Samur Khouja is a sound designer and audio engineer based in Los Angeles. His recent work includes sound and video installations on the destructive effects of deep sea mining and performs and tours under the moniker of Conscious Summary. He founded the experimental venue (the) Handbag Factory in 2011 and has been operating Seahorse Sound Studios […]
Rychard Cooper holds a degree in Audio Engineering from Long Beach City College, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Composition from the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. He has twice been awarded the Don Andrus Prize in Electronic Music. In 1999 Rychard began teaching classes in music technology, music theory […]
Ruby is a poet, writer and peformer based in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Her work is often sound-based and/or responding to sound as a theme. With a background in theatre, Ruby is now creating poetry, sound poetry and interdisciplinary collaborations, whilst exploring themes of embodiment and vulnerability through different ways of performing of her work. Artist […]
Roxanne Varzi is a writer, artist, filmmaker, playwright and Full professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine. She has a PhD from Columbia University and was the first Fulbright to Iran since the Revolution. She is published in The London Review of books, Le Monde Diplomatique, Feminist Review, Public Culture, American Anthropologist and is […]
Rogerio Jardim is a professional Drummer/Singer/Composer/Producer, touring and recording for the past 30 years with various artists. He is well-known as the drummer for the rock-electronic band Infected Mushroom. Rogerio also works in the Yoga/meditation world, performing for teachers like Dharma Shakti, Veronique Dumont and Shiva Rea. Artist Location: Social Media: San Pedro, CA PARTICIPATION AereoZen: […]
Robert Crouch is an artist and curator whose work encompasses sound, performance, and technology. As an artist, he locates his work with the intersection of post-phenomenological listening practices, conceptual sound art, and contemporary electronic music. At its core, his work can be understood as a conversation between tonality, context, history and subjectivities. Similarly, Crouch’s curatorial work […]
Richard Bugg is a composer, performer, and sound designer. As founder in 1975 of the synthesizer ensemble “Cosmic Debris,” he modified, designed, and built modular systems focused on live performance of improvised based electronic music expanding it beyond the recording studio. This lead to commissions for compositions and performances with several Modern Dance Ensembles as well […]
Ricardo Tomasz is a multidisciplinary artist, focusing on storytelling in his work, layering surreal, mythological, street, postmodern, and pop styles while using bright colors and iconography. He is most proud of his work making public murals for the City of Los Angeles. Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION Into The Void This sound horror […]
Reza Monahan is an artist and filmmaker who holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Art Center College of Design and a BFA in Experimental Film and New Genres from San Francisco Art Institute. His studio blends questions of language and cinema within time-and-space-based projects to unfold ideas surrounding kinesthetics, design and phenomenology. Monahan’s installation art […]
Reuben Merringer is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, performer, and educator. His practice traverses traditional and experimental forms and materials, unified by an attraction to social and scientific theories that expose or suggest liminal spaces that evade categorical distinction. He teaches at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. Artist Location: Pasadena, California Social Media: PARTICIPATION […]