His research focuses on contemporary music in Southeast Asia, primarily in Indonesia where his fieldwork has been supported by grants from Fulbright Hays, Arts International, the Mid-Atlantic Arts Council, VFIC and the University of Richmond. He has published articles in Asian Music, the Yearbook for Traditional Music, Asian Cinema, Ethnomusicology, and Indonesia and the Malay World. As a performer and composer he has collaborated with several of Indonesia’s leading artists.