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ballet and dance etc audio support, sound design and music recording:

Ode to Alice: sound design, recording and music supervision for Alonzo King's 2024 ballet, featuring the music of Alice Coltrane, premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco 2024 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/dance/alonzo-king-alice-coltrane-review-19757412

Ma Mere l'Oye :sound design, recording and music supervision for Alonzo King's 2024 ballet, featuring the music of Maurice Ravel, premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco 2024 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/dance/alonzo-king-alice-coltrane-review-19757412

Voices from the Silenced : a feature film from the play of the same name written and performed by elderly women who experienced abortions in the USA prior to Roe v.Wade. 2024 https://www.amwa-doc.org/news/a-new-play-voices-from-the-silenced-pre-roe-abortion-stories-from-rossmoor/

Empress Archer a new and perhaps final version of the 10-years-in-progress dance work by Meredith Webster, Ariel Freedman and The Cambrians 2024 https://joegoode.org/event/empress-archer/

Spring: sound design, recording and music supervision for Alonzo King's 2024 ballet, premiered at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco 2024 https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/dance/review-alonzo-king-lines-19371513

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled: music and sound composition , remixing and sound design for a new ballet by Alonzo King featuring vocals by Lisa Fischer and images by Richard Misrach. Alonzo King LINES Ballet 2023 https://missionlocal.org/2023/04/a-ballet-for-untroubling-hearts-at-ybca/

Deep River: a new ballet by Alonzo King with music by Jason Moran and Lisa Fischer
(Alonzo King LINES Ballet 2022-4) sound design https://48hills.org/2022/05/alonzo-king-lines-ballets-deep-river-ybca-dance-review/

ARTworks 1990-2022 : Alonzo King Lines Ballet's 42nd anniversary performance at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, with excerpts from Dust and Light, Resin, Following the Subtle Current Upstream and Child of Sky and Earth, October 2023. https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/dance/alonzo-king-lines-review-18424397

Who Dressed You Like A Foreigner? (and other dances) Alonzo King, with music by Zakir Hussein
(Alonzo King LINES Ballet 2022) sound design https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/dance/review-alonzo-king-and-zakir-hussain-celebrate-long-partnership-with-exuberant-free-for-allFreedman
BACCHUS : a new dance work by Kara Wilkes; Univ. of Santa Clara 2022 (performance audio mastering) https://linesballet.org/person/kara-wilkes/

SINGLE EYE Alonzo King with American Ballet Theatre , music by Jason Moran 2022 (music editor)
https://www.abt.org/ballet/single-eye/

Touch Bass (II) Lisa Mezzacappa and Risa Jaroslow live at BAM/PFA. Sound design, live sound and recording 2022 https://bampfa.org/event/full-touch-bass

Goodbye, Mr Chips Gordon Getty, Outerlands Productions, 2021. On-set music supervisor and music editor for a feature film of this new opera. https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/goodbye-mr-chips-makes-winning-transition-opera-new-film#

Azoth and Four Heart Testaments Alonzo King LINES BALLET performed at YBCA SF Nov. 2021 (sound design) http://www.ephemeralist.com/2022/08/a-few-reasons-to-love-alonzo-king-lines.html

DANCE at DUSK Alonzo King LINES BALLET, performed outdoors at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles 2021 (sound design) https://fjordreview.com/blogs/all/alonzo-king-lines-dance-at-dusk

GRACE Alonzo King LINES BALLET, performed at Grace Cathedral, SF 2020 (sound design)
https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/grace-alonzo-king

WICKENBURG: Alonzo King LINES BALLET (ballet and film, 2020; music editor)

AZOTH (with Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran) 2019 Alonzo King LINES BALLET (sound design)

THE PERSONAL ELEMENT (with Jason Moran) 2019 Alonzo King LINES BALLET (sound design)
https://www.dansametropolitana.cat/en/shows/personal-element-azoth

POLESTAR (with Van Anh Vo)2019 Alonzo King LINES BALLET (sound design)
https://bachtrack.com/review-pole-star-alonzo-king-lines-ballet-san-francisco-april-2019

COMMON GROUND (with Kronos Quartet) 2018 Alonzo King LINES BALLET (sound design)
https://www.sfcv.org/articles/review/alonzo-kings-lines-and-kronos-quartet-find-common-ground

BIOPHONY sound design for video installation based on Bernie Krause’s score for this ballet at 836M Gallery, San Francisco, Oct. 2018 - Jan. 2019 https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/18/arts/dance/review-in-biophony-ballet-matches-exotic-sound.html
SUTRA (with Zakir Hussein) 2018 Alonzo King LINES BALLET (sound design)
https://thetheatretimes.com/alonzo-king-lines-ballet-sutra/

FIGURES OF SPEECH 2017 Alonzo King LINES BALLET ( music composition , audio design)
https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/05/02/alonzo-king-lines-ballet-presents-figures-of-speech/

THE PROPELLED HEART 2017-19 (with Lisa Fischer) Alonzo King LINES BALLET revival for Hong Kong, San Francisco, Paris and Montreal performances. https://montrealrampage.com/lisa-fischer-and-alonzo-kings-lines-ballet-propelled-hearts/

TOUCH BASS Risa Jaroslow and dancers, with Lisa Mezzacappa 2017 (audio design and live recording)

ART SONGS (with Maya Lahyani) 2016 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (recording and performance audio mastering)

SAND (Charles Lloyd and Jason Moran) 2016 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (recording and performance audio mastering)

THIS ONE THEN 2015 Charlotte Griffin and Dancers (performance audio mastering and sound design)

SHOSTAKOVICH 2014-16 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (performance audio mastering)

RASA (Zakir Hussein) 2014 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (live audio support and performance audio mastering)

MEYER (Edgar Meyer Trio) 2013 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (live audio support and performance audio mastering)

CONCERTO FOR TWO VIOLINS (Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra) 2015 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (live audio support)

THE STEADY HEART 2014 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (performance audio mastering, sound design)

BIOPHONY (Bernie Krause) 2015 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (performance audio mastering)

CONSTELLATION (with Maya Lahyani) 2012 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (live audio support, performance audio mastering)

WRITING GROUND 2013 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (performance audio mastering)

RESIN 2013 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (performance audio mastering)

HANDEL 2012 Alonzo King LINES Ballet (performance audio mastering)

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