Portfolio

Life in New York

Life in New York blends electronic instrumentation, proto-punk rawness, and the simplicity and directness of american folk/blues music. Singles “Shoes” and “Sweatshirt” feature electric guitars over 808 drums, and lyrics that grapple with the anonymity and self-effacement of living in New York.

Credits: Songwriting, Production, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drum Programming, Synthesizer

What Is Is

What Is Is filters Beach Boys-inspired art pop through the lens of modern electronic music production. The album draws from a wide spectrum of influences, from Arthur Russell to Madlib, to create an eclectic yet cohesive electronic art-pop pastiche.

Credits: Songwriting, Production, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, Guitar, Bass, Vocals, Drum Programming, Synthesizer, Sound Design

Fever Dolls

Fever Dolls is the shape-shifting project of producer-songwriter Evan Allis. Founded in 2018 with singer Renn Mulloy, Fever Dolls was born out of a desire to forego the self-seriousness of indie rock in favor of big hooks, clever lyrics, and broad musical range. Fever Dolls’s sound draws on everything from country folk to heavy metal to present a catalog of material as diverse and varied as its audience.

Credits: Guitar, Backup vocals

Underdog

The curiously optimistic tale of Doug Butler—a hardscrabble Vermont dairy farmer who risks losing the only home he's ever known to chase his dreams of dog mushing in Alaska.

Credits: Licensed songs

What to Wear

I wrote and recorded an electronic experimental pop song, and directed an accompanying interactive music video (produced by SoMad) to be viewed as part of an installation for my NYU Master’s Thesis on the fusion of pop music with interactive art.

I created a custom Max/MSP/Jitter patch that monitors the viewer’s eye movements using OSC data from the FaceOSC app, and changes the video when the viewer blinks.

Credits: Max/MSP & Jitter programming, Songwriting, Engineering, Mixing, Mastering, all instruments & vocals

Petal Fall

A short film by Adam Benay, part of The North End Stories series, about public education and the fallout of the opioid epidemic in Vermont.

Credits: Composition, Piano Performance, Recording

Blue in Green

Adam Benay’s short film, Blue in Green, comprises two stories linked by the theme of young people in Vermont’s experiences with addiction.

The score’s mood is inspired in equal parts by Bela Fleck and Nils Frahm, pivoting from lo-fi drum machine banjo jazz to moody, sparse piano soundscapes, each instrumental mood reflecting the two parallel stories of the film.

Credits: Composition, Performance, Recording

Our Legs are Strong

I composed this string quartet for a senior composition seminar at Middlebury College. The piece is inspired by Aaron Copeland, Philip Glass’s string quartets, and a bicycle tour through the Rocky Mountains. This recording is from the final performance of that semester, in which the Jupiter String Quartet visited our class and did a live reading of our pieces.

Credits: Composition

Bitchords

A generative ambient piece made with Max/MSP & JavaScript/Node that uses total bitcoin market price, market capitalization, and miners' revenue data from 2021 (sourced from from Blockchain.com) to control the timbre of each respective synthesizer voice, as well as the tempo of each voice, leading to subtle timbral shifts and gradual temporal phasing between voices. Delay time is modulated by miners' revenue data, causing subtle pitch bends and chorus-like effects. Each chord change represents one month.

Credits: Max/MSP & Node JS Programming, Composition, Sound Design, Mixing

Erik & Francois

An impromptu collaboration with Francois Clemmons, the Grammy-winning singer of Porgy and Bess, The Harlem Spiritual Ensemble, and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, recorded in Francois’ living room in Vermont.

Credits: Guitar, Vocals

aquarium

A collection of electronic, generative, & ambient studies made through a variety of media — max/msp, VCV rack, and other synthesizers and instruments.

In the case of “rain smell” and “aquarium” are generative, so these are only short snippets of evolving compositions.

Credits: Sound Design, Composition, Generative Programming (Max/MSP & VCV Rack)

Madinda Interpretations

My senior work for my BA in Music Composition at Middlebury College was a three-movement piece that remixes and integrates field recordings of traditional Ugandan xylophone music with modern electronic instrumentation, highlighting the importance and continuing relevance of traditional parables and values contained within the Ugandan folk music repertoire. The sampled recordings used are of myself and my teacher, Dr. Sebufu, playing the madinda together.

Credits: Field Recording, Interpolation of traditional songs and melodies, Production, Arrangement