• Announcing Musique Concrémo

    Announcing Musique Concrémo

    The Jewel Garden Presents… Musique Concrèmo, in the Concrèmo Series! Musique Concrèmo is a new wave of musique concrète where the artist or sound designer has a strong emotional connection to the space or context of what’s being documented. Started by Brad Rose and Ryan Watts, it’s rooted largely in field recordings (with a smidge of… Read more

  • Stupid Dreams

    Stupid Dreams

    Stupid Dreams is a collaborative art and sound project that creates spaces for people to (re)connect through listening. At it’s core, it’s about building the kind world we want to live in after everything we’ve known begins to shift or fall apart. It harnesses the magic of small, shared acts of sonic attention and collective… Read more

  • The Sound LEaves – Album

    The Sound LEaves – Album

    Album Release on Room 40 “The Sound Leaves” began as an interactive sound performance and installation based around humans’ impact on the environment and how that impact is altering the sonic landscape of our world. As ecosystems change due to climate collapse, the sound of those ecosystems changes too. “The Sound Leaves” used an amplified… Read more

  • Creative Capital State of the Art Prize

    Creative Capital State of the Art Prize

    I’m absolutely thrilled and honored to receive the inaugural Creative Capital State of the Art Prize for Oklahoma. For over twenty years, I’ve been making work in Tulsa across sound, writing, visual art, and community practice, working with memory, loss, and what might still be possible here. This recognition from Creative Capital feels meaningful, especially… Read more

  • Keystone Ancient Forest: Art Hike / Soundwalk

    Keystone Ancient Forest: Art Hike / Soundwalk

    On January 4th, a group of us gathered at Keystone Ancient Forest for a combination Art Hike/Soundwalk. Liz Dueck invited me to lead some listening exercises while we hiked through the winter forest before stopping and drawing/sketching what we heard. We spent time tuning into different layers; the oldest sounds we heard, the sounds that… Read more

  • Morning Sounds

    Morning Sounds

    Morning Sounds is a free digital series collecting unedited recordings of people’s waking routines – a tender archive of how we actually begin each day. The project invites contributors to record 10-20+ minutes of their morning (whenever that happens to be), capturing the sounds of making coffee, feeding pets, sitting outside, getting ready, or simply… Read more