The Empty Cup: Dispatches on the Politics of Attention, the 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 Strother School of Radical Attention, a non-profit institution of education and collaboration, Brooklyn.
Public engagements via Attention Labs, Sidewalk Studies, and seminars
Featured in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, the Ezra Klein Show, the BBC, the New York Review of Architecture, the New York Times' #1 prediction for 2025
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.
Musician for 70+ 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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.