PARTICIPATION eARThLB eARThLB contributing artists responded to a prompt from east village caravanserai:We are pummeled by constant bad news about our earth. Individual responses can seem inadequate. When the future feels uncertain, how do we move forward? What do artivists say in response to these times? We’d like to hear whatever you choose to say, […]
PARTICIPATION Monkey Island Chili soundscapeMonkey Island Chili: recollection, revery, word wilderness. Rooted across continents and aeons, Monkey Island Chili soundscape is part of a series of performances that will accumulate into the Monkey Island Chili memory tree. The project is an original work-in-progress that explores spaces in-between the past and the future. east village caravanserai (caravanserai) […]
PARTICIPATION Starting in 2010, Ear Meal Webcast’s goal was to document the Los Angeles experimental music and sound arts community. In addition to performances and photo documentation of the artists who visited to the studio, oral histories were also compiled. At present, an archive is being assembled for donation to a suitable institution. All past […]
PARTICIPATION soundpedro 2021 participation: N/A Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Sound Bath was conceived as a way to perceive sound both visually, physically, and socially and was designed to be appreciated as an aesthetically pleasing and calming physical object. In this iteration, we will be mic’ing the environment to capture the sound that […]
PARTICIPATION Future Fetish I have a friend who schedules an hour in their day, every day around 5, to cuddle with their cat. They don’t take calls, or do phone shit, or anything else. It’s a ritual. A plastiglomerate boulder is counterweighted with a television, tyed in shibari knots, playing video content. Power is needed for […]
Heavy Metal Machine is a sculptural installation that highlights the ever presence of sound in our world by acting both as a sound prism, reacting in realtime to changes in its surrounding environment. It offers an opportunity to be hyper present in moments of chaos and harmony. Mundane ambient noise – the rhythm of passing […]
PARTICIPATION Water: The Source Our current understanding of life is that water is required.Water being the one required element; fully necessary & fundamental. Water may be seen in this light as the source of life.Is it possible to imbue our modern electronic audio expression with this life through the use of water’s ever changing audio […]
Dustin Valentine is a multi-instrumentalist, and the co-founder of the Dream Factory Experimental Music Studio, based in San Diego, CA. Established in 2020, The Dream Factory Studio is part of a non-profit organization (theawakeningproject.org), whose mission is to assist others in learning and growing through the use of ancient and modern technologies of yoga and spiritual […]
Originally from Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, Andrews is director of choral studies at the University of Redlands. Under her direction, the choral ensembles at Redlands have been invited to perform at festivals and conferences such as the National Collegiate Choral Organization Convention, California Music Educators Association Convention, California All State Music Educators Conference, and Festival […]
PARTICIPATION Ear Cleaning exercise for children and families. R. Murray Schafer’s books Ear Cleaning, HearSing and A Sound Education present a variety of pedagogical exercises. The title Ear Cleaning comes from Schafer’s belief that before one can begin musical ear training, they must experience ear cleaning. He wrote, “I have tried always to induce students […]