PARTICIPATION
Absolved by Tide is a sound installation drawing from the sonic fabric of San Pedro. Field recordings gathered from the port, ships, streets, churches, and the conversations of the people of San Pedro form the raw material of this work.This piece is meant to represent the multitudes San Pedro holds, from the groan of industrialization and the celebrations of our communities, to our unhoused neighbors and luxury developments rising on land that was never ours to sell. Beneath it all, the memory of the Tongva. We look to the water to cleanse what we cannot face. The tide obliges as it returns daily, covering our waste and washing away our scars upon the land. But she carries our remnants back to shore as a reminder to us and a gentle warning about our effect on the planet.This installation asks the audience to sit inside that contradiction as we contemplate a better way forward. The project highlights the beauty and the progress along with the damage and loss.
Almost Mine
Over the course of my decade in the touring and recording industry and my five released albums, I have constructed a sonic identity that is uniquely my own. Almost Mine invites artificial intelligence into my archive, my compositions, my recordings, and my voice, to deconstruct and reassemble what I have spent a lifetime building. The initial result feels like an estranged reflection in water, but what happens when I work with AI as a collaborative partner to reimagine my initial vision? AI learns from what came before and makes something new from it, something humans have always done. This project sits inside that tension of authorship, memory, and the, at times unsettling, experience of hearing your own creative DNA reinterpreted by a technology we have all helped to create and inform.
Shannon Hayden is a cellist, composer, producer and sound artist whose work dissolves the boundary between acoustic instrument and electronic environment. Trained at Yale under cellist Aldo Parisot — and the first student in the school’s history to present a fully amplified graduate recital — she has spent a decade reshaping what a 19th-century cello can become. Her practice layers live looping, found sound, and digital processing into immersive sonic landscapes that move between fragments of neoclassical lyricism and avant-garde experimentation. She is currently pursuing composition studies at CSU Fullerton.
Artist Location: Long Beach, CA
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