Asis is an award winning (Bessie Award – Outstanding Production, Memoirs of a… Unicorn (2018), Bessie Award – Outstanding Production, Memoirs of a… Unicorn (2018)) composer, sound designer, and sonic architect rooted…
Asis is an award winning (Bessie Award – Outstanding Production, Memoirs of a… Unicorn (2018), Bessie Award – Outstanding Production, Memoirs of a… Unicorn (2018)) composer, sound designer, and sonic architect rooted in Black American Soul, Gospel, and Blues, with influences from Bebop and Hip Hop. He collaborates closely with artists to craft immersive scores and soundscapes for live performance and film, and operates ASIS SOUND, a design and recording studio. Asis is also the founder of Flux Innovations, a multi-media consulting firm, where he has led projects from concept through touring production.
Asis is the creator of Memoirs of a… Unicorn, an award-winning, internationally touring production. His work as a composer and sound designer includes collaborations with Jaamil Kosoko (Chameleon), Edgar Arceneaux (Boney Manilli), Mayfield Brooks (Whale Fall), and Urban Bush Women (Hair & Other Stories, 2018). Memoirs of a… Unicorn earned a 2018 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production and toured internationally in Brussels and Berlin. He has received grants from New Music USA for 3-D binaural soundscape development and has been featured at the Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Art. He has also served as interim Director of Operations and Programs at the Alkebulan Cultural Center, developing arts-based community programming
3D Audio installation I developed entitled “Within Mine/d” for dance choreographer Marjani Forte. This is part of the larger piece entitled “Being Here-This Time”. The exhibit premiered in 2016 at the Mocada Museum in Brooklyn, NY. To experience the 3D Audio. headphones or earbuds are required.
This is the blueprint for the award winning international touring live performance of Memoirs of a Unicorn
Prophet – Order of the Lyricist IVI is an original EP I composed as the sonic foundation for my theatrical work of the same name. The project sits at the intersection of score and standalone listening experience, designed to carry narrative weight both on stage and in a filmic context.
The opening movement, highlighted in the first 1:13 of the embedded track, is built around an interview I conducted with a close friend of mine who passed away a year later. In that moment, I asked him what kept him writing, what drove him to continue creating music. His response, raw, searching, and at times inarticulate, carries a kind of honesty you can’t manufacture.
I shaped the composition around that voice. The horns and bass move with a slow, deliberate cadence, creating space for his words to breathe while underscoring the emotional weight of what’s being said. For those who knew him, it lands deeply personal. For those who didn’t, the emotion still translates, you hear the passion, the struggle, the reason behind the art.
That opening establishes the tonal and emotional language for everything that follows. From there, the EP unfolds through layered textures, recurring motifs, and a balance of musicality and cinematic scale, drawing from Black American musical traditions while integrating contemporary sound design.
Works in Progress – Stage Performance.
Residencies and collaborations with Museum of Contemporary Art (2024).
Hair and Other Stories: score development for a performance work choreographed and performed by Urban Bush Women.
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