PARTICIPATION Minuscape This piece consists of a persistent harmonically rich sonic barrage who’s elements are temporally removed via interactive play.  It resembles a hanging chime but is translucent & glowing, with all notes normally ringing. The audience “plays” the individual chimes but instead of creating a ringing note, it removes it, for an unusual unnatural effect. […]

PARTICIPATION SoCal Synth Society: Community Soundscapes  We seek to create an immersive sonic experience where improvisational synthesis and visual art converge as a space for collective reflection. The work invites the public to engage with it as an evolving landscape of memory, movement, and sound—one that unfolds in real time and deepens through shared presence. […]

PARTICIPATION dialogues of|through|in despair this work draws on explorations of what despair sounds like and how sound can be used to resist despair.  we have witnessed how militarized violence impacts the soundscapes of our city.  we’ve also seen how PPE has been transformed from labor and virus protection to protection from tear gas.  our installation […]

PARTICIPATION For Want of a Drummer Servo and solenoid-driven mallets strike drumheads at threshold velocities as amplifiers feed signals back into the membranes themselves, blurring the boundary between excitation and response, instrument and player. The resulting system of feedback throbs and shrieks flutter, drift and settle into fluctuating and emergent standing waves. The system explores […]

PARTICIPATION Absolved by Tide is a sound installation drawing from the sonic fabric of San Pedro. Field recordings gathered from the port, ships, streets, churches, and the conversations of the people of San Pedro form the raw material of this work.This piece is meant to represent the multitudes San Pedro holds, from the groan of […]

PARTICIPATION Câline We are constantly broadcasting — thoughts, feelings, presence — flickering into the air, fleeting and forgotten. Câline senses tenderly. She collects what we abandon. Close, she reflects what we hide. From afar, our divine nature. Still. Fleeting machine fragments. Our creation, our reflection, our nature — infinitely repeating, infinitely returning. Rob Seif is […]

PARTICIPATION Corrosive You are invited to clank, ting, and tap into the generative and organic loops of sound produced by an assortment of metallic objects obscured by water.  Hear the sounds corrode organically as they rust through processing, sample-mangling, and spatial effects.  Contact microphones adhered to sound objects are sampled and looped into a dub-style […]

PARTICIPATION Instantaneous Flux is an exploration of “unplanning.” It is a sonic inquiry into what happens when a creator relinquishes control to the environment. Rather than presenting a finished work, this project offers a real-time response to the atmospheric, physical, and social conditions of the space as they exist in the immediate present. The project […]

PARTICIPATION For Yves, After Hiroshi is a sound installation about perceived time, inspired by the feelings the paintings of Yves Tanguy inspired in me. It began as a piece of music for harp, clearly (but unconsciously) drawing influence from Hiroshi Yoshimura’s music. As the material was extremely spare and simple I realized it would lend […]

PARTICIPATION Voices on the Line A dozen or so unique, vintage analog telephones sit on picnics blankets on the grass, each connected to a special, private phone network. Corporate office technology, now available as free software becomes both a toy and an audio encyclopedia. Pick up a receiver, dial a number and you might reach […]