My relationship with music has always been rooted in community and tradition. Raised in the folk singing and dancing cultures of rural Vermont via Village Harmony and Bread and Puppet Theater, I grew up immersed in Shape Note hymns, Appalachian ballads, Balkan village songs, Georgian polyphony, and other communal forms intertwined with the body, the land, and ritual life.

Over time, my practice expanded into both ensemble and experimental contexts. I have performed as a solo vocalist, in quartets, and with women’s Slavic choruses and other larger ensembles. I have contributed vocals and studio work for Emancipator, Lapa, and other west coast musicians and DJed atmospheric electronic sets under the moniker Sola Wilde at festivals such as Symbiosis and Burning Man.

Alongside performance, I compose and perform original vocal soundscapes for film, installation, dance, and ritual theater, collaborating with the In/Body Collective, artist Nanda D’Agostino, Maria and Peter Schumann of Bread and Puppet Theater, and in my own solo projects. My compositions weave voice, field recordings, electronic textures, and layered harmonies into atmospheres that move between ritual invocation, ecological soundscape, and experimental score. I also DJ for ecstatic dance communities, where music is a practice of embodiment and connection.

Across these contexts, sound is a living force and a form of social practice: a way of carrying memory, weaving connection, and opening thresholds of transformation. Through voice and sound, I seek not only to perform but to cultivate belonging—with one another, with the body, and with the living world.