PARTICIPATION Self-Portraits Although this work is based on the musical aesthetics of pitch, timbre, and structural pacing, the juxtaposition of composed and improvisatory elements of the piece makes space for the performers to explore the unique possibilities of their instruments. This implies deviating away from a traditional sense of melodic development and rhythmic meter. Alexia […]

PARTICIPATION No wings to fly from God A zoologist tells us that birds sing in order not to suffocate. Flying Away or Rapture/Rupture is my second in a three-part multi-media video/sound/space installation project on climate change and religion. Made for SoundPedro and using the site-specific, awe-inspiring view of the San Pedro port and the cargo […]

PARTICIPATION Into The Void This sound horror piece follows our heroine as she is transported to a supernatural void of her own mind, where she is hunted, and forced to face her traumatic past. Using wind and women vocals to convey an ominous mood. Crawling Out of The Scholomance This sound horror piece follows our […]

PARTICIPATION Coma The piece “Coma” explores the idea that some people who experience a state of prolonged unconsciousness know what it feels like to cross over into the afterlife. The piece consists of a real life account of this phenomenon, altered and coupled by a foreboding drone to simulate the feeling of straddling the line […]

PARTICIPATION sideband.23-553(od.L.20v) roaming crystal receiver radio artifacts Brandon Auger (b.1978) – artist, improviser and structural builder based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Working with sound as a medium, his minimalistic work promotes the amplification of electronic idiosyncrasies and vibrational nuances in both acoustic and synthetic environments. While being an active member of the improvising community in Canada, […]

PARTICIPATION Interspecies Communication ’65 Inspired by a NASA funded study into interspecies communication between humans and dolphins. The study started in 1958 but in the mid-sixties it took some wild turns when LSD was applied to speed up the process. This is our tribute to those fearless explorers of the inner realm. Particularly, Peter, the […]

PARTICIPATION F40.298 Opus Foramina # 27 Artist and former psychotherapist Peter Christenson captures sound and video from holes dug across WA state, seeking prognoses for his ailing client, Earth. Peter Christenson is a conceptual artist working across emergent and antiquated media, psycho-social sculpture, and immersive installation. For the past decade, he has made art under the […]

PARTICIPATION Brokenity is a collaboration between sound artist Pablo Perez and Mike Dobler. It explores the broken sonic relfections, machine error states, recorded audio’s, and dismissed environmental ambience. It is a narration of how noises interact with each other outside their harmonic, melodic and rhythmic components. It reverses the listeners priority and showcases the hidden […]

PARTICIPATION Free Shadow Boxing Lessons A lesson worth taking.Bob and weave, ignore the phone, order food, stay home, check phone, turn the lights off, talk to yourself for a hour, create a fake situation, now get out of it , acknowledge your reflection, guilty for being, there’s no such thing as “I”, food’s here. ok […]

PARTICIPATION Something Nonsensical “Something Nonsensical” examines the use of AI and its relationship to artists and their art. Using a poem generator, a simple PD Patch, and some software for ciphering the generated text, we created the entire piece with the simple prompt, “Something Nonsensical”. In a time where AI is commonplace, and artists are […]