shows
AVANT |
Producer
September 2021 - present A series of interviews exploring the life, work, and legacy of women artists and art industry leaders as part of the mission of non-profit organization Women in the Arts, Inc. |
Voice Box |
Producer
June 2016 - February 2019 A curated collection of live and recorded vocal performance, including experimental opera, modern and ancient chamber and choral music, musical theatre, and a cappella. |
Live! On the Air |
Course designer and lead instructor
January 6 - February 2, 2018 Introduction to radio as a creative "makerspace" for experimenting with new ideas that span science, technology, music, and art. I designed and ran a four-week course on making creative radio for MIT's Independent Activities Period. |
WMBR 4th of july |
Creator, producer
July 4, 2016 - present A 4th of July remote broadcast on the steps of MIT's Walker Memorial building. An evening music program leads up to the fireworks display, narrated on-air with commentary on the chemistry, physics, and history of fireworks. |
CHArles River Variety |
Creator, producer
June 2015 - May 2016 A neo-vaudevillean live radio variety show of new outsider music, sketch comedy, and experimental drama. |
Discrete projects
What Dark Matter sounds likeA collaboration with Bailey Hein.
I wanted to create an audible experience of detecting dark matter. My lab, full of pumps, timers, and power supplies, was a noisy place, perfect for making field recordings. We tapped, knocked on, scratched, and thumped on an enormous stainless steel vessel, a dark matter detector waiting to capture tracks left behind by dark matter particles interacting with the molecules of CF4 gas inside it. Bailey transformed these lab recordings into a work of sound art which has been performed on my radio show, Charles River Variety, and at several electronic music shows in Boston, LA, and New York. |
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How to build a dark matter detectorA collaboration with Grace Laminack and David Angelo.
I wanted to engage listeners to Charles River Variety with the raw technical detail of what goes into making a dark matter time projection chamber. In this piece for radio, I read aloud from a jargon-heavy report and Grace (viola) and David (flute) used their impressions of it to seed their musical improvisation. |
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Searching for
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a message from the airwaves... ...There is a woman in the South End, sitting with a cup of coffee at a fluorescent-lit diner, staring at the cream as it unfurls in the joe, thinking about fluid dynamics,
absently listening right now. We're talking to you. The answer is e^pi/2. A paint-splattered man in east Cambridge is rolling eggshell white over the stain shaped like a face which has been appearing over his bed for the last two weeks. Listen to us, man. Move out of your apartment. Tune in all of you, literally, to the spherical harmonics that govern our little corner of the electromagnetic spectrum, this little x-by-y-by-z-by-t square that we like to call Charles River Variety. |
