What are the themes that inspire you most in your music?
I’m curious about the ways that music can disrupt by collapsing a sense of time and distance. Sound waves are physically transformed through touch and interaction, and I’m interested in the ways that sound also acts as an immaterial connective tissue, both within music and between those sounding and listening. I am often drawn to cycles within music that arrest a sense of forward motion, creating a place that feels both within and outside of ordinary experience. I’m especially interested in how this collapse of time and distance creates entanglement — a weaving, indistinguishability, and emergence of something greater than the sum of the parts. In thinking this way about music, I often consider listening to the same piece of music as returning to a ‘place’ to have new encounters.
What are the 5 words you would use to describe your compositional style?
Patient, unfolding, intertwining, aqueous, becoming
Can you share something about your creative process?
My process begins with considerable time for listening, reading, and conversations with friends, allowing these encounters to guide me along various paths of exploration. I often spend weeks in this open-ended state without aiming for a specific outcome — it feels similar to foraging, wandering off the path and paying attention to what might emerge. Recently, my work has been deeply influenced by physicist Karen Barad, whose writing on quantum field theory has been a rich source of inspiration when considering the ways that touch transforms and entangles.
