soundpedro 2021 participation: Artist Curated Event (ACE) PopUp
Dark Waters

Phog masheeen is a sound art/video collective from Costa Mesa, California that focuses on using aerophones, idiophones and electronics for performance and sound design.

Audio portions are accompanied by live mixed video.

William Almas and Mark Soden Jr. constitute the phog masheeen core performers.

Home-brew instruments, common objects and extended techniques involving dry ice are common features of phog masheeen performances.
The works of phog masheeen have been presented at the Boise Creative and Improvised Music Festival, Boise ID; Sonic Circuits, Washington DC; Electro-Music, Philadelphia, PA; Santa Ana Noise Festival, Santa Ana CA; Norcal Noisefest, Sacramento, CA; Wonder Valley Experimental Festival, Wonder Valley, CA; Spring Reverb, San Diego, CA: Outsound New Music Summit, San Francisco, CA; Palm Springs Museum of Art, Palm Springs, CA; 8 Bit noise art @ Leadway, Chicago, Il; Zoom 2, Torrance, CA; Jawbone Canyon IV, Mojave, CA, Dung Mummy VI, Apple Valley, CA, Los Angeles Downtown Film Festival, The Soundwalk, Long Beach, CA, The Orange County Fair, Costa Mesa, CA and the Long Beach Pump opening night party.

Social Media: Artist Website | Facebook

Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021:
Dark Waters
Dark Waters is a study of nautical superstition, presented as a series of videos of varying lengths.
Why Nautical Superstition, you may ask.
For the past soundpedro events, phog masheeen has picked performance themes that suited the physical location of the event, in a re-purposed fort built during World War Two to protect the harbor. Although there will be no physical performances this year. We chose to continue with a theme that references the sea and is perfect for the week before Halloween.