PARTICIPATION When you hold a seashell to your ear, it is said that you can hear the ocean. What if the ocean also heard you? In Seascape, a set of seashells have been traveling, collecting stories along the way. Now they have washed ashore in Southern California, ready to share the stories they have and […]

PARTICIPATION WALK  WALK—a silent, durational, meditative walk in monochromatic and sculptural costumes. It is inspired by the medicine walks of Indigenous/Native American shamanistic tradition. It incorporates a butoh-paced walk, sculptural wearable art, and recordings of my own songs supplying the sound elements.To walk slowly is to slow down time, to go completely internal, especially in […]

PARTICIPATION The Sound Of the Purge .Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: The Sound Of the Purge This particular work is focused around survivng collective trauma. The first objective was to deconstruct some of the most prominent musical compositions of the Great Purge era. I took a number of songs from Soviet composers of […]

PARTICIPATION Trava-Língua n°8 Yuri Bruscky (Recife/PE, 1985) is a sound artist and researcher. Develops artistic practices exploring imbrications between noise, language, sonic environments, and everyday life. Since 2010, through his experimental music label Estranhas Ocupações, he’s been releasing records, books, and organizing performances. Co-creator of the sonic arts festival Rumor and the seminar and residency program […]

PARTICIPATION SNARE DRUM SOLO III Snare drum solo iii is a 20′ tall, free-standing gutter downspout fitted with an electric pump to produce a continuous rhythmic stream of drips. there is no snare drum. but the semantic centering of the title alludes to a specific mode of listening for the audience. some of the trappings […]

PARTICIPATION 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 sonic landscape in the post-industrial world. Aaron Bartell, AKA AnalScubaHive, is a sound artist and co-founder of Triptronics Research, a biweekly experimental electronics series in Los […]

PARTICIPATION Bureau of Thanks is an interactive installation-performance inspired by memories of form-fillers and petition writers set up with typewriters and folding tables outside the DMV offices in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia where I grew up. It is also inspired by LA poet Jen Hofer’s *escritorio publico* love-letter project. In Bureau of Thanks I set up […]

PARTICIPATION Bureau of Thanks Bureau of Thanks online version:As part of soundpedro 2020 I will be scribing Thank You notes online together with participants in my piece, Bureau of Thanks on June 12, 19, 25, and 26. I’m using Zoom for convenience but, in keeping with the original form and intention of Bureau of Thanks, each […]

PARTICIPATION 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. This interactive performance-installation is inspired by memories of form-fillers and petition writers who practiced their trade outside government offices in Malaysia where I grew up. It is also inspired […]

PARTICIPATION Novak’s performance starts at 8:30 in the Atlas Place room. Yann Novak is an artist, composer, and curator based in Los Angeles. His work is guided by his interests in perception, context, movement, and the felt presence of direct experience. Through the use of sound and light, Novak explores how these intangible materials can […]