Laurelhurst

Laurelhurst is an ongoing film series, following love and civil servants in the City of Roses. The first three chapters can be seen here 👆

Or Something Like That

A multi-sensory, storytelling collaboration between Marc Girouard and I. It began by a fascination with storytelling, and how stories evolve over time. I spent two years interviewing people I met on the street, then pulled apart their words and reorganized them into soundscapes of original audio design and music, working with my favorite musicians to create a score for each piece. Once the audio was underway, Marc and I began collaborating on the visual interpretation. We passed drawings pack and forth, painting over each others lines, like a dance, until we were both happy with marriage of image and sound. Those first 10 audio-visual portraits became the record / art book that we created in 2016, with the help of our kickstarter campaign.

Curious Ear

A community engagement project I started with Dimitrii Pokrovskii to inspire communication between previously unconnected groups of people, create space for those to be heard, and give voice to those without.

Pairs of giant mouths are placed at different ends of the city, connected with wifi.  A welcome screen invites you to speak what’s on your mind, with prompts such as, “Describe your first memory.” What’s said into the ear, plays at the mouth.

Most recently, we placed the ear at an elder-care facility, and the mouth at an elementary school, here in Portland. After a couple weeks, we swap the structures, so that the other has a turn to listen/share. Curious Ear aims to be a spark of connections between folks who might not otherwise meet. The more we listen and share, the more we love and less we fear.

Storyscape

Over a few years of recording conversations, I’d notice these wonderful similarities in things people said, sometimes exact phrases like, “the sounds around me,” or "something like that.” By collecting similar themes and playing them side by side, I discovered the joy of making one person’s thought finish another’s idea. Or hopping between two very different streams of thought, and creating a third. What was created is this Storyscape. Please contact me if you’d like to record a conversation and be part of the story!