Tapestry, for mixed media

Tapestry is what the name suggests– a mix of my favorite musical strands, woven together into one sonic landscape. Electric guitars, electronic drum machines, choirs, complex noise synthesis, heavy metal scream vocals, sample-driven organs (a massive buddha bell, in this case), and various blurring, cross-synthesis procedures. Tapestry straddles the line between experimental and popular idioms, leaning at times more in one direction than the other. I am interested in the different modes of listening required to engage conceptually with these different spaces, and in utilizing motion between these spaces as a significant element of expression.

I'm also interested in exploring the tensions that such multi-positional creativity place upon me as an artist. As someone who grew up surrounded by and honestly very fond of popular musical genres (especially rock and metal music), my music-academic journey has been a curious one. I find that there are tensions between the various musical, artistic, and thus even social dispositions I've developed over the years. It can be easy to feel torn between art-cultural spaces that aren't always mutually agreeable (at least in the practice of many who occupy those different spaces). These tensions are not merely matters of taste, but of aesthetic and sometimes even socio-philosophical mores; they have to do with the different perspectives of and responses to the world around us. These are the ideas and questions that lie at the heart of Tapestry.