Chris Mandra is a composer and performer whose work has been performed in Europe, Asia, Canada and the United States. He holds a BM in composition from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA; a certificate of study from the Liszt Ferenc Zeneakademia in Budapest; MM music composition and MM in computer music, both from […]
PARTICIPATION Barkeep is an ongoing series of recorded pieces and a solo live performance approach for feedback, computer controlled effects units and performance mixing. By putting unexceptional and inexpensive digital hardware into a feedback loop, continual conversation ensues – coaxed by pre-arranged MIDI suggestion and facilitated live by performer – Barkeep chooses not to articulate […]
Chris Brian Taylor is from San Francisco and lives in Los Angeles. He did the punk thing and then the DJ thing, and has most recently been focusing on live feedback electronics. His projects have included computer supported solo work, various improvised groupings, and a compositional outing with the Subjective Pitch Matching Band. He continues to […]
PARTICIPATION Beginning of the End Absent of Stimulation Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Beginning of the End Inspired by John Cage’s 4’33”, there is no actual silence at any space and time. Modern city life, like Los Angeles, is filled with sounds and noises from transportations, plus bits of sounds from birds. Cars […]
Ching Ching Cheng was born in Taiwan and immigrated to the United States in 2002. She received her MFA from Art Center College of Design. Ching exhibited at LACMA Rental and Sales Gallery, Chinese American Museum, Craft and Folk Art Museum, 21c Museum, DTLA ArtCenter, colleges, universities and art fairs through out the United States. She […]
PARTICIPATION soundpedro 2020 participation: N/A Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020: The Fountain “The Fountain” is intended to be a self-contained sound-generating installation piece. The object in this installation is a home-constructed fountain through which water flows and generates electrical sound via contact microphones. The amplified sound is split between two channels and two […]
Chad Leaf is a Redondo Beach based musician and sound artist. He is best known for his work in the South Bay Rock outfit Modern Color with whom he has toured Europe, UK, Japan, and North America numerous times. When home from touring, he creates experimental music employing techniques such as field recording, feedback drones, tape […]
PARTICIPATION The endless fall of humid caresses is the main feature in the sound art installation titled: Por Doquier (“Plenty Of /All Over The Place”). The sound of kisses falls from the ceiling, then touches and bounces off the listener and other bodies from where it also bounces off until each individual kiss ceases being […]
César Dávila-Irizarry has a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004. He has spent the past decade designing sound for film and composing experimental music. He is the main composer of the original theme music of the TV show American Horror Story. He has also designed sound for […]
Cannibalistic Caterpillar is a sound and vision project by Justin Scheid and Brian Akenoh. The group utilizes live projections, analog and digital synthesis, guitar pedals, homemade noise boxes, and live sampling to deliver intense and spontaneous improvisatory performances. CANTILEVER COLLECTIVE (collaborator in 2025) was formed out of a desire to use movement as a catalyst […]