Curated & Directed by Pablo Perez
A soundprints event, presented as part of NOMAD IV (Torrance Art Museum)
July 11–13, 2025
Del Amo Crossing – 2nd Floor
21535 Hawthorne Blvd, Torrance, CA
Free & Open to the Public
Untitled Sounds, is a three-day, site-responsive experience where sound, gesture, and presence converge in real time. Curated by Pablo Perez for soundprints and hosted by the Torrance Art Museum as part of NOMAD, this unique event brings together experimental sound artists and performance artists for an improvised, collaborative exploration of space, materiality, and sonic transformation.
Audiences are invited to witness sound not as a product, but as an evolving process—raw, intuitive, and always in motion.
PROGRAM
Day 1 of Untitled Sounds: Resonance Sounds
Friday, July 11 | 4–6 PM
This is a live, two hour, improvised live sound performance shaped in real time — where texture, feedback, gesture, and sound come together in flux. Think of it as a collective exploration rather than a fixed performance. The intention is the performers collaborate to define the space, how they occupy it and how they interact with each other.
This event celebrates sonic practices that are emergent, ephemeral, and relational.
Audiences will encounter sound as presence, process, and transformation — a shared moment in motion.
Artists:
Nelle J. Anderson (@nellejanderson)
Corey Fogel (@coreyvogeln)
M.A. Harms (@phenomenologopolis)
Tada Hirano (@boutiquepedalnyc)
Pauline Lay (@paulinelay)
Day 2 of Untitled Sounds: Sonic Matter
Saturday, July 12 | 12–6 PM
Sonic Matter is a one-day exhibition of sound installations exploring materiality, resonance, and acoustic space. These works engage sound as sculptural and environmental — unfolding through duration, perception, and interaction.
Rather than presenting fixed compositions, the installations invite audiences into a contemplative and relational listening experience. Sound is treated as presence, texture, and transformation — encountered as an evolving condition in space and time.
Artists:
Miser (@_.miser._)
Nikki Ochoa (@vomitchild)
Fabricio Wantanaway (@fabriciowatanay)
Skyler King (@kittyspit)
Monica Moreno (@monicathecreator)
Day 3 of Untitled Sounds: Echoed Gestures
Sunday, July 13 | 12–6 PM
Echoed Gestures is a durational, improvisational performance shaped by gesture, movement, and sound. Five performance artists will share the space over the course of the day, co-creating a live environment in real time accompanied by a sparse sonic audio soundscape.
This is not a series of solo sets. Instead, it’s a collaborative investigation — a shared performance where your timing, presence, and actions unfold in conversation with the other artists. Think of it as a living structure: open-ended, responsive, and continuously evolving.
Artists:
M.A. Harms (@phenomenologopolis)
Melody Cha (@vvsoftchickvv)
Young Tseng (@youngtseng.work)
Nelle J. Anderson (@nellejanderson)
Wabi’sloppy
(@wabisloppy)
media contact: Pablo Perez
pablokris@gmail.com
Follow the project: #UntitledSounds2025
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Pablo Perez
Pablo Perez is a Los Angeles-based artist and curator whose work explores sound, time, memory, and the politics of space. With a background in technology and a passion for experimental media, Perez creates immersive installations and collaborative performances that blur the lines between disciplines. As a curator, he is committed to amplifying emerging voices and building platforms for sonic and performative practices that live in flux. His projects have appeared in galleries, festivals, and unconventional public spaces, fostering critical engagement with materiality, perception, and process.
https://www.instagram.com/pablokris/
https://pabloperez.bandcamp.com/
https://pablokris.com/
Young Tseng
Young Tseng is a mime who makes work in movement, and installation. He is curious about the shifting of perspectives that can occur when one is paying close attention to human and non-human presences in space, time, movement, and stillness. His work seeks to share this experience of listening closely in moments of time. Young Tseng’s interest in movement and attention comes to him through training and practice in the techniques of Marcel Marceau by way of director Christina Sergeant in Singapore beginning in 1995, and in Etienne Decroux’s Corporeal Mime with Thomas Leabhart in Claremont, California since 2000.
https://www.instagram.com/youngtseng.work/
Margo Harms
Margo Harms is a Los Angeles based composer and performer who is currently exploring the intersections between grief, gender, and sex through a combination of text and sound. They are a firm believer that sound and visual aesthetic are equally significant within performance, and because of this, performance art is rapidly becoming a major component of their work. Margo’s focus is on navigating literal stories and personal life events via sound practice, obscuring them to the point that they begin to bridge the gap between individual and “universal” experiences.
https://www.instagram.com/phenomenologopolis
Pauline Lay
Pauline Lay is a composer, violinist, and interdisciplinary collaborator based in Los Angeles. Known for her emotive performances and innovative approach to sound, she works across classical, experimental, and improvisational music. As both an instrumentalist and organizer, she has shared stages and studios with a wide range of leading artists, contributing to projects that blur boundaries between genres and disciplines.
https://www.instagram.com/paulinelay/
https://paulinelay.bandcamp.com/
Miser
Miser is the ritual electronics unit founded by John Hudnall and Drew Girard, existing as improvisatory live performance, sound iinstallation and art, and recorded output. In practice, Miser serves as a reality disassembly tool, using sound forms to create ritual space and perceptual portals, inspired by organic, technological, and imagined sources.
https://90ra.bandcamp.com/
https://miser13.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/_.miser._
https://www.youtube.com/@miserelectronics
TADA (Tadayuki Hirano/BPNYC/Noise Buddha)
Multi instrumentalist, Composer, Singer, Boutique Synthesizer shop owner.
Originally from Tokyo Japan. Moved to NYC in 1988 at age of 19 and plays venues like, CBGB’s, Knitting Factory, The Cooler with several bands such as Blonde Redhead, Ultra Bide, Chin Chin, Japo Space Rock Marianne, releases countless numbers of EP/LPs around the world. In 2011, he launched a boutique shop dedicated to modular synths and effect pedals, contributing to the growing global synth community. Since relocating to San Diego in 2015, he’s been an active figure in the West Coast modular scene—organizing events, performing, advising, and lecturing internationally.
https://www.instagram.com/boutiquepedalnyc/
https://www.youtube.com/@tokiony
https://www.boutiquepedalnyc.us/shop-owner-profile/
Nikki Ochoa
Nikki Ochoa is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist working at the intersections of poetry, sculpture, performance, and sound. As the 2025 Linda J. Albertano Poetry Fellow at Beyond Baroque, her practice explores “loving irreverence” through abstract poetic narratives and improvised sound-based performances such as her collaborative project Punitive Worm.
https://www.instagram.com/vomitchild/
https://punitiveworm.cargo.site/
Skyler King
Skyler King is a multi-instrumentalist musician, synthesizer artisan, and creative explorer with roots in classic acoustic music. He began his musical journey with traditional instruments, developing a deep appreciation for melody and organic sound. Over time, his curiosity led me to explore the boundless possibilities of electronic music, blending the tactile warmth of acoustic instruments with the cutting-edge innovation of synthesizers and digital technology.
https://www.instagram.com/kittyspit
https://skylerkingart.com/
Corey Fogel
Corey Fogel (b 1977) is a composer, drummer, and artist based in Los Angeles. He works across genre and medium to explore many facets of improvisation. He approaches sounds, textiles, collaborators, gestures, and objects as viable materials for spontaneous, strategized, time-based experimental performance, often incorporating sculpture, video, music traditions, theatricality, and ritual.
https://www.instagram.com/coreyvogeln/
https://coreyfogel.com/
soft chick
soft chick is a Honduran and Cambodian American artist born and raised in Long Beach, creates vibrant, community-driven works that prioritize joy and accessibility. From painting and clay work to animations and illustrations, their eclectic pieces invite viewers into a whimsical world shaped by their personal experiences. Through playful, cartoonish forms and bold, inviting lines, Soft Chick ensures that anyone can engage with their art, making creativity approachable for all. With a BA in Human Development, Soft Chick brings a sense of care to their artistic practice, always centering community and connection. They have led educational workshops with the Long Beach Public Library, participated in a summer residency at Slanguage Studio and have been featured in Knowing Our Joy: Stories of Southeast Asian Diaspora Elders. They are a featured artist for the Community Corners Project, supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies in collaboration with the Arts Council of Long Beach. Recent exhibitions include the Long Beach Museum of Art, Open Gallery, Play Nice Gallery, Billie Jean King Main Library, and ArtShare Los Angeles.
https://www.softchick.com
Fabricio Watanay
Music composer from Cusco, Peru. Focuses on the concept of “Integrative Arts” from an Andean perspective, combining precolonial symbolism with ancestral and modern music Technologies. He specializes in designing music instruments made of clay and Kinetics.
https://www.instagram.com/fabriciowatanay/
https://fabriciowatanay.com/
Nelle J. Anderson
Vocalist, composer, and improviser Nelle J. Anderson sings between opera, pop, and Reiki. She recently debuted with the Grammy Award-winning PARTCH Ensemble as Marilyn Monroe/S in LSD—Huxley’s Last Trip (LeBaron), for which she “stunned with her buttery tone” (San Francisco Classical Voice) and co-developed an experimental new musical (BEDROCK with Ivan Cunningham) as an Oracle Egg Resident Artist. A Fulbright Fellowship 2024 Semifinalist, she composes performance art pieces to externalize singers’ inner directives and practice-room processes, and her debut art-pop album ANY DEAD COQUETTE (Soubrette, 2021) was called “an outstanding experience” by the Recording Artists Guild. She lives on the LA road teaching energy-work voice lessons and giving Reiki sessions. She went to CalArts (Performer-Composer MFA) and Bard (Classical Voice BA).
https://www.instagram.com/nellejanderson
https://www.nellejanderson.com
Wabi’Sloppy
Wabi’Sloppy (pronouns: dependent on code/context/comfort), is an artsy-ist and accomplished “artoiserist” whose eternal tinkering awaits total imperfection in the afterlife, where perfection happily can NOT… unless Endpoint be the everlasting present wherein imperfection has attained self-reflexive and perfected im.
Until then…
methodology is amused by literati aesthetics and the related et al.
Calculated awkwardness is mindfully cultivated so as to differentiate artistry from mere craftsmanship, and the “in your face incompetence of post-modern performance practice,” along with art-making as appropriative act , dilineates WS’s “artoiserie” from even merer artistry.
(ws denies any supposed association with “legit” artists and art institutions.)
“I GLITCH ABOUT & SLOPPIFY! BASTA!!!”
https://www.instagram.com/wabisloppy/