“Delightful.”
— New York Classical Review

bio

“An enigmatic treat for loved ones and hated ones alike…”

I am a mouse— I mean I am a HUMAN… close call…

I make art and music. It is sometimes in the form of a comic book or a video or a record or a sound installation. I frequently (help!) dress up in big costumes made of painted plaster that often resemble paleolithic doglike fantasy creatures and sing and dance about my psychedelic comic worlds. It’s true I love a good Snout! I love animals. a horsey? yes. a brown cow? yes. My cats are named Wand and Plum and they maintain a very powerful presence in the community. I live in rainy Portland (oregon).

My upcoming comic book Hal will be released by Buckman Publishing in February, 2025. I have an audiovisual solo album, Green Cone, out now with curious music, and I am currently recording work for an upcoming record.

I’ve also recently completed a series of visual + sonic commissions including but not limited to:

  • video art commission for tune-yards x michael gordon released by cantaloupe music

  • my sound + video installation art piece Woog up at Carnegie Hall in the Judy Francis Zankel atrium during the May 2nd Ensemble Connect performance

  • Honorarium Recipient for Oregon Fringe Fest 2023 :) Following the release of my comic book Houndsville, my ensemble and I performed a psychedelic fantasy musical in painted costume arriving by way of giant wooden raccoon.

  • sound installation, Music for Animals, with composer Tim Story in conjunction with the Cowiche Canyon Conservancy in Southern Washington

  • sound + video exhibition at CICA Museum (Gimpo, Korea) as part of their 2023 “Abstract Mind” series ***announcement soon! Spring 2023

  • audiovisual work for the bang on a can all-stars (for the people’s commissioning fund concert) premiered live at Merkin Hall and aired on WNYC’s New Sounds with John Schaefer

  • audiovisual work for composer-performers yaz lancaster and andrew noseworthy, which premiered at the music gallery in toronto this past january

I have been fortunate to receive the Oregon Fringe Fest Honorarium (2023), the Robert Hirsch Memorial award (2019), the Etchings Fellowship in Auvillar, France (2018) and the G.A.N.G Scholarship at gamesound con (2017), among some other odds and ends.

I hold a B.M. in music theory & composition from New York University, where I practiced in the studio of pulitzer-prize winning composer Julia Wolfe, graduating with honors. I’ve also studied with composer Michel Merlet at L’ecole Normale de Musique de Paris, in addition to studying sound spatialization at IRCAM (institut de recherché et coordination acoustique/musique) in Paris, France.

I once worked in an ice cream shop, but it was too cold in there, so now I am an artist.

peace

amanda