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education
2015—2017
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
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
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
2023
Tidewater by Tyler Rai, Marion Spencer, Tatyana Tenenbaum, José Alejandro Rivera (in process)
       live sound score for 60 min. dance and movement performance

can i get a witness?
by Lead2Life (in process)
       sound design, editing, & mix

2022
Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave
       radio piece and broadcast ︎︎︎

A Sigil’s Landscape by 
       sound recording & original music for 3-part video series ︎︎︎

2021
Here, There Diaspora Garden Community (on-going)
        creator, facilitator, land tender ︎︎︎

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

Performance Xfest 2017 Group Exhibition @ Holyoke City Hall | Holyoke, MA

Rare Frequency, Podcast 58 @ WZBC 90.3fm | Newton, MA
Radio performance

AV performance @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA

2016
“The Document” @ fortyK Gallery | Cambridge, MA
Solo AV presentation, group exhibition

“Planes” by Janne Holtermann
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
Contributor, published sound submissions (“Obroni tro-tro” + “32-MECHAN“)

Framework Radio :: MECHAN-032 audio presentation

“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
Co-curator, solo 8 channel audio performance

AV Performance @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA

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 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

Design & construction of performance space for youth dance & drumming group @ Abetenim, Ghana

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
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 // Financial Wellness 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 // 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
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, 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


volunteer / leadership
2022—
Community Engagement Committee + Unschool Task-Force @ All Brains Belong VT ︎︎︎

Psychedelic Peer Support Volunteer @ Fireside Project ︎︎︎


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