• 2016 - current Melissa Grey & David Morneau
  • mem mer mère
  • Sound the Asylum
  • Quiet Friends ~ Jessica Bowers
  • Trappist-1 ~ Thomas Piercy
  • Ao Vivo No Casarão | Lado B |
  • Good Morning ~ Yanbin Song
  • Biophonic Beats
  • Melissa Grey's Tuned Squared
  • Kepler-19 ~ Jessica Bowers
  • Photon Ecstasy (HD 7924)
  • Soft Series

• albums
  • Always Becoming
  • DR DIEGO
  • Symbolic Gesture
  • Payton MacDonald's Sonic Divide
  • PETITE ecstasy
  • Miolina
  • David Morneau's Love Songs Remixed

• 2022 performances
  • 21 April Diego Vásquez

• 2020 performances
  • 23 Feb Hans Tammen: the complete Cornelius Cardew

• 2019 performances
  • 22 May Itinerant @ Smack Mellon
  • 13 Nov mem mer mère
  • 08 March l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop

• 2018 performances
  • Fall performances
  • 30 Oct l'Ao @ KGBar
  • 19 Oct: l'Ao @ Hans Tammen's Hair
  • 29 June l'Ao w Nicole Antebi @ Brooklyn Art Lib
  • 22 June l'Ao @ Strange Stage
  • 10 June l'Ao @ Spectrum~Tom Piercy
  • 20 May l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop
  • 06 May l'Ao @ DROM
  • 27 April l'Ao w Gahlord Dewald
  • 20 April Tuned Squared
  • 28 March l'Ao @ Marshall University
  • 24 March l'Ao w Marc Fiaux
  • 09 March l'Ao w Jessica Bowers
  • 27 Jan l'Ao @ Pine Box Rock Shop
  • 02 - 08 Jan l'Ao @ Toy Piano Fest

• 2017 performances
  • 18 Nov l'Ao @ Pete's Candy Store
  • 05 Nov world premiere @ lpr
  • 14 Oct l'Ao @ Emmet O'Neal Library
  • 12 Oct Miolina @ BNMF
  • 15 Sep EIO @ Soft Series No9
  • 22 Sep l'Ao with Thomas Piercy
  • 09 Sep l'Ao @ NCEMF
  • 18 Aug Sonic Divide
  • 01 Jun Sonic Divide
  • 26 May l'Ao @ Strange Stage no.3
  • 25 Apr Lynn Bechtold: Argentina
  • 22 Apr Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 17 Apr l'Ao @ Rutgers
  • 24 Mar Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 08 Mar Miolina NOC
  • 05 Mar Sonic Divide/CompCord
  • 29 Jan Miolina @ Rockwood
  • 27 Jan l'Ao Nicole Antebi
  • 26 Jan ETHEL
  • 08 Jan Nicole Antebi
  • 08 Jan Bowers-Fader Duo
  • 06 Jan l'Ao @ Toy Piano Festival

• sounds
  • to...return for trombone & string orchestra
  • blur (after blue hour)
  • Environnement sonore
  • hyperlocal for Thomas Piercy
  • Photon Ecstasy M44, NGC 2632
  • Appassionata for Angela Grauerholz
  • SPRAWL: colony
  • Honeybee Cape Breton
  • Grey Theta for Winter Shack
  • Watertable
  • Psychodrama
  • Colony

• collaborations
  • Angela Grauerholz || Environnment Sonore
  • Angela Grauerholz || Appassionata
  • Nicole Antebi || Vince Clarke
  • Nicole Antebi || Procrustean Bed
  • Nicole Antebi || ...Bees Telling
  • Nicole Antebi || Eva Ingolf
  • David Morneau || Love Songs
  • Kirkbride || Overtone
  • Kirkbride || Beirne || Leal
  • 60x60 || New York Minutes Mix

• satorarepoTENEToperarotas
  • Vince Clarke || Nicole Antebi
  • Craig Hultgren, ecello
  • Claudia Dumschat, organ

• artistic director || concert series
  • l'Artiste ordinaire || Soft Series

• publications
  • l'Ao - Circumference Magazine
  • The Horror Show
  • Alphabet City: Water

• bio | contact
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Immersive audio recordings of decaying asylum interiors in 19th century Kirkbride Plan hospitals expand conventional documentation practice to foster a broader dialogue about architecture’s legacy in the treatment of mental health.

Project Website Link

Timeline (ongoing)

2023, August 9–11: Recorded at Richardson Olmsted Complex (formerly Buffalo State Hospital), Buffalo, New York

2023, September 22–24: Installation at PreservationWorks 2023 Photography Benefit Tour. Richardson Olmsted Complex

2023, October 16-18: Recorded at The Ridges (formerly Athens Lunatic Asylum), Athens, Ohio

2023, November 3: Presentation at Sensory Decay Symposium. ‘Sensing the Past’ Research Group, University of Amsterdam

2024, February: Awarded ACT-UAW Local 7902 Part-Time Faculty Professional Development Fund, The New School, New York

2025: Publish online archival catalog of audio recordings, photographs, video recordings and document scans

2026: Audio processing and post-production in preparation of binaural listening catalog release

2027: Release Sound the Asylum listening catalog and present immersive listening events for the communities in Buffalo and Athens