Artists 2018

Brian and Ryan: Sound Collection Helmets

The installation, performance and intervention-based works of Brian Black and Ryan Bulis have helped the duo develop the persona known as Brian and Ryan. Their Sound Collection Helmets are a...

Harold Greene

Harold Greene, the noted furniture maker, is also a multi-instrumentalist. The long time San Pedro resident plays original contemporary jazz on the Chapman Stick, a ten-stringed instrument that is played by tapping on the fret board...

David Casey

David Casey's current artistic practice is based at the intersection of kinetic sculpture and sound installation. His strongest recent work in this area, entitled, "Why I Stopped Playing the Guitar," is a kinetic sculpture examining...

David.Hedden

David.Hedden has years of experience designing and developing a wide array of projects ranging from kid’s toys and consumer products, medical devices and life support systems, interactive art installations, advanced urban...

Dillon Bastan

Dillon Bastan creates interactive and immersive experiences with various media, but always involving sound. He is passionate in exploring new technologies and ideas so to develop more inspiring and innovative works.
Full works...

Faraday Cage

Matt Pogue has been wrangling electricity with his guitar for three decades. Now he does it with other machines as well.

Pogue performs as part of Rychard Cooper's...

Francene Kaplan

On a regular basis, using household percussion elements, I play with other people doing live improvisation performances at various venues and experimental sound and music events. My signature is using Bundt pans and a variety of...

Glenn Bach

Glenn Bach is a sound artist and poet whose major project, Atlas, is an open-ended system of sound works, long poems, photographs, drawings, and performances that document his...

Jesse Nason

Jesse Nason is a California native that has been playing keyboards and drums in various bands in the OC/LA area, including Deccatree, AM and currently with Perfect Beings. He is a collector of sounds, and modular is the next target...

Lowell Nickel

“A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean” ~ The Lorax

The industrial sounds of this working Los Angeles port does vary and waver. Very often the intrepid sea winds seem to carry that entire port clamor to...

Martin Espino

Martin Espino is a performing musician, cultural educator and scholar of the ancient instruments of Mexico. By being part of the Aztec dance community and researching traditional food Espino lives "indigenously", yet he also creates...

Pablo Bert

Pablo Bert is an electronic musician and mathematician from Long Beach. Pablo got his start as a chiptune/IDM DJ in 2003. Now he spends most of his time playing with synths and twiddling knobs. He prefers producing without a...

Phoebe Barnum

“Cacophony consists of harsh often discordant sounds. These sounds are often meaningless and jumbled together. A Discordant series of harsh, unpleasant sound helps to convey disorder”.

Barnum's piece examines a linear...

phog masheeen

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....

QRUX

Aka Andrew Reitsma is an artist who blends music and photography to synthesize life around him. His compositions are both improvisational and crafted. When asked how he feels about playing music,...

RadioMachineMagazine

RadioMachineMagazine is an experimental group that explores different combinations of sounds and textures from a design perspective using an interactive approach. Radio Machine Magazine is:
Josh Madrid-Artist, Experimental...

Rychard Cooper

Rychard Cooper holds a degree in Audio Engineering from Long Beach City College, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Composition from the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. He has twice been...

SASSAS - SoundShoppe

soundShoppe is a FREE, monthly, unstructured sound workshop/noise jam for experimental musicians and sound artists presented by SASSAS and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock. All are welcome to join–from experienced musicians to novices...

Som Shankar

Som's music defines the intersection of classical, timeless forms and modern electronic sound technology.”
-Epitonic

Som performs as part of...

Steven Speciale

Steven Speciale teaches music at Loyola High School where he is also the choir director and Director of Music for Hannon Theatre where he will score his seventh play and is collaborating on writing a new musical. Additionally,...

Susan Rawcliffe

Susan Rawcliffe makes, plays and research clay musical instruments: flutes, pipes, ocarinas, whistles, trumpets, didjeridus, and sound sculptures. Wanting to build a better flute, she began my research into the sounds and forms of...

Terry Braunstein & “Marco Schindelmann”

(Costume, assemblage, simulacrum)

“I wish it need not have happened in my time,” said Frodo. “So do I,” said Gandalf, “and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is...

The Dirty Chaps

We believe in the Spur of the Moment. We believe in performing and creating in that Moment. All music we create is improvised on the Spot, a spontaneous Flowering of Sound. No composing beforehand, not even so much as deciding on a...

The Laptop Collective

The Laptop Collective is a collection of composer/performer/sound artists who explore and explode the boundaries between contemporary sound art, computer music and interactive technologies. The ensemble brings together performers...

the2vvo

the2vvo (pronounced “the zwo” = “two” in German) is a sound and visual duo formed in 2014 in Almaty, Kazakhstan and currently based in Los Angeles, Ca comprised of Eldar Tagi (sound artist) and Lena Pozdnyakova (architect). Coming...

Tom Peters

As my work has evolved over the years, I’ve noticed that nearly every composition I have written uses films, songs, and texts of the past. Speaking of Which… uses mid-Century spoken word albums—mostly found at thrift stores—as the...

Tom Pine

Tom Pine is a sound and lighting installation creator who explores the physical nature of sound. Vibration I plays in the intersection of sound and vision to illuminate the physical.

He was the power, sound, and lighting lead...

Tom Zear

Thomas Zear Beyrooty has been a creative person throughout his life. Expressing art thru many various mediums. Sound is a large portion of existence for him.

While sound installations normally emphasize on the sound itself,...

TV-MA

TV-MA (Therisse Van-Mar Amunatigui) is a genderfluid composer, producer, and performer native to Los Angeles. Inspired by goth melodies, R&B, and weird electronics, TV-MA produces dark, catchy tunes and pushes them into the...

univac

A consummate TechDweeb, visual artist and novatone "musician" univac continuously re-purposes the detritus of trickle-down technology and off-the-shelf toys and electronics in order to create...

wikiGong.com

wikiGong.com catalogs the sounds of large public structures for creative purposes, including the creation of new virtual instruments.

Our tools and technical skills enable sound capture from the built environment, and our...

William Almas

William Almas began his adventure in the visual arts as a painter. His large scale portraits gave way to mixed media explorations. Faced with the daunting task of storing the fruits of his labors and with the advent of the home...

Wolf Gowin

Wolf Gowin is a sculptor, printer, sound performer and writer whose work has been exhibited and collected on three continents. He resides in Temecula on a tree-farm.

"Silence In The City"
Sound and music exist only...

Zzyzxzyzz

Zzyzxzyzz is a collaborative listening study conducted by Aaron Bartell and Ian Wellman, currently focused on the electromagnetic sounds of everyday objects. The project explores an often unheard...