the things that keep us human

Photo by Ge Wang

Since 2008, I have thought of all my work under the title, the things that keep us human. I strive to support listening, attention, presence, and awareness of the body in my work as a composer, singer, performer, conductor, instrument builder, and theorist. I write music and build instruments that invite people to be present with their broad, ageless, all-remembering self.

HAPPENINGS

2025-2026 SEASON

  • Sunday, October 19th, 12-6 pm * SF Music Day @ SF War Memorial Performing Arts Center * I will be performing excerpts from The Glance interwoven with solos for the Tape Machine at 3 pm in the Taube Music Atrium * tickets here

  • Saturday, November 23rd, 2 pm * SF MOMA * Performing live with video works by filmmaker Lynn Marie Kirby

  • Friday, December 12, 2025 @ 7:00 pm * First United Methodist Church, Palo Alto * PWC performs Voices that Guide Us * Pay What You Wish ticket prices until Nov. 1st

  • Saturday, December 13, 2025 @ 1:00 pm * Mission Santa Clara * PWC performs Voices that Guide Us * Pay What You Wish ticket prices until Nov. 1st

  • March 11-15, 2026 * Borealis Festival, Bergen, Norway * Performing with Elin Mar Vister Oyen

  • April 17-19, 2026 * Meets the Eye Studio, San Carlos * PWC performs Transcendence Abounds

  • May 5-10, 2026 * PWC on Tour * Seattle and Vancouver

  • May 29-31, 2026 * PREMIERE OF THE GLANCE * ODC, San Francisco

  • June 11-27, 2026 * Scholar in Residence with SF Opera * Preconcert Talk for Elektra

  • SUMMER 2026 * Tape Machine Solo Album Release

ONLINE VIEWING

EXCITING PRESS:

  • LAPTOPERA PRODUCTIONS

    Pushing forward a new medium, the laptopera, to create operas for laptop orchestra and live voices that seamlessly weaves together movement, sound, and story

  • TAPE MACHINE

    Hear my latest works for my live, analog looping Tape Machine instrument.

  • DONATE TODAY

    Ambitious art needs allies!

    Consider donating to support my next laptopera, The Glance, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.

  • PENINSULA WOMEN'S CHORUS

    As the artistic director of the Peninsula Women’s Chorus, I support the creation of adventurous new music for treble voices.

    PWC
  • DEEP LISTENING

    Download my free pamphlet, Deep Listening through Parenthood, a collection of Sonic Meditations for Birth, the NICU, and beyond.

With support from the following:

The creation of The Glance is made possible through the Musical Grant Program, administered by InterMusic SF, and supported by the Clarence E. Heller Charitable Foundation and the Hewlett Foundation.

Laptopera Productions was supported by New Music USA’s Organization Fund in 2025-26.

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