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 impulse and intention to craft layered sonic and visual performances solidly rooted […]
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 of death, disease, mysticism, illness and worldbuilding. Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION Blasted Fink (Foretold) A piece consisting of a ceramic vessel that contains a […]
I am an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in the fields of sculpture, sound and performance. I’m endlessly fascinated with the materiality of the post-natural world, peering between moral ecological binaries where contamination occurs and the possibilities of magic in art are revealed. Artist Location: Long Beach, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION Chai Circle: Sonic Addition is […]
Cassia Streb and Thadeus Frazier-Reed are California–based artists working collaboratively across sound, performance, and interactive systems. Cassia creates site-responsive work using viola, percussion, and found objects, often shaped by the people and environments for which it is made. Thadeus is a composer and creative technologist who builds custom systems for live and spatial interaction. Together, […]
Brooke Peters is a multidisciplinary artist exploring themes of non-human intelligence, evolution, speciesism, alternative archaeology, and more. Materials utilized in the work aim to convey a quality of magnetism. Her trinity of ingredients all contain metal – ceramic (minerals) film photography (silver particles) and sheet metal. This is significant because of the natural charge that […]
Boom Duo create spontaneous compositions in the moment using traditional and invented song forms and texture heavy noise-tone soundscapes. Boom Duo is John Lacques (drums, percussion) who has studied and performed in a wide variety of drumming styles including Classical Indian music, jazz, rock, punk and professional theater productions in LA and Ventura Counties, and […]
TORIA KAHNI’s work explores an Asian ancient-future: a shifting ecology of bodies through poetry, welded sculpture, wearable forms, ceramics and movement, they open thresholds where interior states—pain, rupture, transformation—become sonic and corporeal material. Shaped by backgrounds in biotechnology and psychology and living with chronic autoimmune illness, they approach the body as unstable and relational. Performance […]
Stephen Linsley is a fine artist working in photography, video installation and music. He was a founding member of the JIm Carroll Band. He has produced numerous records. He is currently working on a Book of Portraits of Older Punk Rock Musicians. Artist Location: California Social Media: PARTICIPATION SlowmOcean Full building projection of slo motion […]
Andrew McGregor is a bagpiper, inventor, and multidisciplinary artist whose work bridges ancient traditions and cutting-edge innovation. He was previously named one of “LA’s 40 Most Interesting People” by LA Weekly and has performed on a Grammy-nominated album. Artist Location: Santa Monica, CA Social Media: PARTICIPATION On-site event June 6th Soundscape Typewriter I have an […]
Aaron West is a composer and sound theorist exploring the thresholds between signal, noise, and time. His practice utilizes analog tools—reel-to-reel tape, cassettes, and modular synthesis—to create immersive landscapes where clarity dissolves into static. By blending the organic resonance of piano and violin with raw electricity, West constructs evolving sonic environments rooted in texture. With […]