HI, I'M BETSEY. THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.
I'm a composer creating projects connecting the dots between music, sound, visual art, place, storytelling, and technology. My work has been described by WGBH as “immersive… incredibly stunning… extraordinary” and by The New Yorker as “psychologically complex, exposing how we orient ourselves with our ears.“
For more than twenty-five years, I have built a substantial body of work using technology to combine sound and image in compositions, improvisations, interactive sound and video installations, site-specific audio works, multimedia theatrical works, and most recently, a feature-length music-film. My work has been recognized both nationally and internationally; my compositions, performances, installations and films have been seen and heard at locations including the Denver Museum of Nature and Science Infinity (IMAX) Theater, The Peabody Institute, Piksel Festival, Williams College, ISSUE Project Room, Abrons Arts Center, Roulette, Caramoor Center for the Arts, Hong Kong’s Videotage, the Hong Kong Arts Centre, the Sundance Film Festival, in public on the facade of Denver’s 20-story Daniels & Fisher Tower, at several American national parks, and on the streets of Oakland and New York City, across the international airwaves, and alongside artists and composers such as Laurie Anderson, Christina Kubisch, Annea Lockwood, Trimpin, Stephen Vitiello, and Samson Young.
I earned a PhD in Music Composition from Princeton University and have held postdoctoral fellowships at both Brown University and Harvard University. I have also served as a visiting professor and artist at both Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, and currently serve as Assistant Professor of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.
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