EDUCATION
M.F.A. in Kinetic Imaging & Sound, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Art, Richmond, VA, 2019
B.A. in Studio Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 2003
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Forest for the Trees, The Anderson, VCU, Richmond, VA
2020 Fall Line, Capital One Campus Extended Media Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 Breathe, River, Pump House Park, Richmond, VA
2018 A Brief and True Report, Sound Arts Richmond, Richmond, VA
2013 Needle Bed, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2012 The News: Monday-Friday Songbook, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2009 Urban Plant Research in Residence, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY, collaboration with Leslie Kuo
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 New Growth, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
2023 Solar Breath, ERES Foundation, Munich, Germany
2022 InLight 2022: Bryan Park, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2019 Weather Report, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
2018 Antithesis, Manchester Contemporary, Richmond, VA
2017 The Years, VCU Fine Arts Building Gallery, Richmond, VA
2015 /mit ðə detə/: Source Materials Visualized, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2015 Andere Gärten (Different Gardens), Galerie im Körnerpark, Berlin, Germany
2014 Some Assembly Required, Fuse-Works, Brooklyn, NY
2012 chaNorth Alumni Show, chashama 461, New York, NY
2011 Migration, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2011 ASSOCIATED, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2011 The Blithedale Romance, chashama 217, New York, NY
2010 Transport, Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2009 After Narrative, Artspace, New Haven, CT
2008 Glück Gehabt: Kunst im Untergrund (That was Lucky: Art in the Underground), Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2024 From the Mountain (composer), performed by Bergamot String Quartet, Sand Lake Center for the Arts, Averill Park, NY
2024 Aural Ecologies, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2023 Listening to the (Future) Landscape, International Conference for Live Coding, Utrecht, Netherlands
2019 The Sound of a Stone
W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, VCU, Richmond, VA;
Ferguson Center for the Arts, Christopher Newport Univ., Newport News, VA;
Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, Richmond, VA
2019 Songscapes, The Anderson, Richmond, VA
2018 This Is the Sound, Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, Richmond, VA
2015-17 Song for Many Paths
Third Practice Electroacoustic Music Festival, Richmond, VA;
Residency 108, Clermont, NY;
Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2010-17 The News: Monday-Friday
chashama 461, New York, NY;
Washington Heights Free Radio, New York, NY;
Recession Art, New York, NY;
Open Source, Brooklyn, NY;
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2015-16 Catskills Songline, Residency 108, Clermont, NY;
various public locations, New York, NY
2011 Songline I: Paper Wrinkle, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Corn-Grinding Songs, Communal Table, Brooklyn, NY
2010 When Rivers Were Highways, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
2010 Urban Plant Research: A Walk Around the Block, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2009-10 Songs of Lewis & Clark
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY;
PortSide NewYork (aboard the Mary A. Whalen tanker), Brooklyn, NY;
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY;
Douglass St. Music Collective, Brooklyn, NY;
Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
COLLABORATIONS
2024-present Interdisciplinary research/collaboration with Christopher Gough, Ph.D., biologist/forest ecologist and Gough Lab, VCU Dept. of Biology, Richmond, VA
2023 Collaborated with experimental music duo Elka Bong (Walter Wright, Al Margolis) on the full-length album Without Walls
2023 Performer in LiveCodeRVA’s Carpark Algorave at InLight 2023, Richmond, VA
2023 Sound artist/sound designer on Pamela Taylor Turner’s 360 animation research project, which was awarded a VCUarts Dean’s Faculty Exploratory Grant
2023 Bouchard/Biller Duo, voice, guitar, live coding, electronics Artspace, Richmond, VA
2019 Performer on Stephen Vitiello's soundtrack for Film About A Father Who, a film by Lynne Sachs
2014-19 Salt Parade: lead singer, mandolinist, guitarist, autoharpist, songwriter and arranger
Selected performances:
American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY;
The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY;
Riverdale Riverfest, Bronx, NY;
Make Music NY Porch Stomp, Governor’s Island, New York, NY;
Rockwood Music Hall, New York, NY;
Jalopy Theater, Brooklyn, NY;
The Byrd Park Round House, Richmond, VA
2009-15 Union Street Preservation Society: Americana string band co-founder, lead/harmony singer, mandolinist, songwriter and arranger
Selected performances:
CMJ Festival Showcases (2011, 2012), New York, NY;
Break Thru Radio: BTR Live Studio, New York, NY;
Highline Ballroom, New York, NY;
The Bell House, Brooklyn, NY;
East Coast tour (2012) including Boston, Philadelphia and Washington D.C.
2008-14 Urban Plant Research: co-founder of artist collective with Leslie Kuo
2012 Dumbo Arts Festival: Monster Drawing Rally, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Manhattan Hike, Southern Tip to Northern Hills, The Public School NY, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2024-25 Artist Residency, FLUXNET, yearlong engagement with global network of climate scientists, Lawrence Berkeley Lab, Berkeley, CA
2024 Composer, Arts Letters & Numbers: Creative Music Intensive, Averill Park, NY
2023 Excellence in Adjunct Research Award & Exhibition, The Anderson, VCUarts, Richmond, VA
2023 Arts Research Adjunct Faculty Grant, VCU School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
2021 Composer, International Contemporary Ensemble: Ensemble Evolution, online/NYC
2019 Artist Residency, Mountain Lake Biological Station, Univ. of Virginia, Pembroke, VA
2019 Graduate Travel Grant, VCU School of the Arts, Richmond, VA
2018 Building Capabilities Focus Area Grant, CultureWorks, Richmond, VA
2018 Artist Residency, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2017-18 Graduate School Assistantship, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
2015 Artist Residency, Residency 108, Clermont, NY
2014 Artist Residency, Lichtenberg Studios (as Urban Plant Research), Berlin, Germany
2013 Artist Residency, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2011, 10 Artist Residency, chaNorth, 2-time recipient, Pine Plains, NY
ALBUMS & PUBLICATIONS
2023 Without Walls, digital LP with experimental duo Elka Bong
2014 Weather Box, artist’s multiple, Fuse Works, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Ein Lichtenberger Herbarium (A Lichtenberg Herbarium), booklet, co-author with Leslie Kuo, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
2012 The News: Monday-Friday, solo digital LP, self-published, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Live at Rockwood with Andy Statman, digital LP with Union Street Preservation Society, Brooklyn, NY
2011 Spring to Rust, EP w/ Union Street Preservation Society, Free Energy Media, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Songs of Lewis & Clark, solo LP, self-published, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Urban Plant Research, with Leslie Kuo, blog co-founder and co-editor, urbanplantresearch.org
ARTIST TALKS
2024 Data Sonification, AmeriFlux Annual Meeting, conference of climate data scientists, Berkeley, CA
2023 Aural Ecologies, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Artist Talk and Performance, Hybrid Live Coding Workshop, Zoom conference
2022 Colloquium, University of Virginia McIntire Department of Music, Charlottesville, VA
2019 Artist Talk, University of Virginia, McIntire Department of Art, Charlottesville, VA
2018 Artist Talk, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Rabun Gap, GA
2016 Singing the Landscape, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2014 How To Harness Chaos, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Look, Listen, Talk: Urban Plant Research, with Leslie Kuo, Lichtenberg Studios, Berlin, Germany
2010 Urban Plant Research: A Conversation, Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
TEACHING & RELATED EXPERIENCE
2019-present Adjunct Faculty, VCUarts, Kinetic Imaging, Richmond, VA
Classes developed and taught: Data Sonification; Collaborative Sound Performance; Sound Art; Sound Design
2018 Program Coordinator and Instructor, Experiments in Sound Workshops, VCUarts Kinetic Imaging, Richmond, VA
2017-18 Graduate Teaching Assistant, VCUarts Kinetic Imaging, Richmond, VA
2014-17 Teaching Artist, KOKO After School Programs, Brooklyn, NY
2014-16 Marketing Manager, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
2011 Performance Curator, ASSOCIATED, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Docent, Creative Time, New York, NY
2003 Visual Arts Intern, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Reich, Emma, Art Meets Science at the 2024 Ameriflux Annual Meeting, FLUXNET.org, October 8, 2024
McConnell, Sarah, “Music That Speaks,” With Good Reason, radio interview, September 13, 2024
Virginia Commonwealth University (@vcu), “What’s an Algorave?”, Instagram reel, May 22, 2024
McNeill, Brian, “The sound of science: VCU students compose electronic music that incorporates environmental data gathered at VCU Rice Rivers Center,” VCU News, April 5, 2024
ERES Foundation, Solar Breath: Knowing Which Way the Wind Blows, exhibition catalogue, Munich, Germany, 2023
Ignatowitsch, Julian, “Solar Breath: Eres Stiftung zeigt Wind als Atem der Sonne,” BR24 Kultur, Sep 28, 2023
Dattenberger, Simone, “Alle reden vom Wetter,” Münchner Merkur, September 27, 2023
Necci, Marilyn Drew, “RVA Shows You Must See This Week: May 3 – May 9,” The Auricular, May 3, 2023
Rogers, Patrick, “When Art Captures the Wind and the Rain—and a Bit of Ourselves,” NRDC on Earth blog, Mar 16, 2020
Bury, Louis, “Getting Your Weather Report at the Art Museum,” Hyperallergic, Feb 15, 2020
WPKN Independent Community Radio, Valerie Richardson's Radio Something, Aldrich curator Richard Klein discusses Weather Report and demonstrates Weather Box, Nov 26, 2019
Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Weather Report, exhibition catalogue, Ridgefield, CT, 2019
Richmond CultureWorks (@cultureworksrva), “Artist Spotlight,” Instagram interview, May 31, 2019
Graphic Arts Collection blog, “Playing the Weather,” Princeton University Library, Dec 4, 2018
Campos, Alexander, /mit ðə detə/: Source Materials Visualized, exhibition catalogue, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, 2015
Macdonald, Maia, "Union Street Preservation Society," interview and live performance, BTR Live Studio, Ep. 193, Feb 8, 2013
Wulffen Anke, Ed., Balkon & Garten, literary/art magazine, Nos. 35, 38, 39, 40, 45, 49, Berlin, Germany, 2009-12
Open Source, ASSOCIATED, exhibition catalogue, Brooklyn, NY, 2011
Huguenin, Patrick, "Brooklyn Musicians Aim to Showcase Americana Roots Music," New York Daily News, New York, NY, July 20, 2011
Hunter, Frances, “'Danceing & Singing &c.’ – The Music of Lewis & Clark, Part 3,” Frances Hunter’s American Heroes Blog, May 20, 2010
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Glück Gehabt: Kunst im Untergrund (That was Lucky: Art in the Underground), exhibition catalogue, Berlin, Germany, 2009
COLLECTIONS
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
California Polytechnic State University, Robert E. Kennedy Library Special Collections, San Luis Obispo, CA
ERES Foundation, Munich, Germany
Princeton University Library, Dept. of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton, NJ
University of Richmond, Boatwright Memorial Library Special Collections, Richmond, VA
Yale University, Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library Arts of the Book Collection, New Haven, CT
Private collections