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First and foremost, I am a composer.
I also play piano, dabble in jazz, and act like a four-year old.
Add a love of photography (on my Sony α NEX-5) and stuffed animals, and you end up here.
All content, unless otherwise noted, is original.
ROCKET SHIP, FOR CREW OF EIGHT
read yesterday for my advanced orchestration final project by the Northwestern Contemporary Music Ensemble
I wasn’t sure if it’d be okay for me to post the video of the performance, so I took the audio and paired it with a video of an actual rocket ship blasting off.
May 29, 2012:
insomnia-inspired sunrise walk
R2-DGAF
scamperin’
Once, there was a puddle that dreamed of evaporating, so it asked the sun to help it out.
Hide behind your trees, sun. I’ll get you next time.
For my orchestration final, I’m writing a piece called “Rocket Ship.” This involves players detaching parts of their instruments to symbolize a rocket removing segments as it reaches higher altitudes, then once the players are only using mouthpieces, walking clockwise around the ensemble to symbolize orbit.
Yes, I’m actually serious.
as golden as the weighty sunset
BRO, for Nick Platoff and Kelton Koch
I - moderato con swag
performed on May 19 at my sophomore recital
a close-up of “Fluids” by Allan Kaprow