January 2024 — I’ll be participating in the group show Glot, curated by Sophie Rose, alongside artists Shahrzad Changalvaee, Nour Mobarak, and Anri Sala.
January 2024 — The Whitney Museum announced that I’ll be participating in the 2024 Whitney Biennial. I’ll be participating as both a solo artist and as creative lead for the collective People Who Stutter Create (along with Jia Bin, Delicia Daniels, Conor Foran, and Kristel Kubart).
December 2023 — I talked about and played from my new album Compline in Nine Movements at WNYC.
May 2023 — Some of my photographs and excerpts from my book The Clearing will be featured in the group show Tongues of Fire at Ballroom Marfa. Thank you for the invitation, Daisy!
March 2023 — WNYC’s New Sounds aired a live recording from a concert I played to support Faten Kanaan’s album release show for her new album Afterpoem. Congratulations, Faten!
February 2023 — Excerpts from my book The Clearing were printed and hung as part of the group show Landscape Hot Mic at Juf in Madrid.
November 2022 — I gave a concert at Schauspielhaus Zürich. Thank you, Mathis, for the invitation! And Angel Bat Dawid kindly invited me to play with her at Saint Ghetto Festival in Bern, Switzerland. Thank you, Angel. I also played at Kraftwerk in Berlin as part of the X100 festival. Thank you, Harry. Here is a video of the Berlin concert.
November 2022 — I am so grateful I got to perform with Angel Bat Dawid at Virginia Commonwealthy University’s Institute for Contemporary Art. Video of the concert available here.
October 2022 — The website for the Stammering Collective launched. I am so grateful to be part of this group. Many thanks to Take Courage (Bart Rzeznik and Conor Foran) for the gorgeous design and build of the website.
October 2022 — My video Impediment is Information will be screened in Oklahoma Contemporary Art Center’s group exhibition Fugitive Speech. I am so grateful to be included alongside the amazing artists Emily M. Chase and Anita Fields.
October 2022 — The video (created by Jules Evens) for my track “Dysfluent Waters” was screened as part of “Walking with Water,” a series of events with Balkan Projects. Thank you, simona dvorák, for the invitation!
September 2022 — I gave a talk through Chico State’s Humanities Center. Thank you for inviting me, Rachel Middleman!
August 2022 — I published a poem called “The name of that silence is these grasses in this wind.” Thank you, heidi andrea restrepo rhodes, for inviting me to share this poem. Thank you, Zoeglossia, for publishing the poem.
July 2022 — I performed two concerts at Haus der Kunst as part of the TUNE series, curated by Sarah Miles. Thank you, Sarah!
July 2022 — Artist S T A R R and I held three musical ceremonies at the The Shed in New York City under the title BENEDICTION. Watch one of the ceremonies here. Thank you, Starr!
July 2022 — Sarah Jane Cervenak wrote about my work for ASAP/J. Thank you so much, Sarah!!!
July 2022 — I played with The HawtPlates and John Murchison at CARA NYC.
April 2022 — I played a concert in CoMotion Festival in Toronto. Thank you, Alex Bulmer, for inviting me!
January 2022 — I created a video performance in honor of the exhibit Laws of Confusion at The Renaissance Society in Chicago.
September 2021 — James Harrison Monaco and I wrote the original score for Marvel’s Wastelanders: Hawkeye, a new podcast.
August 2021 — I provided music for Whitney White’s filmed theatrical experience SEMBLANCE.
June 2021 — ISSUE Project Room premiered a new music-video-poem: Impediment is Information.
April 2021 — I wrote music for Lincoln Center Theater’s audio production of Bill Gunn’s play The Forbidden City.
April 2021 — I signed with NNA Tapes and released a new track: Fountain #3
March 2021 — Baltimore artist Ami Dang kindly included me in a playlist she curated for Crack Magazine. Thank you Ami!
March 2021 — ISSUE Project Room premiered a new music-video-poem: Responsory; or, when shall we Walk clumsy into the Snow of now.
March 2021 — The Journal of Interdisciplinary Voice Studies published my article “The clearing: music, dysfluency, Blackness, and time.”
February 2021 — ISSUE Project Room is hosting my sound installation Fountain #2 from February 17 to March 17, 2021.
December 2020 — I read in the 2020 Zong! Global reading, a collective reading of M. NourbeSe Philip’s book Zong!
November 2020 — I gave a talk entitled ON FUGITIVE SPEECH as part of Yale School of Art’s SPEAK TO ME series. Watch the recording here.
November 2020 — I gave a keynote address at Lewis & Clark’s Ray Warren Symposium on Race and Ethnic Studies. Watch the recording here.
November 2020 — An arrangement I made of “Amazing Grace” was used in November, a film directed by Phillip Youmans and written by Claudia Rankine.
September 2020 — Erica Hunt, Saidiya Hartman, and I shared work and conversation in “Looking for Language in the Ruins,” hosted by the Center for African-American Poetry and Poetics. Watch the event here.
September 2020 — Mikaal Sulaiman interviewed me on his Black Enso Podcast.
August 2020 — I gave a virtual poetry reading hosted by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. Watch the reading here.
August 2020 — This American Life did a story about a performance I gave at the Poetry Project New Year’s Day Marathon.
July 2020 — MacDowell presented a new work of mine, EVENSONG, on Instagram. I then had a conversation with Nell Painter about many things.
June 2020 — I performed in Downtown Variety: Take 9, presented by La MaMa and CultureHub.
May 2020 — I did a radio set at Montez Press Radio.
May 2020 — Troy Anthony and I created a live, virtual music-ritual called PASSING NOTES. Digital artifacts from the ritual are here.
May 2020 — James Harrison Monaco and I made a virtual concert for Lincoln Center At Home (streaming starting May 17).
April 2020 — Alice Sheppard and I collaborated with Eyebeam on a virtual gathering.
April 2020 — I made a video piece for The Poetry Project called transCRIPted.
March 2020 — I performed in Downtown Variety: Take 1, presented by La MaMa and CultureHub.
March-April 2020 — I scored Claudia Rankine’s new play HELP at The Shed. The production has been postponed, dates to be announced.
January 2020 — James Harrison Monaco and I premiered our show The Conversationalists at the Bushwick Starr. Reviews here and here.
January 2020 — I performed in the Poetry Project’s New Year’s Day Marathon.
November 2019 — I performed Maria Stankova’s Rapana with Lucy Dhegrae at National Sawdust.
October 2019 — I participated in THE FACE OF THE PLANET, an evening of short films at Anthology Film Archives, curated by Courtney Stephens and Mathilde Walker-Billaud, presented by The Flaherty and MONO NO AWARE. I live scored three of the evening’s films: NATURE’S HANDIWORK (Percy Smith, 1921) (clip of my score here), ALASKA’S EIGHTH WONDER (REEL 2) (1925), and OIL WELLS: STURGEON ROAD AND 97TH ST (Christina Battle, 2003).
October 2019 — I performed in HISTORY/OURSTORY, an afternoon of short performances held at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, directed by James E. Reynolds. Video of my performance here and text here.
June 2019 — Composer and vocalist S T A R R and I gave a concert at Ars Nova. Clip here.
May 2019 — I performed a sound bath at MacDowell Downtown, hosted by the MacDowell Colony. Clip below.