Musicologist | Educator | Public Scholar
Recent Publications
“Book Review: Brassroots Democracy: Maroon Ecologies and the Jazz Commons. By Benjamin Barson. Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 2024. 424pp. $40.00,”
“Electroacoustic Practices of Radical Play and Resonance: Stuart Dempster’s Use of Laughter, Illusion, and Environmental Homage,”
“Review: Amy Cimini, Wild Sound: Maryanne Amacher and the Tenses of Audible Life,”
"Bloomington Early Music Festival: Recentering Women in the Celebration"
A comprehensive overview of the annual Bloomington Early Music Festival
"CMI City Sounds: Jared Thompson and Eliza Brown"
December 16, 2021 - Featuring interviews with local Indianapolis composers Jared Thompson and Eliza Brown
"CMI City Sounds: Frank Felice & Eric Salazar"
November 12, 2021 - Featuring interviews with local Indianapolis composers Frank Felice and Eric Salazar
"Learning to Listen: The Music of Pauline Oliveros and Annea Lockwood"
Selected Presentations
2025
“’All Green Plants Swing’: Sonic Porosity in the Improvised Garden,” Collective Atmospheres: Association for the Study of Literature and Environment, University of Maryland, 8-11 July 2025.
“’Entering the Tone World’: Theorizing Collective Improvisation Through Intergenerational Pedagogy,” Theorizing African-American Music, Emory University, 5-7 June 2025.
“Sounding Radical Environmentalism in the PNW: Avant-Activism of ¡TchKunG!,” Society for American Music, Tacoma, 19-23 March 2025.
“’All Green Plants Swing’: Sonic Relationality in the Improvised Garden,” College Art Association of America, New York, 15 February 2025.
2024
“Reframing the Avant-Garde(n): An Examination into Arts for Art’s InGardens Festival,” Society for Ethnomusicology Conference, Virtual, 17-26 October 2024.
“’The Grand Symphonic Vision’: Tracing Central Park and its Musical Landscapes, 1858-1874” American Musicological Society Greater New York Chapter, 14 September 2024.
2023
“Sounding Xeno-Architectures in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s Biophony:SoundGarden (2023),” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Tempe, 26-29 October 2023.
"'And our Gardens make us strong!': Sounding (Green)Space Across NYC’s Lower East Side Community Gardens" Music, Research, and Activism, Helsinki, May 10-12, 2023.
“Listening in the Garden: Power in/of Environmental Sound Art Installations,” Society for American Music, Minneapolis, March 8-12, 2023.
2022
“Environmental Currents: Between the Technological and the Ecological in the Works of Pauline Oliveros and Annea Lockwood,” Joint Meeting of the American Musicological Society, Society for Music Theory, and Society for Ethnomusicology, New Orleans, November 10-13, 2022.
“Ecomusicologies and Environmentalisms: An Anti-Disciplinary Manifesto,” Midwest Graduate Music Symposium, Northwestern University, 9-10 April 2022.
2021
“Schoenberg’s (De)Compositions: Destruction of Woman, Tonality, and Nature in Das
Buch der Hangenden Garten,” Southern Graduate Music Research Symposium, Florida State University, 11 September 2021; Department of Musicology Colloquium Series, Indiana University, 3 September 2021.