Hi, all—my name is Jonathan, and I'm a writer, musician, and scholar. I was trained as a drummer-composer and interdisciplinary humanities researcher, and my work brings these and other areas together. In practice, I design and create projects that span media forms, presentational genres, and intellectual traditions; these have included collaborative albums and standalone musical pieces, academic essays, nonfiction books, live performances, art installations, and sound design for theater, films, and new media projects. Many of these projects have been collaborative, and new research questions often emerge for me as I travel across creative spaces—archives, music studios, bandstands, concert halls, seminar rooms, writing desks, design labs. For me, this ongoing, iterative, and intuitive approach to engaging with the world is one that, at its core, refuses boundaries separating disciplines, communities, and traditions.
Music and Sound Studies; Cultural History; Comparative Media Poetics; Modernity/Coloniality; U.S.–Mexico Border Poetics and Narratives; Chicanx and Latinx Media and Cultures; Relational Studies of Race and Ethnicity; Nonfiction