PARTICIPATION Gallery Show, April 27 – June 1, 2024: He He (2008) Riffing off of the Periodic Symbol for Helium, this is an example of an “Audio Interactive” piece, the viewer speaks to the familiar non traditional art object and sounds are then combined to create unfamiliar feelings, causing us to think and react with […]
PARTICIPATION Gallery Show, April 27 – June 1, 2024:Rubber Band Box Orchestra (2013) Cereal Box Orchestra (2012) Household Percussion Jam (2008) Interaction with the an installation piece gives people a different kind of appreciation for sound art. The Rubberband Box, Orchestra is simple, portable, and adjustable for different tones. The Cereal Box Orchestra is dependent […]
PARTICIPATION Gallery Show, April 27 – June 1, 2024: V.O.G. (fragment) [2004] This piece has grown out of my interests in spirit horns, ventriloquism and the disembodied voice. It conflates the vernacular of the nineteenth century spiritualist with the traditional aesthetic concerns of the freewheeling carnival sideshow mountebank. The sound sculpture V.O.G. – Voice Of […]
PARTICIPATION Performance Harold Greene, the noted furniture maker, is also a multi-instrumentalist. The long time San Pedro resident plays original contemporary jazz on the Chapman Stick, a ten-stringed instrument that is played by tapping on the fret board. He accompanies himself, with the aid of a loop pedal, on the cajon (box drum), bass and […]
PARTICIPATION Mascot of Ceremonies: The Mɪŋɡ(ə)l’r (performed by wabi’sloppy), as seen throughout soundpedro2023. Wabi’Sloppy (pronouns: dependent on code/context/comfort), is an artsy-ist and accomplished “artoiserist” whose eternal tinkering awaits total imperfection in the afterlife, where perfection happily can NOT… unless Endpoint be the everlasting present wherein imperfection has attained self-reflexive and perfected im. Until then… methodology is […]
Southern California-based Performance/Installation artist Takeshi Kanemura was born in Okinawa, Japan, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Kanemura has exhibited internationally in Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. He received a BA from University of California, Riverside, an MA from California State University, San Bernardino, and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Kanemura has transcended traditional Japanese […]
PARTICIPATION Performance October 29 at Torrance Art Museum’s Nomad II Southern California-based Performance/Installation artist Takeshi Kanemura was born in Okinawa, Japan, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Kanemura has exhibited internationally in Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. He received a BA from University of California, Riverside, an MA from California State University, San Bernardino, and an […]
Over three decades, Devin Sarno has cultivated an esteemed position in the Los Angeles underground. Beginning with his dalliances in the fertile experimentation of mid-80’s SST Records bands (including providing lyrics for Saccharine Trust) and onto his ruminative ventures into high-frequency noise and low- end facing drone under the CRIB alias and his own name, […]
PARTICIPATION Performance October 29 at Torrance Art Museum’s Nomad II Thru the use of varied sound devices and field recordings both statically embedded in a given environment and also physically coaxed thru movement, the intent is to provide an undulating aural experience that plays upon the contrasts of distance and intimacy within the listening process. […]
PARTICIPATION “Funeral in my Brain” is an adaptation/fragmentation of Emily Dickinson’s poem, “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain.” We use the poem as a frame to make sense of the experience of undergoing an MRI and viewing these images of one’s insides. Accordingly, we’ve mapped the poem and a real MRI image of one […]