Vocal ImprovisationsLive and recorded explorations of the voice
Wordless Melodies
These improvisations come out of a period of working with the voice without words.
Using loops, vowel sounds, and repetition, I began to explore what the voice could do when it wasn’t tied to language or meaning.
Part of this shift came from encountering nigunim—Ashkenazi Jewish ancestral, wordless melodies, often sung in communal settings. Being in those spaces gave me a different sense of permission: to stay with sound, to repeat, and to let the voice move without needing to resolve into language.
These recordings follow that thread, treating the voice as something to return to, layer, and stay with over time.
voice & Invocation
These improvisations are built around Hebrew words for water—sea, dew, and other elemental forms.
The work draws on the idea, present in Jewish mystical traditions, that the sounds of Hebrew carry meaning beyond translation—that the words themselves hold a kind of generative or energetic force. Working from that, I began to ask what it would mean to sound these words with intention, and what kind of energy I wanted to place into them.
Water emerged as a central element—something fluid, adaptive, and continuous—held in contrast to the sense of fire that feels dominant in the current moment.
Each piece begins with a base layer of vocal improvisation, using the Hebrew words as sonic material. Spoken texts were then recorded over these layers, reflecting on the relationship between fire and water, and how these forces move against and through each other.
Vocal & Video Collage
These pieces begin with wordless vocal improvisation, shaped through looping and repetition.
Over that, I speak extemporaneously—following thought as it unfolds, without pre-writing or editing. The work sits in the space between sound and language, where the voice can shift between the two.
Each piece is paired with a video collage, created in dialogue with the audio, adding another layer of time, image, and attention.