neap is the long-distance collaboration between childhood friends Kurtis Shaffer and Brock Stuessi. Their work explores acoustic improvisation, sound ecologies, computer processing and trance.

I started hungry badger records in 2020 to release music from my multiple projects and friends in an equitable and transparent way.

I mixed, mastered, played bass, made the artwork, and produced the CD for this release.

I mixed, mastered, played bass, made the artwork, and produced the CD for this release.

Echoes of Seema is a digital exhibit showcasing fragments of the Seema Weatherwax interview collection held in the special collection at UC Santa Cruz. I processed the collection and created the digital exhibit of sound collages as a CART Fellow at UCSC in the Fall of 2020.

The Underground Archive Project is an ongoing effort to digitally archive music director notes written on the covers of records in the WNUR-FM collection. I started the project with an undergraduate research grant at Northwestern and continue to maintain the site and digital collection.

I studied the Catalytic Sound cooperative for my masters thesis in ethnomusicology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. As part of the culmination of my research, I organized the “Improvising Collectivity” panel discussion in June 2021. This article is an edited transcription of that discussion.

Appearing in LISTENING: Texts, Images, Sounds produced by expressionless objects, this essay explores the acts of environmental music making through the lens of my radio program Incidental Music.

This Station Could Be Your Life tells the story of the WNUR Rock Show's early days in the 1980s. The writing is supported by both sound and image with web design by me.

A network graph of the Catalytic Sound musicians collective over time.

This Station Could Be Your Life tells the story of the WNUR Rock Show's early days in the 1980s. The writing is supported by both sound and image with web design by me.