I was part of a large team that worked together to restage Merce Cunningham’s minEVENT for the Five College Fall Faculty Dance Concert in November 2011. The collaborators included Eitan Mendelowitz (video), Dan Rist (lighting), Emily Dunn (costume), and the dancers and faculty of the Five College Dance Department. The…

The sounds for The Jeweled Prize are created by the dancer (Chris Aiken). His improvised movements are processed through a Microsoft Kinect device — typically used with the Xbox 360 gaming system — here run through laptop, triggering events and textures, all mixed live by the composer. The piece is a reflection on marriage and…

[quad bounced to stereo] Subduction is the process by which one plate of the earth’s crust subsumes another crustal plate by riding over it. Subduction zones are commonly accompanied by deep earthquakes and rings of volcanoes which spurt out the subducted crustal material after it has melted in the mantle…