Artist Statement
I’m guided by an interest in finding ecstatic ways to coax unity and focus out of complexity. I believe this is the manner in which writing music most closely resembles magical ritual. I think that one of the most fundamental experiences of being a conscious being is watching something specific and comprehensible emerge out of a vast field of information—like finding meaning in the shapes of clouds, or deciphering patterns of movement from footprints in snow. In making art we adorn that property of sentience and makes it sumptuous. In organizing the elusive and the overwhelming, we peek behind nature’s curtain. We observe and model the occult and obscure machinations of reality.
A page from the score of a piece for string orchestra, electric guitar, harp, piano, and percussion