Sound Design

Created by Kaneza Schaal & Chris Myers

Inflatable rafts on the Mediterranean. Dark holds of cargo trucks. Family photos wrapped carefully in a backpack that crosses border checkpoints. Inspired by the creative work with young refugees around the world, Cartography fuses map-making, dance, film, and sound sensor technology to explore the tragedy and wonder of lives in motion.

The show includes audio-responsive video and a modular sound score based on performers' personal stories of migration paired with the experiences and memories of children fleeing their homes.

Washington DC, Kennedy Center (2019), Philadelphia, FringeArts (2019), Cleveland, Playhouse Square (2019), New York City, New Victory (2020), Abu Dhabi, NYUAD (2020), Toronto, Young People’s Theatre (2020)

by Ian Andrew Askew

Nestled somewhere between performance art, a rock show, and an one-act opera, this show hurdles through an hour of music, movement, and text all centered around Blackness, punk, and community care.

The Bushwick Starr (2025)

by The New Wild

Everybody Is Gone unites elements of journalism, live performance, and museum exhibition to provide audiences with a unique perspective on the ongoing crisis in the Uyghur Homeland. The immersive event offers audiences the opportunity to deeply and personally understand the impact of the state-backed surveillance and oppression that affect millions.

For this show, I took real-world sonic elements - some intentionally hidden, others overbearing - and distorted them to emphasize the imposed oppressive situation audiences were placed in.

New York, The Celemente (2022), Berlin, Alte Münze (2022)

She Walks the Air is an ongoing series of iterative intermedia projects created by Chaesong Kim on the intersectionalities of traveling fem bodies, lasting intergenerational impact of colonization, and embedded somatic memories of war.

I have performed in multiple iterations of this work, recorded oral histories, and sound designed performances using live electronics and the sound of dancers’ movement through water.

Written & Directed by Marianna Ellenberg

Pawel & Ebola follows a dysfunctional brother and sister duo—the fictional offspring of infamous French neurologist and hysteria clinician Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot—whose world is disrupted by the arrival of a bizarre cult named “The Method”

Paula Matthusen and I composed the score of this play, which I performed live, alongside live electronics manipulating the voices of the actors

The Kitchen (2018)

Written by Caitlin Saylor Stephens
Directed by Meghan Finn

It’s 2011 and two American Apparel models are searching for their missing memory after a tragically fun nite. The sound design and musical arrangement focused around a variety of complex glitching electronic sounds. Some sparks carried into the music as percussive elements, elevating the highly electronic score, dense with multi-layered synthesizers and highly effected guitars. It all came together to form an audiovisual trip that felt both tight and trashy.

New York, The Tank (2018), Rome, Off Theatre (2021), Milan, Menotti Teatro Filippo Perego (2021), Athens, Roes Theatre (2021)