Current Projects
Sounds of Healing
Field Recordings from the Texas Medical Center
Core Concept
A sound-rich documentary audio project exploring how healing is not only medical, but acoustic: shaped by machines, voices, waiting rooms, hallways, elevators, chapels, ICU alarms, staff rhythms, patient breath, silence, prayer, fatigue, humour, and human resilience.
The Texas Medical Centre becomes a living instrument, a city of medicine, where sound functions as both stressor and sanctuary.
Research
From Instrument to Interface: Musical Control and Generative Systems as Representational Frameworks: Embodiment, Abstraction, and Authority in Contemporary Musicking - an Ethnomusicology Inquiry
Core Concept
Contemporary musical practice is increasingly mediated by systems that abstract musical action from sound production. Electronic instruments, virtual instruments, software-based control environments, and AI-driven generative systems do not simply facilitate music-making; they transform it by translating embodied musical intention into symbolic representations that can be stored, manipulated, evaluated, and generated by machines.
This research project treats musical control systems and generative systems as representational systems: formal frameworks that translate complex, embodied musical activity into structured symbolic forms governed by internal rules.