performing

performance with dancer Tracy Broyles,
Improvisation Summit of Portland    2013

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paper stylus/horn for "Ear Side Out" 
performance w/Jacob Kirkegaard,
Berkeley Art Museum, California 2013
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 "Implied Water Margin', Revival Drum Shop, 
   Portland, 2012








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"Metal as a Five-fingered Cloud"

  Bamboo Grove,  Portland  2011
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spinning/balanced cymbals, gongs & metal plates;  
stacked stones; sand & gravel; paper terrain

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"Footpath for Fifth Nocturne",  
Switchboard Festival, San Francisco, 2011

video

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"A Carrier Wind"

(as Chresmologues with Keith Evans)

Berkeley Museum of Art, California, 2010

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paper, glass pipettes, monofilament, plastic duct, sand, record players, projectors, manipulated film, light bulbs, amplifiers, 

and violin-uke 

played by errant AltoCumulusMerzMan

video

"Listening to a Line by Andy Goldsworthy"
De Young Museum, San Francisco, 2010
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--paper embossed with continuous portion of Goldsworthy 'crack' from atrium of museum

--recording (house speakers) of ambient noises from atrium heard after museum closing

--recording (small floor speakers in series) of hand-held stone tracing 'crack' from beginning to end

--sprinkled sand used to reveal 'hidden' line along paper path and paper boulders

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    "The Footpath",  Hybrida, Tarcento, Italy  2002
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               rocks, slabs, leaves, glass, metal, sticks

                   collected at ruin of pasta factory

                      arranged on paper footpath-- 

small speakers pulled slowly across room with clear string

                       amplifying waterfall heard 

                       in stairwells of power plant--

     at concert's end, large windows along riverside wall

    opened one by one, filling room with sound of river

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 'The Footpath', Photoshop Gallery, Berlin  2009
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 -pine needles, gravel, pods & straw collected in neighborhood
 -mica panels &  feldspar prisms variously lit to evoke miniature
  landscape on paper and surfaces of the room
 -listening 'aides' made from rolled posterboard

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"Music heard far off" performed by The Child Readers, 
Wallywoods, Berlin, Winter 2005

-a musical pageant for stick figures, xylophone, pitch pipes, Rockwell Kent, picture books, diaries, cassette players, shadows & implied campsites  (joined by an unexpected 'sweater fire' in the audience!)

watch

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"The Footpath", Berkeley Museum of Art, CA
   2004

a performance for the sounds of...

 -rubbings on paper

 -rubbed stones and clattered stones

 -shells in water

 -snapped twigs

 -dragged leaves and branches

 -a bell

 -and amplified recordings of quiet actions