Live Performance

DMA Showcase Concert, Roy O. Disney Concert Hall, California Institute of the Arts, October 15, 2025

Program note: 'Tradition' is an episodic work from my master's thesis, Becoming a Digital Humanist: An Autobiographical Non-linear Digital Story, which is approaching its 10th anniversary in Spring 2026. Tradition documents my final weeks as a member of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A) before choosing to leave and begin a new religious life as an unaffiliated Christian. 'Tradition' has never been performed publicly, but was an object of artistic research through private viewings for my classmates to collect qualitative survey data in 2015. For the 2025 DMA showcase, the CalArts community will experience the original multimedia work and newly developed elements showcasing live effects processing & speech synthesis.

Listen To The Radio (September 2019 - 90.3 WVPH-FM Piscataway, New Jersey) is a sound art performance & installation project I began in 2018, leveraging nostalgic FM radio listening related to love & romance. Listen To The Radio is inspired by lyrics from the song “Radio” by The Corrs.

Song refrain for "Radio" by The Corrs: “So listen to the radio (listen to the radio) And all the songs we used to know, oh, oh So listen to the radio (listen to the radio) Remember where we used to go...”

September 3, 2025 - Welcome Concert at California Institute of the Arts, Roy. E. Disney Music Hall

"You Smiled And Showed Me..” (live performance) - 2010/2020 fixed media recording from the song, ‘Ms. Disinterested (pt.1)’ written by Jeffrey Cobbold. Synthesizer with effects by Jeffrey Cobbold. Performed on February 25, 2025

An Experimental Reading of Howard Thurman’s ‘Jesus and the Disinherited’ (live performance) - 1949 text, ‘Jesus and the Disinherited’ by Howard Thurman (excerpts prepared for speech synthesis). Speech synthesis preparation, voice & additional text by Jeffrey Cobbold. Voice & additional text by Michael Pisaro-Liu. February 25, 2025 at The Herb Alpert School of Music, Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts

Masculine/Feminine (live performance) - 1977 text from, ‘Encountering Myself: Contemporary Christian Meditations’ by Harry James Cargas. 2017 field recording from Berklee’s Student Allies In Anti-Violence Education event at La Fabrica Hielo in Valencia, Spain Field recording, live electronics & voice with effects by Jeffrey Cobbold Performed on February 25, 2025

‘1+1=3: Musical Artists Operating In Genuineness Beyond Fixed Outcomes (live presentation)’ - Featuring musical works: Cecil Vineet Abhishek’s “Traveller”, Bryan Murray’s “Cooke & Pauley”, Dylan Viola’s “Sour Breath” & Mother Nevada’s “The Makeout Blanket (Trash Island)” Curated & mixed by Jeffrey Cobbold - February 25, 2025 at The Herb Alpert School of Music, Roy O. Disney Hall, California Institute of the Arts

“A and B (noise) A or B” (live performance) on January 16, 2025 at Noize Voize: Official Noise Concert of CalArts’ Winter Session 2025, Roy O. Disney Hall at The Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA

Lisa (live performance) - OK Composer Concert, Roy O. Disney Hall at The Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA - December 7, 2024

Slow Sound #11 Concert - The Wild Beast at The Herb Alpert School of Music, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA. Performed on October 4, 2024

Soy Artista - Live @ California Institute of the Arts - Valencia, California - October 22, 2024

Hard To Be/David Bazan cover - Live @ Festival 10 Sentidos - Valencia, Spain - May 29, 2016 w/ Aislinn Dicks & Joe Miller VI

Dragoness - Live @ Festival 10 Sentidos - Valencia, Spain - May 29, 2016
w/ Joe Miller VI & Aislinn Dicks

BlackWhiteWhiteBlack - Live @ Disrupcion Records Presents: Ensemble Room Series March 10, 2016 - Valencia, Spain w/ Joe Miller VI

First Time - Live @ Disrupcion Records Presents: Ensemble Room Series
March 10, 2016 - Valencia, Spain w/ Joe Miller VI

The Constituency - Live @ Arlene's Grocery NYC - February 2012

Black Daughter / my baby girl - Live @ Arlene's Grocery NYC - February 2012

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