SELECTED SHOWS, INSTALLATIONS, FEATURES

Ki Smith Gallery • performance of original music, NYC, Sept ‘24

Feminist Center for Creative Work • performance of original music, Los Angeles, Black History Month, ‘24

Light and Sound Design • performance of original music, Brooklyn, Nov ‘23

Fact Mag • Patch Notes feature, self-produced video performance of original music, ‘21

Smartbomb x Loud Cinema • original score for film screening, Oakland, ‘21 (Glens Falls Sequence, Crockwell)

L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design • sound installation for the Every.Thing.Changes. exhibit, Los Angeles, ‘20

SOMArts • soundtrack for film installation, SF, '19 (Velvet Rain, magdalene)

Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall • self-directed, shot, edited, and scored video screening, Oakland, ‘19

SF Museum of the African Diaspora • original score for film installation, SF, ’18 (Gemini, magdalene)

Kennedy Center • soundtrack for film screening on tour, DC, ’18-‘20 (Copper, magdalene)

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture • soundtrack for film screening, DC, ’18 (Copper, magdalene)

Los Angeles Review of Books • theme music composition for LARB Radio Hour podcast and radio show live on KPFK weekly, ‘18-

Chapel of the Chimes • performance with the William Winant Percussion Ensemble, Oakland, ‘18

The Strand Theater A.C.T. • Lou Harrison 100th birthday performance with the William Winant Percussion Ensemble, SF, ‘17

Contemporary Jewish Museum • Steve Reich performance with the William Winant Percussion Ensemble, SF, ‘17

Exploratorium • performance with the William Winant percussion Ensemble, SF, '16

UC Berkeley Hearst Memorial Mining Building • performance with Tarek Atoui, James Fei, William Winant (MATRIX 258), ‘15

RESIDENCIES, GRANTS, AWARDS

Pioneer Works Music Residency, fall 2023

This Will Take Time Point Arena Artist Residency, spring 2022

VOV Noise Black Sound Artist Grant, 2020

Margaret Lyon Music Student Prize, 2019

RECENT RELEASES

Smartbomb x Loud Cinema • score for Glens Falls Sequence - 2022

Delmer Darion • Pearse remix - 2021

Smartbomb • Light Beings Vol 3 mixtape - 2021

EDUCATION

Mills College BA in Music Composition with Emphasis in Media Technology and Electronic Music, 4.0 GPA, 2019

Took several courses in black studies, queer studies, art history, and intermedia arts. Other interests include linguistic philosophy, media theory

WORK

Research, A&R • Riot Games Music • Jun 2024 - present

Music Archivist • Arhoolie • Dec 2020 - 2023

Digital archive management
Editing, noise reduction, and mixing on archival audio interviews in the Sacred Steel Archive and the Chris Strachwitz Collection
Oversee transcriptions of interviews. Proofread, fact check, research, and write synopses of transcripts
Develop file naming convention, catalogue, edit, and watermark thousands of archival photos
Build webpages to host audio, visual, and text content, write copy

Music Archivist • Internet Archive • Summer 2020

Light restoration on tracks from the George Blood, L.P. collection of digitized 78s, using iZotope RX7 Standard and FabFilter Pro-Q 3
Focus on recordings by black artists 1910s - 1940s

Audio Engineer • Skyline Studios • 2019 - 2020

Lead engineer on recording sessions for vocalists, bands, producers, podcasts, ADR, voice-over (for shows such as W. Kamau Bell's United Shades of America), and audiobooks (for publishers such as Simon and Schuster)
Edit and mix tracks in Pro Tools
Studio maintenance, wiring, soldering cables, building and installing paneling
Troubleshoot and solve software and hardware issues
Assistant engineer on sessions with major acts like Alessia Cara

Freelance Composition and Sound Design • 2018 - present

I compose, produce, and mix music and audio for film, podcasts, audiobooks, musicians, producers, and artists.