Recent Projects

  • GAME SCORE: Face Jumping

    Face Jumping, a 30-minute VR experience by LA-based studio Tender Claws, invites you to swap perspectives by making eye contact. Leap between minds – from human to animal, object to machine – exploring how seeing and being seen shapes reality, perception, and self. I provided music scoring for the game, as well as sound design

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  • Fowl Figures live at Godwaffle Noise Pancakes – September 2024

    live performance by A.A. Russell and Marissa Deitz Fowl Figures is a multimedia project developed by Anthony A. Russell while in residence at the Winslow House Project artist residency in Vallejo California. clucking in tongues that make little sense among us hensfowl figures beckon a slumbering chickenwhose most feral dreams have hitherto never grazed stranger

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  • Fieldress X Lo-Fire: “Drown in the Stars”

    Live Lo-Fire session recording of Fieldress’ song “Drown in the Stars”

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  • Free Key Choir: Well’s Gone Dry

    Written for SSATB choir and piano, 2023 Program notes: Well’s Gone Dry is a song about burnout, and the cyclical persistence of all the mundane or irrelevant obligations that pile up and get in the way of things that matter. That repetition is illustrated musically by the echoes between the sopranos and altos; later, the

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  • Madeline Kenney: A new Reality Mind

    Played cello on a couple tracks of this stunning record. Stream it, buy it, just be sure to perceive it. Also touring in the live band on vocals and synthesizer for all the west coast dates! mkenneymusic.com

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  • Bushwick Book Club

    Bushwick Book Club

    Bushwick Book Club Oakland presents: A Wizard of Earthsea by #ursulakleguin 🧙🏽🧙🏿thirty years before that *other* wizard coming-of-age story there was Earthsea and its magical inhabitants! We are pleased to present our TENTH showcase of songs about books! This show will take place on Sun July 23 at @hastamuertecoffee ☕️ from 2-3:30! Featured artists will

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  • Left Tracks: “Sustenance”

    Recorded cello and vocals for this 2023 release from Left Tracks, a new band from Phil Di Leo (DI LEO, Fieldress) and Kabir Kumar (Sun Kin).

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  • GAME SCORE: Before the Green Moon

    Worked alongside Scott Archer and Carter Lodwick to create the score for this game, which included sounds from synthesizers, guitars, cellos, and found objects. “Before The Green Moon” is a science fiction farming/life simulation game. Explore a small community at the base of a space elevator during the days and seasons leading up to your

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  • Ragnar Kjartansson’s Romantic Songs Of The Patriarchy: Guggenheim

    In Ragnar Kjartansson’s Romantic Songs of the Patriarchy (2018), women and nonbinary singer-guitarists stationed throughout the Guggenheim played cherished songs of love and romance by some of the world’s great songwriters, including Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, and Lil Wayne. However, visitors soon discovered that these tracks harbor a dark side: mostly written by men about

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