Work

Work, Projects, and Commissions

Give Up the Ghost

Night Skulk – W.I.P. (2021 – )

Ocean (0-9). Or, After Robert Blanchon’s Wave (0-9), Or, Once Upon an Ocean Wave memory washed over on the ferry ride to Santa Cruz Islands to see the little foxes on the occasion of my fiftieth birthday with loved ones. Or, I remain.

Ocean (0-9). Or, After Robert Blanchon’s Wave (0-9). Or, Once Upon an Ocean Wave his memory washed over while on the ferry ride to Santa Cruz Islands to see the little foxes on the occasion of my fiftieth birthday with loved ones. Or, I remain.

Poems & Puzzling in Isolation

*Front Cover of Chapbook of poems and images self-published in January of 2021.*

*Excerpt from Chapbook of poems and images self-published in January of 2021.*

Save the Last Dance for Me

Save the last dance for me audio file

As part of exhibition To Know Herself curated by Yomna Osman at CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, artist and CCA Provost Tammy Rae Carland created a commissioned performance installation titled Save the last dance for me (2019). Tammy Rae Carland invites visitors to dance with her to a looped, three-minute song performed by Los Angeles-based artist/musician Kelly Marie Martin, also commissioned for this piece. The music becomes audible only when participants stand on the re-created dance floor.

Jonesy’s PACK

Zip! for Fire, Up Close to the Knife.
X Marks the Spot (For David Wojnarowicz) (front)

Jonesy’s PACK, at Klowden Mann was an exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Jonesy along with a group of artists he invited to create and physically stage hand-embellished vests or ‘cuts’ in a manner that recalls the initiation ritual of biker clubs, and that ritual’s extension into other subcultures.

Click Training

Little Giver of Shivers Original soundwork created for Rob Ray & Taylor Hokanson’s podcast of fabulosity.

Sister Thou Art Mild and Lovely (2017)

A collaboration with artist Angelina Elise. She made the crankie and I sang this hymnal as an unaccompanied ballad I learned from a recording by Almeda Riddle.
Video produced by and for Old Time Tiki Parlour.

JayJee’s Bici Love (2017)

Original soundwork created for a lover of the Bicycle Kitchen.

In the Service of the Song

*Excerpts. 6″ x 8″ Xeroxed and hand-stitched book. 32 pages*

Find Your Space at the Ford

Beauty Must Suffer

Soundscore for Jonesy’s Beauty Must Suffer

Get Hubbied Fall to Her Rush to Him

Kelly and David composed this music for Bec & Ruben’s wedding march for Get Hubbied.

Get Hubbied was a multi-tiered project about the fragile yet resilient institution of marriage. Conceived and curated by artist Bettina Hubby and produced through her collaborative studio, HubbyCo., the project not only explored the idea of marriage through various media, but also took this investigation several steps further by staging, on September 25th, 2011, a genuine and legal wedding for couple, Bec & Ruben.

Kelly & David – Two Work Samples – Untitled Feather Chorale No. 01 and Contraption Spell

Excerpts from two works produced in collaboration with David Jones.

1. Untitled Feather Chorale No. 01 – performed at REDCAT’s FALL Studio and as part of Hubby’s CoTour in 2008. Performers (in addition to Kelly Marie Martin and David Jones) – Monica Howe, Tif Sigfrids, Evan Holloway and Ben Guzman.

2. Contraption Spell – created for REDCAT’s “New Original Works” Festival in 2007. Performers (in addition to Kelly Marie Martin and David Jones) – Monica Howe, MJ Silva, James McCarthy, Mary Clare Stevens, and Cameron Mesirow.

Costumes for both works designed by artist Bettina Hubby.