Filmmaker award. In fall of 2019, I presented my animations in a 10-city tour of Japan with Throwaway.
While most of my musical composition is done as a collaborative performer within my ensembles, I do sometimes write works for other musicians. Notably, I have been fortunate to write solo pieces for the pianist Sonya Belaya and percussionist Chris Sies.
My solo project subatlantic songs is a theatrical performance for solo amplified double bass and voice. It has been in performative development since 2015, taking shape through gradual distillation of improvised material and staging limitations, including an imposing egret mask sculpted by Ann Arbor artist Mary Perrin. Performances include Cleveland's Re:Sound Festival, and Detroit's Strange Beautiful Music.
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Using improvisation as a path into interdisciplinary collaboration, I have spent much of my career making work with dancers, visual artists, writers. I have been able to work with many inspiring artists, from the legendary dancer Sally Gross, to Guggenheim Fellow Pope.L, to transgressive novelist Kathe Koja - with whom, over the 7 years I lived in Detroit, I worked on numerous immersive theatre works.
My collaboration with dancers has given me a concept of motion that inspired me to teach myself to animate. Working primarily in frame-by-frame animation combined with mixed media elements, I've now worked as an animator, director, and editor on numerous projects. In 2024, my music video for the band Throwaway's "Kyubabe" screened in competition at the 62nd Ann Arbor Film Festival, and won the Best Michigan Filmmaker award. In fall of 2019, I presented my animations in a 10-city tour of Japan with Throwaway.
While most of my musical composition is done as a collaborative performer within my ensembles, I do sometimes write works for other musicians. Notably, I have been fortunate to write solo pieces for the pianist Sonya Belaya and percussionist Chris Sies.
My solo project subatlantic songs is a theatrical performance for solo amplified double bass and voice. It has been in performative development since 2015, taking shape through gradual distillation of improvised material and staging limitations, including an imposing egret mask sculpted by Ann Arbor artist Mary Perrin. Performances include Cleveland's Re:Sound Festival, and Detroit's Strange Beautiful Music.
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