HELLO! My name is Vanessa and my first musical love was the violin, but since I’ve fallen for all sorts of music in all sorts of ways. My main areas of interest include: noise, drone, ambient, experimental, free jazz, new music/contemporary classical, and film music.
My writing has appeared in Pitchfork, The Wire, Bandcamp Daily, the Quietus, Texas Monthly, The Brooklyn Rail, Tone Glow, National Sawdust Log, Sightlines Mag, WNYC’s New Sounds, WQXR, and other publications. Prior to freelance writing, I was a college radio host (WYBCx Yale Radio) and a 2019 Bang on a Can Media Fellow. I hold degrees from The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and Yale University. I’m currently based in New York City.
I started The Road to Sound as a place for discussing sounds that are mind-boggling, fascinating, creative, surprising, fun, new, abstract, harmonic, atonal, and everything in between. I hope to contextualize new work and provide space for us all to learn more about different art forms and artistic ideologies.