My research and practice takes on many different forms from musical compositions to photographic representations that culminate in various installations. Alongside this work, I have also developed a number of interdisciplinary projects – what I term ‘digital operas’ usually incorporating video, dance, theatrical staging, and music performance – inspired by my installation work. Built around collaboration and the use of current technology and performance, this work is based on a synthesis of genres that form new media hybrids. The digital operas are performance spectacles that have appropriate historical texts juxtaposed with pop culture references. The work is furthered layered through the exploration of storytelling and personal narrative. I administer variations, interventions, and deviations to reposition meanings and experiences, and challenge the parameters of composition, the performance of western classical music and text.

My work to date is an investigation of popular culture and the media, western history, spirituality and personal experiences. All of this informs my approach to developing a ‘re-definition’ of history and popular thought. I treat pop culture like a literary classic, history becomes fiction and spirituality becomes the everyday and mundane. I am interested in destabilizing the routine relationship the performers have to the original audio, text and or visual, while stimulating other types of responses, I achieve this through regulating and accenting certain roles of the collaborators, creating an unpredictability of content, sound and image. In more recent projects this is further engaged by incorporating the interactive software program Max-MSP and Jitter to facilitate an adjustment or scenario through computer involvement. Using these methods, as well as observation and contemplation, I am able to create new stories, both tragic and comic, that will take an audience to another place, to transform our experiences at least for that moment. I enjoy creating these kinds of tensions in the work's content and form - this is when I hope an audience engages and asks questions of themselves and their experiences.