Artist Statement

My artistic practice investigates the body, voice and psyche within a mythopoetic and ecological landscape. I draw upon extended range singing techniques (through the lineage of Pantheatre, Roy Hart and Alfred Wolfsohn), acoustic sources (especially field-recorded soundscapes and deep listening) and psychophysical approaches to performance-making as my physical tools.  I also draw upon motifs of folklore and mythology that speak loudly within today’s societal and ecological crises as my dramaturgical tools. Using recordings of ‘found sound’ of many environments (such as sidewalks, buildings, forests) that I record as raw material for music composition, I weave my listening body and voice-as-instrument within the theatrical and ecological contexts brought about by the sound sources and the mythic phenomena I’m exploring. Characters, caricatures and figures emerge that are excavated from the present-moment act of listening to the overtones and undertones of the sound sources and from the mythological/folkloric landscapes that source the critical investigation. I aim to uncover essences and core landscapes of our core human and more-than-human ecology in which distinctions between inner and outer, self and other are relativized. I aim for artist & spectator to find beauty & medicine by giving voice to the collective shadow, or dark side of the phenomena presented in the performance. The performer uses “I” but also connects to the larger environment, its characters and shades of deep time beyond the I.