PARTICIPATION Sound of War our Bodies Store War’s destruction of bodies aims to erase and silence. The observer carries choices remaining silent or sounds off the alarms.Research based sound recordings chronicle and serve as documentation.Sound compilation extracted from UNICEF and found recordings which explore the manipulation in news dissemination related weapons of war. Audio loops […]
Wes Nelson, a touring bassist/guitarist based in LA, has performed with acclaimed artists like Mike Stern, Ny Oh, Zzzahara, LP Giobbi, DJ Tennis, Bonzie, and Randy Brecker. He’s toured globally and recorded at East West and Capitol Records. Wes is also part of Indie Rock bands Lozenge and The Brainstorm. In 2023, he launched solo […]
PARTICIPATION Together We Burn With Scorched Grins We’re destroying the earth, we’re letting corporations control everything while the unhoused are ignored, and we’re STILL committing genocide. We have a love affair with the dopamine hits that we shoot up in the digital world and our attention spans have shortened to the point where it is […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: The Screaming Whales Viktor Rosas, Nguyen Ly, and Camilo Otero site specific installation utilizes the front facing windows of the printmaking studio. We will combine printmaking, collage, animation, and field recordings in this artwork and we plan to project the animation and sound from inside the studio outward. All entrances will be closed. […]
Nguyen Ly is a multimedia artist and art educator with expertise in numerous printmaking techniques (including drypoint, collagraph, and monoprint), as well as drawing, sculpture and collage. His prints, drawings, sculpture and other work have been exhibited throughout California and in locales as diverse as Springfield, Missouri, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Nguyen was born in Saigon […]
PARTICIPATION Izvorna is named after a style of folk music from the central Balkan region. “Izvor” means “source” or “spring of water” in most Southern Slavic languages. I used the Charter of Ban Kulin as the only sound source in the work, translated to Morse code. This document from August 29, 1189, represents the oldest […]
PARTICIPATION Installation: NerveTree is a collection of hundreds of sounds that form a sound particle cloud. This is analogous to the teeming biomass (largely bacteria and other microbes) that are contained by and usually outnumber a “host” organism’s cells. In human and other large-scale organisms, collectively, this microbiota has a signature, an identity, that is […]
Thomas Miley studied with Anthony Braxton, David Rosenboom and Larry Polanski; Elizabeth Mills Strothers award for Excellence in Composition at Mills College (MA); American Conservatory of Music (BM); additional studies were at Chicago Musical college, Berkeley Jazz School; Director of Audio Technology, SEGA of America, Inc.; Adjunct Professor, California State University, East Bay, Adjunct Professor, […]
PARTICIPATION Performance: Across the Red Sea is a mash up of loops and live performance. The Johnsons opine about the dangers of Satan, love, and degradation. While there may be some musical aspects, much of the live musical performance is pretty noisy. Installation:Jocko’s Exploding World Imagine you are in Twenty-Nine Palms, CA. Next door to your […]
PARTICIPATION Performance by Brian Black and Zane Alexander S. B.The “Sound of Friction” is a performance in which the two artists use their bodies to sand a large wooden artifact. Brian and Zane will be dressed in coverall suits constructed with varying grades of sandpaper. With their bodies, the artists manipulate the wooden form creating […]