Distant as the Milky Way is a mixed media soundscape. The audio component is a styled like a radio show; a combination of my late father's radio recordings from the early 1970s, along with a call-and-response using his voice and mine in the interludes. As radio broadcasts continue to travel out light years across the universe, I also consider how this music, as well as its connection with our loved ones, endures.
Excerpt: Breathing Signal, 2020
Sound piece performed in the installation Chamber: tea kettle, throat microphone, 20th century family chair, laptop, speaker. In Breathing Signal, the tea kettle spout and body is used as a medium to breathe, activating the whistle. A throat microphone, a device often used in covert operations and surveillance, detects and exposes internal noises, voice, and swallowing.
Tunnel Vision, 2015
Running Time 1:40
Filmed on Governor's Island, NY, my eye is captured through either side of the scopes located on the northern end of the island facing lower Manhattan. The film is collaged with audio from family home videos and recorded helicopter sounds experienced on the Island.
Developed as part of Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Process Space program.
Unsettled (A Stitch in Time), 2014
Running Time: 1:49
Created in conjunction with the installation Unsettled (Home Sweet Home) for the exhibition Home at the Morris-Jumel Mansion, NYC.
Edelweiss II, 2013
Running Time: 2:23
Photography and editing by Jordyn Gatti.