Sound artist, media artist and composer for both humans and computers. So much banjo, too
I’m premiering a new piece for banjo, voice and electronics tomorrow at the Pensacola ComposerFest XX. The piece is based on the traditional tune “Handsome Molly.” Other composers on the program include Michael Coleman,, Kadisha Onalbayeva, William Price and Robert Voisey.
Sunday, September 28, 2025 2:30pm
Pensacola ComposerFest XX
Pensacola State College
Ashmore Auditorium
Pensacola FL
Iron Giant Free Association is celebrating the release of their first record, Terry Riley’s In C with a free, in-store performance at Seasick Records on Thursday. I’m one of the special guests invited to join the group for the performance. Other guests include John Albea, Mika Carpenter, Jim Fahy, Justin Greene, Davis Little, Melissa Noble and more.
Thursday, September 4, 2025 6pm
Iron Giant Free Association plus special guests
Seasick Records
3131 5th Ave South
Birmingham AL
Record release party for Terry Riley’s In C
Seasick will host an album listening party for David Byrne’s Who Is The Sky? at 5pm on the same day. Byrne’s tune “The Avant Garde” makes a great intro to the event:
“There’s only one place, that’s the avant garde
I wanna go there
I wanna go there
I’ll take you with me
The things that we’ll see
Just look around and you will observe
It’s a passionate life, it’s ahead of the curve”Come for Byrne; stay for Riley.
Tonight! Iron Giant Free Association plays the Parnell Memorial Library Theatre in Montevallo, Alabama. The group will perform a set of modular pieces for which they’ve developed their own, unique arrangements. My work, 2 out of 3, will be one of the pieces performed.
Also on the concert are improviser LaDonna Smith and vocalist Melanie Williams.
Friday, August 8, 2025 7pm
Iron Giant Free Association
Parnell Memorial Library Theatre
277 Park Dr.
Montevallo AL
This concert is supported in part by the Alabama State Council on the Arts.
Field Song, a docu-poem short film featuring the poetry of Hannah Drake with the (Un)Known Project will be screened Saturday as part of the 2025 Flyover Film Festival in Louisville, Kentucky. I composed the score to the film along with vocalist Jamilah Cooper. A great group of collaborators led this project: Barbara Jane Brickman, John Haley and Catherine Roach.
Saturday, July 26, 2025 3pm
Flyover Film Festival
Speed Art Museum
South 3rd Street
Louisville KY
Field Song is in excellent company for the rest of Saturday’s program: Appalshop, Freeman Vines, Berea College, and more. I wish I could be there in person!
By the way, Field Song was a finalist at the International Poetry Film Festival in Los Angeles.
The East Village Guitar Festival kicks off this weekend. The event will feature over 20 local and regional guitarists. On Friday I’ll be bringing my banjo/electric guitar hybrid to perform a set of improvisations similar to the pieces on my 2021 Tell A Gossip recording from Tape Drift Records. Also playing Friday will be Killick & Klimchak. Saturday’s event will feature Taylor Hollingsworth and Jupiter.
Friday and Saturday April 4-5 2025
East Village Guitar Festival
East Village Arts
7611 1st Ave N
Birmingham AL 35206
This event was originally scheduled for mid-March but had to be postponed due to weather. Read more at Bham Now and Birmingham365.