PARTICIPATION Debate: Zear Noize Box vs. Zpeaker A found Mid-Century, wall mounted, two door cabinet made of galvanized metal and a 12″ Speaker sculpture. Both, equipped with a trio of piezo microphones, analog, digital and acoustic sound generators…(springs, moving parts and electronic effect modules)Built within each piece are listener/viewer-friendly sound manipulating knobs, and buttons to […]
PARTICIPATION Sight of Sound: Collaborative Light Painting with Sound Driven Lasers This project invites participants to focus on seeing rather than hearing as they create visual art through sound. Sound is converted into light patterns by bouncing laser light off mirrors mounted on rubber membranes which vibrate in response to sound. Participants can try out […]
PARTICIPATION CIRCUIT RÉSONNANT is a performance oscillating between harmonious and discordant. A duo of acoustic guitar and chaotic synthesizer. There is no fixed composition. The performance is completely improvised and unfolds differently every-time depending on the environment. Both the performer and the machine, though, are not truly random, and like chaos, are built by deterministic […]
PARTICIPATION Praying for Rain Tin makes bronze, bronze makes mirrors, and mirrors are portals, charms, and lanterns in the underworld. Mesoamericans, to whom our New World was not so new, had no tin to speak of, and thus no Eurocentric colonizer’s “Bronze Age”; but they had dark, glossy mirrors of polished volcanic glass (and a […]
PARTICIPATION Cannonade The Austrian composer Joseph Haydn developed the symphony, string quartet, and piano trio into some of the most important musical forms. “Cannonade” collides all of his 108 symphonies, producing textures of great density. Soon after starting this piece, I realized that it’s the most complex electronic project I’d ever envisioned. The current version […]
PARTICIPATION V!TAMIN BYTE I am conjuring up an alchemical chamber of sonic sculpture of bodily adaptations. The central artifacts are the wearable welded metal and silicone sculptures embedded with contact microphones. These objects are prosthetics and ritual artifacts that function as instruments. As performers strike, drag, caress, and move with them, sound is generated live […]
PARTICIPATION Crossing Over is an installation that incorporates a visual and audio reactive experience that combines past and present ideas of death and/or the afterlife.The installation has 2 main components:The Entrance, the River Styx – this is the river that forms the boundary between the world of the living and the Afterlife.The “Life Review and […]
PARTICIPATION The Hollywood Johnny Experience is a curated collection of micro-performances by artists from SoCal & beyond who specialize in Sound Art, Extreme Performance, Absurdist Comedy, Harsh Noise, and Abstract Sonics. It is a fest-within-a-fest (within a fest!). There will be 10 performances of 10 minutes each inside of a 3 hour span – with […]
PARTICIPATION SynthLab sets up a large array of analog and digital electronics to create a continuous improvised soundscape, ranging from quiet ambiance to harsh experimental noise. They also project real-time visual art. 2026 Artists: univacA consummate TechDweeb, visual artist and novatone “musician” univac continuously re-purposes the detritus of trickle-down technology and off-the-shelf toys and electronics in order […]
PARTICIPATION Tin Cry Tin is an extremely malleable metal. A bar of tin can easily be bent and twisted with bare hands. ‘Tin Cry’ is a term from physics describing the sound made by the metal when stressed through bending or twisting. It results from a ‘twinning’ of the tin atoms which occurs when two […]