marg herder

Thank you for your interest in my creative works. I hope you can spend some time listening to music, looking at pictures, and reading some words. I create to illuminate my own experience of being here. Capturing a moment and holding it up to the light. Sometimes the moment might be the sound of a summer night in Ohio, sometimes it might be an image of a bird in flight.

My work is often about how we might approach Spirit, the Holy, the Living Water that flows through everything. I don't think we are equipped to comprehend All That Is (sureity is the easiest way to close yourself off from it), so I must content myself with saying, "This part of Her has drawn me in, here, check it out."

10/1/11 - Two reviews of mine have been published in Christian Feminism Today and posted on their website. The first, a review of Rob Bell's book Love Wins can be found here. The second, a review of Carrie Newcomer's November 1, 2011 CD release, Everything Is Everywhere, can be found here. I loved the book and the CD. Highly recommended.

8/8/11 - I created a video introduction to the Infinite Moment of Now installation that Stephanie Lewis Robertson and I collaborated on. The work focuses on the her husband Tom's stroke. The piece I created is an audio collage in 4 channels featuring spoken word, sounds I recorded while Tom was in the hospital, and small group singing. It's a very compelling piece, and the technical work has allowed me to stretch a bit. Click here to read more about this work on my blog. Click here to read a Nuvo article about the installation. Click here to view the video.

5/30/11 - Updated entire website. Added lots of new images, and with any luck made the site easier to navigate.

4/5/11 - Posted the new original song, A Name, featuring Dr. Alena Amato Ruggerio. It's available for download, and you can listen to it on the streaming player. Lyrics and a discussion of the song are here.

3/15/11 - Posted an arrangement of Ferron's Testimony. I only purchased rights for a limited number of streams and downloads, so listen or download soon, because I'll have to take it down before too long! Listen to it on the streaming player, or download it here.