Selected Projects
Across these projects runs a consistent interest in systems—how structure, constraint, and repetition shape musical meaning over time.
No Walls
Late 1980s–early 1990s
No Walls emerged from extended free improvisation sessions at the Georgia Tech Band Building and marked my first sustained engagement with original, self-directed creative work. The project emphasized exploration, collective listening, and the possibility of music as a communicative art form rather than entertainment alone. No Walls played an important role in clarifying my desire to pursue music beyond familiar regional contexts, contributing directly to my eventual move to New York.
Bass Genome
Bass Genome was an exploratory project focused on mapping bass technique, vocabulary, and physical patterning as a coherent system. The work treated the instrument less as a vehicle for style and more as a site of research—examining how fingering, interval relationships, and repetition generate musical language over time. The project functioned as both study and documentation.
Dodecahedron
The Dodecahedron project begins from a simple intuition: that musical form can be guided not only by sound or notation, but by spatial and geometric relationships that exist outside music itself. Read more →
Micah Gaugh — Selected Production Work
Over multiple projects, I worked closely with Micah Gaugh as a producer and collaborator, supporting the translation of his compositional and improvisational ideas into recorded form. This work emphasized clarity, structure, and sensitivity to context, prioritizing the integrity of the music over stylistic categorization.
Current Inquiries
This work is ongoing. At this moment, it is shaped less by answers than by a small set of open questions.
- How can musical systems remain alive rather than optimized?
- What does it mean to design tools that support presence and care, not acceleration?
- How might AI function as a partner in reflection and organization, rather than as a replacement for human agency?
- What does creative continuity look like across decades rather than career cycles?
- How can practices survive interruption, aging, and change without requiring resolution?
These questions shape how I work, what I build, and what I return to.