"I'm a composer and musicologist living in Paris, originally from Brooklyn, New York. 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.
In parallel, my musicological research examines the social, historical, material, and epistemological conditions that predicate contemporary 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. I'm currently a doctoral candidate at Sorbonne Université, where my work focuses on better understanding the scientific and institutional culture surrounding generative AI music research."
