Ongoing Sound Projects

This is a long-term documentary project rooted in Odessa, Texas, my hometown and a city in West Texas whose history, economy, and identity are deeply tied to oil. It was born out of a simple but serious question: what do the people who live here imagine for its future?

The project collects voices, sounds, and images from Odessa and the surrounding land. Through conversations with residents, family, longtime locals, and people who arrived from somewhere else and stayed, it listens to how people understand the place they call home. What they love about it. What worries them. What they wish could change.

Odessa is a place shaped by boom and bust. When oil prices rise, the city fills up. When they fall, people leave. That cycle shapes not just the economy but how people feel about where they live, whether it's worth putting down roots, whether the future is even worth imagining.

Voices as Transmission is an ongoing work, part documentary, part sound archive, part portrait series. It is made with and for the people in it.

This project is a work in progress. Online archive coming soon.

• Good City Group
  Collaborating on place-based soundwalks and artist-led experiences that activate public spaces.

• NONop Arts and Humanities
  Collaborating on Hear Below soundwalks and supporting various community listening projects and programming. Volunteering with the team to develop and facilitate sound-based public art experiences that invite collective reflection and connection through sound.

• Midwest Society for Acoustic Ecology Collaborated on a 2023 soundwalk as part of the organization’s public programming, exploring listening as a creative and ecological practice.

Spaces Speak is an online portal for crowd-sourced virtual architecture tours, presenting personal narratives about locals' favorite built spaces in Santa Fe.

In collaboration with the team and participants, I am recording and collecting site-specific sounds and narratives to create virtual tours that live on a map that is accessible through the friends of architecture website.

View current submissions by clicking here.

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