Immersive sound design for museums and other spaces. Collaborations with artists. Location recordings for video, television, radio, film and theater... Stories.
new installations and collaborations
Recently completed:
A fun but tiny contribution to the National Geographic Society: If you are in D.C. in the very distant year of 2026, you’ll hear one of my rattlesnake recordings coming from a small diorama in the newly reimagined National Geographic Base Camp pavilion.
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“In a darkened room in the University District, nature feels nearby and teemingly alive.” — The Seattle Times. My recent exhibit Pando Suite ran from January 19-March 8, 2024 at the Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle.
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“The audience also seemed to find humor in the bleating choruses of Jeff Rice’s Sheep Drive (2021), which vividly documents the passage of thousands of sheep (toward what I hope were greener pastures) and was one of the few pieces on the program to include field recordings.” — Classical Voice, January 9, 2024.
My ambisonic sound portrait “Sheep Drive” was presented at the San Francisco Tape Music Festival on January 6, 2024;
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And more:
Contributed sound recordings and sound design to a permanent interactive exhibit “Climate of Hope” which opened November 11, 2023 at the Natural History Museum of Utah; recorded and mixed sounds for an installation called “Hidden Soundscapes” that appeared at Tinworks Gallery in Bozeman from July 8-October 14, 2023; Artist residency with Friends of Pando, July 2022; contributed aspen recordings to “Trembling Giant” by the artist Karine Laval, SOCO Gallery in Charlotte, North Carolina, April - June 2022.
American Praire Reserve
My field recordings can be heard at the American Prairie Reserve’s National Discovery Center and in the 2021 video presentation of the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize.
In 2018, I was commissioned to record the sound of aspen trees for The New York Times Magazine’s ‘Voyages’ issue.
Natural History Museum of Utah
You can hear my sound design in multiple permanent exhibits at the Natural History Museum of Utah. Recently completed: Sound design for Nature All Around Us, a multi-station exhibit running from October 19, 2019 - May 25, 2020. Upcoming: Sound design for the exhibit Climate of Hope scheduled to open in late 2023.
Sounds of the wild west
I worked closely with the GIS software company ESRI to develop the popular ‘Sounds of the Wild West’ story map.
Buildings at Trinity Base Camp on the White Sands Missile Range. Photo by Jeff Rice. Approved for release.
National public radio
“The Toads of Trinity: Witnesses to the Atomic Age” appeared on NPR’s “Here and Now” in 2018 (rebroadcast in 2023).
What is Missing
Several of my recordings were commissioned by the artist Maya Lin as part of her exhibit What Is Missing at the California Academy of Sciences. Watch related videos: Bison; Salmon.
Photo courtesy of LA Times
Audio for Video, Television, Film, Radio and Theater
Clients include National Geographic Online, Discovery Channel Canada, Boise Contemporary Theater, National Public Radio and many others. My work has been featured in many media outlets, including the LA Times and Outside magazine. In 2017, many of my recordings appeared in the film Walking Out, starring Matt Bomer and Bill Pullman.
FIELD GUIDES, Journalism, E-BOOKS and More
Many of my recordings appear in the best-selling smartphone app Mammals of North America from Princeton University Press. Other publications include sounds for the children's ebook "My Water Comes from the Rocky Mountains" by Taylor Trade Publishing. I was co-author of the popular "Frog Finder" app, and have worked as a journalist for print and radio. Contact me for a full CV.
