Kaizen (2024)

Kaizen is a short sound collage that explores subterfuge within corporations and the professional-managerial class through the overuse of corporate jargon. The Japanese term Kaizen, meaning continuous improvement, was introduced in the Western mass production industry around the 1980s, and soon, the idea of eternal improvement, constant tweaking, and fine-tuning leading to growth and capital became extremely popular. In this piece, the overuse of Kaizen turns into a form of control and shield against listening, reparation, and responsibility towards the consumer.

This piece was broadcast at:
– XMTR (Transmitter), a storytelling sandbox from Social Broadcasts (2024)
– Dundee Radio Club, a 48-hour Listening Festival (Scotland, 2025)
– Radiophrenia (Glasgow, 2025)
– Techtonic on WFMU (NJ, 2025)

Second Hand Third Eye (2020)

This radio piece was commissioned by People Like Us (Vicki Bennett) for their exhibition First Person, Fourth Wall at Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY.

As technology advances, language evolves to catch up with new concepts of reality. Old and well-known English expressions are often adapted to describe novel and less-understood phenomena. For example, “thrown for a loop” in 21st-century web dictionaries means to be surprised, confused, or shocked. Nowadays, this term is synonymous with traveling in and out of the third dimension and moving beyond one’s self into a unified cosmic consciousness. Younger generations also call it “taking 4D.” Before extra-dimensional travel was possible, many tried to describe it intuitively. This audio log returns to the 20th and 21st centuries to recover the first seeds of inter-dimensional thinking that lead us to our current grand multi-dimensional lives.

The Business (WFMU, 2021)

The Business is a collection of radiophonic pamphlets on professional development, career anxiety, and mindsets for excellence. Learn how to navigate brand new advertising opportunities, implement storytelling that really works, and build a business identity that merges the real YOU with the latest landscape of corporate expectations and client satisfaction. This system works pretty well.

Waterfall as Metronome (2025-) 

Waterfall as Metronome is an ongoing audio and visual project exploring waterfalls in relation to listening, place, and the environment. This project started by imagining waterfalls as a counterpoint to metronomes – a broad band of sound that dilutes the passage of time. While working in Midtown Manhattan for a year, I realized the abundance of artificial waterfalls in small parks around the neighborhood. I started interrogating the uses of this urban feature in the context of NYC’s central business district. This album of field recordings of artificial waterfalls is a first foray into cataloging some of the sounds that these waterfalls produce. I’m interested in how noise is used as sanitation in the city, how it is linked to productivity, and the kind of effect it produces in the midst of empire-building economic structures.

Misophonia: Oral Oddities & Other Annoyances

“Misophonia: Oral Oddities & Other Annoyances” is a radio collage that tackles the recently discovered and little-understood chronic condition known as Misophonia. This disorder is characterized by highly negative emotional responses to auditory triggers such as chewing, breathing, sniffling, coughing, slurping, lip-smacking, tapping, etc.

Mixing a broad range of intrusive bodily sounds and discourses around it, this piece explores the spectrum between experiences of easy listening and extreme annoyance/sudden rage associated with Misophonia. Around 2011, following an article published in The New York Times, Misophonia became the subject of numerous radio stories and TV reports, which helped spread awareness about the condition. However, these reports, in a way, served as a Trojan horse, concealing many misophonic trigger sounds in their sound design, thereby providing a challenging listening experience to those who needed the information the most. In the mainstream media, Misophonia was approached as an overreaction of sensitive people.

John Cage once said that his way of dealing with intrusive and annoying sounds was to incorporate them into his compositions, thus transforming annoyance into music. Cage weakened the association between sound and intrusion by integrating the disruptive auditory experience in the personal sphere. This is a seductive view of the aural experience. However, I came to understand that this cavalier approach to sound is limited and not an option for people suffering from Misophonia or other auditory conditions. Sound has a deeper connection to our body and mind that extends beyond our desire for control.

“Misophonia: Oral Oddities & Other Annoyances” is part of Deep Wireless 13 RADIO ART online album (2018) produced by New Adventures in Sound Art (NAISA, naisa.ca). This radio work was also part of the Megapolis Audio Festival in Philadelphia. It was broadcast on the radio art festival Radiophrenia in Glasgow, as well as Rádio Universidade de Coimbra in Portugal.
More info on Misophonia and music/art/performance:
soundstudiesblog.com/2015/07/13/misophonia-towards-a-taxonomy-of-annoyance/  

What’s Ether?

“What’s ether?” explores the elusive concept of “aether,” as a travel log of sounds moving between new-age fringes of science and the homes of radio aficionados. This radio collage evokes “aether” as a mystical medium, suspending fragments of old songs lost to the surrounding cosmos, frequencies between stations, and electromagnetic radiation undulating through time. Invisible and intangible, radio waves continuously travel once broadcasted, never entirely disappearing, weaving a moving archive of the Universe itself.

“What’s ether?” was created for the radio show Zepelim at Rádio Universidade de Coimbra and re-broadcasted at the 744-hour online station Radio Boredcast curated by Vicki Bennett (People Like Us), part of the AV Festival (Newcastle upon Tyne) and now archived on WFMU (www.wfmu.org/playlists/vZZ). This piece was also featured in issue#2 of the radio art webzine Radiauteur from the Centre for Cultural Studies and the Department for Media and Communications of Goldsmiths, UK.