Samir Gangwani (b. 1995, Clemmons, NC) is a composer, performer, installation artist, and software designer. Their work has been featured at the Kelly Strayhorn Theater, Queens Museum, Panoply Performance Laboratory, Pittsburgh Filmmakers & Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Future Tenant, Bunker Projects, and the Glitter Box Theater. Austin Marcus (b. 1992, London, UK) is a […]
PARTICIPATION SANCTIFICATION A PERFORMANCE PIECE BY AUGMENTED MEDIUM FOR KAOSS PAD, SINGING BOWL, VOICE, AND VOCODER This piece is an attempt to unify the message of several sacred texts aurally to show their unified message throughout time and space. I have pulled text from early Christan plainchant, the Islamic Creed, Buhdist Mantras, the Satanist creed, […]
Augmented Medium is a collection of twisted music and art projects from the convoluted mind of Connor James Francis Xavier Hanlon. With a guitar, piano, Tibetan singing bowls, drum machines, autoharp, his trusty Korg Minilogue, and his immaculate voice, Connor can be heard making ululations across the fair city of Los Angeles. Recently he has taken […]
PARTICIPATION from the pooseum of modern fart Sound is the inverse of time. audipoeta is a collage vivant created by Terry Braunstein. Like all collages vivant and audipoets, they is bereft of utterance. They hearkens artfully and have no say. All psychopomp and no circumstance, audipoeta guides us — away from time — towards silence, listening […]
Sound is the inverse of time. audipoeta is a collage vivant created by Terry Braunstein. Like all collages vivant and audipoets, they is bereft of utterance. They hearkens artfully and have no say. All psychopomp and no circumstance, audipoeta guides us — away from time — towards silence, listening along the way. Their listenings never sounds […]
Terry Braunstein’s exhibitions, collections, commissions, public art, awards include: Centre Pompidou and Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Gallery Miyazaki, Japan; LA County Museum of Art; Sala Arcs gallery, Barcelona; Museo Civico, Italy, Long Beach Museum of Art; Centro Andaluz de la Fotografia, Spain; Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica; Washington Project for the Arts in Washington D.C; Franklin […]
PARTICIPATION Gallery show, May 13 – June 17: Surrender I had to become purple in order to see and hear the purple things. I had to give my body to their mouths, before I could speak. I had to touch the unstable ground, lay myself down on it, and become sediment, before I could stand. […]
PARTICIPATION Becoming Insect Emerging out of a pandemic-era investigation into the capacity of mealworms and other metamorphosing insects to consume, metabolize, and transform petroleum-based plastics into energy for their bodies and biodegradable hydrocarbons, “becoming insect” will combine an installation of partially consumed styrofoam and found offertory materials, like wildflowers, carrots, and fruit, with a “worms-eye” […]
PARTICIPATION Hunger . Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2021: Hunger (Engine) I propose a sound-oriented presentation of Hunger – an experimental project exploring the life cycle of the greater wax “worm” (galleria mellonella) and its ecologically unique ability to biodegrade microplastic, as a poetic, sculptural and sonic performance. Hunger will include a cycle of […]
PARTICIPATION (im)Material Remains . Proposed work as accepted for soundpedro 2020: Grounding Place (San Pedro) I would recreate a version of the concept proposed above using site-specific materials. For this version of the work, I would spend time in and around Angels Gate, including the cliffside and rocky shore along Abalone Cove gathering both organic […]