PERFORMANCE

sisters

“She’s the talented one. She’s the hard worker. She’s the one that Dad likes better.” A singer and a sound artist create a performance about sisterhood. In collaboration with Natalie Prest.

Beach

“Everyone says my unibrow isn’t real. But it IS real. It’s just…painted on.” — co-creator Sharon Mashihi

Imagine an alternative universe, where sound has the power to transform mundane objects into phone calls from your second grade boyfriend, or a piggy bank full of quarters. In this alternate universe we meet Sharon, a woman with a fake unibrow and no friends. We watch her try to escape the 'part of her that doesn't like her', a voice that follows her wherever she goes and makes life difficult.

Tape Festival 2015 | NEW YORK

Hearsay Festival 2015 | KILFINANE

Moog Festival 2016 | DURHAM

WNYC's Greene Space 2016 | NEW YORK

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

I have been invited here today to speaker AHEM to speak to you about the language of my people: SOUND.

The keynote speaker is announced. A speaker gets rolled out onto the mainstage of an audio festival. The speaker tells the audience that to it, the words they are hearing are not words. They are sounds. Each word communicates meaning not by way of definitions in a dictionary, but by way of tone, texture, timbre and volume.

ON AIR FESTIVAL 2022 | WYTHE HOTEL | BROOKLYN

Light

If the lamp beside your bed could hear, what would it know about you?

This is the story of the love a bedside lamp has for the woman who sleeps in bed beside it. When the woman begins bringing someone home every night, the lamp is full of anxiety. Torn between feeling happy for her and sorry for itself, it ignores the guilt and tries to sabotage their relationship in the only ways it can.

In this piece, I use sound to animate an inanimate object. The light becomes a puppet, seemingly alive.

XOXO Festival 2016 | PORTLAND

Oorzaken Festival 2016 | AMSTERDAM

On Air Fest 2017 | NEW YORK

Hot Docs Podcast Festival 2018 | TORONTO

Print and Publishing Festival 2019 | DAWSON CITY

MERMAID

If a mermaid falls in love with a human and moves into a house on the land, will part of her always yearn for the sea?

A red silhouette of a woman behind a crinkled paper screen. “Hi. I’m Kaitlin”. NO! A new silhouette appears in blue: “I’m Kaitlin.” NO! A yellow silhouette. With each new profile, a new version of herself: the dominator. The victim. The cresting wave in the ocean. Trapped by these warring factions within, the mermaid wonders which voice of the many voices is her own.

A one woman show using shadow puppetry, lighting design, audio montage, video projection, live accordion and vocals and comedy.

AGO (Art Gallery of Ontario) 2018 | TORONTO

DYNASTY TYPEWRITER 2019 | LOS ANGELES

DREAM

Meet me on the moon?

When you arrive at Sleepover, you arrive at a magical sleeping palace. There are beds and pillows everywhere---one of them is just for you. You find your place to lie down and listen to the dreamy drone music, it sounds like what the stars might sound like if they made a sound. The performance begins. The light in the room changes in synch with the audio as the stories transform the energy in the space, giving you permission to drift in and out of sleep, or to spoon with a new friend. After a bedtime story, you drift off to sleep and let the sounds create the landscape of your own dreams.

Oorzaken Festival 2016 | AMSTERDAM

Hearsay Festival 2017 | KILFINANE

Barbican Museum 2018 | LONDON

Centre PHI 2020 | MONTREAL

ODE TO SOUND

Do you want to get high with me?

Sound. Sound makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up in a horror movie. It lifts your despair with a familiar melody. It can also get you high.

Live and pre-recorded ambient and choral music with spoken word and surprise elements from the audience.

ON AIR FESTIVAL | KCRW STUDIOS | LOS ANGELES