“A not admitting of the wound”: Reflections on a Microtonal Setting of Emily Dickinson (2024)
Dickinson’s text was the catalyst that facilitated...a palimpsestic reflection on desire and the closet, Queer identity, multiplicity and ambivalence....entwined with a larger project of trying to elucidate a Queer aesthetic for microtonal music.
Desire Lines: Queer Theory, Microtonal Practice (2022)
What happens, then, in the queer moments of disorientation when we encounter music that doesn’t fit our established perceptual categories—music that sounds out of tune?
Not Silent (2017)
A composition for solo classical guitar in 13-limit Just Intonation, written for Tolgahan Cogulu as part of Paul A.R. Timmermans’s DVD The Art of Silence (P-ART, 2018).
“Different Placements of Spirit”: The Unity Music of William Parker’s Curtis Mayfield Project (2016)
By revisiting the 1970s cultural politics of Black Power, uplift, and resistance immanent in Mayfield’s songs, Parker’s project...[creates] a space in which musical and textual interventions signify on the “changing same” of the political landscape.
Different Placements of Spirit: African American Musicians Historicizing in Sound (2014)
This dissertation examines two recent projects by African American musicians that enact critical and historiographic agency by reconstructing the music of the past: William Parker's project The Inside Songs of Curtis Mayfield...and Marcus Roberts's reinvention of the Jazz Age rhapsodies of George Gershwin and James P. Johnson, Rhapsody in Blue and Yamekraw: A Negro Rhapsody.