This Land is Not

I co-hosted a concert of new music at the Current Space with composer and bassoonist James Young on August 11, 2019. I wrote This Land is Not, an open score composition performed by the temporary low reeds ensemble, Reedswarm. We assembled and ensemble of 12 low woodwinds (baritone saxophone, tenor saxophone, bassoon, and bass clarinet) to perform alongside other temporary ensembles.

Upbraid the Permitting Stars

Mueo is my solo music project for synthesizers and woodwinds, in which I create durational music with rich and complex timbres and textures. I released my first album in November 2020, called Upbraid the Permitting Stars. I created this music during the time I was bedridden between two spine surgeries. I found that creating generative patches on my eurorack modular synthesizer provided me with a tool for deep listening as a form of pain management.

Isolated Bliss

The path to creating Isolated Bliss, Reid’s debut for Atlantic Rhythms, is one that took her out to sea. Between June and October of  2019, she relocated to Monhegan, a remote island off the coast of Maine, only accessible by boat. It’s there that these tracks came to life. 

Immortal Voices

Artists Amy Reid and Pangelica take you on a time-traveling experience to give a literal voice to two women represented in the Walters Art Museum’s collection. Amy conjures the spirit of the goddess Amphitrite depicted in a gold-accented sculpture designed by Marius-Jean-Antonin Mercié. Pangelica invokes the women entombed in the mummy depicted in the Mummy and Painted Cartonnage of an Unknown Woman composed of layers of linen and plaster. Their spectral Art Sound Now performance, Immortal Voices focuses on themes of healing and destruction through ambient sound and performance.

The Land of Uz

--A finalist for the 2021 St. Lawrence Book Award from Black Lawrence Press--

This short story collection borrows its title from the mythical setting of The Book of Job in the Old Testament. The Land of Uz is a place of improbable, almost comical misfortune. There, you suffer arbitrary punishment at the hands of a capricious God. He kills your family and robs you blind. He covers you with boils! It is a place of loneliness, absurdity, and bad skin.

Ruins

Ami Dang, Alexa Richardson and Jonna McKone collaborated on “Ruins,” a multimedia installation and performance at The Walters Art Museum featuring film by Jonna McKone; sitar, voice, and six-channel electronic sound by Ami Dang, and cello and sound art consultation by Alexa Richardson. The work premiered in August 2017 as a part of The Walters Art Museum Art.Sound.Now contemporary works series.

Before The Apocalypse

This album consists of original guitar duets composed by myself and my deceased best friend Jan Rogalski in 2017. The process of composition consisted of he and I improvising together and many of the songs came together spontaneously. We shared mutual inspiration from the guitar playing of the likes of John Fahey, Leo Kottke, Robbie Basho, Dylan Carlson, Asa Osbourne as well as from middle eastern and east Indian music, old time American music, blues and much more. 

E.P. 2017

This self produced e.p. contains 4 compositions for finger-picked solo guitar and throat singing that were composed and recorded in 2017. The songs are orginal as well as inspired by sources of Americana and folk. They were written as way to deal with the grief of the death of my best friend that year. His brother gifted me his 12 string guitar after his passing and these compositions are what transpired. They are my attempt to summarize our friendship, contemplate death and finality as well as trying to make a light for myself to hold in order to see my path in the dark.

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