In Speech Acts, a gagged voice echoed in my ears when I learned the story of two people who intentionally practiced silence for days or years.

The sounds of scraping inside a huge cardboard box were felt somatically while I explored themes of betrayal (Taboo Box).

A litany of vapid safety tips was on the tip of my tongue in Complicité and so I wrote a ditty for someone to sing.

Keys begged to be tossed arrogantly against the edges of a porcelain and reverberant tub in Exile.

For years I harbored the phrase found in a back-page news story about a man who said he'd been "walking in bad circles" (Travels in Stasis).

Writing a rhymed ballad for an apocryphal 16th-century hermaphrodite happened long after I interviewed women who had morphed into men.

I live for transitions. More accurately, it is liminal space that delineates my aesthetic passions. The borders between (aleatory and uncertain) offer a geography where stories never come to a point. There's a mere hint of plot. It is around these spaces, words and sounds that I'd like listeners to travel, be amazed, in a maze, rather than experience a loss of bearing.

As the writer Fanny Howe says, the human heart doesn't want to answer questions, so much as to lengthen the resonance of those questions.

WHERE THE WORK IS HEARD...

...on the radio:
• Audible Woman, CIUT-FM, Toronto
• Beyond Computers, PRI-distributed program
• Flotation Device , KBCS-FM, Seattle
• The Front Porch, New Hampshire Public Radio
• Hitchhiking Off the Map, The Independent Eye national series
• The Houyhnhnm Tales, Resonance FM, London
• Listening Lounge, Radio Without Boundaries, KFAI-FM, Minneapolis/St. Paul
• Magnetic Tape, WZBC-FM, Boston
• New American Radio, New Radio & Performing Arts national series
• The Next Big Thing, WNYC-FM, New York

• NEXUS/Radio, NEXUS/Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia
• The Night Air, Australia Broadcasting Corporation
• Outright Radio, PRI-distributed series
• The Radio Chronicles, KPFA-FM, Berkeley
• Radio Dada, WNUR-FM, Chicago
• Radio Eye, Australia Broadcasting Corporation
• Radio Lab, WNYC-FM, New York
• Re: sound, WBEZ-FM, Chicago
• Something Else, WLUW-FM, Chicago
• Soundprint, NPR-distributed series
• Sunday Night at the Movies, FBi Radio (Free Broadcast inc.), Sydney, Australia
• Unknown Country, Resonance FM, London
• Weekend Edition/Saturday, NPR
• Where's the Beat, Radio McGill - CKUT-FM, Montreal

...online
• art @ radio
• East Village Radio
• Free103Point9 | Transmission Arts
• Hearing Voices

• Radio Ephemera
• Sound Art Museum | Radio Art Mobile
• Third Coast
• Transom

...in festivals:
• Acústicas del Control, Zèppelin, Caos/Sonoscop, Contemporary Culture Centre of Barcelona
• Collective Jukebox, international traveling audio art project, launched in France
• d>art 01, dLux media arts festival, Paddington, Australia
• Deep Wireless, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
• Digital Thaw, Institute for Cinema & Culture , University of Iowa, Iowa City
• Festival Garage-01: Sound Without Image, Berlin
• Free Radio HDTS, High Desert Test Sites 4, Joshua Tree, CA
• Outer Ear, Experimental Sound Studio, Chicago

• SoundLAB 2009, Cologne, Germany
• Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago

...on CD Compilations:
• Deep Wireless II, New Adventures in Sound Art, Toronto
• Drunken Boat Magazine, New York
• Technical Breakdown, The AUX Group/Forum for Sound Art, Copenhagen
• Vibro 3, radio art compilation, Vibrofiles, Paris

...at gallery installations & performance spaces:
• Curzon Cinema, Vibrofiles, London
• Dinnerware Gallery, The Sound Lounge, Tucson
• The LAB, San Francisco
• LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, Vibrofiles, New York
• Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (L.A.C.E.), Strange Animals, Los Angeles
• San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco
• Technical Breakdown, The AUX Group/Forum for Sound Art, listening posts throughout Copenhagen
• WORKS Gallery, San Jose

...via curated projects:
• Sound Lounge, 20-piece headphone installation; live-to-tape performance, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson
• Right Ear Dominant, 13-part series, international sound artists, KUSP-FM, Santa Cruz
• Acoustic Mining, 13-part series, random sound art, KUSP-FM, Santa Cruz
TEACHING & TRAINING

• The New School / Media Studies & Film Theory, New York - Online Faculty, 2004-present

- "Audio Experiments" (graduate studio/production class)
- “Radio Narratives” (graduate studio/production class)
- “Sound Culture” (graduate seminar)
- “Listening In: History of Radio” (undergraduate seminar)
- “Creative Radio” (undergraduate seminar)
- “Radio Rebels: Culture of Podcasting (undergraduate seminar)
• University of Arizona / Media Arts, Tucson - Adjunct Lecturer, 2003-2004
- “Sound Design for Visual Artists” (undergraduate production classes)
• Mentor, Association of Independents in Radio, 2004
• Internship Coordinator, Outright Radio, 2002
• Radio Trainer, KUSP-FM, Santa Cruz, 1999-2000

ARTS & CULTURE WRITING

City Week Editor / freelance writer
Tucson Weekly
2001-2006

COMMISSIONS

• Ligature (2008); Travels In Stasis/Exile (2006): Producer (David Jekel, private donor), 2006-2008
• Sound Lounge: Curator, Dinnerware Gallery, Tucson, AZ, 2004
• Laramie: Inside Out: Story Editing Consultant (Beverly Seckinger, Video Producer), Tucson, AZ, 2003
• Tokyo Equinox: Sound Designer, (Yuri Makino, Film Producer), Tucson, AZ, 2003
• Chicago Matters: Documentary Producer (WBEZ-FM), Chicago, 2002
• The Next Big Thing: Producer (WNYC-FM), New York, 2001
• Outer Ear: Festival of Sound: Commissioned Artist (Experimental Sound Studio), Chicago, 2000
• New American Radio: Commissioned Artist (New Radio & Performing Arts), New York, 1993

PANELS

• Screening Committees
Wingspan Film Festival (Wingspan Community LGBT Center. Tucson, AZ - 2003, 2004)
Lesbian Looks Video Festival (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - 2004)
• Grant Juries
Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ, 2004
Haas Foundation, San Francisco, CA, 1999
• Programming-Planning Committees
Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, IL, 2001
KUSP-FM, Santa Cruz, CA, 2000

EDUCATION

• San Jose State University / School of Art & Design – CADRE Institute, San Jose: MFA, 2000
• Temple University / School of Humanities, Philadelphia: BA, 1983

AWARDS

• PanLiterary Awards, finalist, Drunken Boat Magazine, 2006
• Golden Reel Award (1st place), finalist, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, 2003
• Golden Reel Award (1st place), winner, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, 2000

MEMBERSHIP

• Public Radio Exchange (PRX) – 2006 - present
• Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) – 1999-2005