EDUCATION
Ph.D., ‘Scorescapes: Sound, Environment and Sonic Consciousness’, DocArtes, Orpheus Institute Ghent and Faculty of Creative and Performing Arts, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Awarded Best PhD Abstract, Leonardo International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology, 2012
M.Phil. Architecture and the Moving Image, Cambridge University Moving Image Studio (CUMIS) Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge
B.A.Hons. Music, Contemporary Performance and Composition, Dartington College of Arts
Music, History of Art, Philosophy, University of Edinburgh
Music: Performance: flute, piano, harp. Composition: studies with Lou Harrison, Louis Andriessen, Peter Sculthorpe, Frank Denyer, Pauline Oliveros, Alvin Lucier, David Dunn.
UNIVERSITY RESEARCH AND TEACHING
2016- present Associate Researcher and Lecturer, Music, Art and Digital Arts Departments, University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC)
2020- present Lecturer, Digital Media Art, Department of Art and Art History, San Jose State University
2020 Artist in Residence, Atmosphere of Sound, Art|Sci Center, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
2019 Artist in Residence, Roden Crater Project, Herberger Institute of the Arts, Arizona State University
2015-16 Assistant Professor, Department of Film/Animation/Video, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
2013-15 Artist in Residence and Adjunct Faculty, Center for Digital Arts and Experimental Media (DXARTS), University of Washington
2011-13 Research Fellow, Orpheus Research Center in Music (ORCiM), Ghent
2007-8 Artist in Residence, Netherlands Media Art Institute (NIMK) and STEIM, Amsterdam
2006-7 Artistic Fellow in Sound, Department of Arts and Media, Academy of Media Arts (KHM) Cologne
2005-6 Lecturer in Interaction Design, Department of Industrial Design, Technical University Eindhoven, NL
2003-5 Artistic Researcher, Jan van Eyck Academy of Visual Arts, Design and Theory, Maastricht
MAJOR ARTIST/RESEARCH STIPENDS
2012-16 Individual Artist Stipend, (Basisstipendium), Mondriaan Fonds NL
2008-12 Individual Artist Stipend, (Basisstipendium), Netherlands Fund for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture, NL
2008-11 Doctoral Research Grant, Orpheus Institute for Advanced Research in Music, Ghent, BE
SELECTED SOLO* AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2022 A Waterfall of Falling Sounds and Whale Walk, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt
2021 That Unseen Vibrance, From a Whale’s Back, Melt Me Into The Ocean, Ars Electronica Los Angeles*
That Unseen Vibrance, The Listening Biennial, Errant Sound, Berlin
From a Whale’s Back, print series, Ipercubo Gallery, Milan
A Waterfall of Falling Sounds, Integratron, Joshua Tree National Park, CA
2020 From a Whales Back, solo exhibition, Radius Gallery, Santa Cruz*
From a Whales Back, Loud Spring: Polarized, La Cite Fertile, Paris
Whale Walk, Festival of Music and Ideas, University of Sussex, UK
2019 Listening to Whales, The Exploratorium, San Francisco
Taking Soundings, The Notational Turn, Contemporary Art Museum of Castilla y Leon (MUSAC), Spain
Sound is Round, sound from James Turrell’s Roden Crater, Arizona State University
Whale (Lincoln), Lincoln Pops Festival, Nebraska
2018 Melt Me Into The Ocean, Walk and Performance commissioned featured artist, Indexical, Santa Cruz*
Melt Me Into The Ocean Installation Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz*
Liminal River Bubbles Up commissioned by Santa Cruz Arts Council for Ebb&Flow Festival, Santa Cruz
Melt Me Into The Ocean: Whale Walks Individual sound walks with selected artists,
scientists and healing professionals
2017 Whale (Dundee) commissioned by NEoN Digital Arts, Dundee, Scotland*
Eagle and Light Entering My Room, Balance/Unbalance Conference Exhibition, Plymouth University UK
2015 Listening to the Distance, Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, Orem Utah (catalogue)*
Bonneville Blue Whale Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe
Pink Noise Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe
Pink Noise Balance/Unbalance Conference Exhibition, Arizona State University, Phoenix
2014 Displaced Sound Walk, University of Washington Seattle
Sense|Signal, Art and the Environment, University of Washington Seattle
2013 Pink Noise, MADATAC New Media Art Festival, Madrid
2012 El Camino, Satellite Sounding, Sensing Place, House of Electronic Arts, Basel
Tropical Storm, Displaced Sound Walk, Cage100, Contemporary Art Museum, Leipzig
You Me Swim Blackbird, Soundworks, Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), London
2011 Scorescapes: Sonic Unconscious, Issue Project Room, New York*
Taking Soundings, Sextant, Satellite Sounding, Tracing Mobility, House of World Cultures, Berlin
Swim, Fishing for Sound, Dump Time, Shedhalle, Zurich
Pink Noise, WRO Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
Taking Soundings and Navigating by Circles, Ground Level, Hayward Gallery UK
2010 Fishing for Sound, Sonic Acts XIII Festival, Paradiso, Amsterdam
Fishing for Sound, Ear to the Earth Festival, Electronic Music Foundation, New York
Therapy for Future Flooding, Machine Project, Hammer Museum UCLA, Los Angeles
Scorescapes, Resonator, A/V Festival, Newcastle, UK
Pink Noise, Esemplasticism, Transmediale, Berlin
Displaced Sound Walk, Orpheus Institute for Advanced Research in Music, Ghent
2009 Now Stripe Time DNK concert series, Amsterdam
Tropical Storm, Ponce Inlet and Bell Buoy, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Playing the City, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
Sun Run Sun, Netherlands Media Art Institute, Amsterdam
Sun Run Sun, Netherlands Royal Society of Musicology, Utrecht
2008 Sun Run Sun, performance, Re:Visie / Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht
Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, PICNIC08 Virtueel Platform, Amsterdam
Taking Soundings Scores, MACBA, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona
Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, NIME, Contemporary Art Museum Genova
El Camino, LOOS Foundation The Hague
Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Temporary Museum Amsterdam
Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media, Rotterdam
Sun Run Sun: Satellite Sounders, Netherlands Media Art Institute
Sun Run Sun: Dead Reckoning, Netherlands Media Art Institute
Navigating by Circles, Eco-Aesthetics TAG Gallery, The Hague
Sun Run Sun: Sun Running, STEIM Amsterdam
Sun Run Sun: Amphibian, Dag in de Branding Festival, TAG Gallery, The Hague
2007 Taking Soundings, SNO Contemporary Art Projects, Sydney*
Navigating by Circles, Center Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels
Taking Soundings 2, Musica 13, Nau Coclea, Catalunya
Taking Soundings 2, DNK/Mediamatic, Amsterdam
2006 Spin, Stichting Intro, Maastricht, NL*
Taking Soundings, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne
Sketch for a Score for an Inside Out Instrument, Shanghai Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
2005 A Collection of Circles or Pharology, Center for Contemporary Non-Objective Art, Brussels*
Helix/Spiral (after Dan Graham), ‘Stepping Out’, Jan van Eyck Academy Gallery Maastricht
Light Phase VideoDance Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Score Spaces, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
2003 - 2004 Spark!#1 flute and electronics, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht
Light Phase, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, NL
Between: Two, duet for Mobile Video Players (live portable projections), Entre Deux, Maastricht, NL*
On silence and gaps exhibited email exchange with Michael Archer, Modern Art Oxford
Live video, Kraakgeluid and Gaudeamus week, STEIM, Amsterdam
Video Walk#1and #2 Forest; Video Walk#3 Beach live portable projections, Emporda Spain
2001 - 2002 Tidal Nomad Mad, composition for Barcelona Municipal Orchestra, LEM Festival, Barcelona*
Inside-Out Video-Organ performance, Nau Coclea, Emporda Spain
Paradise for Video-Organ performance, MediaLabEurope, Dublin
MediaEval Video-Organ performance, Casino de Alicante, Spain
MediaEval Video-Organ performance, Musica a Metronom, Barcelona
Digital Day at Media House, Video-Organ, Metapolis Architects, Mercat de les Flors, Barcelona
Lift and Sagrada stairs video installation, inauguration of MetronomLab, Barcelona
BAT Video-Organ performance, Musica a Metronom, Barcelona
1996 - 2000 Explorations in Movement audio-visual moving score, with Evan Parker, Dartington
Invisible Cities graphic score, flute piano cello, Sheffield University
Swallows piano and live electronics Dartington International Summer School
Birds for Sculthorpe graphic score Composers Ensemble, Dartington International Summer School
Montbretia graphic score prepared piano for Joanna Macgregor, Dartington International Summer School
Syrens 3 graphic scores, 3 flutes, 3 pianos, Dartington College of Arts
Walking the Line, performance of 66 page graphic score, Dartington College of Arts*
Sail for an Absent Public, 7 day Sargasso Sea/Bermuda Triangle, Atlantic Ocean*
Walk for an Absent Public, 4 day walk, sound sculptures, Dartmoor, UK*
SELECTED COLLABORATIVE PERFORMANCES AND ENSEMBLES
2019 Sounds of the Ocean, video projections and harp in sound event, Pacific Cultural Center, Santa Cruz
UCSC Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, performing member of traditional Balinese Gamelan, UCSC
2018 Dolphinarium (by Kristin Erickson), harp in electronic theatre performance KYMA International Sound Symposium, UCSC
Gopher Holes harp in experimental music performance, Seedbed: A Soil Symposium, UCSC
2017 UCSC Balinese Gamelan Ensemble, performing member of traditional Balinese Gamelan, UCSC
2010 S.W.A.M.P. #2, (with Christopher Williams) Certain Sundays, Sowieso Neukoelln, Berlin
2009 S.W.A.M.P. (with Christopher Williams) Diapason Gallery Brooklyn, New York
2006 Divide by Zero, (with Zafer Aracagok) Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
2005 Meta-Orchestra #5 Mine (director) Genk, Belgium
2004 Meta-Orchestra #4 (co-director with Bert Bongers) Stichting Intro|In Situ, Maastricht
2002 MetaOrchestra #3, (performing member of electronic ensemble) Musica a Metronom, Barcelona
2001 Meta-Orchestra (performing member of electronic ensemble) Felix Meritis and de Ijsbreker, Amsterdam
1998 Meta-Orchestra (performing member of electronic ensemble) Dartington International Summer School
1994 Edinburgh University Symphony Orchestra, Edinburgh University Contemporary Music Ensemble: Flute
OTHER AWARDS, GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (SELECTED)
2021 Santa Cruz Arts Council, Cultivate Grant
2020 Santa Cruz Arts Council Grant, for Radius Gallery solo exhibition
2019 University of California Art & Design Placemaking Initiative Grant Santa Cruz Arts Council, Develop Grant
2018 Scholarship, Leonardo Convening 50th Anniversary, San Francisco
2015 Grant Award, catalogue production and design, Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation, US
Honorable Mention, juried exhibition ‘Land Mark Show’, Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Fe
2014 Commission, video installation Eagle, Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University
New Mexico Humanities Council Award, Project at Currents New Media Festival, Santa Fe
UCIRA Grant, Design Media Arts, University of California Los Angeles
2012 Best PhD Abstract, LABS, Leonardo International Society for Arts, Sciences and Technology
Scholarship, International Symposium for Electronic Arts, ISEA12 Albuquerque
2008 Travel Stipend to ISEA08 Singapore, Mondriaan Foundation
2006 British Council Award, performance at Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Centre, Istanbul
2005 Euregio Government Funding, Artistic Director of the Meta-Orchestra V
2004 Editorial Board Award, Jan van Eyck Academy, Artistic Director of the Meta-Orchestra IV
2000 Kettle’s Yard Brancusi Grant, University of Cambridge
Performing Rights Society Scholarship, UK
1998 Dartington Arts Scholarship, UK
1997 Dartington Arts Student Initiative Award
OTHER ARTIST RESIDENCIES (SELECTED)
2010 Deep Listening Retreat with Pauline Oliveros, Nau Coclea, Catalunya
2009 Associate Artist Award, Residency with Alvin Lucier, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida
Artist in Residence, STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) Amsterdam
2007 Artist in Residence, STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music), Amsterdam
2006 Composer in Residence, Stichting Intro In Situ, Maastricht
2002 Artist in Residence, STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) Amsterdam
2001 Artist in Residence, ZKM (Centre for Art and Media Technology) Karlsruhe, Germany
1999 Artist in Residence, STEIM (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) Amsterdam
1998 Advanced Composition with Peter Sculthorpe, Dartington International Summer School
Interactive Electronic Music, Dartington International Summer School
Advanced Electro-Acoustic Composition at Dartington International Summer School
1997 Advanced Composition with Lou Harrison, Dartington International Summer School