Artistic Statement
“…a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind.” – Rod Serling
I compose music steeped in imagery and allusion, which seeks to elicit a sense of time, place, and feeling. My conception of musical performance is informed by a lifelong proximity to the Catholic liturgy, where there is a heightening of the senses through their entanglement, enabling a shift in consciousness and an encounter with the mystical. Similarly, my music strives to orient the listener’s mind — in an indefinite way — toward images, ideas, and sensations which have served as extramusical inspiration for the composition. I often incorporate recorded sound to broaden a work’s signifying potential or to transform the performance space into a radically different environment. I’m fascinated with the concept of sound as symbol and the capacity of music to mirror aspects of life, to imitate and forge metaphor. My recent work shares aesthetic traits with film noir and American Southern Gothic literature, marked by nostalgia, sensuousness, and mercurial shifts between ecstasy and melancholy. (revised 10.15.22)
I compose music steeped in imagery and allusion, which seeks to elicit a sense of time, place, and feeling. My conception of musical performance is informed by a lifelong proximity to the Catholic liturgy, where there is a heightening of the senses through their entanglement, enabling a shift in consciousness and an encounter with the mystical. Similarly, my music strives to orient the listener’s mind — in an indefinite way — toward images, ideas, and sensations which have served as extramusical inspiration for the composition. I often incorporate recorded sound to broaden a work’s signifying potential or to transform the performance space into a radically different environment. I’m fascinated with the concept of sound as symbol and the capacity of music to mirror aspects of life, to imitate and forge metaphor. My recent work shares aesthetic traits with film noir and American Southern Gothic literature, marked by nostalgia, sensuousness, and mercurial shifts between ecstasy and melancholy. (revised 10.15.22)