See how it sounds. I visually represent sound and music. I do this to encourage emotional resonance because it’s easier to feel and understand music while using both visual and aural senses. I consider music/sound a direct pipeline into pure emotion. Opera monumentalizes human emotion and pop music regularizes or simplifies it. Opera talks about intense feelings in an intense format. This format is too pure, too concentrated and too exhausting to experience all the time. Pop music talks about the same feelings in a format that can be consumed on a daily basis, a format we can live with. I work in both ends of this emotional range. The result is live performance-based works consisting of video, animation, music, musicians and composers working together to create visual concerts. Each work spotlights a sentiment such as the feeling of being overwhelmed and drowning or the frustration of modern communication. Simultaneously I’m interested in finding ways of reviving 19th century classical music, contributing visually to the New Music scene of contemporary classical music, while developing as a visual artist with a career in both the gallery/museum realm and the concert hall or public art venues.