PARTICIPATION PROGRAM #1 Video presentation Online October 27: “I Cannot Feel the Land Beneath Me” excavates Angel Island’s past hauntings to create a contemplative space between our dreams of leaving, dreams of roots. The soundscapes comprising of undulating waves landing on China Cove, echos of a lighthouse bell, footstep callings and wall scratchings become protagonists […]
PARTICIPATION PROGRAM #2 Video presentation Online October 28: Eight Triptychs is an experimental video production which presents eight three-part explorations of affective themes, drawn from six months of sampling audiovisual material from across the cyberethnographic landscape. Each Triptych is an assembly of three one-minute audiovisual mixes with a given one-word theme, such that each Triptych […]
PARTICIPATION Video presentation Online October 28, 2023: At The Bottom “At The Bottom” features contributions by Wikigong, Skunk Puppet, Kurt Comstock, Janet Housden, Heather Williamson and phog masheeen. The theme for At The Bottom was an intentional nautical reference. Chosen because of Soundpedro’s location of the physical event at Angeles Gate Cultural Center and because […]
PARTICIPATION Video presentation Online October 29 and the home of the [placeholder] is a series of //sense’s experimental community theater works that explores the meaning of home through actions, performances, new media, technologies, and beyond. “Placeholder” denotes a temporary state of unknown. It holds a value that is yet to be input, gathered, and defined. […]
PARTICIPATION chorus for one is a sound performance piece in which 6 Honeytone mini-amps and 6 contact microphones are affixed to, respectively, the torso and hands of the performer. Using arm, hand, and upper body gestures, the performer produces sound via multiple high-pitched feedback loops between the microphones and amps.The body is therefore transformed into […]
PARTICIPATION Found Sound Station Come have a seat and travel places with me! Sit down, let the speakers tell you a story. This is my aural slide show, collected sounds from various strolls and explorations. Come get immersed in some of the places I’ve been, from the K-Mart in Burbank to the ferry dock in Plymouth, […]
PARTICIPATION WALK WALK—a silent, durational, meditative walk in monochromatic and sculptural costumes. It is inspired by the medicine walks of Indigenous/Native American shamanistic tradition. It incorporates a butoh-paced walk, sculptural wearable art, and recordings of my own songs supplying the sound elements.To walk slowly is to slow down time, to go completely internal, especially in […]
PARTICIPATION Bureau of Thanks is a ‘listening post’ — an opportunity for visitor-participants to have the undivided attention of another human being, to be listened to. This interactive performance-installation is inspired by memories of form-fillers and petition writers who practiced their trade outside government offices in Malaysia where I grew up. It is also inspired […]
PARTICIPATION What is it in a Person Lost?In What is it in a person Lost, the video work includes original glass harp compositions as response to 18th century ideas that hysteria in women that were based on sounds derivative of the glass harmonium.The sound compositions connect current contexts in which sound is used for bodily […]
PARTICIPATION Nonsense In, Nonsense Out: Tales Told by an Idiot wikiGong.com presents “Nonsense In, Nonsense Out: Tales Told by an Idiot,” a quest led by the enigmatic Professor Caractacus Coot, and celebrating AI’s potential, its reflection of us, and our relationship with it.Drawing on past themes, wikiGong.com returns to Earth and AI’s hall of mirrors, reflecting […]