As a performer and listener, I find a closer connection to music through movement whether it’s nodding my head or tapping to the beat or just moving my body with the melodic tune. Hiccup-pated Groove originates from elements of movement and improvisation and serves as the common ground for the listener to enjoy. As the groove progresses, the simplicity of the tune gradually turns complex with contrasting remarks and unexpected interruptions that can quickly surprise a listeners comfort zone. Despite the bumpy roads and smooth-sailing songs that come about, the groove will always be there to help the listener sit back, chillax and enjoy the musical ride.

Ominous Presence was composed in 2022 for NEBULA Ensemble. The composition is inspired by Charles Stein’s photograph, Bird in the Bush. Stein’s photograph is dark, complex, and possesses a sense of weight, motion, and tension, which is similar to what is intended aurally in Ominous Presence. This is not a piece of program music, it is an abstraction. Stein’s photograph abstract’s a visual moment by capturing it and removing from time, while Ominous Presence abstracts a moment in time through the imposition sound. Each iteration of Ominous Presence will vary in detail because of the variation introduced by performer’s choice/decision making that is composed into the work.

Reconstructing Apoptosis was inspired by a massive art installation called apoptosis created by ceramic artists Katie Caron and Martha Russo and underwritten by the Denver Art Museum.

Precarious is a musical watercolor experience created by watercolor artist Jamie Hansen and composer/vocalist Sarah Perske. With Hansen based in South Carolina and Perske in Colorado, the pair sent a series of audio and video files back and forth to one another to gradually build the piece. The watercolor art and the musical work took shape side-by-side in subsequent layers, with each collaborator responding to the other’s musical and visual replies. In the process, Jamie and Sarah each embraced something native to the other’s medium.

In December 2020, we collaborated with Wild Beautiful Orchestra to create a performance reflecting our thoughts as 2020 came to an end. This video contains three pieces: “Ohne” (“Without”) @ 0:12, “Looking Within” @ 2:58, and “Until Then” @ 5:30.

“As you hear these groove-tacular sounds, MOST LIKELY you will hear the interruptions of our cellular devices, falling into the mix of the acoustic beats.”