A growing collection of writing, creative projects, scores, and resources. These materials explore topics will include contemporary performance practice, teaching and learning, creative process, collaboration, and the practical realities of artistic work.
Writing
Essays, reflections, and practical resources drawn from my work as a performer, educator, and arts leader.
Effective Warm-Up Strategies for Brass Players
A warm-up shapes the conditions under which playing begins. This article explores how a simple, responsive process can establish coordination between body, breath, and instrument. Rather than relying on fixed routines, it focuses on how attention, adjustment, and timing interact to support clarity and control in performance.
Listening
Amy Brandon: Affine (2023).
For any group of 7+ instruments (c. 10′).
Commissioned and premiered by Alkali Collective.
Recording released on Lysis (2024).
Text Scores
Works situated in everyday spaces and moments of waiting.
checkout
2026, 2-10′
A site-responsive work designed for everyday waiting lines, using ambient sound and subtle performer responses to structure listening in real time. The piece unfolds according to the pace of the queue and ends when the performer reaches the register.
on hold
2026, 2-10′
A text score shaped by phone queues, automated messages, and suspended time. Performers respond to interruption, repetition, and delay, allowing the structure of the piece to emerge from mediated listening.
baggage claim
In Development
A developing instruction-based work situated in transit spaces. The score explores arrival, accumulation, and ownership through the sounds, rhythms, and pauses of waiting for what has been carried away and left behind.
