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Updated April 17, 2026 from Athens, GA.

  • I am just wrapping up my fourth semester at the University of Georgia – this semester featured my DMA recital at the Dancz Center for New Music as well as some recording projects, some work on new installation pieces, and a number of other performances at UGA and in North Carolina.
  • This past summer I traveled to Italy to participate in the highSCORE Festival just outside of Venice. I premiered a piece for piano trio entitled Visible Mending which will be premiered at the festival, and I had a joy connecting with my colleagues there.
  • I am currently reading Roger Lipsey’s biography of Dag Hammarskjöld and enjoying learning more about his life after reading through Markings two years ago.
  • This past semester I wrote Waymarks for soprano, double bass, and ambisonics, which set a portion of Rev. Dr. Bernhard Erling’s translation of Hammarskjöld’s Swedish text. The piece was given a reading by LIGAMENT and was then recorded by my amazing colleagues Avery Britt and Wueliton Zanelatto Dal Pont.
  • I am continuing to work on a set of short character pieces for solo piano inspired by my friends, called Album Amicorum. I premiered the first set of four movements during my first year at UGA and premiered two more this past semester at my DMA recital. I was pleased to share the movements again at the SCI Region IV conference in Boone, NC and am currently working on requests to add an obligato clarinet part to the set.
  • During my first year at UGA, I started a weekly Music Technology Workshop that meets on Wednesdays at the Dancz Center to work through music tech tutorials and troubleshooting together. After learning SuperCollider and then switching to working in Max, we’ve moved back to SuperCollider this past semester and are performing a live-coding set to end the semester.
  • This past summer, I tremendously enjoyed diving into Simon Critchley’s book, Continental Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction. I’ve been energized by its implications for understanding the humanities, faith & queerness, and progressive/conservative disagreements.
  • Since Fall of 2023, I’ve been experimenting with the new experimental Blockhead DAW for use in my work, and I’ve having a fantastic time. I’d encourage any composer or music maker to take a look and support its development.
  • I am continuing some experiments with creating generative music using PureData (Pd), Max, and recorded sounds. My first foray into this area was Send Light, Room I – a piece for generative 4-channel sound and accompanying real-time visualization which sets various prayers, poems, and texts from the historic Christian tradition. Last semester, I worked on a sort of sequel piece (Send Light, Room II) which reflected on the themes and atmosphere of Mark Z. Danielewski’s House of Leaves (see below).
  • I’ve been continuing to enjoy the poetry of H.D. and Kevin Young’s poetry collection, Book of Hours. More recently, I’ve been diving into The Essential W.S. Merwin and have greatly enjoyed Matthew Olzmann’s Constellation Route. I read Mark Z. Danielewski’s novel House of Leaves for several months over the summer of 2023 and have enjoyed learning more about ergodic literature and open forms in music.
  • I have continued my investigation of the use of constraint techniques in the arts, and have enjoyed reading through Mathematics and Optimal Form by Stefan Hildebrandt and Anthony Tromba, which describes the history of optimization problems in mathematics and the application of these mathematical discoveries to the natural sciences, engineering, art, design, and architecture.