murmuring in blue kaleidoscope
with Mimi Park
with Kyra Sims
French hornist, Kyra Sims, and I have been longtime collaborators in The New York Neo-Futurists, and in 2023 we began making electroacoustic music as a duo. I custom-built her an amplified horn mute, and with it we have had multiple sonic explorations and performed in both Brooklyn and Nairobi, Kenya with our piece Words of Peace, Words of Pain, and the Sonic Glue that Binds Them
Other Uttered Utter in Order
This vulnerable electroacoustic spoken and sung duet with Chaesong Kim explores our relationships to land and the paths we walk. It shifts modes to create a multidimensional conversation between understandings of land as it relates to indigeneity and immigration. We seek to capture the complex visceral feelings embodied in our differing relationships to the what lies under our feet.
The work has been presented with En Garde Arts, The Makers’ Ensemble, and Theatr
we were waiting for the rain to shed our claws
with Emily Caywood
a dance in three movements for synthesizers and bodies
This piece comes from two friends and long, loose chats over cups of tea, over distance. As we spoke, we kept talking about and longing for softness, malleability, transformation - finding these capacities in ourselves and celebrating moments of fluidity shared with others, leading to the questions:
Why are we holding?
What are we holding to?
How do we melt?
How do we reform?
What do we take with us?
What do we give away?
From applying these questions to notions of nature, gender, and power, we were able to play. So, we played, grew, got loud, reigned it in, turned it upside down, got inside of it, shouted into a pillow, jumped out of a window, landed softly, jumped back up hard, and held, and sustained, and sat in it, and grabbed on to what would let us keep going and keep holding and keep being and keep talking.
Provisional Notes On Freedom
by Keli Safia Maksud
Lighting Design & Sound Mix
Bands
Shemp
This post-punk group was formative to my artistic process - we embraced radical experimentation and collaboration as community-building through music. We developed our songs from hours of group improvisation, resulting in two full length albums, two EPs, and countless unreleased work.
Chef
I was the bassist and arranger for this 10-piece R&B group, featuring a variety of hip-hop, jazz, pop, and rock sounds in our lauded live performances, and in our 10-track album of original and popular compositions.
