Sound Artist and Researcher
Dinosaur Choir is a project exploring dinosaur vocalization. Outcomes include a computational dinosaur syrinx and 3D fabricated dinosaur skull instruments for exhibition and musical performance and participation. Our work will be made open source when possible. An interactive web-based dinosaur syrinx can be found at https://dino.courtney-brown.net. The syrinx is based on a bird syrinx…
“Warning: tango contains highly addictive ingredients, such as pain, pleasure, passion, excitement, connection, freedom, torment, and bliss. In seven out of ten cases it takes over a person s life.” – Naomi Hotta Interactive Tango Milonga is an interactive system allowing Argentine tango dancers to drive musical outcomes in real-time via their dance movement in the social context. [ ]
This work, a collaboration with Sharif Razzaque, is an interactive sound installation and musical instrument based on imagining the sounds of a lambeosaurine hadrosaur, duck-billed dinosaurs known for their large head crests, which researchers hypothesize were resonators for vocal calls. We use scientific research as a starting point to create a means of sound production [ ]
A Collaboration with Ira Greenberg, Melanie Clemmons (2020-21), and Brent Brimhall Skin Hunger is a web-based interactive system for telematic installation and performance that plays on the zoom-style video-chat that has become ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic. Participants can reach across their screens to virtually ‘touch’ one another. By touching or moving together, participants create […
Lament Lament is an interactive cabaret song in which skeletal upper body motion capture of the performer drives musical outcomes. The work draws upon the my background both as a classically trained soprano and informal experience in vernacular and experimental styles of vocalizing, including singing both in rock bands and in free improvisation ensembles. During [ ]
Blown Away is an interactive installation and audiovisual instrument for contact microphones, speaker, laptop, and video projection, which investigates breath as a musical interface in an unconventional context. Visitors are encouraged to blow into the projected circles, or points of contact. The installation responds dynamically to their breath with a haunting wind-like sound, and the [ ]
When I first moved to New York City, I was struck by the daily experience of traveling on the subway – the sights, the sounds, the uncertainty. I found the experience of being constantly in contact with different people, at different stages of their lives, social classes, and situations to be revealing about the nature [ ]
I ll huff and I ll puff and I ll blow your house down! is a piece written for two performers who distort and obscure the projection of themselves by blowing into microphones, and another performer who controls the video camera. The physical choreographed relationship between the two performers was inspired by seeing Marina Abramovich s work with Ulay [ ]
At the heart of this series is an a cappella tape work, in which sung text is cut-up and randomly placed in time via computer algorithm. As the piece goes on, the cut-up pieces of text start to drift back into their original order, as if the places in time are becoming magnetic. At the [ ]
Crowded is a collaboration with choreographer Eva Perrotta and dancer Raphaelle Kessedjian of Nu Dance Theater. The initial idea was to cover a dancer s head with shoes to the point of being overwhelmed. From this starting point, the movement and music were developed in close collaboration. All of the electronic sounds are controlled in some [ ]