curriculum vitae

2007 thinktank at myspace Somna 2007


2006 Invocation to Nonesuch of Nothingness
in development for harp, voice, possible live electronics
duration: unknown, work in progress projected completion: Fall 2007

first performance, spoken word: 2006 Fall Equinox Ritual at presentation of Kyklos Ton Asterion, NYC.


2005 ESOTERIC CHORD
one or more harps and live electronics.
Duration: variable depending on the number of harps participating.

ESOTERIC CHORD



2005 sound documents
Impromtu recording sessions in nine events usually completed in the breath of an hour, experimenting with unique sounds on various harps - documentary of an hour in time - free of pre/post production values.

dark moon in scorpio

2005 FolkArt Songs and Spirituals,
Dialogue and song for harp and voice rooted in folklore, ancient Egyptian mythology and personal pathos.

first performance: The Harp Consortium, The Gallery 7 East 27th Street, NYC 2005.


2004 Fragrance of the Blue Lotus~music with shadow.
Solo project in four movements for harp and electronic processing where the electronics shadow the harp following vocal invocations to aspects of hiddenness, infinity, darkness and the primordial waters of NUN.

first performance: The Shadow Show, Port of Call Gallery, Warwick, NY 2004.
duration: 20-40 mins.
She sits in Darkness


2002 Pedal Forms-New Episodes, guided improvisations through a series of harp pedal diagrams.

first performance: FLUX 6, Pittsburgh, PA, 2002.
duration: 20 minutes
Brillo with Elise Onlife aka Mary Grandelis on accordiom


2001 Breath - electronic installation of the vocal invocations to the archangels generated by the scrub wheel on a digital recording unit where the original vocal duration of 2 minutes is expanded to 84 minutes (approximately)_ What's happening here is a trippy distortion in the perception of time. Breath can be heard under the harp in Middle Pillar from Valentine Stigmata.


online presentation: The Virtual Mine Project at Gegenort Mine, Germany, 2000.
available on 4 disc CD set
Breath excerpt Convergence


2001 Valentine Stigmata, with Thom Parrott, co-composer. An opera based on ceremonial chant and exercises of the Western Mystical tradition, specifically the Qabalistic Cross and the LBRP.

first performance: preveiw at 2001 WOMEN'S WORK, Pittsburgh, PA. Full production at 2001 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
in redevelopment, duration: 30-40 mins, may change
CD release Valentine Stigmata~suite, Lillian deNile, soprano

Invocation to GABRIEL from Valentine Stigmata, the soprano is Cheryl Shenefelt-Bush.


1999 44 minutes on the flatline_A Cry for the Millenium, a soundscape of harp and electronic processing based on documented accounts of the banshee's keen.

first performance: 1999 New York International Fringe Festival.
duration: 44 mins.


1998 The Faerye Invocations, nine pieces for solo harp.

first performance: 1998 at Representations: Asian and Asian-American Women Artists at Brew House SPACE 101, Pittsburgh, PA and 1998 Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
duration: 30 minutes
CD release_Invocations Faerye, EP featuring three of the invocations


1995 Suite of Modes, seven pieces for solo harp.
duration: 20 mins.