Artistic Projects

Attention

Attention Labs, public experiential workshops educating on the liberation of radical human attention. NYC based, international scope. 

Attention Reading List and Handbook for the Attention Liberation Movement (ALMS), via the Friends of Attention's Politics of Attention initiative, 

• New York Times op-ed Powerful Forces Are Fracking Our Attention. We Can Fight Back [PDF if paywall]

The Matthew Strother School of Radical Attention, a non-profit institution of education and collaboration, Brooklyn.

Order of the Third Bird, a loose international network of cell-like groups that engage in ritualized forms of sustained attention.

• ESTAR(SER) The Esthetical Society for Transcendental and Applied Realization (now incorporating the Society for Esthetic Realizers), group for the historicity of The Order of the Third Bird.

Music

Musician for 60+ ensembles: performance in stage and studio, management, and teaching ~250 lessons

• • Videos: Jazz dialog in a small combo, latin jazz with improvisational dancers, warming up as the house soul band, 2-part original composition with a modern jazz group, dance breakdown with a Nigerian/Venezuelan afro-pop group (& in large theater), breakdancers to our Brazilian samba troupe

  • Some audio recordings

  • Moodbites, a lofi sketchpad of musical ideas.  200+ recordings

Film

Commissioned to compose and produce music for 10 films for UC Santa Barbara Department of Film and Media:

• • A Bingo Bus: Dir. Andy Jurgensen, 30 min. documentary

  • Nuts: Dir. Clayton Sakoda, 24 min. comedy

  • Can't You See?: Dir. Alexander Koehne, 9 min. drama

Randomly Delicious, co-lead in experimental lo-fi mini series

Theater

Grandfathered In: A Concert of Scenes and Songs, musician, conceived and directed by Prof. Johann Montozzi-Wood.  Duke University works in progress performance.

TheaterLab, Durham Institute of Performance Research (DIPR): ensemble for experimental performance research.  Dir. Johann Montozzi-Wood, Duke University Theater Studies

Speaking

Public Speaking Color Timer App (for iOS and Android) to help keep time and focus during presentations

• • Developed by my student Mustafa Magdy when he saw fellow public speaking students struggling to manage their time.

  • Video Demo

Oratory Games and Game-Changers: a playbook for speaking and writing developed in collaboration with Middlebury College's speaking across the curriculum training corps Oratory Now

ArgueLab.com contributor, with Jay Heinrichs

Dance

Experimental Movement Collective, dir. Tony Johnson & Barbara Dickinson, American Dance Festival.

• A commissioned work for the Embodying History Through Movement Project.  25 untrained "movers" (rather than trained dancers) explore "community" via community members moving in silence.  

• Public performance, The Flow of Community, in documentary Dance Became My Voice

Laboratory for Social Choreography affiliate, Duke University, dir. Michael Klien.

• 11th Organ

• Meshroom, Marika Niko

The Pillow Project improvisational, multidisciplinary, experimental collaborations at the beautiful Space Upstairs

Accompanist musician, UC Santa Barbara Department of Theater and Dance

Misc

Prison Engagement Initiative, Duke University, Kenan Institute for Ethics.

Project Zero (2007), a public experiment to pay for a four-year public university education without financial aid, family assistance, or loans during the national rise of college tuition. Discussions with literary agents halted to focus on grad school and new projects.