Artists 2023

//sense

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation October 29th:
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and the home of the [placeholder] is a series of //sense’s experimental community theater works that...

Abacus

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Recently our interest has been focused on the meditative potential of the embodied experience of sound. For this project we would like the experience of the sounds we produce to be felt with the...

Air States II

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Air States II
"Air States II" curated by Pablo Perez for the 2023 soundpedro event will showcase experimental artists challenging sound norms across genres like noise,...

Ajani Brannum

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
An hiatus
For the past two years, I've explored some of the stories that live in my stomach and diaphragm. As I probe the memories, myths, and metaphors that...

Akari Komura

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Mute the motion
I collected all my samples inside of a parked still car including fastening/unfastening of the seatbelts, inserting the...

Alexandros Hadjitimotheou

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
SPARAGMATA
I admire the way that Renos Apostolides used to read the poems. He had a passion about transfering the world of the poem through his voice. That's why...

Alina Kano & Dillon Bastan

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Something Theater
Multiple miniature dioramas with sound-driven situations and a strong relationship between sound, space, and design. The number of dioramas vary depending...

Amy Melissa Reed

Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Pitch Bending
Pitch bending is a recent work using a rule of three minutes of duration to create a silent moving image in the form...

Andre Perim

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #3 October 29th:
Sound Improvisation for Melting Ice
The work is based in a video recording of a melting ice made through a digital microscope...

Ann Weber

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
Can You Hear Me Now
This sculpture called Can You Hear Me Now 2023 was created specifically for the Mingle Mangle exhibition. I love...

Ashton Phillips

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
Surrender
I had to become purple in order to see and hear the purple things.

I had to give my body to their mouths, before I could...

Becky Grajeda and Charlie Schneider

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Veletržní (Becky Grajeda solo)
This is the two-channel version of the three-channel site-dependent sound installation Veletržní. Grajeda...

Benjamin Scharf

Crop-up Installation On-site June 3rd:
Root Chord
Root Chord is a soundwork that allows a living plant to be heard through sound via its generation of electricity/energy~tiny fluctuations in surface...

Beth Elliott

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
LifeBoat: The Wedding
A moment in the LifeBoat series.
Sometimes beautiful things go awry and they are
still marvelous! LifeBoat is an illusion; there...

Brandon Auger

Roaming presentation On-site June 3rd:
os:is
A chance realization of audio based around the vibrations of debris and refuse. The events will happen throughout the festival utilizing small vibrating...

Brandon Bollinger

Installation On-site June 3rd:
doppelgangers
Doppelgangers will be an installation piece using old TV boxes and camcorders to play a live feed of the viewer on the screens. The monitors will be placed...

Chad Eby

ACE [artist curated event]
Audio presentation, Program #1 October 27th:
Wire Ghost Garden
In the Wireghost Garden is a generative sound piece which arises from a simulation of spring networks,...

comar muwaren & Chung Shih Hoh

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
Moirology
Channeled experientially and epigenetically, are muted soundpoems inscribed on tablets of sound batting.

muwaren chose to mashup and arrange...

Costantino Rizzuti

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
La festa della Madonna del Pilerio I
La festa della Madonna del Pilerio I is a soundscape composition aimed at provide an aural...

Damian Anache & Cecilia Castro

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Beressia's Fall
"Beressia's Fall" is a soundscape with a traveling listening point of a soundwalk through the delta wetland of Berisso...

Daniel Escamilla

Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
The Bonfire
The Bonefire is a ritualistic performance of self reflection and therapy. The nostalgic person reflects upon past...

daria baiocchi

Audioscapes On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Codex
--- Dedicated to Alan Turing and all genius minds who saved lives ---
SYNOPSIS:
Alan Turing had a brilliant mind who changed history. This guy was...

David Javelosa & Judith Kepes

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Audio Reflection I
This will be an installation of two large outdoor speakers connected to a mixer being fed with multiple sound sources: 1. modular electronic synthesizer...

Devin Sarno

Performance at Nomad II: soundprints
October 29, 2023
Part of the Torrance Art Museum's NOMAD II

Thru the use of varied sound devices and field recordings both statically embedded in a...

diego satkofsky

Installation On-site June 3rd:
inviting toothbrush.
Exploring privacy through the invitation of the ubiquitously private toothbrush to a quasi-public space via its sound ecology. tooth brushing has...

DON'Touch

Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
BACE'fleed

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
NOiSE'BLEED...

Dustin Valentine & Travis Andrade

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Water: The Source
Our current understanding of life is that water is required.
Water being the one required element; fully necessary & fundamental. Water may be seen in...

Dylan Ricards

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Future Fetish
ARTIST STATEMENT
I have a friend who schedules an hour in their day, every day around 5, to cuddle with their cat. They don't take calls, or do phone...

d_vk

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Deletion 1
Desertion 2015 is the representation of a back and forth struggle between an unstoppable need to create, to add to a personal sonic environment or an aesthetic...

east village caravanserai

ACE [Artist Curated Event] at soundpedro2023
Installation On-site and online June 3rd:
eARThLB
eARThLB contributing artists responded to a prompt from east village caravanserai:
We are...

Edmond Maloney

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
Onomatopoeia
For this exhibition I wish to explore the idea of onomatopoeia, the use of words to describe sounds, expanding this concept to use imagery...

Eliot Burk

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #1 October 27th:
Vertical Integration (In Memoriam James Thomer)
Partially destroyed fragments of hundreds of musical instruments being thrown...

Erinn Bone

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th
Digital
Absent of a traditional chord structure or rhythm, "Digital" moves through the ether of sound and space, creating a feeling of...

Faith

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Cosmic Spring
Field recording from around the city joined with digital synthesis, wrapped around healing frequencies conjured to reflect...

Fil Corbitt

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Stovepipe Wind Harp Summons the Frogs
A house fire leaves a pile of rubble. Among the rubble, a stovepipe. Using scraps and nylon string...

G Douglas Barrett

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Concrete Study
Concrete music made with a woodblock, tablespoon, and Tupperware container.

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Galo Durán

Audioscapes On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Vietnam Reverb
This soundscape are recorder in 2017 by Galo Durán in Ho chi Minh city ( Saigon ) Vietnam , is a description about the city and my mood...

George Sarah

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Electronic soundscapes generated by contact mics, synthesizers and laptop.
Utilizing synths, mics and combining deep listening exercises, critical discourse, and...

Gintas K

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #3 October 29th:
I am in the Sea or Sea in me?
“I am in the Sea or Sea in me?” 2023/08/11
Live electroacoustic composition. No any field...

Grace Shannon

ACE [artist curated event]
Audio presentation, Program #3 October 29th:
Bioacoustic Variability
Bioacoustics as a means of data collection is a unique and developing field. Soundscape ecology...

Gregory Kramer

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Emission
Emission is taken from Unearthing, an album composed from field recordings, electronics and found objects. The album is themed...

grump

Performance On-site June 3rd:
A Wasted Pleasure
They say a wasted pleasure is when you prolong your glee, leaving you unsatisfied in the end. Drugs, orgasms, Jack in The Box and Sound tend to be few of...

Hamdrew Davis

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #3 October 29th:
You Had Me At WetWallet
"You Had Me At WetWallet" is an impressionistic collage in sound and video of one subject's departure...

Hamscholar

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation October 27th:
Up The Drone Suite
"Up The Drone Suite" deconstructs the concept of "drone music" to arrive at a sort of sound collage that is elastic in...

Harold Greene

Performance On-site June 3rd

More information on the June 3rd On-site Event


About the artist(s):
Harold Greene, the noted furniture maker, is also a...

Ian MacPhee

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Concrete
"Concrete" is a sound experiment striving towards thick, enveloping tones. Electronics, hardware and field recordings will stack to form a layered, immovable wall...

ILIAS LIOSATOS

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
P(h)o(n)em(e)_short
A phoneme is the basic element of the majority of the languages all around the world. What are the vocal limits and their relation to the...

Ingetrapt

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
Palimpsest
A palimpsest is something reused or altered but still bearing visible traces of its earlier form. Here it's a palimpsest of sound : delayed, distorted...

J3M5

Performance On-site June 3rd:
J3M5 (live PA)
J3M5 is a experimental live PA of glitch, rythmic noise and dubtronics. The circuit bent practice explores technical integrations with stereo effects,...

Jody Zellen

Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
The Waking Dream
"The Waking Dream" is an animation that features simple shapes and stick figures that when seen together form a...

Julia Edith Rigby

Crop-up Installation On-site June 3rd.
Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Foghorn Ecologies
Foghorn Ecologies queers the idea of a foghorn by inversing the...

Karena Massengill & mansplainertainer

Installation On-site June 3rd:
ANIMINGLES"
I have always been fascinated by relationships between people and their animals! There is something intrinsically magical about our communicating with...

Kat Cayton G

Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
El Grima/ce
A continual attempt of grima, which in Spanish, translates to disgust or the unpleasant feelings induced by certain...

Leather Circuit

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #2 October 28th:
Paper Boundary
The sounds, sights, weather, waves, creatures, and radio far from land.

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Lorenzo Osterheim

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Interface Response Sonification
Interface Response Sonification (IRS) is an interactive set of paintings hung ‘Salon-Style’ which can be operated via a stylus to activate...

Lowell Nickel

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
Asteroid Belt
Interactive ceramic modules (hanging impact/percussion objects). 2023

When a tree falls in the forest, and there’s no one around...

M A Harms & Clare Marie Nemanich

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #2 October 28th:
Secrets Beneath the Whispering Leaves
How do you prioritize presentation and aesthetics when plating soups and salads? What...

Marc Perez

ACE [artist curated event]
Audio presentation, Program #1 October 27th:
The Sound of The Nexus Touches Our Warm Bodies
"The Sound of The Nexus Touches Our Warm Bodies" is a track meant to depict...

Mariah Anne Johnson

Earmaginations [silent videos] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Zaratan Baseboard Movement
I am concerned with the poetics of gaps, of unexamined spaces behind doors and under stairways, between...

Martha Riva Palacio Obón

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Antología liquen / Lichen anthology
This sound essay is my take on the concept of holobiont proposed by Lynn Marulis. We are, were, will...

Martin Espino

Performance On-site June 3rd:
STRING TONOS for 1 String Guitars
"STRING TONOS" involves making "sounds" on 1 String Guitars, by playing the instruments with clips, files, sticks, junk and more. Playing...

Matt LeVeque

Installation On-site June 3rd:
chorus for one
"chorus for one" is a sound performance piece in which 6 Honeytone mini-amps and 6 contact microphones are affixed to, respectively, the torso and hands of...

Mélissa Lavabre

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
As Méli(ssa) Lava(bre)
Fatiguée
Seeking to convey my state of tiredness through sound itself rather than meaning, while actually using a word that DOES...

mirrored fatality

Soundscapes [audio tracks] & Audioscapes On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
ZYGMUTROPH00ZE
EARTHBODY(S)
As mirrored fatality we internationally perform our sonic...

Miser

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Dymaxion Final Assembly
Durational installation performance for 2 technicians working at 2 workstations which face each other in the center of the space. The technicians...

Mystic Elevator

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Improvisation
We will perform an improvised duet between voice and electronics.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Mystic Elevator uses improvisation to create a soundscape...

Nanxi Zheng

Audioscapes On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Hani Choir
Recorded in A-Zha-He Rice Terraces in Hong-He Region of Yunnan.
Hani People who live there used to sing together when working,...

Nguyen Ly, Bill Faecke, Bill Jaros

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
The totem/tower is a mixed media collaborative work by Bill Faecke, Bill Jaros, and Nguyen Ly depicting abstract wheels, the cosmos, portraits of mystics, cult leaders,...

Nuttaphol Ma

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #1 October 27th:
I Cannot Feel the Land Beneath Me
“I Cannot Feel the Land Beneath Me” excavates Angel Island’s past hauntings to create a...

ok nephew

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
Cookbook’s are "Eh"
Flavor is preference and sometimes I just want you to forget you even had taste.

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Onty & LilFireManic

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #2 October 28th:
Eight Triptychs
Eight Triptychs is an experimental video production which presents eight three-part explorations of affective...

Phoebe Barnum

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
FATED
There is spontaneity in the work, pushing boundaries and finding liberation in in new materials. Having the backbone of traditional training has...

phog masheeen

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation Online October 28, 2023:
At The Bottom
"At The Bottom" features contributions by Wikigong, Skunk Puppet, Kurt Comstock, Janet Housden, Heather...

pnl(a)

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
HSn.e01.TVn3.00.55.124
Source - retrieval and manipulation of radio frequency guard bands and half duplex crosstalk interference. Pulled...

Reza Monahan Studio

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Insideoutmosphere
Insideoutmosphere is a sound sculpture that emerges from recording sound-deadened rooms and amplifying the results. The audio artifacts and micro noises...

Ruby Lawrence

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
Tiny Alien Static
Tiny Alien Static is a short sound poem created from the prolonged exhalation of air from between the artist's lips.

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Sam Anthem & Lorenzo Osterheim

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
Funeral in my Brain
"Funeral in my Brain" is an adaptation/fragmentation of Emily Dickinson's poem, "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain." We use the poem as a frame to...

Samur Khouja / Conscious Summary

Installation On-site June 3rd:
Blue Peril Sonification
Blue Peril Sonification is a multi channel audio and video installation bringing attention to the destructive deep sea mining proposed in the...

Shih-Lin Hung

Soundscapes [audio tracks] On-site June 3rd and online June 11th:
"uu.u ..n..nf f .fo f ...o. o.c c.u.se e d d dd... dd d"
The artwork was completed one night in a forest amidst strong winds.
The...

soundShoppe

Performance On-site June 3rd:
soundShoppe Ensemble
We form a sound orchestra, consisting of several musicians. Instruments will include circuit bent/homemade devices, accordions, bowed instruments,...

Squash and Biscuit 瓜和饼干

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Whispering Smoke
Tea and Whispers Ceremony will use the small guard post as an intimate venue for 1 or 2 people max. Using mic’d objects, voice, and acoustic instruments,...

Susan Rawcliffe

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
MOLECULAR CONNECTIONS for 4.
Each of the 4 hollow roundish forms on top is connected to one of 4 lower ovaloid hollow forms. Underneath & in the...

SynthLab

Performance On-site June 3rd:
SynthLab
Using a large array of analog and digital electronic, SynthLab creates a continuous soundscape, ranging from quiet ambiance to harsh experimental noise.

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Takeshi Kanemura & Cris Law

Performance at Nomad II: soundprints
October 29, 2023
Part of the Torrance Art Museum's NOMAD II

More information on Nomad II:...

Taylor Griffith

Installation On-site June 3rd:
ICY FLOW
ICY FLOW examines the sonic and visual space of the front lines of climate change. Field recordings mixed with distorted video projections of the Antarctic...

Terry Braunstein

The Mingler [a.k.a The Mɪŋɡ(ə)l’r] Mascot of Ceremonies
Collage vivant by Terry Braunstein.
Each year, the Mascot of Ceremonies wears a costume that features the soundpedro theme for the...

The Johnsons

ACE [artist curated event]
Video presentation, Program #1 October 27th:
Jocko’s Exploding World
Our homage to the late, great land speed vehicle designer and sculptor, Jocko Johnson.
Jocko’s...

Tim Maxeiner

MINGLE MANGLE
Gallery show, May 13 - June 17:
Blue Noise, 2023
I just started my research into "Blue Noise". The benefits (better sleep for example) of it's close companion "White Noise" (a noise...

Vav Vavrek

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
sublimeControl/subliminalControl
sublimeControl/subliminalControl started out as two distinct poems created from virtual modular synthesis patches in VCV Rack 2...

Vedran Mehinovic

ACE [Artist Curated Event] at soundpedro2023
Audio Composition On-site and online June 3rd:
December Bells
December Bells is an ambient work of nearly two hours, an expansion of an eight-minute...

wikiGong.com

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Nonsense In, Nonsense Out: Tales Told by an Idiot
wikiGong.com presents "Nonsense In, Nonsense Out: Tales Told by an Idiot," a quest led by the enigmatic Professor...

Yadira Dockstader

Installation On-site June 3rd:
What is it in a Person Lost?
In What is it in a person Lost, the video work includes original glass harp compositions as response to 18th century ideas that hysteria in...

Young Tseng

Performance On-site June 3rd:
Bureau of Thanks
Bureau of Thanks is a ‘listening post’ — an opportunity for visitor-participants to have the undivided attention of another human being, to be listened to...

Yozmit The DogStar

Roaming presentation and Performance On-site June 3rd:
WALK
WALK—a silent, durational, meditative walk in monochromatic and sculptural costumes. It is inspired by the medicine walks of Indigenous/Native...