2018
Entra, Silvio!, musical theater short, Shenandoah Fringe, Staunton, Virginia.
Strange Moon, vocals for composition by Erika Oba, commissioned by Jazz in the Neighborhood, San Francisco.
Uni. Autonoma de Baja California, residency in experimental voice, Ensenada, Mexico.
2017
Glenn-Austin (improv duo), Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA.
Black Holes, (electronic composition) commission by PatelDance Works, San Francisco, CA.
Listen.ie, electronic performance, Arthur’s, Dublin, Ireland.
Christ Church Cathedral, Commission for Electronic Liturgy & Choreography, Dublin, Ireland.
Giving Voice, voice & meditation workshop, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
Over the Hill, singing workshop, Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
What There Is (9 track album), mastering engineer, Graz, Austria.
2016
96th Ritual (for Anna Halprin) (exhibition/sound design), MCAM, Oakland, CA.
Interference Series (voice/dance/empathy) with Chris Wood (MOCREP), Flagstaff, AZ
On the Line ///, with Erika Oba (voice), Studio Grand, Oakland, CA.
Zoë Darling collaboration (sound design), Galerie Toolbox, Berlin.
Body Catabolic, Butoh-Bodyweather intensive with Yuko Kaseki & Sherwood Chen, Berlin.
Jam Jar, Moving on Music (dance/electro-acoustic), Belfast.
Artist-researcher-in-residence (voice & dance improv) with lecture (‘Beyond “Eclectic”: Schizophonia as Resistance’), Kunstuniverstät Graz, Austria.
Improv-exchange, Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland.
BA (Honors) in Music (concentration in Electronic Composition and Recorded Media Technology), Mills College, CA.
Still Here (dancer/singer), MFA Dance Thesis Show, Oakland.
Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble (voice/electronics/lyrics), ProArts Gallery, Oakland.
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, Special Recognition for inkBoat’s 95 Rituals for Anna Halprin.
Shouting Through a Window Between Worlds, Wax Poet(s) (improv electronics), Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco.
Lucky Cloud (improv/electro-acoustic) with Fred Frith & Theresa Wong, Oakland.BA (Honours) - Electronic Music Composition, Mills College.
2015
Tribute to Lindsay Cooper (voice), with Zeena Parkins & Fred Frith, Oakland.
Rituals of Death, Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble (voice/electronics), California Jazz Conservatory, Berkeley.
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin (dance) with inkBoat, San Francisco City Hall.
Just Improvisation: Improvisation & Law, symposium (vocal improviser) with Pauline Oliveros, Okkyung Lee, Maria Chavez, & Simon Rose, Queen’s University Belfast.
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin (voice), with inkBoat and Kronos Quartet, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin (voice/sound design), with inkBoat, Hyde Street Pier National Park, San Francisco.
Art in Nature, collaboration with wood sculpture Dan Gottwald & dancer Kim Ip, Redwoods Regional Park, California.
Collaboration with dancer/choreographer Kim Ip (voice/electronics), Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.
X-Sound Festival (voice/electronics), Oakland.
Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble (voice), Life Changing Ministries, Oakland.
Signal Flow Festival (voice), Mills College, Oakland.
Singing teacher, Robert Hunt Robinson Studio, San Francisco.
Maurthea Freidberger Award, Mills College.
2014
BEAMS (voice), with Alvin Curran & Molissa Fenley, MCAM, Oakland.
Dean’s Scholarship, Mills College, Oakland.
Thursday Night Special (TNS), committee member, fortnightly performance night, Mills College.
The Golden Pony (songs), Harrisonburg, VA.
Singing teacher, Starland School of Music, Alameda, CA.
2013
The Unseen, documentary (audio assistant), Detroit.
Electric Picnic (songwriter), music festival, Ireland.
Entra, Silvio! (theatre: composer/lyricist/performer), Ulster Hall, Belfast.
BBC Radio 4, Archive: “Gloria” (voice), UK-wide.
John Zorn’s Cobra, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast.
Various French, Irish, US & British tours (songwriter) & radio performances on BBC Radio 1, Radio Ulster, RTÉ 1, Radio Libertaire, U105, & NPR, 2008-2013.
QUBe Myth-Science Space Arkestra (voice), free jazz, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast.
Don’t Go, music video, director Tim Estep, Virginia.
2012
Age of Reason (songwriter EP release), Brian Beattie (producer), Dony Wynn (drummer), Austin, Texas.
Greenbelt Festival with ikon (performance artist), Cheltenham Racecourse, England.
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, artist-in-residence (songwriter/improviser).
Irish and British tour (songwriter), various venues.
Oh Yeah Music Centre (voice & performance mentor), Belfast.
Don’t Call Me, music video, Bandwidth Films, Belfast.
Community music programme (voice teacher), Moving On Music, Belfast.
2011
Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Travel Grant.
Age of Love (EP release), DeLorean Auto Factory, Belfast.
Babydoll, music video, Bandwidth Films.
French tour (songwriter) including OPA, Paris.
US songwriter tour: venues including Pete’s Candy Store & Rockwood Music Hall throughout Texas, New York, Virginia, Washington DC.
Rachel Discrimination (voice), socio-political immigrant punk, improv trio. Irish tour.
2010
Age of Wisdom (EP release).
Greenbelt Festival with ikon (performance artist), Cheltenham Racecourse, England.
Songwriting lecture, James Madison University, Virginia.
2009
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Grant: Support for the Individual Artist.
Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, performance and voice instructor (2009-2013).
French tour (songwriter).
Carousel (vocal improviser), Black Box, Belfast.
2008
National Concert Hall & RTÉ National Orchestra, Dublin, Ireland.
hello, my uglies (album release).
British tour (songwriter).
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Grant: Support for the Individual Artist.
Entra, Silvio!, musical theater short, Shenandoah Fringe, Staunton, Virginia.
Strange Moon, vocals for composition by Erika Oba, commissioned by Jazz in the Neighborhood, San Francisco.
Uni. Autonoma de Baja California, residency in experimental voice, Ensenada, Mexico.
2017
Glenn-Austin (improv duo), Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA.
Black Holes, (electronic composition) commission by PatelDance Works, San Francisco, CA.
Listen.ie, electronic performance, Arthur’s, Dublin, Ireland.
Christ Church Cathedral, Commission for Electronic Liturgy & Choreography, Dublin, Ireland.
Giving Voice, voice & meditation workshop, Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland.
Over the Hill, singing workshop, Oh Yeah Music Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
What There Is (9 track album), mastering engineer, Graz, Austria.
2016
96th Ritual (for Anna Halprin) (exhibition/sound design), MCAM, Oakland, CA.
Interference Series (voice/dance/empathy) with Chris Wood (MOCREP), Flagstaff, AZ
On the Line ///, with Erika Oba (voice), Studio Grand, Oakland, CA.
Zoë Darling collaboration (sound design), Galerie Toolbox, Berlin.
Body Catabolic, Butoh-Bodyweather intensive with Yuko Kaseki & Sherwood Chen, Berlin.
Jam Jar, Moving on Music (dance/electro-acoustic), Belfast.
Artist-researcher-in-residence (voice & dance improv) with lecture (‘Beyond “Eclectic”: Schizophonia as Resistance’), Kunstuniverstät Graz, Austria.
Improv-exchange, Musik-Akademie, Basel, Switzerland.
BA (Honors) in Music (concentration in Electronic Composition and Recorded Media Technology), Mills College, CA.
Still Here (dancer/singer), MFA Dance Thesis Show, Oakland.
Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble (voice/electronics/lyrics), ProArts Gallery, Oakland.
Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, Special Recognition for inkBoat’s 95 Rituals for Anna Halprin.
Shouting Through a Window Between Worlds, Wax Poet(s) (improv electronics), Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco.
Lucky Cloud (improv/electro-acoustic) with Fred Frith & Theresa Wong, Oakland.BA (Honours) - Electronic Music Composition, Mills College.
2015
Tribute to Lindsay Cooper (voice), with Zeena Parkins & Fred Frith, Oakland.
Rituals of Death, Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble (voice/electronics), California Jazz Conservatory, Berkeley.
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin (dance) with inkBoat, San Francisco City Hall.
Just Improvisation: Improvisation & Law, symposium (vocal improviser) with Pauline Oliveros, Okkyung Lee, Maria Chavez, & Simon Rose, Queen’s University Belfast.
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin (voice), with inkBoat and Kronos Quartet, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco.
95 Rituals for Anna Halprin (voice/sound design), with inkBoat, Hyde Street Pier National Park, San Francisco.
Art in Nature, collaboration with wood sculpture Dan Gottwald & dancer Kim Ip, Redwoods Regional Park, California.
Collaboration with dancer/choreographer Kim Ip (voice/electronics), Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco.
X-Sound Festival (voice/electronics), Oakland.
Ends Meat’ Catastrophe Jazz Ensemble (voice), Life Changing Ministries, Oakland.
Signal Flow Festival (voice), Mills College, Oakland.
Singing teacher, Robert Hunt Robinson Studio, San Francisco.
Maurthea Freidberger Award, Mills College.
2014
BEAMS (voice), with Alvin Curran & Molissa Fenley, MCAM, Oakland.
Dean’s Scholarship, Mills College, Oakland.
Thursday Night Special (TNS), committee member, fortnightly performance night, Mills College.
The Golden Pony (songs), Harrisonburg, VA.
Singing teacher, Starland School of Music, Alameda, CA.
2013
The Unseen, documentary (audio assistant), Detroit.
Electric Picnic (songwriter), music festival, Ireland.
Entra, Silvio! (theatre: composer/lyricist/performer), Ulster Hall, Belfast.
BBC Radio 4, Archive: “Gloria” (voice), UK-wide.
John Zorn’s Cobra, Sonorities Festival of Contemporary Music, Sonic Arts Research Centre, Belfast.
Various French, Irish, US & British tours (songwriter) & radio performances on BBC Radio 1, Radio Ulster, RTÉ 1, Radio Libertaire, U105, & NPR, 2008-2013.
QUBe Myth-Science Space Arkestra (voice), free jazz, Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast.
Don’t Go, music video, director Tim Estep, Virginia.
2012
Age of Reason (songwriter EP release), Brian Beattie (producer), Dony Wynn (drummer), Austin, Texas.
Greenbelt Festival with ikon (performance artist), Cheltenham Racecourse, England.
Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival, artist-in-residence (songwriter/improviser).
Irish and British tour (songwriter), various venues.
Oh Yeah Music Centre (voice & performance mentor), Belfast.
Don’t Call Me, music video, Bandwidth Films, Belfast.
Community music programme (voice teacher), Moving On Music, Belfast.
2011
Arts Council of Northern Ireland: Travel Grant.
Age of Love (EP release), DeLorean Auto Factory, Belfast.
Babydoll, music video, Bandwidth Films.
French tour (songwriter) including OPA, Paris.
US songwriter tour: venues including Pete’s Candy Store & Rockwood Music Hall throughout Texas, New York, Virginia, Washington DC.
Rachel Discrimination (voice), socio-political immigrant punk, improv trio. Irish tour.
2010
Age of Wisdom (EP release).
Greenbelt Festival with ikon (performance artist), Cheltenham Racecourse, England.
Songwriting lecture, James Madison University, Virginia.
2009
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Grant: Support for the Individual Artist.
Sonic Arts Research Centre at Queen’s University Belfast, performance and voice instructor (2009-2013).
French tour (songwriter).
Carousel (vocal improviser), Black Box, Belfast.
2008
National Concert Hall & RTÉ National Orchestra, Dublin, Ireland.
hello, my uglies (album release).
British tour (songwriter).
Arts Council of Northern Ireland Grant: Support for the Individual Artist.
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