Projects

A musical short film that I wrote, directed, and produced.

Featuring text from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, fragments of medieval poetry, and my own words, that small rain is a quiet but heartfelt love letter to the seasons, change, and the wind. 

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Told in five parts, across mornings and evenings, springs, summers, and late fall, that small rain paints a portrait of love new and old, and what is lost and remembered in the wind.

Listen for John Savage on flute, James Walton on piano, Reverie Arens on percussion, and Sal Wallin on Guitar. Many thanks to Zackariah Stickler for the expressive, authentic movement, that truly formed the beating heart of this piece. 

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Text from The Waves set with permission from the Virginia Woolf estate

These pieces celebrate the wonder and the beauty of the natural world. The first of them, A bird came down the walk, was commissioned by Big Mouth Society in 2022. The piece follows the silly and surprising path of a bird only to become lost in the poetic mechanics of flight. The next three pieces in the set asked to come into the world, too, and so I listened. 

The exponent of breath is a short trio about love and breathlessness

 To make a prairie is an instructional guide for naturalists:

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"To make a prairie it takes clover

one clover, and a bee

and revery.

he revery alone will do, if bees are few."

The universe her shoe is yet another piece about the moon. 

the moon 

has long since set

and the stars have faded

midnight is gone

time passes

(gold thread running through

my fingers, fresh silk

running through my fingers)

I lie

alone.

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and the stars is an imaginative "translation" of a Sappho fragment, performed by Emily Lau and Jesse Ehrenberg as part of Cold Songs/Warm Songs: An At Home Holiday Celebration. The whole project is charming heartfelt: ...and the stars, then called Fragment, starts at minute 9.

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Created as part of Timbre 2023, a wonderful project built by New Music Mosaic to connect composers and performers. It was envisioned as a performance for saxophone and a dancer. The short piece evokes wonder, mysticism, and abandonment to the unknown.