About
As a composer and audiovisual artist, I want to explore personal, societal, and environmental issues with directness, intimacy, and empathy.
We now live in an age of digital bombardment; of hypnotic algorithms and pacifying noise - yet, a new generation of perceptual tools are emerging. Extended Reality technology can be used to amplify this background static, or it can be used to bypass overloaded information systems and communicate in new and powerful ways.
XR makes it possible to experience life as a refugee, as someone dealing with gender dysphoria, or even to take the form of a tree in a rain forest. In turn, research shows that these experiences can help people manage anxiety and depression, promote feeling of agency and self-efficacy, and increase emotional empathy. They raise awareness of crucial issues by teaching through lived experience.
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I believe the affordances of extended reality represents a new creative landscape. Using music, spatial audio, visual arts, and interactivity, I am trying to understand the artistic potential of that terrain.
Recent Performances and Exhibitions
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2024 November – King Tide 皇潮, Audiovisual Installation
Sound/Image Festival, Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich, London, England
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2024 September – Calls for Cages, Acousmatic
Seanaps Festival, Online Stream, Cashmere Radio
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2024 July – King Tide 皇潮, Audiovisual Installation
Pier-2 Arts Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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2022 June – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation
Sound and Music Computing Festival, Saint-Étienne, France [selected, unable to attend]
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2022 February – Flâneur, Acousmatic
Radiophenia, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland
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2021 October – Death Warmed Up, Acousmatic
Epicentroom Festival, Epicentroom, St Petersberg, Russia
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2021 July – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation
International Computer Music Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile [selected, unable to attend]
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2021 June – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation
NYC Electroacoustic Music Festival, virtual
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2020 November – Edge of Shadow, Virtual Reality Installation
Drawing Room Exhibition, Centre for Contemporary Art, Christchurch, New Zealand
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2020 November – Pillars of Introspection, Virtual Reality Installation
Seoul International Computer Music Festival, Seoul Arts Centre, Seoul, South Korea
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2020 November – Death Warmed Up, Acousmatic
EVIMUS Festival, KuBa cultural center at the EuroBahnhof, Saarbrücken, Germany
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2020 November – Edge of Shadow, Virtual Reality Installation
Ars Electronica Garden Aotearoa, virtual
Residencies
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2025 February-March – Artist-in-Residence, Westwerk, Hamburg, Germany [Selected, unable to attend]
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2025 January-April – Artist-in-Residence, Spreepark Art Space, Berlin, Germany [Scheduled]
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2020 August – Artist-in-Residence, DME-Seia, Portugal
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2020 February-July – Artist-in-Residence, TAKT Institute Berlin-Leipzig, Germany
Grants and Commissions
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2022 – Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice (DYCP) Grant
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2019 – Creative NZ Arts Commission to Develop a New Musical Work for Virtual Reality
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2019 – Donny Charitable Trust Grant
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2018 – Creative NZ Quick Response Grant
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2018 – University of Auckland Vice Chancellor’s Grant
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2017 – Creative NZ Quick Response Grant
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2017 – APRA-AMCOS Professional Development Grant
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2015 – Creative NZ Quick Response Grant
Awards
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2019 – 1st place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
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2019 – Creative Arts and Industries Staff Excellence Award
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2019 – University of Auckland ‘Major Award’ Blue for ‘Most Meritorious Performance’
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2019 – University of Auckland Blue award for Arts
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2019 – University of Auckland ‘Most Valuable Professional Staff Member’ award
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2017 – University of Auckland Blue award for Arts
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2014 – 1st place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
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2013 – 2nd equal place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
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2013 – University of Auckland Blue award for Arts
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2013 – University of Auckland Blue award for Services and Leadership
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2012 – 2nd equal place at the Lilburn Trust Composition Prize
Research Presentations
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2021 – Virtual Music: a new studio practice, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS), De Montfort University, Leicester, UK
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2021 – Pillars of Introspection: a work of virtual music, IRCAM Forum, IRCAM, Paris, France
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2021 – Sound and Music in XR: Current approaches and future possibilities, International XR Workshop, University of Auckland, Auckland New Zealand
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2019 – Materiality in Motion: Ecologies of Transformation, ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C), UC San Diego, USA
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2018 – Recomposed Relationships: Isomorphic paradoxes and media pairings, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS), Florence, Italy
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2018 – A Study in Virtual Music: Embodied Interaction, International Computer Music Conference (ICMC), Daegu, South Korea
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2017 – The audio-visual contract within multi-modal virtual reality environments, Electroacoustic Music Studies Network (EMS), Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan
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2017 – Recomposed Relationships: Isomorphic paradoxes and media pairings, Composer's Association of New Zealand (CANZ), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand