Music + Technology
Performance, composition, and live systems work.
Background
I spent nearly a decade performing in New York and Los Angeles, with work including Broadway national tours, a double Grammy-nominated recording with Hollywood film composer Patrick Williams, and performing with Foo Fighters at the Grammy Awards.
Between gigs, I built things with code: small applications that solved puzzles or helped me track materials for my music students. Over time I became increasingly interested in how code could interact with music. That eventually led me to Silicon Valley, where I worked on machine learning algorithms for search and discovery systems used by companies like Apple, Spotify, and Amazon. During the Covid lockdown, I began exploring how my musical and technical background could reimagine live performance, creating new technology to amplify the human musical experience rather than replace it. TechTet is the current focal point of that practice.
TechTet
TechTet is a live performance project — the name is a play on jazz ensemble naming conventions (quartet, quintet, and so on). The roots are in improvisation, live interaction between musicians, strong harmonic character. The project explores technology as a way to deepen live human musicianship rather than replace it.
Performed as a solo system and as an ensemble. Hymnus is the current ensemble work, composed for 5-piece. Recent performances at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and The Momentary. Covered by KUAF (NPR affiliate) and University of Arkansas News. Grant recipient, CACHE Create Exchange Fund.
For TechTet booking and programming information, visit the presenter page.
Other Performance
Outside TechTet, I perform with jazz and brass ensembles around Northwest Arkansas and beyond — most recently in Switzerland as a guest artist for Polyball at ETH Zurich.
Related
- What Is 3D Music?
- Patents and Publications for machine listening and music information retrieval.