Selected reporting
The New Yorker
A feature on an Instagram personality who has it out for the storied instrument.
The New York Times
For This Experimental Festival, Bring Your Swimsuit and Dancing Shoes (C1 cover story)
For Critic’s Notebook, reporting on the 20th anniversary of Borealis, an experimental music festival in Bergen, Norway. Photographs by David B. Torch.
Van Magazine
The Best-laid Plans of Øyvind Torvund
A profile of an experimental Norwegian composer giving his impossible dreams another try.
Bloomberg CityLab
A Nordic Revolt Against “Ugly” Architecture
A feature on a social media movement decrying the “uglification” of Nordic cities
Rolling Stone
Inside the unprecedented protests erupting at Juilliard
A feature on how students at the world-famous conservatory organized against tuition hikes in 2021.
Selected music criticism
Seismograf
Review: Rune Glerup / Quatour Diotima
On the Danish composer’s Perhaps Thus the End (Da Capo, 2025).
On the flutist’s debut album of improvised compositions (Relative Pitch/Out of Your Head, 2025).
Which Sinfonia
Review: Judith Hamann and Joshua Bonnetta
Critical testimony regarding a 2021 experimental album.
National Sawdust Log
Critical testimony from the Norwegian experimental ensemble’s visit to Experimental Intermedia in 2019.
Selected essays
Guernica
An essay on Norwegian trees and the Norwegian composer Kristine Tjøgersen’s Piano Piece (2019/20).
The Washington Post
Musicians always crave time to practice. Lockdown gave us nothing but.
An essay on practicing through the pandemic.
Weathered
An essay on the indignity of Norwegian winter conditions.
The Kenyon Review
An essay on a mysterious pink book with a rock on the cover.
The New Journal
An essay on visiting a friend you haven’t seen in some time.
The New York Times
“A Cone to Remember” submission
A short take on the joy of ice cream.
Selected liner essays and promotional text
Press text for Jo David Meyer Lysne’s For renstemt klaver (Hubro, 2025)
Essay on composer Kristine Tjøgersen for the occasion of her 2025 Ernst von Siemens Composer Prize
“Zine”-style program essay/booklet for @CPR | Qubit presents: Rama Gottfried ft. PinkNoise Ensemble, Oct. 2024. Collaboration with designer Ana María Bermúdez.
Liner note for Jo David Meyer Lysne and Peder Simonsen, Spektralmaskin (SOFA, 2024)
Program essays for Simone Dinnerstein and Baroklyn’s Bach series at Miller Theatre (Columbia University), Mar./Apr. 2024 (three shows total)
Program notes for nyMusikk, Luis Fernando Amaya presents: teeth amongst the trees, Feb. 2024. Design by Ana María Bermúdez.
Liner note for Øyvind Torvund, A Walk into the Future (Aurora Records, 2024) (available on request)
Program note for Houston Symphony’s Feb. 2024 performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 8
Liner note for Terry Riley, Archangels (2021) (available on request)
Liner note for Christopher Cerrone, The Arching Path (2021) (available on request)
Program notes for Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music, on works by Bent Sørensen, Malin Bång, Erin Graham, et al. (available on request)
Program essay for Wien Modern, Øyvind Torvund/Åshild Kanstad Johnsen et al.’s “Lyden av Skogen” (2022/23) (available on request)