Message in a Bottle is an experiential audio installation featuring premonitions that guide us in our emergence from a year or more of isolation. It debuted at SoundScene Festival in collaboration with the Smithsonian in Washington D.C.

The installation features hundreds of glass bottles, each containing a message. When listeners take a bottle for themselves, they’ll open it to find a piece of paper with a telephone number and an extension just for them. Dialing the hotline will enable them to hear crowdsourced divination from poets, preachers, artists, kids, musicians, and more.

Ghost Arroyos For the 2015  Market Street Prototyping Festival landscape architect Emily Schlickman and I were awarded a grant to sonically and visually highlight a former underground creek that emerged into a salt marsh just south of Market Street in downtown San Francisco. 

One part of the Ghost Arroyos project marks the waterway on the urban surface, while the other part envelopes the “ghost-scape” with sound. My collaborator, Emily Schlickman conceived, mapped, and designed the visual for the project, while I developed and installed the sound piece that invites people into an auditory sanctuary amidst the hectic ambient city sounds of Market Street.

For the White Rabbit Open Air Art Festival, I collaborated with the residency's founder, Tom Young, on a site-specific, sculpture installation in the woods of Red Clay farm in Upper Economy, Nova Scotia called Infinite City. Tom asked me to create a soundscape to accompany his sculpted vision of a burning city, an ode to urban landscapes and the people that occupy them, nestled in the remote Canadian wilderness. It was a satirical jab to those festival goers who came to the woods in order to escape the city. As the city began to burn, I broadcast my city soundscape of field recordings—of over 20 cities from all over the world— the airwaves of the farm's pirate radio station and streamed the sound through speakers hidden among the trees.

Taken with Water was created for the White Rabbit Open Air Art Festival in 2016, as a site-specific sound walk at Red Clay farm in Upper Economy, Nova Scotia

Red Clay farm sits atop the Bay of Fundy, home to the highest and lowest tides in the world. Collaborator Veronica Simmonds and I reflected on the power and protection of water in this 8-minute sonic experience that invites one listener at a time to plunge under the (sound) waves.