In July of 2024, I was able to serve as Artist-in-Residence for Rocky Mountain National Park. This was a great opportunity to listen to a park on the border between wild and overrun with visitors. During the residency, I got to host multiple public programs including a soundwalks and listening workshops—visitors were able to listen to the park's ecosystems through hydrophones, geofons, and other microphones to hear the natural soudns around them in a new way.
To read more about the residency, see the PBS and NPR stories here: https://www.rmpbs.org/blogs/arts-culture/rocky-mountain-national-park-soundscapes-artist
Alluvial Reverberations (2025) for Fixed Media
In 1982, an earthen dam at Lawn Lake in Colorado started to lose its hold on the mass of water behind it. Soon a small hole became a rushing flood barreling down the side of the mountain, carrying trees and rocks from their home to a new resting place at the base of the valley. Today, you can still see the remnants of that flood as an alluvial fan of white silt that has been spread at the base of the river.
Alluvial Reverberations uses recordings from within the river and within the ground at the Alluvial Fan and other waterfalls in the park, mixed with field recordings of the surrounding area to create tableaus that explore the lasting impact of human actions on the current soundscape of the park.