PARTICIPATION “To Free the Possible” fully embraces Tin, both sonically and substantially. On a stand in the center of the installation will be a custom made wooden sound box filled with electronic modules, uranium glass, and an internal speaker. Lid halfway open, sounds emanating are driven by radioactive random voltage sources.  One module uses radioactive […]

PARTICIPATION Memory Duo is an automatic electric guitar duo for one performer and one computer. The solo electric guitarist plays through modes and melodic fragments that connect to moments of change in the performer’s life. The phrases refer to lullabies, working melodies, old records, etc. that connect to the history of a family nearing its […]

PARTICIPATION Dragon’s Teeth: Wind Harps D A Ayer’s “Dragon’s Teeth” culminate eight years of inventing freestanding, wind-driven instruments. His first aeolian harps appeared at AGCC’s soundpedro2018 under their wikiGong.com title, “Aeolus Woke,” in a concert with electronic amplification. The latest models are stand-alone sonic sculptures of sheet metal and bronze, played solely by the wind. […]

PARTICIPATION heartstrings is a wearable instrument: whispering-screaming-humming strings ripped from a chest-flesh-nest.  Clare Marie Nemanich is an award-winning theater sound designer, experimental artist, and performer. Their sonic explorations leave no stone unturned–objects, instruments, pet chickens that play instruments (and sure, leaves and stones) all have a place in their electroacoustic palette. They use equal parts […]

PARTICIPATION Blasted Fink (Foretold) A piece consisting of a ceramic vessel that contains a speaker playing a piece of sound art I have made to go with the vessel. Chary Goodwin is an artist, illustrator, sculptor, printmaker and sound artist. They attended CSUN and obtained a Master’s of the Arts. Their work deals with themes […]

PARTICIPATION Chai Circle: Sonic Addition is a participatory sound performance and ritual installation that translates collective intention into ephemeral, analog sound tapestries. Rooted in shared cultural practices of tea-drinking, wish-making, and communal gathering, the work transforms Oracle Egg into a temporary pop-up third space: a site where strangers co-create an emergent sonic environment that dissolves […]

PARTICIPATION Lunar Array–Starfield Starfield is a site-responsive sound installation composed of a ring of crescent-shaped wooden forms that act as speakers themselves, each elevated on slender supports with lights. Arranged in a circle, these objects create an immersive environment that audiences can enter, moving freely among them as sound and light shift across the field. […]

PARTICIPATION Casioshack – a long form ensemble performance piece that employs technology and acoustics for setting sound in an environmental location Casioshack is a long form ensemble performance piece that employs technology and acoustics for setting sound in an environmental location. The performing members and automated instruments create a sonic texture that evolves over the […]

PARTICIPATION obelisk ambulating towards ruin Aluminum sheet metal creates a large obelisk, with each side of the structure featuring an internal line that traces unique and non-linear walking paths from angel’s gate to the pacific below. The aluminum sheets have all been immersed in the ocean for a while, and the salt water on metal […]

PARTICIPATION Wood, Wind, Shell, Skin, Stone, Brass, Plastic, Electricity: Ancient to Future Sounds and SoundscapesAs Boom Duo we struggle with the Western concept of song form, recognizing an alternative to ‘music’ as sound art based in texture and tone, an ancient, often shamanic, approach to soundscape.  We use traditional and modern instruments to explore the […]