Sound artist, media artist and composer for both humans and computers. So much banjo, too
Hank Lazer and I have released a live recording of our recent poetry reading/performance, Abundant Life, at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers.
Find it at on my Bandcamp as a pay-what-you-wish album: https://hollandhopson.bandcamp.com/album/abundant-life-live
“I went to the woods
to be deliberate
& to lose
my other reasons”
–Hank Lazer from “September Days, A Bit at a Time”
I’m performing Saturday April 4 as part of a poetry reading/performance with Hank Lazer at Ernest & Hadley Booksellers to celebrate the release of Lazer’s latest poetry collection The Silver Bowl is Filled with Snow from Dos Madres Press.
Saturday, April 4, 2026 11am
The Silver Bowl is Filled with Snow
Ernest & Hadley Booksellers
Tuscaloosa AL 35401
I’ll provide ambient field recordings along with other electronic sounds; no banjo this time. I say it every time we perform: our work together continues to change and evolve while circling around a common interest in poetry and sound as opportunity for stillness, presence, and attention. This iteration leans into the soundworld of the recently departed Eliane Radigue.
I have work in two exhibitions–one opening this week and one closing:
Curated by Lauren Nye and Nandini Makrandi of the Hunter Museum of American Art, The Time Being is a group show in Chattanooga, Tennessee, of work from 2025 Stove Works residents. My work Spans (CMY), a set of three plotter prints, is included. All the work in the show is for sale with proceeds benefiting Stove Works. Pick up individual pieces (1, 2, 3) or buy the whole set. Act fast, because the show closes on Saturday, January 17!
I have a new set of bridge-related plotter art work in the faculty biennial show at the Sarah Moody Gallery of Art on the campus of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The exhibition opens Thursday, January 15 and runs through February 20. There’s an opening reception tomorrow, January 15 from 4-6pm.
The University of Alabama Department of Theatre and Dance presents Alabama Repertory Dance Theatre: Verse this week. Three of my musical compositions are included in the show which also features poetry and choreography by guest artists. Percussionist Jennifer Caputo will also perform.
Tuesday, October 22 – Friday, October 25, 2024
Alabama Repertory Dance – Verse
University of Alabama
Dance Theatre
428 Colonial Drive
Tuscaloosa, AL 35401
Violin duo Miolina (Lynn Bechtold and Mioi Takeda) will premiere my piece A Long Line of Clouds Just Above the Trees in a concert Monday March 28 at the Moody Recital Hall in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
The work is for violin duo with live electronics. It was created with the support of the Collaborative Arts Research Initiative (CARI) at the University of Alabama. We workshopped the piece during a Summer 2021 residency at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute in New Hampshire.
Also on the program are compositions by Lynn Bechtold Cecilia Franke, Mark Lackey, Jessica Meyer, Alvin Singleton and Geni Skendo.
March 28 7:30pm
Miolina
Moody Recital Hall
University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa AL