Music
My background in music began with childhood piano lessons and eleven years as a choir singer, but my interest became disciplined in early 2008 when I began recording and performing original material as a solo act.
In the summer of 2008, I co-founded a band called Midday Veil with classically trained composer David Golightly on vintage analog synthesizers. Midday Veil performed as a duo regularly throughout the second half of 2008. On March 28, 2009 we released a limited edition CDR called End of Time, which documents the earliest phase of the band's history.
In early 2009, we added Timm Mason on bass/baritone guitar and Chris Pollina on drums, transforming the character of the project dramatically. Multi-instrumentalist Simon Henneman has also performed and recorded with the band. November 2009 marked the band's first West Coast tour, as well as the release of two limited CD releases on my own label Translinguistic Other. Performance updates and sample tracks may be found on our website MiddayVeil.com as well as our MySpace page.
In addition to Midday Veil, I have performed, recorded and improvised as a vocalist in a variety of experimental music projects, including Aphonia Recordings co-founder Ben L. Robertson's microtonal composition Thamnophis Sirtalis and composer/improvisor (and Midday Veil member) Timm Mason's drone ensemble Quietus. I'm also a devotee/member of the community-based music and arts collective Portable Shrines.