Abacus is the sound making duo of Brian Randolph and Brian Ramisch. The Brians have been collaborating for over 10 years, exploring a wide range of sonic terrain and all manner of instrumentation. From experiments in pure sound to acoustic psych-folk to loose punk/noise rock to dense fields of layered textures, their approach is always improvised, […]
Abigail Johnson is a sound artist based in Los Angeles, California. As a composer she has written for ensembles such as the Aperture Duo, 5th Wave Ensemble, and the Corvus Ensemble. Abigail has participated in the Yarn/Wire, Westben Performer/Composer, Fairbanks Summer Arts, Space City Music, and Fresh Inc festivals, and she is excited to complete a […]
PARTICIPATION The Paradist: Decapitation The Paradist: Undercurrent My installations, sounds, and videos investigate the absurdities and tragedies of characters developed and performed with me as an actor, director and composer. My latests character, the Paradist, is the ultimate tourist, a colonizing tiki bar terrorist searching for untouched beauty to take leisure from the chaos of […]
PARTICIPATION Sinking Territories Till the Worlds End & The Tiger Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Sound Study for Suspiria The full feature of “Suspiria” by Dario Argento, with all sound replaced by similar sound spaces collected in the Bay Area, California and Montreal, Quebec. Each scene in the film is mapped to an aural environment, […]
Aught Collective/Hot Tomorrows are a family of disparate South Bay artists including composer/theatre artist Ellen Warkentine, scenic/installation artist Danielle Kaufman, designer/storyteller Robert Edward, and writer/cultural cosmonaut Chris Arnold. Collectively and individually, we are committed to excavating and contrasting the puzzle pieces of mortal garbage, which reveal hidden and forbidden aspects of ourselves and our trajectories […]
PARTICIPATION Plastics Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Plastics is a sound sculpture consisting of four used 2.5 gallon water jugs, 20 coin motors, and 20 6-volt battery packs. Together, they create a meditative, rhythmic beating that subtly shifts as the motors phase in and out every once in a while. Each of these […]
PARTICIPATION One is unidirectional; the other is omnidirectional.One sees; the other hears.One gazes; the other listens.One focuses; the other filters.One appropriates; the other processes.One is hierarchical; the other democratic.One objectifies…Etc., etc., etc. Terry Braunstein: multi-media and installation artist. Don’t Touch guerillas about — around the globe — leaving traces behind.
PARTICIPATION 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 literal means to collect the sounds of a city. For Soundpedro, the helmets will collect ambient sound and conversations from the show. […]
PARTICIPATION Charlize Theremin (Gathering At The Ghost Whole) is an interactive audio environment – an overgrown garden of discarded and found audio & objects, etching out a landscape of ambient noises and personal relics – urban, (a)tonal, distorted by time, and mashed together like a memory. We welcome you, as ethereal archaeologists of indeterminate origin, […]
PARTICIPATION Birdsong . Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020:Curlew Blues A tent houses a cyanotype-reimagining of an Esquimaux Curlew painted by John Audubon. This Curlew is now extinct. We recreated the image with “extinct” recording technologies: cyanotype, audio tape, and vinyl records. Student-composed musique concrete compositions made from taped birdsongs play in the background. […]