Talks · Workshops · Academic visits

Two speaking tracks.

I speak about disability and creative agency, and about Sonic Blueprints.

The first track comes from lived experience: disability, access, mentorship, employment, authorship, and who gets real power in creative life.

The second comes from my work as an artist and composer: composing music with space, movement, place, and the changing perspective of the listener.

Each track stands on its own. For interdisciplinary audiences, I can build a session that brings them together.

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Two bodies of work

Disability

Disability, access, and creative agency

Disability has shaped how I move through institutions, make art, collaborate, and mentor other artists.

I speak from that experience about access, ambition, representation, employment, and creative agency. I focus on disabled authorship and authority—and on the distance between being invited into a room and having real power once you are there.

Possible focus areas

Disabled authorship, leadership, and cultural participation
Access as part of ambitious creative practice
Mentorship and long creative careers
Disability, technology, and the future of work

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Sonic Blueprints

Composing music for spatial experience

Space, just as much as time, can become the framework we use to compose.

I introduce the book's ideas through my installations, spatial music, and its practical method for composing with space. Sessions can begin with the central concepts or move into a working process based on principles from architecture.

Possible focus areas

Sound as an inhabitable structure
The moving listener and space as musical material
The Program Brief, eight frameworks, and Sonic Blueprint
15 illustrated spatial composition techniques

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Selected history

Talks and public practice

The settings range from arts organizations and universities to government and technology conferences. The subjects have included disability, access, mentorship, creative technology, game audio, and spatial work.

2025Kickoff speaker — AI Unlocked Festival, Special Competitive Studies Project
2025Access/VSA mentor — Kennedy Center
2024Panel — Harkin International Disability Employment Summit
2024Panel — U.S. Department of Energy, with VSA
2023Panel — VSA at Kennedy Center
2023Lecture — Catholic University of America
2018Talk — GameSoundCon, Los Angeles
2017Jurist — SPARK Disability Art Festival, Calgary
2013Talks and master class — State Russian Museum and universities in St. Petersburg

Talks · Panels · Workshops · Academic visits

Choose the track that fits your room.

Start with disability, Sonic Blueprints, or a session that draws from both. I shape the format around the audience, the work already happening there, and the access needs of the room.

Disability speaking Sonic Blueprints Both tracks