Cross-disciplinary work isn’t a novelty.
It’s a necessity.
The questions artists are facing—cultural, political, ecological—rarely belong to a single medium. Sound alone isn’t enough. Neither is image, text, movement, or theory on its own. The most urgent work happens in the spaces between disciplines, where ideas are tested, translated, and reformed.
My collaborative practice is rooted in curiosity and friction. I’m drawn to artists whose processes challenge my assumptions about form, authorship, and meaning—artists working in visual art, film, dance, architecture, literature, and civic practice. Collaboration, at its best, is not additive. It’s transformative.
I’m interested in projects that treat music as a social and spatial force, not decoration. Work that values listening as much as expression. Work that leaves room for ambiguity, tension, and silence.
I remain open to collaborative ventures that are conceptually grounded, socially aware, and willing to take risks.
If the conversation is serious, I’m listening.
Cirrus
Collaboration with visual artist Deborah Dancy
This collaboration began with an act of trust.
Deborah Dancy shared a video of cirrus clouds—nearly motionless, stretched thin across an open sky. There was no directive, no narrative to follow. Only duration, scale, and restraint. The work asked for patience rather than response.
Engaging with the video required a shift in tempo. I slowed my own process to meet it—listening, watching, and allowing the material to dictate the pace. The resulting composition emerged less from intention than from attention.
Cirrus treats music not as accompaniment, but as a parallel presence: a way of inhabiting time, space, and quiet transformation. What interested me was not describing the image, but staying with it—long enough for something subtle to take shape.
The piece was later recorded by the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra, expanding the collaboration across disciplines, geographies, and collective listening.
Included here as an example of collaboration rooted in observation, reciprocity, and shared restraint.
Cirrus — composed by Earl MacDonald
Performed by the Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra
Video by Deborah Dancy
Recorded on Suite 150