Vocalist, composer, producer, educator, media professional

Pronouns: she/her
Nationality: U.S.

SELECT PROJECTS/PERFORMANCES Co-convener/Siren Xypher (collective trio w/ Melanie Dyer, Mara Rosenbloom); Co-leader/Geometry (collective quartet w/ Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid); member/William Parker‘s Huey’s Pocket Watch ensemble; featured performer/Matthew Barney‘s Secondary (2023, five-channel installation), featured performer/visual artist Audra Wolowiec (waves) (2024, site-specific), collaborator/choreographer Rachel Bernsen‘s Novel Formats (ongoing multidisciplinary performance series)

PRODUCER Director/Co-producer/Vocalist, GTM(Syntax)2017 (11-hour-long 12-CD recording project of Anthony Braxton’s Syntactical Ghost Trance Music system with 12 vocalists); Creator/Producer, Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music (2023 mini-documentary on Anthony Braxton); Co-Producer/Brooklyn Free Spirit Festival 2024 and ongoing, organized by Siren Xypher

ARTS LEADERSHIP & TEACHING Executive Director, Anthony Braxton’s Tri-Centric Foundation (2019-2021); Director of Communications, Tri-Centric Foundation (2010-2019); Visiting Faculty, Bennington College (Feb 2022-June 2025); lectures and workshops at Dartmouth College (2019 – present), The New School MM (2021)

FESTIVALS Big Ears Festival (2016, Knoxville, TN), Moers Festival (2017, Germany), Edition Festival for Other Music (2019, Stockholm, Sweden), JazzFest Berlin (2019, Germany), Vision Festival (2004, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2024, NYC)

MEDIA EXPERIENCE Television journalist/Fuji Television Japan, magazine writer (Figaro Japon, CUT, etc.), Director of Communications/Tri-Centric Foundation, creator of mini-documentary on Anthony Braxton Introduction to Syntactical Ghost Trance Music (2023, premiered at Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt)

SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY

  • Geometry of Phenomena (Relative Pitch, 2024) with Geometry – Tomeka Reid, Joe Morris, Taylor Ho Bynum, Kyoko Kitamura
  • Geometry of Trees (Relative Pitch, 2022) – with Geometry
  • Geometry of Distance (Relative Pitch, 2019) – with Geometry
  • Geometry of Caves (Relative Pitch, 2018) – with Geometry
  • Protean Labyrinth (Self-release, 2018) – with Ingrid Laubrock, Ken Filiano, Dayeon Seok
  • Armadillo In Sunset Park (Self-release 2012) solo album with Kitamura on voice and piano

With Anthony Braxton

  • GTM (Syntax) 2017 (New Braxton House 2019)
  • Trillium J: The Non-Unconfessionables (opera, New Braxton House 2015)
  • 12 Duets (DCWM) 2012 (New Braxton House 2014)
  • Trillium E: Wallingford’s Polarity Gambit (opera, New Braxton House 2011)

Others

  • William Parker Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World (Centering Music 2021)
  • Cory Smythe Accelerate Every Voice (Pyroclastic 2020)

BOOK

Contributor to Unlocking the Digital Age The Musician’s Guide to Research. DeLaurenti, K., & Copland, A. I. (2024, February 26). Unlocking the digital age. Pressbooks. https://pressbooks.pub/musicresearch/