Medium: Site-specific sound and animation installation with piano strings, Arduino, steel sheets, steel beams, motors, glass, drywall, architecture, and a three-channel projection.

Dimensions: Variable, two-room installation.

Date: 2020

Clip Length: 00:54

The ambiguous, mechanical hums produce the sonic effect of running machines, without providing information

about their purpose or technical aspects. Animated projections use AutoCAD diagrams of containers for different liquids as source material, which suggests maps of larger navigational systems. Another animation employs horizontal and vertical shapes that echo the architecture of the space, giving light cues that allude to the functions of a mechanical curtain. The piece plays with spatial perception by inserting subtle shadows into the animation, questioning which objects create a light, which block light, and which are created by it. Through subtle shifts in light, sound, and material, the installation unsettles a sense of certainty and creates an unfamiliar environment out of familiar elements.

Medium: Site-specific sound and animation installation with piano strings, motors, Arduino, steel sheets, steel bricks motors, glass, drywall, vellum, copper pipes, shelves, rails, architecture, two-channel projection.

Dimensions: Variable (15x26 feet)

Date: 2019

Clip Length: 01:27

The title “Tarsainn” comes from a Gaelic word for “across”; it also relates to the word “tartan” -- the fabric pattern. The site-specific sound composition is created by motor vibrating piano strings modulated by steel bricks and glass, amplified by drywall and pockets between walls and drywall. The animation replicates shadows of the shelves in the room leftover from space’s previous use. The piece unfolds the more you are in it with projectors going off and on, revealing details and changing the perception and space perspective.

Medium: Site-specific sound and animation installation with piano strings, steel, aluminum, motors, Arduino, granite, glass, drywall, copper pipe, and architecture, single-channel projection

Dimensions: Variable (9x8x3 feet)

Date: 2019

Clip Length: 00:32

Description: Site-specific piece engaging with the architecture of Clemente Soto Velez, specifically the ogee arches on the wall.

Medium: Site-specific sound and animation installation with 16 piano strings, drywall, copper pipes, motors, Arduino, glass, granite, aluminum, vellum, acetate, and four-channel projection.

Dimensions: 29x28 foot room

Date: 2019

Clip Length: 00:26

Description: The animation depicts 3D animated granite rock replicas of actual rocks in the installation that modulate sound and prop sculptural elements and a mix of real and simulated shadows sliding across space. The architecture of the space amplifies the analog vibrating string sound composition. The sound and vibrations travel through the pipes and balanced drywall pieces held only by pipes at odd angles.

Medium: Site-specific animation and sound installation with 12 piano strings, copper and aluminum, motors, Arduino, glass, vellum, acetate, and three-channel projected 3D animation

Dimensions: 19x28 feet room with 14-foot ceilings

Date: 2018

Clip Length: 01:07

Description: “Da Capo al Fine” is rooted in inherent frequencies of objects that can become destructive if matched with an outside frequency. Pieces of tempered glass (various size rectangles, semicircles, range between 10 and 8 inches) are wedged between piano strings and a wall, floor, ceiling. The vibration of motors vibrates the strings, creating various tones, shifts of tones, and melodic drone sound. Some piano/glass pairings have additional aluminum, and copper plates wedged similarly. They serve to make notes lower, the aluminum blends with its own shadow, and the copper plate echoes the copper wound piano strings. Spatially mapped projections of fake shadows alluding to the cityscape blended with the musical structure’s shadow are animated to contract and expand, playing with the border between real and virtual.