............cirriculum vitae

education

° Master of Fine Arts, concentration in Music/Sound. Bard College, NY. 2005
° Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting/Transmedia. University of Texas at Austin. 1998

exhibitions

2006
° circus me (a round) (with dancer Linda Austin), Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
3 video projections, 8-channel sound and sculptural installation
2005
° Amusia Site, Bard MFA Thesis Exhibition, Bard College, NY
mixed media installation with 4-channel sound and 2 pen & ink scrolls, each 18” x 160”
2004
° map, itself, Engine 27, NYC
14-channel sound installation using map of Mt. Hood as a score
° sunder, unite (with Olivia Block), “Sound of Place/Place of Sound”, SunValley Art Center, ID
2002
° Basket – Black Walnut Drawings, SoundVision Gallery, Portland, OR
30 pen-and-ink point-and-line studies using homemade ink, each 5”x5”
2000
° sunder, unite (with Olivia Block), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
° Works on Paper, Palio Cafe, Portland, OR
° Field Studies, Rhizomat Gallery, Hammond, LA
20 graphite-on-paper drawings, undulating waves of marks, each 11”x15”
° sonnamble (radio installation with jgrzinich), Pina Gallery, Koper, Slovenia
1999
° Basic Materials, Beyond Baroque Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
5 graphite-on paper drawings, bio-organic swarms, each 12”x12”
1998
° Untitled Collages, Thirty-Three Degrees Records, Austin, TX 10/98

discography

° flock & tumble CD, Sonoris, France, forthcoming
° ecllipses (with Matt Marble) CD, And/Oar, USA, forthcoming
° sillage (with Brendan Murray) CD, Sedimental, USA, 2007
° amnemonic site CD, Alluvial Recordings, USA, 2007
° gyre (with jgrzinich) CD, cut, Switzerland, 2006
° ‘Knotknit’ The Walls are Whispering compilation CD, EE Tapes, Belgium 2006
° sunder, unite (with olivia block) CD, sedimental, USA 2003
° umbra CD, …edition, USA 2003
° stria (with jgrzinich) CD, erewhon, Belgium 2002
° confluence (with jgrzinich) CD, Intransitive, USA 2002
° ‘Betula’on Infernal Proteus compilation 4xCD + book, Ajna, USA 2002
° uva 3” CD, 20City, Japan 2001
° ‘Transference’ Chaleur compilation LP, GMBH, France 2001
° ‘Le Piemont’ (with Toy Bizarre) Sound of Nature/Nature of Sound CD, Kaon, France 2001
° from cloud to seed LP, Alluvial Recordings, USA 2000
° tracing the skins of clouds CD, Kaon, France 1998
° Alial Straa The Lumbering Intransitive Dream of… (with John Grzinich) cassette, Orogenetics 1997
(re-issued as CDR in 2000 on Alluvial, USA)
° Alial Straa Tunnels/Stairwell (with J. Grzinich, O. Block, M. Northam) cassette, Orogenetics 1996
(re-issued as CDR in 2000 on Alluvial, USA)
° Alial Straa The Balanced Field (with John Grzinich) cassette, self-released 1995

scores for theatre and dance

° Liz Gerring Dance Co., NYC, ongoing
° Linda K Johnson Dance, South Waterfront Project, Portland, OR, 7/08
° Circus Me Around, choreographed by Linda Austin, Portland, OR, 11/07
° After-Hours, Hand2Mouth Theatre Company, JAW Festival, Portland, OR, 8/06
° division/dividing, choreographed by Rebecca Davis, Danspace Project, NYC, 12/05
° The Birds are Here. I Hear Them, choreographed by Rebecca Davis, Chocolate Factory, NYC 10/05
° Co&Remote, multi-media performance with Bethany Wright, Bard College, NY 7/04
° Jerusalem – Nat Turner’s Uprising, Hand2Mouth Theatre Company, Portland, OR 5/02
° The Posture Queen (with Michael Northam), Hand2Mouth Theatre Company, Portland, OR 8/01

selected live works

° Activating the Medium Festival, San Francisco Art Institute, S.F., CA (23Five) 2/07
° Two Sound-Events, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR (spatialized large-group concert with student participants), 5/06
° Point and Periphery (with jgrzinich & hitoshi kojo), Turku; Tampere; Helsinki, Finland 12/05
° at Correnti Sonore Festival (with jgrzinich), Tarcento, Italy 10/05
° Amusia Rite, Fringes Music, Milan, Italy 9/05
° Sillage (with Brendan Murray), Nisus, Galería Galou, Brooklyn, NY 4/05
° Amusia Rite, at BPM, Galería Galou, Brooklyn, NY 4/05
° Amusia Rite, 3rd annual ffmup Festival, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 4/05
° at MIT C.A.V.S. (solo and with Olivia Block, Jonthan Chen, Bhob Rainey), Boston MA 4/05
° For 12 players with objects and cd players around a perimeter, Bard College, NY 7/04
° For 12 players with objects around a perimeter, Intransitive Music Festival, Boston, MA 5/04
° with Brendan Murray, Intransitive Music Festival, Boston, MA 5/04
° substances, at Office Ops, Brooklyn, NY 3/04
° convergence (with jgrzinich), 322 Union Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 11/03
° at subTonic (with jgrzinich), New York, NY 11/03
° at Free 103, Brooklyn, NY 4/03
° at DeadTech (solo and with Olivia Block), Chicago, IL 12/02
° at Disjecta Gallery – solo series, Portland, OR 11/02
° Through the Fast (with Bethany Wright), at Performance Works NW, Portland, OR 9/02
° at Bags and Bundles Festival, Wildskil Studios, Washougal, WA 7/01
° at the Beyond Music Festival, Beyond Baroque Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 5/99
° at the Off-Center (with jgrzinich), Austin, TX 4/99

— with AREA (incl. M. Marble, J. Bradshaw, B. Wright, C. Resendez, H. Blackwell)
° Equestrian at Performance Works NW, Portland, OR 1/03
° Fluctuating Rooms (day-long site-specific performance) Betty Frevis Gallery, Pendleton, OR 10/02
° at Polyp & Fury, Portland, OR 9/02

— with Alial Straa (incl. John Grzinich, Olivia Block, Stephanie Demopulos)
° at the Candy Factory, Austin, TX 1/97
° at Thirty-Three Degrees Records, Austin, TX 12/96
° Dry Season Downstream (site-specific concert in concrete tunnels), Austin, TX 11/96
° at Mexic-Arte Gallery, Austin, TX 10/96
° at X/XX Festival, the Electric Lounge, Austin, TX 9/96

curatorial work

° Usufruct, Linfield Gallery, McMinnville OR, 11/07
° Light & Sound Gallery at the Portland Art Center, Portland, OR, 2007 season
° FO A RM Festival of Sound & Video, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR, 11/06
° Talking Series (with Bethany Wright) lectures and concerts, the Mizpah, Portland, OR 2002
° Mizpah Concert Series, the Mizpah, Portland, OR 2000 - 02
° Intersect 1999 Festival, the Off-Center, Austin, TX 7/99
° An Orogeny of Circumstance Festival, the Off-Center, Austin, TX 11/97

arts publications

° FO A RM magazine, co-founder, contributing editor and layout designer of internationally-distributed journal of arts and research
- No. 1 (utility), 52 pp., 2003
- No. 2 (dis/embodiment), 80 pp., 2004
- No. 3 (duals & doubles), 112 pp., 2004
- No. 4 (topography), 144 pp. +CD, 2005
- No. 5 (autonomy), 156 pp. + CD, 2006
° N D magazine, contributing editor of international magazine of experimental music, performance and art, numbers 19 - 21, 1996-2000

writings

° “House as Instrument/Instrument as House - in conversation with Arsenije Jovanovic”, FO A RM magazine no. 5, 2006
° “Process, Detail, Material - in conversation with Phill Niblock (Introductory essay and interview), FO A RM magazine no. 4, 2005
° “Regarding Mutually Embedded Environments”, 26 Magazine, issue #C, 2004
° “In Conversation with William Lee”, FO A RM magazine no. 3, 2004
° “Regarding Aprupture: breaking the field of sound”, Incursion.org, 12/03
° “Tool/Flask/Disorient”, FO A RM magazine no. 1, 2003

teaching

° Adjunct, Time Arts and Art Theory, Pacific Northwest College of Art, 9/07 - present
° Lecture and workshop on spatialized sound in performance, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, 5/06
° Sound Workshop (“Recording and composing with concrete sounds”), ages 14 - 15 (with John Grzinich), Tartu Children’s Art School, Estonia 12/05
° Arts Enrichment Classes, ages 2 - 5, Park West Montessori, New York, NY 2003-05
° Weekly art workshops, ages 6 - 10, Childpeace Montessori, Portland, OR 1999-2002
° Art activity planning, ages 5 - 12, Ainsworth Aftercare Program, Portland, OR 1998-99