education
2015—2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
2007—2011
Kent State University | Kent, OH
2010
Kent State University | Florence, Italy
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
MS Art, Culture, & Technology_4.9 GPA
Media Arts & Sciences_School of Architecture + Planning
[Department of Architecture Graduate Fellow]
2007—2011
Kent State University | Kent, OH
BS Architecture & Environmental Design
2010
Kent State University | Florence, Italy
Study Abroad Program_Spring
teaching
2024
New Perrenials Community Roots Apprenticeship | Middlebury College, VT
Mentor, practicioner
2021
Becoming Otherwise: Practices in Expanded States of Consciousness | Virtual
Course creator, designer, researcher, curator, co-facilitator
2019
School of the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts University | Boston, MA
2018
NuVu Studio | Cambridge, MA
2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
2016
Harvard University | Cambridge, MA
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
New Perrenials Community Roots Apprenticeship | Middlebury College, VT
Mentor, practicioner
2021
Becoming Otherwise: Practices in Expanded States of Consciousness | Virtual
Course creator, designer, researcher, curator, co-facilitator
2019
School of the Museum of Fine Arts @ Tufts University | Boston, MA
Lecturer, “The History of Sound Art”
Lecturer, “The Everyday Practice of Listening”
2018
NuVu Studio | Cambridge, MA
Technology Coach + Course Instructor, “Musical Interventions”
2017
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant, Jan St. Werner & Sam Auinger: “Kinetic Speakers and Experimental Sound Creations II”
2016
Harvard University | Cambridge, MA
Teaching Fellow, Ernst Karel: “Sonic Ethnography (Anthropology 2722)”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Cambridge, MA
Teaching Assistant, Jan St. Werner: “Kinetic Speakers and Experimental Sound Creations I”
artist talks + workshops
2024
Sound+Sensory walk @ High Pastures, VT
[facilitator]
2023
Visiting Artist w/ Tyler Rai and Marion Spencer @ Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ
[Tidewater performance process presentation]
2022
Audio Exchange Network: delay, relay, feedback loop | Virtual
[collaborative 3-pt. radio workshop for Wave Farm] ︎︎︎
2021
Charting the Ephemeral, Aural Cartography | Virtual
[Map and Listening Workshop w/ Bayo Akomolafe’s
We Will Dance With Mountains Course]
2020
Mindful Drawing and Meditation | Virtual
2019
“Mobile Subjects” @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
”Aural Cartography: Practices in Sound + Space” @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
2018
“Multimedia Programing with MaxMSP” @ NuVu Studio | Cambridge, MA
2017
Guest Lecturer, Sound Art @ Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Boston, MA
“Reverberations” @ Arts for the Armory | Somerville, MA
Sound+Sensory walk @ High Pastures, VT
[facilitator]
2023
Visiting Artist w/ Tyler Rai and Marion Spencer @ Rutgers University | New Brunswick, NJ
[Tidewater performance process presentation]
2022
Audio Exchange Network: delay, relay, feedback loop | Virtual
[collaborative 3-pt. radio workshop for Wave Farm] ︎︎︎
2021
Charting the Ephemeral, Aural Cartography | Virtual
[Map and Listening Workshop w/ Bayo Akomolafe’s
We Will Dance With Mountains Course]
2020
Mindful Drawing and Meditation | Virtual
2019
“Mobile Subjects” @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
[Soundwalk, Spatial Thinking, + Map Design]︎︎︎
”Aural Cartography: Practices in Sound + Space” @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
2018
“Multimedia Programing with MaxMSP” @ NuVu Studio | Cambridge, MA
2017
Guest Lecturer, Sound Art @ Massachusetts College of Art and Design | Boston, MA
“Reverberations” @ Arts for the Armory | Somerville, MA
[Listening, and DIY instrument building workshop for youth]
selected projects + exhibitions
2024
24HR DRONE Festival @ Basilica Hudson | Hudson, NY
[60 min. solo ambient electronic performance with VLF, samples, tape loops]
“What is your first memory of dirt?” // “Exorcism = Liberation” by Yanira Castro
[8 min. spoken word/text/poetry score/reading]︎︎︎
Becoming Futures Festival 2024 // Blue Ecology for Future Memory radio presetation
[Radiophonic Futurities: A playlist curated by Mark Vernon for Radio Papesse]︎︎︎
La nueva ola de añil | Karla Claudio-Betancourt
[Sound Design, Recording, Editing, Mix for 13 min. film]︎︎︎
2023
“Blue Ecology For Future Memory” // Composition for Radio Amnion, Radiophrenia 2023
[25 min. // Sci-fi, Bioluminesence, Dinoflaggellates, Puerto Rican Trench] ︎︎︎
”Flooding is what they call it” // Cannonball Festival // Philadelphia Fringe @ Fidget Space
[50 min. live audio score to movement piece w/ Tyler Rai + Marion Spencer] ︎︎︎
can i get a witness? by Lead2Life
[sound design, editing, & mix]
2022
Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave
[radio piece and broadcast] ︎︎︎
A Sigil’s Landscape by Karla Claudio-Betancourt
[sound recording & original music for 3-part video series] ︎︎︎
2021
Here, There Diaspora Garden Community (on-going)
[creator, facilitator, land worker] ︎︎︎
Between Starshine and Clay by Lead2Life
[sound design, editing, & mix] ︎︎︎
2020
Time Pocket Clock, Random Listening/Meditation Timer
[custom program, MaxMSP]
Green Rooms 2020, “The Earth is Watching...”, National Art Centre English Theatre
A*rray 3 by Andy Graydon
Violence in Boston Fundraiser
Non-Event At Home 7
Sonorium @ Salem Access TV | Salem, MA
Oversoul: Borikén pt.1 @ Studios at MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA
2019
Grounding Aether @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
Electric Streams of Wind
Variations @ Bromfield Arts Gallery | Boston, MA
Exordium by Laura Knott + Kevin McLellan
2018
Non-Event 2018 Showcase Group Exhibition @ The Yard (Handcock Tower) | Boston, MA
Moon Villian @ Chinatown | Boston, MA
MIT Dissolve Music Conference @ Warehouse XI | Cambridge, MA
Washington Street Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
Unknown Results // The Perception Of Order Within Group Exhibition
@ Aviary Gallery | Jamaica Plain, MA
“Querencia” Hopper Magazine: May 2018 online feature
Sonic Section Perspectives (For Paul Rudolph) @ CVPA UMass Dartmouth | New Bedford, MA
2017
Non-Event 2017 Year-in-Review podcast
“What About Things That Don’t have Skinlike Surfaces For Borders?” @ Artist’s Row | Salem, MA
Vespers 08: “Seasonalities” | Somerville, MA
Non-event Showcase Group Exhibition: Untitled Lobby installation @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
“Electric Streams” @ Goethe Institut Boston | Boston, MA
Untitled Staircase Installation @ Goethe Institut Boston | Boston, MA
“Water + Way” for Mural Slam, @ Salem Arts Festival | Salem, MA
“Electric Streams of Wind (Silvering The Edges of Broken Clouds)” | Cambridge, MA
“Investigating the Sonic Commons” @ List Visual Arts Building | Cambridge, MA
Together Boston Festival @ Middlesex Lounge | Cambridge, MA
“Black Pond” by Jessica Rinland
Xfest 2017 Group Exhibition @ Holyoke City Hall | Holyoke, MA
[group performance]
Rare Frequency, Podcast 58 @ WZBC 90.3fm | Newton, MA
AV Performance @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[solo 4 channel, location recordings, processing, EMF, electronics w/ Franck Vigroux / Antoine Schmitt, Caroline Park / Asha Tamirisa]
2016
“The Document” @ fortyK Gallery | Cambridge, MA
“Planes” by Janne Höltermann @ Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia // Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
“Control Automation” by Yusef Audeh
Issue 21 :: Sonic Materialities for textsound.org edited by Michael Nardone
framework radio #545:: MECHAN-032 presentation
[sound submission, location recordings, processing] ︎︎︎
“An Act Or No Future” group exhibition @ MIT List Visual Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
Sound Creations and Kinetic Speakers Publication
_MetaPatterns: Processes in Time @ MIT List Visual Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[curator, solo 8-channel audio performance, w/ Andrea Pensado, Forrest Larson, Jake Meginsky, Victoria Shen]
AV Performance @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[solo multimedia performance w/ Tyondai Braxton, Jan St. Werner, Isabella, DJ Devnull]
Drift Podcast featuring Andy Graydon
2015
5 Actions, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 @ ICA Boston
“Reflections of a Thousand Faces” @ MIT List Visual Art Center | Cambridge, MA
MECHAN-032 : building systems @ MIT List Visual Art Center | Cambridge, MA
“Continuum of Unmeshed Space”
“Random Sequence” by Erin O’Malley
Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo
Pangea Project 59 @ Venture Compound | St. Petersburg, FL
2014
Memory Surface
AV Performance @ Seahive | Sarasota, FL
2013
Sounds of Abetenim, Ghana
Open-air Performance Space @ Abetenim, Ghana
[design, construction, community development space for youth dance & drumming group] ︎︎︎
2012
MOCA Cleveland Musicircus_Soundwalks for John Cage | Cleveland, OH
2011
Forms:Topographic
24HR DRONE Festival @ Basilica Hudson | Hudson, NY
[60 min. solo ambient electronic performance with VLF, samples, tape loops]
“What is your first memory of dirt?” // “Exorcism = Liberation” by Yanira Castro
[8 min. spoken word/text/poetry score/reading]︎︎︎
Becoming Futures Festival 2024 // Blue Ecology for Future Memory radio presetation
[Radiophonic Futurities: A playlist curated by Mark Vernon for Radio Papesse]︎︎︎
La nueva ola de añil | Karla Claudio-Betancourt
[Sound Design, Recording, Editing, Mix for 13 min. film]︎︎︎
2023
“Blue Ecology For Future Memory” // Composition for Radio Amnion, Radiophrenia 2023
[25 min. // Sci-fi, Bioluminesence, Dinoflaggellates, Puerto Rican Trench] ︎︎︎
”Flooding is what they call it” // Cannonball Festival // Philadelphia Fringe @ Fidget Space
[50 min. live audio score to movement piece w/ Tyler Rai + Marion Spencer] ︎︎︎
can i get a witness? by Lead2Life
[sound design, editing, & mix]
2022
Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave
[radio piece and broadcast] ︎︎︎
A Sigil’s Landscape by Karla Claudio-Betancourt
[sound recording & original music for 3-part video series] ︎︎︎
2021
Here, There Diaspora Garden Community (on-going)
[creator, facilitator, land worker] ︎︎︎
Between Starshine and Clay by Lead2Life
[sound design, editing, & mix] ︎︎︎
2020
Time Pocket Clock, Random Listening/Meditation Timer
[custom program, MaxMSP]
Green Rooms 2020, “The Earth is Watching...”, National Art Centre English Theatre
[commisioned sound design piece]
A*rray 3 by Andy Graydon
[30.00s commissioned sound design piece, collaborative] ︎︎︎
Violence in Boston Fundraiser
[Virtual Performance]
Non-Event At Home 7
[Virtual Performance]
Sonorium @ Salem Access TV | Salem, MA
[Solo Performance]
Oversoul: Borikén pt.1 @ Studios at MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA
[multichannel installation // light, sound, video, electronics] ︎︎︎
2019
Grounding Aether @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
[Quadraphonic, exterior audio performance / field activation, gps] ︎︎︎
Electric Streams of Wind
[38:52s audio, CD booklet/object] ︎︎︎
Variations @ Bromfield Arts Gallery | Boston, MA
[Quadraphonic performance]
Exordium by Laura Knott + Kevin McLellan
[Sound Design for 09:00s film, recording, mixing + editing ] ︎︎︎
2018
Non-Event 2018 Showcase Group Exhibition @ The Yard (Handcock Tower) | Boston, MA
[2-channel sound installation :: meditation102] ︎︎︎
Moon Villian @ Chinatown | Boston, MA
[AV performance]
MIT Dissolve Music Conference @ Warehouse XI | Cambridge, MA
[19.9 channel audio performance]
Washington Street Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[3 channel audio performance]
Unknown Results // The Perception Of Order Within Group Exhibition
@ Aviary Gallery | Jamaica Plain, MA
[Solo & duo audio performance w/ Michael Rosenstein]
“Querencia” Hopper Magazine: May 2018 online feature
[w/ Alyssa Irizarry as Surface+Symbol]
Sonic Section Perspectives (For Paul Rudolph) @ CVPA UMass Dartmouth | New Bedford, MA
[Co-composer, technical director, performer, multichannel audio performance for 6 participants] ︎︎︎
2017
Non-Event 2017 Year-in-Review podcast
[Audio contributor, “2em_a”]
“What About Things That Don’t have Skinlike Surfaces For Borders?” @ Artist’s Row | Salem, MA
[8’x8’ public mural, and booklet as Surface+Symbol (José Rivera + Alyssa Irizarry)]
Vespers 08: “Seasonalities” | Somerville, MA
[Experimental score, performance]
Non-event Showcase Group Exhibition: Untitled Lobby installation @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[8 channel audio installation, technical director/contributor]
“Electric Streams” @ Goethe Institut Boston | Boston, MA
[AV performance]
Untitled Staircase Installation @ Goethe Institut Boston | Boston, MA
[8 channel audio installation, technical director/contributor]
“Water + Way” for Mural Slam, @ Salem Arts Festival | Salem, MA
[8’x4’ maplike mural of Salem’s waterways as Surface+Symbol]
“Electric Streams of Wind (Silvering The Edges of Broken Clouds)” | Cambridge, MA
[8 channel installation and audio work for MIT Green Building] ︎︎︎
“Investigating the Sonic Commons” @ List Visual Arts Building | Cambridge, MA
[Lecture/performance, AV presentation, MIT Sound Creations group exhibition]
Together Boston Festival @ Middlesex Lounge | Cambridge, MA
[Solo AV performance]
“Black Pond” by Jessica Rinland
[Sound recording, mixing, editing and design for 50 min. film]
Xfest 2017 Group Exhibition @ Holyoke City Hall | Holyoke, MA
[group performance]
Rare Frequency, Podcast 58 @ WZBC 90.3fm | Newton, MA
[Radio transmission]
AV Performance @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[solo 4 channel, location recordings, processing, EMF, electronics w/ Franck Vigroux / Antoine Schmitt, Caroline Park / Asha Tamirisa]
2016
“The Document” @ fortyK Gallery | Cambridge, MA
[Solo AV presentation, group exhibition]
“Planes” by Janne Höltermann @ Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia // Künstlerhaus Sootbörn, Hamburg
[Sound design for 45 min. film] ︎︎︎
“Control Automation” by Yusef Audeh
Sound design & composition for 6 min. film
Issue 21 :: Sonic Materialities for textsound.org edited by Michael Nardone
[Contributor, published sound submissions (“Obroni tro-tro” + “32-MECHAN“)] ︎︎︎
framework radio #545:: MECHAN-032 presentation
[sound submission, location recordings, processing] ︎︎︎
“An Act Or No Future” group exhibition @ MIT List Visual Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[Solo 8 channel media installation, “A Weave, the Fragment”] ︎︎︎
Sound Creations and Kinetic Speakers Publication
[Editor + graphic designer]
_MetaPatterns: Processes in Time @ MIT List Visual Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[curator, solo 8-channel audio performance, w/ Andrea Pensado, Forrest Larson, Jake Meginsky, Victoria Shen]
AV Performance @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[solo multimedia performance w/ Tyondai Braxton, Jan St. Werner, Isabella, DJ Devnull]
Drift Podcast featuring Andy Graydon
[Producer:: Sound design, recording]
2015
5 Actions, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 @ ICA Boston
[4 experimental music performances, workshops, group exhibition]
“Reflections of a Thousand Faces” @ MIT List Visual Art Center | Cambridge, MA
[12 channel generative sound installation]︎︎︎
MECHAN-032 : building systems @ MIT List Visual Art Center | Cambridge, MA
[Digital self-release, sound] ︎︎︎
“Continuum of Unmeshed Space”
[Digital self-release, sound]
“Random Sequence” by Erin O’Malley
[Sound design for digital video]
Without Fear of Wind or Vertigo
[Sound design for digital video]
Pangea Project 59 @ Venture Compound | St. Petersburg, FL
[Solo AV performance]
2014
Memory Surface
[Digital self-release, sound]
AV Performance @ Seahive | Sarasota, FL
2013
Sounds of Abetenim, Ghana
[Digital self-release, sound]
Open-air Performance Space @ Abetenim, Ghana
[design, construction, community development space for youth dance & drumming group] ︎︎︎
2012
MOCA Cleveland Musicircus_Soundwalks for John Cage | Cleveland, OH
Digital self-release, sound
2011
Forms:Topographic
Digital self-release, sound
residencies
2022
Wave Farm | Acra, NY
Radio Art Archive Fellow ︎︎︎
Bennington College | Bennington, VT
Tidewater Residency (w/ Tyler Rai)
2020
Studios @ MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA
2013
Nka Foundation | Abetenim, Ghana
2009
Building Bridges Arts Collaborative | Cleveland, OH
Wave Farm | Acra, NY
Radio Art Archive Fellow ︎︎︎
Bennington College | Bennington, VT
Tidewater Residency (w/ Tyler Rai)
2020
Studios @ MASS MoCA | North Adams, MA
Artist-in-Residence
2013
Nka Foundation | Abetenim, Ghana
Art, Architecture + Sound Artist-in-Residence
2009
Building Bridges Arts Collaborative | Cleveland, OH
Graphic Designer + Artist-in-Residence
honors + awards
2022
Radio Art Archive Fellowship // Wave Farm
Creation Grant // Vermont Art Council
Artist Development Grant // Vermont Art Council
2020
Cambridge Art Council // Artist Relief Grant
Assets for Artists // Capacity-Building Grant
Studios @ MASS MoCA + CreateWell Residency
2019
Arts Grant // Cambridge Art Council, Cambridge, MA
2017
Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University
2015—2017
Department of Architecture 2-Year Graduate Fellowship [full-tuition] // MIT
ACT Pilot Grants // MIT
Directors Grants // Council for the Arts @ MIT
2007—2011
Oscar Ritchie Memorial & Trustee’s Scholarships // Kent State University
2008
LERCIP Intern Team of the Year
Radio Art Archive Fellowship // Wave Farm
Creation Grant // Vermont Art Council
Artist Development Grant // Vermont Art Council
2020
Cambridge Art Council // Artist Relief Grant
Assets for Artists // Capacity-Building Grant
Studios @ MASS MoCA + CreateWell Residency
2019
Arts Grant // Cambridge Art Council, Cambridge, MA
2017
Distinction in Teaching Award, Harvard University
2015—2017
Department of Architecture 2-Year Graduate Fellowship [full-tuition] // MIT
School of Architecture + Planning
ACT Pilot Grants // MIT
Directors Grants // Council for the Arts @ MIT
2007—2011
Oscar Ritchie Memorial & Trustee’s Scholarships // Kent State University
2008
LERCIP Intern Team of the Year
Architecture & Facilities Division
National Aeronautics & Space Administration // NASA
work
2023 —
For the Wild Podcast
[Producer, Audio Editor; dialogue editing, music selection; special projects producer]
2023 —2024
Vermont Releaf Collective | Vermont, US
[Aural Cartography Organizer / 2023 Organizing Squad
Oral history + storytelling, land + map workshops, archive]
2022
Whetstone Media | Atlanta, GA
[Whetstone Radio Collective, Audio Editor]
2021
Wildstone Organic Farm | Pownal, VT
[Farm crew // cultivation, harvesting, bed prep]
2018—2020
Harvard University, Media & Technology Services | Cambridge, MA
2015—2020
Non-Event Experimental Music Concert Series | Boston, MA
2018
Beyond Walls Mural Festival | Lynn, MA
2017—2018
Multicultural Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
2017
Brightspot/Project Brooklyn | Cambridge, MA
2012—2015
Schumacher Homes | Canton, OH
2010
BHDP | Columbus, OH
Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design | Kent, OH
2007—2008
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) | Cleveland, OH
For the Wild Podcast
[Producer, Audio Editor; dialogue editing, music selection; special projects producer]
2023 —2024
Vermont Releaf Collective | Vermont, US
[Aural Cartography Organizer / 2023 Organizing Squad
Oral history + storytelling, land + map workshops, archive]
2022
Whetstone Media | Atlanta, GA
[Whetstone Radio Collective, Audio Editor]
2021
Wildstone Organic Farm | Pownal, VT
[Farm crew // cultivation, harvesting, bed prep]
2018—2020
Harvard University, Media & Technology Services | Cambridge, MA
[Freelance Media Technician, Sound Engineer + Videographer]
2015—2020
Non-Event Experimental Music Concert Series | Boston, MA
[Freelance Live Sound Engineer + Graphic Designer]
2018
Beyond Walls Mural Festival | Lynn, MA
[Artist Assistant (Lift Certified)]
2017—2018
Multicultural Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[Production Assistant_Sound and Lighting Engineer]
2017
Brightspot/Project Brooklyn | Cambridge, MA
[Experience Design Contractor/Consultant]
2012—2015
Schumacher Homes | Canton, OH
[Architectural Designer]
2010
BHDP | Columbus, OH
[Architectural Intern]
Kent State University, College of Architecture and Environmental Design | Kent, OH
[Laser-Cutter + Print Room Technician]
2007—2008
National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) | Cleveland, OH
[LERCIP Intern, Architecture & Facilities Division]
community / leadership
2023—2024
Vermont Releaf Collective | Vermont, US
Aural Cartography Organizer / 2023 Organizing Squad
[Oral history + storytelling, land + map workshops, archive]
2022—
Community Engagement Committee + Unschool Task-Force @ All Brains Belong VT ︎︎︎
Psychedelic Peer Support Volunteer @ Fireside Project ︎︎︎
2021
Here, There Diaspora Garden Community (on-going)
[creator, facilitator, land worker] ︎︎︎
Vermont Releaf Collective | Vermont, US
Aural Cartography Organizer / 2023 Organizing Squad
[Oral history + storytelling, land + map workshops, archive]
2022—
Community Engagement Committee + Unschool Task-Force @ All Brains Belong VT ︎︎︎
Psychedelic Peer Support Volunteer @ Fireside Project ︎︎︎
2021
Here, There Diaspora Garden Community (on-going)
[creator, facilitator, land worker] ︎︎︎