works other than or prior to here is always vanishing, the meltiverse, and the reverse cowgirl trilogy.
2024. songs of queer joy, 30-minute song cycle for the vienna volksoper, as part of the new opera “queer stories of joy,” commissioned by civic opera creations and directed by carmen c. kruse. summer workshop performances featured lauren urquhart (soprano), ben connor (baritenor), timothy o’connor (baritone), and rafael salas chia (piano and musical director), with texts by members of the queer writers’ circle, vienna, from interviews with the local lgbtqia+ community conducted by journalists from insel milieu and online. dedicated to the memory of my mother, laura belle boatwright (1944-2024).
2024. become untrainable, 45-minute keynote speech on the future of generative ai and art, vienna, given as part of an international eu digital literacy project for the creative sector.
2023. ghost (web version), by and with asa & wayne horvitz, ariadne randall, and carmen quill; see below. digital artwork commissioned by the couch, the online curatorial platform of het hem, amsterdam. contains three hours of music, hundreds of images, and an infinite generator of poetic texts. website link
2023. ghost, dir. asa horvitz, by and with asa & wayne horvitz, ariadne randall, and carmen quill. ai design by seraphina goldfarb-tarrant and alejandro calcaño; advice from oneka van schraeder and joachim robbrecht; costume collaboration evandro pedroni; additional contributions bryan west, theo krausz, xandradave cochran, le van hung, jakob bartmann, monica gamberale, and numerous wind players in vienna and amsterdam. spring festival, utrecht; musiktheatertage @ brut, vienna; de school via het hem & musiekgebeouw, amsterdam. supported by standplaats midden, spring festival utrecht, frascati, the city of vienna, the city of amsterdam, the city of utrecht, and the austrian federal ministry for arts & culture. a co-production of golden trout wilderness (ny) and celestial excursions (vienna). past support: microscope gallery nyc, goethe institut hong kong, ai now, fondazione prada milano, desingel, das arts/das theatre amsterdam, wpzimmer, elias 2069, rudolf steiner foundation, camargo foundation.
2023. a story back then, short film by roxolana rogovska; performance on an 18th-century unrestored pipe organ within a sculptural installation. filmed during the medienfrische residency program, bschlabertal, tyrol, austria.
2023. the calling, short film by jay dallen; score for viola da gamba, modular synthesizer, analog synths, bowed cymbals, and drumset. premiere at marina del rey film festival, los angeles, california, further screenings upcoming.
2023. on wiggly air, a two-day masterclass and group workshop on sound and dramaturgy in performance. bears in the park art place, vienna, austria.
2022. how to become a dolphin, choreography and sound installation,
with lucia rosenfeld. raw matters / bears in the park, vienna. archive
2021. 100 questions to the dead, by asa horvitz, desingel, antwerp. archive
2020. immigration to austria. research on extended guitar techniques.
2019. when time shall be no more, opera in one act, with matt evans, tristan kasten-krause, anna roberts-gevalt. bard mfa thesis concert, olin concert hall, new york. archive
2019. butterfly, unreleased tracks for voice, laptop, and modular synthesizer. montez press radio, cell project space, london and new york. archive
2018. research in prose writing; modular synthesis; pipe organ (building on my study of this instrument with christoph bull); composition with a particular focus on the messiaen modes; deep study of the works of robert ashley alongside his collaborators, friends, and other musicians in the new york scene.
2017. poems published in prelude magazine and elsewhere. archive
2016. cop god, stageless opera for two voices and electronics, with anastasia clarke. wfmu, kpfa, mills college, bay area & northeast tour. archive
2015. hieros gamos, stageless opera with video for two voices and electronics,
with anastasia clarke and ginny benson. lincoln center, new york. archive
2015. xenomorph, a single-serving web magazine pairing post-internet artists with hourlong mixes by underground djs, on the defunct gif platform newhive.
with umfang, beta librae, molly soda, huerco s., via app, dreamcrusher, and others. visual pages lost to platform dissolution and bit creep. sound archive
2014. bel–air radio, community radio station broadcasting from a very cold shipping container in brooklyn (and, later, from the silent barn). one of my shows, “live at bel–air,” featured intimate concerts from eartheater, dreamcrusher, ben seretan, and others.