Writing

Published writings

“On Not Getting Over It,” in The Improviser’s Classroom: Pedagogies for Cocreative Worldmaking, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Lomanno. Temple University Press, 2025. [This book chapter is an essay on race, pedagogy and the academic fields of critical improvisation studies and new jazz studies. I don’t have permission to share it online.]

“Thinking Telematically: Improvising Music Worlds Under COVID and Beyond.” Jazz Perspectives, June 8, 2022. [This is an essay on technologies of presence and liveness in improvised music, which I was invited to write for the “media review” section of this journal.]

“Networked music performance: An introduction for musicians and educators,” on Medium.com, September, 2020. [This is an intro for non-specialists that I self-published early in the pandemic lockdown, combining technological explanations with broader discussions about networked music performance.]

“New Polyphonies: Score Streams, Improvisation and Telepresence.” Leonardo Music Journal, v.20, November/December 2010. [This is an artist essay I wrote during the early years of working with both telematic performance and dynamic scorestreams.]

“Asian Americans and Creative Music Legacies,” Critical Studies in Improvisation / Etudes Critiques en Improvisation, v. 1 n. 3, March 2006. [This is an historical article that came from a chapter in my PhD dissertation. It details a creative music scene built by Asian American improvisers in the 1970s and 1980s who drew on and repurposed the work of African American creative music collectives founded in the 1960s.]

Preface to Yusef Lateef’s Songbook, 2005, FANA Publications. [I wrote this essay in honor of my teacher, Yusef Lateef, who invited me to provide it for one of his publications.]

“Improvising in a Different Clave: Steve Coleman and AfroCuba de Matanzas.” In The Other Side of Nowhere: Jazz, Improvisation, and Communities in Dialogue, ed. Ajay Heble and Daniel Fischlin. Wesleyan University Press, 2004. [During the late 1990s and early 2000s, I developed this essay on experimental intercultural collaboration within the African diaspora, integrating musician interviews with cultural theory and musical analysis.]

“Taking Chances: The Musical Craft of Yusef Lateef.” Musicworks magazine, Fall 1998. [This is an essay-interview about the work of Lateef. I don’t have permission to share it online.]