PARTICIPATION Carlos (Roof/Techo) Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020: Techo/Roof This piece reflects about two worlds: up and down, north and south, legal and illegal. One speaker hanging from the ceiling plays extracts from an interview (in Spanish) I recorded in Tijuana, Mx to a young Mexican named Carlos who have crossed the border […]

PARTICIPATION Resilience Ensemble Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Resilience Ensemble This project is a direct response to global pandemic, COVID-19, which specifically attacks the lungs, and to Black Lives Matter Movement, which carried the cries of Eric Garner and George Floyd’s “I can’t breathe,” into a catalyst for change. Breathwork and breath awareness […]

PARTICIPATION The Waking Dream “The Waking Dream” is an animation that features simple shapes and stick figures that when seen together form a larger narrative about the trials and tribulations of life.“The Waking Dream” looks forward and back. It is a low tech realization of a high tech world. The animation explores the relationship of […]

PARTICIPATION Enigma n^2022 is a philosophical poetry and music toy for musicians, poets and philosophers from the age of 7 up. It’s voice-based interactive granular synthesis + color music + digital poetry. The audio, which is listenable for hours, is nonetheless all sampled from a 5 second recording of the word ‘meaning’ spoken backwards once, […]

PARTICIPATION Untitled for soundpedro A little about the track if you’re curious: Instead of getting out to collect found sounds around San Pedro, I stayed home and recorded people cheering from their windows and porches – they do it every night here at 8 o’clock. Maybe this is happening in your neighborhood too. It apparently […]

PARTICIPATION The Intangible Crowd is a field of sound in a rectangular shape, which can be located either in a somewhat remote location on the site – at a wooded area or at the tunnel – bounded by 4 PA speakers on stands. Alternatively it can be located in its own room and enclosed. The […]

PARTICIPATION the stone and the shred In this piece, a stone is allowed to drift down the strings of an electric guitar.  A guitar is placed in front of a distorted amplifier as a means of producing feedback. The body of the guitar is elevated so the neck of the instrument is diagonal to the […]

PARTICIPATION Performs as part of Synthlab. Jesse Nason is a California native that has been playing keyboards and drums in various bands in the OC/LA area, including Deccatree, AM and currently with Perfect Beings. He is a collector of sounds, and modular is the next target on the checklist. Some of his influences for synth […]

PARTICIPATION Dark Ride, San Pedro Sonic SpaceSound, not unlike water, seeks to fill empty space. It enters, swirling, progressing outward, reflecting off surfaces, until it displaces the air with living, sonic vibrations. Sound has unique qualities that make it a particularly fascinating medium to manipulate. Sound is not just heard, it is felt, often provoking […]

PARTICIPATION 911 Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: 911 I was on my way to work at my studio at 8:30 in the morning. It’s not a long drive, but by the time I arrived just 15 minutes later, the world had utterly changed. It was September 11th, 2001. I had been hired the […]