Composer // Arranger // Orchestrator // Music Director // Copyist // Director // Bookwriter // Lyricist // Producer // Vocalist // Poet
I am an artist. I write music. I bring people together. I protect the space that we deserve to create in. I am arranger, an orchestrator, a scientist, a color theorist, a human, a child, an ancestor, a mentor, a student, an educator, and a practioner.
I call Brownsville, Brookyln home; before it was taken and renamed like so many and so much, it was/is the Canarsie and Munsee Lenape land.
My sound practice is an investigation of the destabilization of aural and bodily oppression through a meditative state rooted in, built from, and designed to be in conversation with indigenous ancestral folk form and drum circle theory, grown in the tradition of Black feminism, Queer pioneers, accessibility advocates, social work practitioners, and community builders.
MY WORK
IS A REFLECTION
OF THE ANCESTRY
I EXIST WITH IN TIME;
A STUDY OF THE PAST,
AN INVESTIGATION
OF THE PRESENT,
AND A HOPE FOR
THE FUTURE.
I use rhythm as a fundamental tool for activating human connection, enhancing dramatism within the context of a musically theatrical piece, and identifying markers of global connective tissue as an impetus for a communal cosmic shift.
I use my music as a conduit to create musical theatre spaces that help us heal from the violence that occurs when our capacity is policed; spaces grown from both individual and communal curiosity and clarity while nurturing the exploration of the complexities of existence.
My work investigates bodies in relation to one another, to our breath, to what is learned and needs to be unlearned, to family both chosen and inherited, to physical spaces, to science, color and sound theory, to the natural world, to the past, present and future, to time and space both literally and physically, to structures (micro, macro, and meso), and to the things we may or may not be able to name like anxiety, depression, neurodivergence, grief, trauma, violence, inheritance, ancestry, pressure, and presence
