MUSIC & RESOURCES

"CAROLINA BY NIGHT"

2020 concert film (Davidson College). 

"1942" (projections)

1942 full album + projections

"FOR JOY" (short film)

A short film about Joy Takeshita Teraoka, singer for the George Igawa Orchestra, the jazz band which formed at Heart Mountain during WWII and performed in camp and across Wyoming.

HISTORY + SONIC EFFECTS

A CENTURY OUT OF REACH (live)

feat. Stephanie Flores. A song contemplating a generation of immigrant bachelors and queer lives hidden inside American concentration camps.

A short talk/demonstration transforming field recordings taken at historical research sites into music as well as exploring effects pedals as helpful metaphors for the historian. Excerpted from a fall 2020 presentation for the University of Wyoming Art Museum. 

SNOW BAPTISM (live)

a song for Heart Mountain, a song for Wyoming, a song for the quarantine.

"ORIENT OREGON"

Orient Oregon (Vol. 1) -- classroom version of 2020 film collaboration with Portland Taiko featuring taiko performances and original No-No Boy songs set to Japanese Oregonian home movies filmed between the 1920s-1960s. Full version with Q and A available here.