Def Sound Artist CV
b. 1984, Los Angeles, California, USA
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2016-2018
AA, Chaffey College
2020 - 2022
BA, University of California Irvine
2023
Professor of Hip Hop Theory & Practice, California Institute of The Arts (CalArts)
Selected Solo Works
2023
Welcome 2 LA, video direction, song production, songwriting, recording and engineering. Ableton Live.
2022
I BEEN, Graphic design, production, songwriting, recording and engineering. Ableton Live.
2020
HUEM_N, Graphic design, production and arrangement, songwriting, recording engineering. Ableton Live.
2019
COLORED, Production and arrangement, performance, songwriting.
2012
Anything: The Idea Machine, Production, songwriting and recording engineering. Garageband & Logic.
2008
Something, Production, Songwriting and engineering, Garageband & Fruity Loops
Selected Collaborations
2023
When The Poems Do What They Do, Aja Monet, Co-production and Creative Direction of the entire project.
2022
Mirror’s Eye/Going Within, Capyac feat. Annabelle Maginnis, Songwriting, performance and recording engineering, Ableton, Song Featured in Episode 12 of Season 4 of ABC’s Grownish.
2019
Glide, Channel Tres, Songwriting, Song Featured in Episode 2 of Season 2 of HBO’s Betty.
Selected Performances, Television Appearances
2020
The New West Coast Sound: An L.A. Jazz Legacy, Artbound, KCET, dublab, Los Angeles, Emmy Award Winning.
2020
Music Diaries, Spectrum Television, Los Angeles, Emmy Nominated.
2020
Nyge Nyge Fest, Performance in collaboration with Suzi Analogue and Never Normal Sound System, Uganda
2019
A Cadence That Feels Like Truth, Live Performance in collaboration with Jibade Khalil Huffman, Vizcaya, Miami, FL
2019
Confessional Poetry, Live Performance in collaboration with Jibade Khalil Huffman, Frieze Art Fair, Los Angeles
2018
The Way You Make Me Feel, Live Performance in collaboration with Jibade Khalil Huffman, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX
2014
Redcat Studio: Fall , Live Performance in collaboration with Jung Money Collective, Roy and Edna Disnet/CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Bread & Butter Festival, New Designer Tour supporting J*Davey, Berlin Germany
Selected Awards, Honors
2022
Last Mile Scholarship, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Los Angeles
2022
Lindon W. Barrett Humanities Award, UC Irvine School of Humanities, Irvine
2021
Howard D. Lawson Endowed Memorial Essay Prize, UG Studies Department, UC Irvine School of Humanities, Irvine.
2018
Grammy Consideration, Best R&B Song, Propane, Songwriting and performance.
2007
Member of The Los Angeles Slam Team, National Poetry Slam, Austin, TX