Delightful.
— New York Classical Review

bio

ahoy!

i am a mouse— i mean i am a human (oops)

i make art and music. it is sometimes in the form of a comic book or a video or a record or a sound installation. i frequently (help!) dress up in big costumes made of painted plaster that often resemble paleolithic doglike fantasy creatures and sing and dance about my psychedelic comic worlds. it’s true i love a good Snout! i love animals. a horsey? yes. a brown cow? yes. my cats are named Wand and Plum and they maintain a very powerful presence in the community. i live in rainy portland (oregon).

i have an audiovisual solo album, Green Cone, out now with curious music, and i am currently recording work for an upcoming record.

i’ve also recently completed a series of visual + sonic commissions including but not limited to:

  • video art commission for tune-yards x michael gordon released by cantaloupe music

  • my sound + video installation art piece Woog up at Carnegie Hall in the Judy Francis Zankel atrium during the May 2nd Ensemble Connect performance

  • sound installation, Music for Animals, with composer Tim Story in conjunction with the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy in Southern Washington ***announcement soon! Spring 2023

  • i’m an honorarium recipient for Oregon Fringe Fest 2023 :) gonna unveil my new comic book, HOUNDSVILLE, and perform a psychedelic fantasy musical in painted costume arriving by way of giant wooden raccoon. coming this april <3

  • sound + video exhibition at CICA Museum (Gimpo, Korea) as part of their 2023 “Abstract Mind” series ***announcement soon! Spring 2023

  • audiovisual work for the bang on a can all-stars (for the people’s commissioning fund concert) premiered live at Merkin Hall and aired on WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer

  • audiovisual work for composer-performers yaz lancaster and andrew noseworthy, which premiered at the music gallery in toronto this past january

i run a nonprofit called Magic Mango that functions as an experimental art and sound performance space for the weirdos of portland, oregon. i sometimes have additional work as a contributor and grant-writer for the sound art publication soap ear.

i hold a b.m. in music theory & composition from new york university, where i studied with pulitzer-prize winning composer julia wolfe. i’ve also studied with composer michel merlet at l’ecole normale de musique de paris, in addition to studying sound spatialization at ircam (institut de recherché et coordination acoustique/musique) in paris, france. i have been fortunate to receive the robert hirsch memorial award (2019), the etchings fellowship in auvillar, france (2018) and the g.a.n.g. scholarship at gamesound con (2017).

i once worked in an ice cream shop, but it was too cold in there, so now i am an artist.

peace

amanda