soundShoppe was a free, monthly, unstructured sound workshop/noise jam for experimental musicians and sound artists presented by SASSAS and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock led by Joe Potts, founding member of LAFMS (Los Angeles Free Music Society) which was in existence from 2009 to 2020. soundShoppe Orchestra members were regular attendees of the monthly sound […]

Sasha Raphael vom Dorp has been exhibiting his work since 1992. A practice that began with painting in oils has evolved into creating kinetic sculpture, photography and interactive multimedia installations. His current work employs a machine that he’s created allowing him see sound waves as they interact with sunlight and matter. His work has been […]

sARTe ( ECasuga ) is a contemporary visual artist from Southern California, who uses painting, sculpture and video as modes of expression to explore her affinity for Science and Art.Her goal is to seduce the viewer with luminous layered works and “open-ended” visuals to create an uncanny simulacrum of microscopic “internal-scapes,” while at the same […]

PARTICIPATION Sander Roscoe Wolff has worked with sound as an art medium since he was a child. He began to work more seriously during his studies at Long Beach City College where, in the early 80s, they had impressive recording and electronic music programs. Since then, he’s pursued parallel interest: Composing, recording and performing traditional […]

Samur Khouja is a sound designer and audio engineer based in Los Angeles. His recent work includes sound and video installations on the destructive effects of deep sea mining and performs and tours under the moniker of Conscious Summary. He founded the experimental venue (the) Handbag Factory in 2011 and has been operating Seahorse Sound Studios […]

Rychard Cooper holds a degree in Audio Engineering from Long Beach City College, and Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Composition from the Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University, Long Beach. He has twice been awarded the Don Andrus Prize in Electronic Music. In 1999 Rychard began teaching classes in music technology, music theory […]

Ruby is a poet, writer and peformer based in Glasgow, Scotland, UK. Her work is often sound-based and/or responding to sound as a theme. With a background in theatre, Ruby is now creating poetry, sound poetry and interdisciplinary collaborations, whilst exploring themes of embodiment and vulnerability through different ways of performing of her work. Artist […]

Roxanne Varzi is a writer, artist, filmmaker, playwright and Full professor of Anthropology at the University of California Irvine. She has a PhD from Columbia University and was the first Fulbright to Iran since the Revolution. She is published in The London Review of books, Le Monde Diplomatique, Feminist Review, Public Culture, American Anthropologist and is […]

Rogerio is a multi-disciplinary artist blending music and visual arts for over 3 decades. A former Infected Mushroom drummer, he pioneered a hybrid drumming style fusing acoustic and electronic elements. His project, “AereoZen”, merges aerial imagery with meditational rhythms for a deeply immersive experience. “AereoZen” will be presented live at Soundpedro, bringing its hypnotic fusion […]

Robert Crouch is an artist and curator whose work encompasses sound, performance, and technology. As an artist, he locates his work with the intersection of post-phenomenological listening practices, conceptual sound art, and contemporary electronic music. At its core, his work can be understood as a conversation between tonality, context, history and subjectivities. Similarly, Crouch’s curatorial work […]