Amy Bauer Designs & Dr. DethRyde
Trashion Terminal: The Sound of a Place That Refuses to Die
The Trashion Terminal is no silent ruin. It hums, howls, and pulses alive with layered, industrial soundscapes that echo off shattered concrete and twisted iron. It’s not just a fashion hub. It’s a sonic environment, shaped by time, decay, and the defiant creativity of its inhabitants. Atmospheric soundscape of the depot. Beats blend with the screech of iron, hissing steam and skeleton jazz. The depot breathes with sound. An evolving industrial symphony that pulses through rusted rails and torn fabric banners. You don’t just hear it. You feel it in your ribs. “The terminal didn’t whisper. It clanked, spat steam, and rattled its bolts like it wanted to dance but forgot the steps.”
Bo (Brandon) Bollinger
The Sound of Relief
The Sound of Relief is an interactive experimentation in sound and ceramics. It consists of a ceramic form suspended from a rebar structure that is to be rung like a bell with the use of a wooden mallet.
Brennan Roach & Taylor Ball
Gnosis
A man lost in the desert descends into disorientation, where his unraveling transforms into a destructive yet transcendent act of self-immolation.
Cassia Streb & Tim Feeny
Waking hour
Four listening stations, each assembled from a cluster of small speakers and wooden crates. Each cycles through noise textures that irregularly mask one another, configured as a clock such that the participant is listening only to the surrounding urban soundscape at every quarter hour.
Chung Shi Hoh, Ker Siang & comar muwaren
David Ayer & wikiGong.com
Chittering Drawing #1 (Cautious)
“Cautious” is a small noise-making automaton made of found materials and inspired by the behavior of crustaceans in tide pools: quiescent when sensing another’s presence, active when believed to be alone.
Vestiges
A selection of wikiGong sound-art videos produced over the last 15 years: our musings on the cosmos, the transience of human individuality, the nature and constituents of culture.
dama & Amy Zimmitti
Amor & Psyche
Amor & Psyche stages an immersive sound and visual performance inspired by the myth of Psyche and Eros, reframed through the mythology of us—our shared vulnerability, desire, and transformation. The work unfolds in an infinity-shaped labyrinth, where myth and politics meet. Architecture becomes allegory: the Capitol dome as a modern Pantheon, the White House as palace-temple, the ruins of Rome as blueprint and shadow. These monumental architectures—symbols of empire, governance, and order—echo the myth of Amor and Psyche, where desire and power collide, where intimacy becomes a negotiation with authority.
The soundscape will move between primitive resonance and electronic layering, weaving voice, percussion, live instrumentation, and drone textures into spiraling loops. The work is not narrative but sensorial: sound, projection, light, and costume transform monumental architectures into dream-images, collapsing empire and eros, governance and myth, into a single mythological agora.
DenniswithY
Drone Social
modular drone on top of anything sound
Franco Castilla
All Senses, Emotions, Birth and Death
A slideshow of photos from the Los Angeles area with pre-recorded experimental sounds projected onto a white wall.
Fuzz Garden
Together
Together is an interactive installation inviting the public to step inside a garden scene and take photos.
Gregg “Egg” Emmel
Whirling.2
A free Standing Acoustical & Electronic Sculptural Mobil Comprising Transferred Sonic Elements luring Ear Browsing Passers playing interactive songs and dance in moments engaged however Viewers & Players happen to meet, much like love!
grump
gratidão e medo
the doubled edge flame enriches our vitals as well as diminishes. Proud puppeteers with strong pinkys anticipates as one prays for spiritual growth comedy is the genre that gets the most overlooked.
Heather Nelson
Henry Krusoe
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain
“Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain is based on my love of an often-covered country music song of the same name, and the artwork as proposed will be video installation composed of the following elements:
A wall projected video of rain dripping down a glass surface accompanied by rain sounds. The video will include ghostly blinking eyes whose blinking will synchronize with some additional vocal effects like slow sobbing or distorted lyrics.
Sculptural elements: standing or hanging strings of lenses and windows containing graphics of eyes. These strings may also include portal-like apertures which will be projected on in concert with the main video sequence.”
Juan Gomez
“As someone of Mexican origins, it is well documented that the people of Mexico are descended from a mixture of indigenous peoples from the Americas and colonists from the old world. In the old-world, conquests and reconquests happened, what other mixtures of cultures occurred in the old world, and what circumstances brought fractions of my blood from the old world to the new world? This project deals with the curiosity of wanting to know more about the origins of my blood and what other areas of the world has it traversed. This is a project of curiosity that offers no answers but possibilities in the interplay between the old world and the new.
I will be constructing a boat like structure, which incorporates fibers, ropes, and wire. Structure will be placed on some type of pedestal or on the ground. There will be some implied sound artifacts such as a conch shell that viewers can put by their ear. There will also be some other sound recordings within the structures of a reading related to the ideas behind this project.”
Karena Massengill and Peter Wells
Horsea
I will be roaming in an orange seahorse costume with lights and sounds celebrating the recently discovered Pacific seahorse colony in Alamitos Bay. At 12 inches, this is the largest seahorse in the world. Though I am significantly larger, my clicking and growling amidst an ocean inspired soundscape will mimic its way of communicating! Peter Wells is providing the soundscape.
KnowMas Generation
In Spite Despite, In the Shadows of the Light
“This work layers political vinyl recordings with war sound-effect records and other sonic fragments to explore how voices struggle to be heard within noise. Using vinyl and other recorded sounds, the piece loops, collides, and interrupts — allowing speeches to fracture under bombardment, explosions to collapse into silence, and static to linger as memory.
Rather than seek resolution, the work inhabits contradiction: in spite despite, shadow and light, noise and listening. By bending silence back against the din, the piece asks what remains audible when power, propaganda, and conflict saturate the soundscape.”
Levy Barlevy
🪳 ‘ROACH’
using a prepared bass trumpet, I will make off putting squeaks and squeals as I scuttle around the streets of Long Beach with my cockroach brethren. The scuttling mechanism is a long skateboard that provides me freedom to move and play while laying on my stomach. The board also allows my freaky cockroach wings to be on full display.
Marisa Ramey
Searching, Searching…
“Searching, Searching…” for radio(s) and laptop.
The piece involves sample and playback manipulation with multiple radios as a sound source, to create a soundscape of static, speech, and music.”
Matthew Mallinger
Allostatic
An audiovisual performance, to serve as a mirrored reflection, guiding one towards their own Allostatic Wells. Matthew Mallinger will perform a longform piece of original compositions – consisting of drums, electronics, field recordings & percussion. Textural soundscapes accompanied by visuals in motion.
Martin Espino
AFTER THE LIGHT
An evening of sound immersion, using various “noise box” instruments created by Martin Espino. Using extended techniques of sound manipulation, both acoustic and electronic, Martin will create a deep sonic environment of sounds both familiar and strange…They are the sounds of “after the light.”
Matthew Mallinger
Allostatic
An audiovisual performance, to serve as a mirrored reflection, guiding one towards their own Allostatic Wells. Matthew Mallinger will perform a longform piece of original compositions – consisting of drums, electronics, field recordings & percussion. Textural soundscapes accompanied by visuals in motion.
Melanie Rae
Menghe Jing / Kai-Luen Liang
Invocations for Silence
“Invocations for Silence is a performance sound piece by Menghe Jing and Kai-Luen Liang exploring the rituals of everyday life. Performed like a game between two people, each performer begins by picking up and “activating” a time object (such as a wind-up toy, sand timer, hourglass, or gong).
Once activated, the performers engage in a repetitive task—sweeping pebbles into the center of the room, sorting peas from rice, and so on. The task continues until the time object reaches its end. At that moment, the performers gradually slow their movements, following the object’s decay, until they arrive at complete stillness and silence. For example, if a gong is struck, the action slows as its sound fades.
Each ritual is amplified through microphones and portable, battery-powered speakers, filling the room with the subtle resonance of the performance.”
Michael Mesereau & Marcuccio de Andreis
Monica Moreno
Consequences of Birth
“Consequences of Birth is an interactive installation composed of layered sound, motion sensors, LED lighting, and a tactile floor object embedded with hidden sound buttons. A continuous soundscape plays throughout the space, while additional recordings are triggered by movement and touch, combining to create a shifting environment of voices and tones.
The work builds on recordings from Was this Holy or Just Heavy?, expanding them with new audio fragments. Visitors are invited to move through the installation, activating sensors and pressing into the plush form to uncover phrases and sounds. The plush figure also contains varied internal materials that, when grasped or handled, create distinct tactile noises—adding another layer of physical and sonic experience.
Consequences of Birth speaks to the facts of life: pain and happiness, surprise and fleeting experiences, love, and small everyday struggles like toothaches or injuries. By layering these realities into a sensory environment of sound, light, and touch, the installation offers a space to reflect on how consciousness grows through the weight and release of living.”
N.Sputnik
Voices on the Line
Fourteen unique, vintage analog telephones sit on picnics blankets in the park, 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 another caller in the park — or a speech, or story from another time. The catalog of recordings at various extensions carry the stories about the ways of old phone system, others replay historic voices and interviews with sound artists, music, while others read you your horoscope. Just page through the little black book of numbers, dial 411, or discover unlisted extension. The experience is both familiar and strange, a world once tethered to homes and offices in an outdoor setting. For some, a return to the weight and click of analog telephones; for others, nostalgia for a time they never lived through.
phog masheeen
An Observation of Current Culture Through Narrative and Improvised Sound
Histories of common objects, food and corporate bad behavior are the themes that phog masheeen uses.
Prof Plom
Perzona
A deconstruction of the prescription drug commercial soundscape tethered to ambient sound and electronic drones that mirror the echoes of our suffering. As audience members enter the space, they are invited to wear headphones and become immersed in amplification of the ambient space in timing with video imagery of the happiness that only prescription drugs can provide. Then they may freely touch sample pads to trigger prepared samples, thereby adding to an organic live-looping process, also amplified on speakers to draw in further participants. Equipment setup: powered monitors, 3 headphone stations, 3 samplers with trigger pads, ambient sound microphones, electronic drone synthesizer, electronic drum machine/video synthesizer, projector, projector screen.
Punitive Worm
Goodies
Quartet of inter dimensional beings.
Reza Monahan
Insideoutmesphere
Insideoutmosphere is the collaborative project of German artist and curator Marcus Herse and Iranian-American artist and filmmaker Reza Monahan. Herse works with media and time, creating layered sonic worlds on modular synths. Monahan makes films, drawings, and installations, performing with out-of-tune Persian instruments, flutes, and vocalizations. Together, they craft a near-future, alternate-universe soundscape, a collage of surreal mysticism and speculative technology, that’s at once playful and profound. Their performances often fracture and recombine invented languages, blurring sense and nonsense into a kind of auditory lyricism. Their debut album, Fuzzy Detritus, is slowly taking shape, equal parts noise, jazz, Middle Eastern timbres, and avant-garde performance.
Small Drone Orchestra
Beyond Belief
A warm and inviting sonic environment in which to relax and let go of the burdens of everyday life. A sonic meditation space.
Sophie Fan
Guitar Chair: Live
The guitar chair is a sound sculpture instrument: a chair that cannot be sat on, a guitar only when it is played. Made from guitar strings affixed onto a chair, this object plays like a musical instrument with electronic pick ups. Through a live-mixing sound performance, the chair will be played live, incorporating samples of the chair and other sculptural instruments as well as field recording and archival material.
soundShoppe
(Andy Sykora, artzenkraft, Bernd Buerklin, Circuit Wound, Drew Kowalski, Gabie Strong, Janet Housden, Joe Potts, Mike Meanstreetz)
soundShoppe is continuous ensemble performance by former participants in a free, monthly, unstructured sound workshop/noise jam for experimental musicians and sound artists presented by SASSAS (The Society for the Activation of Social Space Though Art and Sound) and Center for the Arts Eagle Rock from 2007 thru 2019. All were welcome to join–from experienced musicians to novices.
Star Garden Arts
Squawkers
Peculiar creature sounds emanating from 4-5 hidden locations in a shop setting. Respond to key words in harmony. Each are battery operated.
Stephen Linsley
You’re a Poet don’t ya know it!
“I will be getting members of audience will recite a poem.
So We will get to hear each persons unique reading of said poem.
I’m using Amiri Baraka’s Poem “Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note,” (which is NOT about suicide)
As each person recites poem, it will be recorded and then added to the playback of the accumulation of poems read thus far.
At the end I will edit them together mixing lines and words from each reader to make a composite of poem which I will post on my
YouTube channel. I will be giving out a card with a bar code so they can hear it.”
SynthLab Presents: univac
Electroacoustic Workshop
Several interactive electroacoustic instruments laid out in such a way that audience members will be able to play and experiment.
Toria Kahni Shi
Silence is Deafening (working title)
“Unspoken Flood
Think a secret.
Do not say it.
Let it rise in your throat.
Exhale until the secret turns into sound.
Keep exhaling until it disappears.
Silent thoughts will be recorded with participants around—sound of environment to consider
Part 2 is release sound performance and collab with people
Exhale all sounds that you want to leave the body”
Zach Andrews
Choice Machines
This sound work explores the illusion of choice in capitalism through reduction. This piece distills sustained tones, textures and other sonic artifacts to their most essential shapes. Performed live in a storefront, placing minimalism in direct tension with consumerism. The work highlights a false binary: that life is confined to either absence or abundance, minimal or excessive, quiet or noise. In reality, capitalism thrives on this illusion, offering only extremes while concealing the spaces in between. The performance opens those spaces, brief moments where sound and silence suggest other ways of being, outside the cycle of consumption.