MUSIC & RESOURCES

"CAROLINA BY NIGHT"

2020 concert film (Davidson College). 

"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.

"1942"

1942 full album + projections

"FOR JOY"

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

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.

"Snow Baptism" : a song for Heart Mountain, a song for Wyoming, a song for the quarantine.

HISTORY + SONIC EFFECTS

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.