I’m a composer and musicologist living in Paris, France. My music tries to engage with forms of listening that emerge through processes of reification and rationalization, based on a particular conviction that the act of musical listening can imminently interrupt structures that present themselves as autonomous or self-evident. In doing so, my music seeks to disclose these structures as historically mediated and socially produced—exposing what appears as abstract, autonomous, or enlightened as politically contingent and shaped by collective human decision. Currently I’m working on a number of site-specific compositions that either expose or attempt to relinquish particular instances of hostile architectural design, technological infrastructure, and oppressive forms of social organization. These extreme conditions for listening do not simply exist as extraneous sites of presentation, but rather as compositional material itself, where what might be perceived as a non-musical sound or interface becomes the very condition through which musical form and its social determination can be apprehended.

My musicological research examines the social, historical, material, and epistemological conditions that predicate contemporary science/technology/engineering/mathematics (STEM) research in order to better understand STEM’s cultural influence on music. I am particularly interested in the various antinomies that emerge as a result of scientific rationalization and mathematical axiomatization—how these antinomies manifest in different musical contexts, and how they produce ruptures in our understanding of musical practice. My current work focuses on the institutional culture of music AI research, more specifically research on multi-modal generative music models. The approach I take in this work encompasses multiple scales of analysis, involving for instance the ethnographic study of engineers and technologists working on generative music and audio models. Aside from ethnographic techniques, I often draw more broadly from anthropology, Marxist theory, music history, sound studies, and science and technology studies (STS).

Currently I’m a PhD candidate in musicology at Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) carrying out field work at IRCAM. Before that, I lived in Montréal for three years doing research at McGill University’s Sound Processing and Control Lab (SPCL). I grew up in Brooklyn, New York.