a 2025 recap#

• 06 January 2026

one year ago today, i published a recap of 2024. here's another post, but for 2025.

last year was busy for me musically. i picked up my first pedal steel guitar back in june and quickly began woodshedding to learn its mysterious ways. i played dozens of shows, trying out new material as i learned it. i also spent more time in recording studios than i ever have, tracking my own music and playing over friends' material.

profesionally, i attended lots of conferences and wrote some papers. i am beginning to explore what comes next for my work, how my work with data in the past can inform my artistic direction in the future.

these days i am much more interested in the philosophical questions around data and information than working with the actual numbers and words. still exploring what this means in practice.

i also completed my most ambitious interactive show yet (more details on that to come) for the Burlington NYE Highlight festival.

in no particular order, here are some things i did in 2025:

• bought pedal steel, started learning
• recorded with Audrey Pearl
• remote overdub work on pedal steel
• finished a new St. Silva album, signed contract with a label for release
• recorded with new band Daffodil-11 album, launching first single Back Pocket
• recorded bass with Alice Grace
• produced an interactive aerialist show with Nate Hicks (aka silence_castor), writing original music and designing a custom wearable sensor that tracked movement data in real time
• got into film photography
• recorded and released Loading Screen Music 2 with Ian Steinberg
• started building a home music studio
• built an interactive map for non-car infrastructure projects in Vermont
• built Asteroid Tones, a sonic wallpaper data sonification of asteroids passing earth today
• presented at conferences including the RISE Summit, AEJMC, and PyData Vermont

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