Cannibalistic Caterpillar is a sound and vision project by Justin Scheid and Brian Akenoh. The group utilizes live projections, analog and digital synthesis, guitar pedals, homemade noise boxes, and live sampling to deliver intense and spontaneous improvisatory performances. CANTILEVER COLLECTIVE was formed out of a desire to use movement as a catalyst to build community. […]
Steven Deeble is an award-winning writer, photographer, visual artist, and filmmaker. He has written, produced, and directed three half-hour narrative films and served as Associate Producer on two independent feature films. Artist Location: Long Beach, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION Tin Cry Tin is an extremely malleable metal. A bar of tin can easily be bent […]
Community with a passion for electronic music, synthesis, and modular hardware. Our commitment to inclusivity, education, and the DIY spirit continues to inspire creators and build community. Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION SoCal Synth Society: Community Soundscapes We seek to create an immersive sonic experience where improvisational synthesis and visual art converge […]
Simon Ray (born 1982, Sydney, Australia) has worked in sound-based performance and recording since 2010. Focusing largely on acoustic and electronic feedback, Ray uses self-built and modified instruments ranging from resonating drums and robotic percussion to broken effects units, modular synthesizers, and game controllers. Ray has performed and recorded in such groups as Panto Collapsar, […]
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 […]
Rob Seif is a producer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist whose focus spans classical to electroacoustic and the wide terrain between. His approach to production and engineering centers on capturing artists where they are — threading acoustic, digital, and experimental elements to find the tones, textures, and space that best reflect themselves and their work. He is […]
Nick Norton makes things out of sound. Electronica.org.uk calls him a “composer and sound artist to be reckoned with” and Last Day Deaf calls his music “absolutely captivating.” Nick grew up going to shows in the Ventura punk scene, playing guitar in bands, and spending summers on Catalina Island. He went to college at […]
This a new duo project between Matt McBane and Ian Dicke focusing on live synthesis in quadraphonic sound. Matt McBane is a composer, electronic musician, sound artist and violinist who has released albums on Cantaloupe Music and New Amsterdam Records. Bandcamp called his latest album, Buoy, “a stunning blend of neoclassical instrumentation and minimalist modular […]
Mark X Farina is a socio pop artist and reverse engineer. Work fast, cure slow, destroy before collecting dust. Studio practice uses alt mediums to create film, paintings and plant-based works. Born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania BFA Edinboro University – major: Media Arts / minor: Cinema MFA Otis College of Art & Design – Social Practice […]
Kevin Chan is a LA-born and raised artist. He holds a Bachelor’s of Music degree in Piano Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach. CSULB was also where he was introduced to modular synthesizers and sound design, studying under Rychard Cooper. Kevin has also worked as a photographer and explores […]