in the course of life.
Yokohama 2020
Audio releases.
The Hights: Mountain Tributes (as anemone anomaly) 2021
music for going nowhere (as anemone anomaly) 2020
hirakito (with Kevin Corcoran) on Full Spectrum Records 2019
"session 9-28-2014" (as glou glou) on Full Spectrum's Infinite Futures 2019
fey flight founders (as glou glou) on Full Spectrum Records 2016
"Powell St. Nirvana #2" (as Candy Acid) on Susu Ultrarock's Tantric Supersonic
The Djerassi Sessions (as Eat The Sun) on Edgetone Records 2014
hymn her hum (as glou glou) on Full Spectrum Records 2014
Chaos Theories (as Gestaltish) 2014
songspaces (as anemone anomaly) 2013
"In a Hive of Brass and Steel" on Vox Novus' 60x60 Pacific Rim Mix 2012
"Mesh" on 60x60 Burgundy Mix, curated by Vox Novus for International
Computer Music Association's 360 degrees of 60x60 2010
Film music.
Sarah (dir. Tracy Droz Tragos), in production 2021
Our Bodies (dir. Bora Lee-Kil), in production 2021
Midnight Traveler 2019 (dir. Hassan Fazili)
Bamboo and Barbed Wire: The Story of Minidoka 2019 (dir. Karen Day)
"Intangible Body" (dir. Em Mahdavian) 2016
Awards & fellowships.
2021 Research Affiliate, Department of Music, University of California, Davis
2020 Peabody Award for Best Documentary, for Midnight Traveler
.. Composer-in-residence at Willamette University (for ensemble direction & premier performance of Songs for Symbionts)
2019~20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yokohama National University, Department of
Music Education
2017 Lake Studios Berlin Artists-in-Residence (as electroViolet)
.. Surel's Place Artist-in-Residence, Boise, Idaho (for composition of Listening to History: Minidoka Internment Camp)
2016~17 Bilinski Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2016 Margrit Mondavi Fellowship (for composition of Hiroshima, Fukushima: A Song Cycle)
2015 Pacific Rim Research Program grant from the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (for field work in Japan)
.. San Francisco Community Music Center, Shenson Grant Recipient and Artists-in-Residence (as Gestaltish)
2014 Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures, Summer Research Fellowship (for researching Vocaloid singing synthesis software)
.. Guest artist, Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance & Performance, University of California Davis
2013 Isadora Duncan Dance Award nominee (with Les Stuck) for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design, choreographer Peiling Kao's Imprint
.. Anne and Rodney Pearlman Music Composition Fellow, Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP), California
.. Dean's Fellow, Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, University of California Davis (for work on MaxMSP at CNMAT, UC Berkeley)
.. Travel Research Awards from East Asian Studies, the Graduate Students Association, and the Consortium for Women and Research
2012~13 University of California Davis Provost's Fellow
2012 New Music USA Composer's Grant (for collaborative work with glou glou)
2010 Mills College Donna Peterson Vocal Prize
.. Meet-the-Composer’s Metlife Creative Connections Grant (for composition using photo-koto)
2006 i48 Best Actress Award at Idaho Forty-Eight-hour Film Festival and Competition (in "Quiet Man: The Silent Genius of Ashley
Cooper," directed by Amelia Berg)
Publications.
2020 "Japan’s Nightingale Geisha Singers: Listening to Women Through Audio Media" in Malaysian Journal of Music 9
2019 "Vocal Performance Through Electrical Flows: Making Current Kin" in Performance Philosophy 4(2)
.. "The Spiral Labyrinth: A Poetry-Sound Collaboration" (with Laurel Nakanishi) in Orion Magazine
2018 "Earth Resonance: Listening into an Imaginary Underground" in Sonic Meditations for Immersive Ecological Entanglement
2017 "Tangible User Interfaces in Vocal Performance: The Sounding Body as Digital Assemblage" in Critical Stages 16
.. "On Manga, Mimetics and the Feeling of (Reading a) Language: Toward a Situated Translational Practice" in
Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Theory 1(1)
2016 "Yoshiwara Soundwalk: From the Underground to the Floating World" & "Feeling Through the Keen and Grind:
.. Team Dresch’s Personal Best" in Sounding Out! A Sound Studies Blog
2014 "Summer in Snow Country: Sound & Photo Essay" in Public Books
.. "Return of the Valley Girl or Unsung Cyborg? (Beyond) Media Representations of Glottal Fry, A Contentious U.S.
Speaking Practice" in Journal of Engaged Pedagogy 13
Presentations.
“Mediated Listening and Feminist Praxis: Voices of the Nightingale Geisha Recording Stars” at SOUND::GENDER::
FEMINISM::ACTIVISM–TOKYO, Tokyo University of the Arts 2019
"Ami Yoshida’s Onkyō: Making (Electro)voice Sound" at the Symposium on (Re)Sounding Bodies, University of California Davis 2017
"Relistening to Women’s Voices: Japanese Singing, Recording Technology, and the Challenge of Vocal Timbre" at the
20th Congress of the International Musicological Society (IMS), Tokyo 2017
"Hearing Out the Cyborg: Echoes of the Uncanny Valley in Singing Synthesis Software" at 23rd Annual Japan Studies
Association (JSA), Honolulu, Hawai'i 2017
"Songs from the Uncanny Valley: The Posthuman Vocality of the Vocaloids" at the EMP Pop Conference, Seattle 2016
"The Electrovocality of M.I.A.: Movement, Motion, Emotion" at the EMP Pop Conference, Seattle 2014
"Overseize (for solo koto, laptop and hand-built electronics)" at the 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical
Expression (NIME), Seoul, South Korea 2013
"Electrovocal Performance as/in Research" at CARPA3, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland 2013
"Pretending to Talk: Physicality and Performativity in Foreign Language Learning" at the Fourth Annual Engaged Pedagogy
Association Conference (EPA), Tokyo 2006
"What Difference Does 'Culture' Make? (Re)imagining the Japanese EFL Context" at the Cultural Diversity and Language
Education Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i 2004
Festivals.
Oahu Fringe Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Helicotrema Recorded Audio Festival (Venice, Italy)
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (Seoul, South Korea)
Outsound New Music Summit (San Francisco)
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival (San Francisco)
Re:Sound Experimental Music Series (Vallejo, California)
Pan-Asian Music Festival (Stanford, California)
Annual New Music Festival, WEALR (Fullerton, California)
Boise Experimental Music Festival (Idaho)
Boise Creative & Improvised Music Festival (Idaho)
Education.
2018 Ph.D. in Performance Studies with Designated Emphasis in Studies in Performance and Practice, University of California, Davis
2017 Deep Listening Certificate (Online Program for Arts Professionals, Center for Deep Listening), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2011 M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland
2010 Intermediate Certificate with Distinction, Sawai Koto Institute, Tokyo
2004 Advanced Chanoyū Certificate, Urasenke Tea Ceremony Association, Kyoto
2002 Certificate of Japanese Language Proficiency Level 2, Japan Educational Exchanges and Services, Tokyo
1995 M.A. in TESOL/Applied Linguistics, Boise State University, Idaho
1990 B.A. in Women's Studies, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Teaching.
2020 Guest lecturer at Willamette University, Department of Music
2018 Collaboration through Improvisation Workshop at University of Hawaii Mānoa with Jason Hoopes, Noah Phillips & Peiling Kao
.. Sound Improvisation Workshop at University of Hawaii Mānoa with Jason Hoopes, Noah Phillips & Assistant Prof of Music Joe Stepec
2017 Attending to the Everyday Mystic: A Critical Workshop in Deep Listening at the CARPA5, Theatre Academy (Helsinki, Finland)
.. Body/Sound Improvisation Workshop at Lake Studios Berlin
.. Beginning with the Body: Three Layers of Improvisation at UC Davis (re)Sounding Bodies Research Symposium (Davis, California)
with choreographer Peiling Kao and performing artist Shinichi Iova-Koga
.. Sounding the Treasure Valley: Deep Listening, Soundwalking & Soundmapping at Surel’s Place Artist’s Residency (Boise, Idaho)
2016 Instructor of Japanese Culture in Kyoto, UC Davis Quarter Abroad at Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
2015 Workshop in Non-idiomatic Improvisation at the San Francisco Community Music Center, with Rae Condry, Jakob Pek, and Jennifer
Wilsey (as Gestaltish)
2013~2017 Associate Instructor, Teaching Assistant & Course Reader at University of California Davis:
Voice in Performance, Introduction to Sonic Arts, Intermediate Sonic Arts, Understanding Performance;
Musics of East Asia, Introduction to Film Studies, Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology;
Design on Screen, Japanese Literature in Translation (The Middle Period), Modern Japanese Literature in English
2011~2012 Music Technology Instructor, University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, Stockton, California
2009~2019 Visiting Instructor, Postbaccalaureate Summer Intensive English Program, International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan
2009 Teaching Assistant to Dr. Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening), Mills College, Oakland, California
2000~2005 Lecturer in English Language/TESOL, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
1997~2000 Visiting Faculty Member, Center for English Language Education, Asia University, Tokyo, Japan
The Hights: Mountain Tributes (as anemone anomaly) 2021
music for going nowhere (as anemone anomaly) 2020
hirakito (with Kevin Corcoran) on Full Spectrum Records 2019
"session 9-28-2014" (as glou glou) on Full Spectrum's Infinite Futures 2019
fey flight founders (as glou glou) on Full Spectrum Records 2016
"Powell St. Nirvana #2" (as Candy Acid) on Susu Ultrarock's Tantric Supersonic
The Djerassi Sessions (as Eat The Sun) on Edgetone Records 2014
hymn her hum (as glou glou) on Full Spectrum Records 2014
Chaos Theories (as Gestaltish) 2014
songspaces (as anemone anomaly) 2013
"In a Hive of Brass and Steel" on Vox Novus' 60x60 Pacific Rim Mix 2012
"Mesh" on 60x60 Burgundy Mix, curated by Vox Novus for International
Computer Music Association's 360 degrees of 60x60 2010
Film music.
Sarah (dir. Tracy Droz Tragos), in production 2021
Our Bodies (dir. Bora Lee-Kil), in production 2021
Midnight Traveler 2019 (dir. Hassan Fazili)
Bamboo and Barbed Wire: The Story of Minidoka 2019 (dir. Karen Day)
"Intangible Body" (dir. Em Mahdavian) 2016
Awards & fellowships.
2021 Research Affiliate, Department of Music, University of California, Davis
2020 Peabody Award for Best Documentary, for Midnight Traveler
.. Composer-in-residence at Willamette University (for ensemble direction & premier performance of Songs for Symbionts)
2019~20 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Yokohama National University, Department of
Music Education
2017 Lake Studios Berlin Artists-in-Residence (as electroViolet)
.. Surel's Place Artist-in-Residence, Boise, Idaho (for composition of Listening to History: Minidoka Internment Camp)
2016~17 Bilinski Dissertation Writing Fellowship
2016 Margrit Mondavi Fellowship (for composition of Hiroshima, Fukushima: A Song Cycle)
2015 Pacific Rim Research Program grant from the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies (for field work in Japan)
.. San Francisco Community Music Center, Shenson Grant Recipient and Artists-in-Residence (as Gestaltish)
2014 Mellon Research Initiative in Digital Cultures, Summer Research Fellowship (for researching Vocaloid singing synthesis software)
.. Guest artist, Institute for Exploration in Theatre, Dance & Performance, University of California Davis
2013 Isadora Duncan Dance Award nominee (with Les Stuck) for Outstanding Achievement in Visual Design, choreographer Peiling Kao's Imprint
.. Anne and Rodney Pearlman Music Composition Fellow, Djerassi Resident Artists Program (DRAP), California
.. Dean's Fellow, Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies, University of California Davis (for work on MaxMSP at CNMAT, UC Berkeley)
.. Travel Research Awards from East Asian Studies, the Graduate Students Association, and the Consortium for Women and Research
2012~13 University of California Davis Provost's Fellow
2012 New Music USA Composer's Grant (for collaborative work with glou glou)
2010 Mills College Donna Peterson Vocal Prize
.. Meet-the-Composer’s Metlife Creative Connections Grant (for composition using photo-koto)
2006 i48 Best Actress Award at Idaho Forty-Eight-hour Film Festival and Competition (in "Quiet Man: The Silent Genius of Ashley
Cooper," directed by Amelia Berg)
Publications.
2020 "Japan’s Nightingale Geisha Singers: Listening to Women Through Audio Media" in Malaysian Journal of Music 9
2019 "Vocal Performance Through Electrical Flows: Making Current Kin" in Performance Philosophy 4(2)
.. "The Spiral Labyrinth: A Poetry-Sound Collaboration" (with Laurel Nakanishi) in Orion Magazine
2018 "Earth Resonance: Listening into an Imaginary Underground" in Sonic Meditations for Immersive Ecological Entanglement
2017 "Tangible User Interfaces in Vocal Performance: The Sounding Body as Digital Assemblage" in Critical Stages 16
.. "On Manga, Mimetics and the Feeling of (Reading a) Language: Toward a Situated Translational Practice" in
Capacious: Journal for Emerging Affect Theory 1(1)
2016 "Yoshiwara Soundwalk: From the Underground to the Floating World" & "Feeling Through the Keen and Grind:
.. Team Dresch’s Personal Best" in Sounding Out! A Sound Studies Blog
2014 "Summer in Snow Country: Sound & Photo Essay" in Public Books
.. "Return of the Valley Girl or Unsung Cyborg? (Beyond) Media Representations of Glottal Fry, A Contentious U.S.
Speaking Practice" in Journal of Engaged Pedagogy 13
Presentations.
“Mediated Listening and Feminist Praxis: Voices of the Nightingale Geisha Recording Stars” at SOUND::GENDER::
FEMINISM::ACTIVISM–TOKYO, Tokyo University of the Arts 2019
"Ami Yoshida’s Onkyō: Making (Electro)voice Sound" at the Symposium on (Re)Sounding Bodies, University of California Davis 2017
"Relistening to Women’s Voices: Japanese Singing, Recording Technology, and the Challenge of Vocal Timbre" at the
20th Congress of the International Musicological Society (IMS), Tokyo 2017
"Hearing Out the Cyborg: Echoes of the Uncanny Valley in Singing Synthesis Software" at 23rd Annual Japan Studies
Association (JSA), Honolulu, Hawai'i 2017
"Songs from the Uncanny Valley: The Posthuman Vocality of the Vocaloids" at the EMP Pop Conference, Seattle 2016
"The Electrovocality of M.I.A.: Movement, Motion, Emotion" at the EMP Pop Conference, Seattle 2014
"Overseize (for solo koto, laptop and hand-built electronics)" at the 13th International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical
Expression (NIME), Seoul, South Korea 2013
"Electrovocal Performance as/in Research" at CARPA3, Theatre Academy Helsinki, Finland 2013
"Pretending to Talk: Physicality and Performativity in Foreign Language Learning" at the Fourth Annual Engaged Pedagogy
Association Conference (EPA), Tokyo 2006
"What Difference Does 'Culture' Make? (Re)imagining the Japanese EFL Context" at the Cultural Diversity and Language
Education Conference, Honolulu, Hawai'i 2004
Festivals.
Oahu Fringe Festival (Honolulu, Hawaii)
Helicotrema Recorded Audio Festival (Venice, Italy)
New Interfaces for Musical Expression (Seoul, South Korea)
Outsound New Music Summit (San Francisco)
Music for People and Thingamajigs Festival (San Francisco)
Re:Sound Experimental Music Series (Vallejo, California)
Pan-Asian Music Festival (Stanford, California)
Annual New Music Festival, WEALR (Fullerton, California)
Boise Experimental Music Festival (Idaho)
Boise Creative & Improvised Music Festival (Idaho)
Education.
2018 Ph.D. in Performance Studies with Designated Emphasis in Studies in Performance and Practice, University of California, Davis
2017 Deep Listening Certificate (Online Program for Arts Professionals, Center for Deep Listening), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
2011 M.F.A. in Electronic Music and Recording Media, Mills College, Oakland
2010 Intermediate Certificate with Distinction, Sawai Koto Institute, Tokyo
2004 Advanced Chanoyū Certificate, Urasenke Tea Ceremony Association, Kyoto
2002 Certificate of Japanese Language Proficiency Level 2, Japan Educational Exchanges and Services, Tokyo
1995 M.A. in TESOL/Applied Linguistics, Boise State University, Idaho
1990 B.A. in Women's Studies, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Teaching.
2020 Guest lecturer at Willamette University, Department of Music
2018 Collaboration through Improvisation Workshop at University of Hawaii Mānoa with Jason Hoopes, Noah Phillips & Peiling Kao
.. Sound Improvisation Workshop at University of Hawaii Mānoa with Jason Hoopes, Noah Phillips & Assistant Prof of Music Joe Stepec
2017 Attending to the Everyday Mystic: A Critical Workshop in Deep Listening at the CARPA5, Theatre Academy (Helsinki, Finland)
.. Body/Sound Improvisation Workshop at Lake Studios Berlin
.. Beginning with the Body: Three Layers of Improvisation at UC Davis (re)Sounding Bodies Research Symposium (Davis, California)
with choreographer Peiling Kao and performing artist Shinichi Iova-Koga
.. Sounding the Treasure Valley: Deep Listening, Soundwalking & Soundmapping at Surel’s Place Artist’s Residency (Boise, Idaho)
2016 Instructor of Japanese Culture in Kyoto, UC Davis Quarter Abroad at Kyoto Seika University, Kyoto, Japan
2015 Workshop in Non-idiomatic Improvisation at the San Francisco Community Music Center, with Rae Condry, Jakob Pek, and Jennifer
Wilsey (as Gestaltish)
2013~2017 Associate Instructor, Teaching Assistant & Course Reader at University of California Davis:
Voice in Performance, Introduction to Sonic Arts, Intermediate Sonic Arts, Understanding Performance;
Musics of East Asia, Introduction to Film Studies, Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology;
Design on Screen, Japanese Literature in Translation (The Middle Period), Modern Japanese Literature in English
2011~2012 Music Technology Instructor, University of the Pacific Conservatory of Music, Stockton, California
2009~2019 Visiting Instructor, Postbaccalaureate Summer Intensive English Program, International University of Japan, Niigata, Japan
2009 Teaching Assistant to Dr. Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening), Mills College, Oakland, California
2000~2005 Lecturer in English Language/TESOL, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan
1997~2000 Visiting Faculty Member, Center for English Language Education, Asia University, Tokyo, Japan