Southern California Soundscape Ensemble

The Southern California Soundscape Ensemble

PARTICIPATION The Southern California Soundscape Ensemble (SCSE) seeks to foster a more personal and intimate engagement with our sonic environment by performing unrehearsed, completely improvised soundscapes using unprocessed field recordings gathered from places all over the world. The flexible membership of SCSE includes: Glenn Bach, J.Frede, Shea M Gauer, Jorge Martin, Alan Nakagawa, Joseph Richard […]

The Laptop Ensemble

The Laptop Collective

PARTICIPATION The Laptop Collective is a collection of composer/performer/sound artists who explore and explode the boundaries between contemporary sound art, computer music and interactive technologies. The ensemble brings together performers and composers in experimental sound practices and cross-disciplinary projects and concerts.

The Laptop Ensemble

The Laptop Collective

PARTICIPATION The Laptop Ensemble is a collection of composer/performer/sound artists who explore and explode the boundaries between contemporary sound art, computer music and interactive technologies. The ensemble brings together performers and composers in experimental sound practices and cross-disciplinary projects and concerts.

The Johnsons

The Johnsons

PARTICIPATION Jocko’s Exploding World Imagine you are in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. Next door to your Air bnb is a burnt out compound consisting of: 4 charred school buses, a blown out shotgun shack, dead trees, vulcanized vinyl records, and assorted old playboy magazine pages. Your Air bnb host tells you that, Jocko Johnson used to live […]

The Dirty Chaps

The Dirty Chaps

PARTICIPATION We believe in the Spur of the Moment. We believe in performing and creating in that Moment. All music we create is improvised on the Spot, a spontaneous Flowering of Sound. No composing beforehand, not even so much as deciding on a key. Set up the gear, turn it on and play. Our project […]

The Dirty Chaps

The Dirty Chaps

PARTICIPATION We believe in the Spur of the Moment. We believe in performing and creating in that Moment. All music we create is improvised on the Spot, a spontaneous Flowering of Sound. No composing beforehand, not even so much as deciding on a key. Set up the gear, turn it on and play.  Our project […]

Box of Boom

The Box of Boom

PARTICIPATION Boom Boom Zoom . Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020: The Boom Boom Room The Box of Boom is an interactive drum machine that is controlled by attendees using an arcade style controller. The Boom Boom Room concept is to expand from the original Box of Boom, which was contained within an abstract […]

Testu Collective

Testu Collective

PARTICIPATION Dreamlands Statement: Dreamlands was originally created for an audiovisual performance and video installation based on the concepts of expanded and synaesthetic cinema. Synaesthetic cinema is an aesthetic language guided by the senses to create non-narrative films. In Dreamlands, we have captured a macro world of metal powders morphing from sound waves, as well as […]

The Mɪŋɡ(ə)l'r (2023 Mascot of Ceremonies) collage vivant: Terry Braunstein

Terry Braunstein

PARTICIPATION and as seen throughout soundpedro2023 The Mingler [a.k.a The Mɪŋɡ(ə)l’r] Mascot of Ceremonies Collage vivant by Terry Braunstein.Each year, the Mascot of Ceremonies wears a costume that features the soundpedro theme for the year.  This year’s soundpedro’s Mascot of Ceremonies is titled “The Mingler.”  He is both a conjurer and a talisman, representing soundpedro’s social and […]

soundpedro2022 Bouceback Buzzy

Terry Braunstein

PARTICIPATION and as seen throughout soundpedro2022 soundpedro2022 mascot: BOUNCEBACK BUZZY By Terry Braunstein Marco’s Mascot of Ceremonies costume for soundpedro this year builds on this year’s theme of soundwaves and reverberations. We wanted to proclaim that in this year’s soundpedro, we are no longer the disembodied voices of Zoom, but full-throated live apparatuses, loud-hailing sounds of every […]