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From: http://sound.warmsilence.org/bio/
Iʼm a composer of electronic and acoustic music (often combined into a single piece). My work explores patterns and systems inspired by nature and mathematics, as well as slowly-developing nuances of timbre and tuning.
I am currently in the PhD program at Duke University where I study with John Supko and Scott Lindroth. I also have degrees from Brooklyn College (CUNY) and Northwestern University, and my former teachers include David Grubbs, Amnon Wolman, and Jay Alan Yim.
In February/March 2012, I attended the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco as a recipient of an Other Minds Composer Fellowship, and in the summer of 2012, I attended the nief-norf Summer Festival in Greenville, SC, and the Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP) in Boston, MA.
My compositions were released on two recordings in 2011: Phantasm (Music for Saxophone and Computer) by Eric Honour and Music for Violin by Erik Carlson.
Recent performances include: coo coo, performed by the Wild Rumpus New Music Collective in November 2012; deer, performed at SICPP in Boston in June 2012; impulse:decay, played by students and faculty at the nief-norf Summer Festival in June 2012; two songs, sung by Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek at Duke University in March 2012; windthrow, performed by Rootstock Percussion Trio in February 2012 at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco; basin/range and coo coo, played by the Wet Ink Ensemble in February and April 2012; tear gas, played by the Duke New Music Ensemble in November/December 2011; The Alchemical Room, a collaboration with video artists Madeleine Gallagher and Adam Savje, which was performed at Roulette, NYC in May 2010; and estuary (for quintet and electronics), which was performed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC by members of The Perlman Music Program in February 2010. Other recent performers of my music include euphoniumist Mark Carlson and the New York Miniaturist Ensemble.
I have been The Perlman Music Program‘s Composer-in-Residence since the summer of 2009, and in 2010 took over as Director of Contemporary Music during the program’s Summer Music School.
I was born in 1980. My works are licensed by BMI.
I live in Durham, NC with my wife Rosemary.
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