Faraday Cage

Faraday Cage

PARTICIPATION Performs as part of Synthlab. Matt Pogue has been wrangling electricity with his guitar for three decades. Now he does it with other machines as well.

Electronic Countermeasures

Electronic Countermeasures

PARTICIPATION Conduit is an asynchronous sound and light installation sonifying the invisible frequencies, waves, information, and exchanges occurring both remotely and within close proximity. The piece looks to invert the conventional nature of signal intelligence (SIGINT) typified by state actors capturing and analyzing waves traveling through the atmosphere for military, police, or surveillance purposes shrouded […]

Dr. Nicholle Andrews

Dr. Nicholle Andrews

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 […]

Dillon Bastan

Dillon Bastan

PARTICIPATION Dillon Bastan’s artworks use audio reactive servo motors that “dance” to music, and attached to them are media like charcoal, pastel, pens, etc. They in turn dance around a paper and create a drawing. Dillon Bastan is a Los Angeles based sound artist, developer, music producer, and performer. He creates experiences with sound as […]

Connor Hanlon

Connor Hanlon

PARTICIPATION It’s all in Your Head: Sharing Perception Mechanics:A triangle will be drawn in a small room or outdoor space.  In the center of the triangle will be a small circular table. This table will contain a Korg Minilouge synthesiser connected to a small guitar amp. Minilouge will be in duophonic mode with D1 and […]

Conchi Sanford

Conchi Sanford

PARTICIPATION Bailando This piece is a series of 30 to 50 elongated plastic see-through tubes that are each approx 8 to 10 ft tall and hanging from the ceiling. The tubes are hung in such a way that they invite the viewer to walk through. As the viewer walks through, the tubes begin to shake […]

Clowns and Fetuses

Clowns and Fetuses

PARTICIPATION Mysteries of Catalina Island A sonic explication of things strange and wonderful in that lump of land looming in front of Angel’s Gate, including: the story of the giant humanoids unearthed by bizarre archivist Ralph Glidden; the haunted Avalon grocery store that has terrorized clerks for decades; the curious disappearance of socialite Eileen Jeffers; […]

Cannibalistic Caterpillar

Cannibalistic Caterpillar

PARTICIPATION Performs as part of Synthlab. 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. Though primarily a duet, guest collaborators are not uncommon. Artist Location: Long […]

C. Matthew Luther

PARTICIPATION Life of Water Statement: I am interested in the theoretically ideas of dark ecology and the moment of a post-nature ecological idealism we have entered. The core of my work is photographic and time-based. In my practice photographs are used in combination with paint and printmaking techniques to build the base of digital artworks […]

borderline antigone

Borderline Antigone

PARTICIPATION Art for Art(‘s Sake) riffs art back to itself. Borderline Antigone is a philosopher with a specialty in film; a writer with an interest in landscape and conceptual and social practice arts; a voise (voice + noise) artist, sonifier, and lyric thespian with training and practice in poetry and landscape art. Antigone and the […]