Portrait

Creative Work

compositions · instruments · objects

Chamber Music

String Quartet No. 1

for two violins, viola, and cello

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Hesitance, After Patience - Part 1

for cello trio

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Hesitance, After Patience - Part 2

for cello trio

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Lovers Fall in Love

for harp & two violins

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Cellos & Violins

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Harp & Pitched Percussion (Soundtrack)

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Podcast Opening

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Full Orchestra (Ballet)

(Borrowed grace: the movement of dancers I admire, intentionally carried into my video edit of a ballet I wrote.)

(read along with a rough—and not-yet-engraved—draft of the score here:)

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Multiplayer Chess Boards — Applied Geometry & Fabrication

Tessellating non-standard polygons into playable boards for 3+ players.
all boards are designed for full-sized triple weighted regulation Staunton pieces

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Three-player chess board Four-player chess board Four-player chess board in red Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up Chess board close-up

Inspiration

"We are just getting started….[And this work] still needs soul and craft, the human taste in whatever you are building." — Demis Hassabis, CEO of DeepMind
"...be more of an artist, look at things from a different direction, be able to build something unique..." — Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir
"I think their rate of discovery could be increased by 10x or more if there were a lot more talented, creative researchers… I think the returns to intelligence are high for these discoveries, and that everything else in biology and medicine mostly follows from them." — Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic
Machines of Loving Grace
"Artist-shaped people are going to be incredibly valuable..." — Alex Karp, CEO of Palantir