The first soundpedro took place at Angels Gate Cultural Center on June 3, 2017, 5-10pm.
In 2013, 100 years after the release of Luigi Russolo’s Futurist manifesto “The Art of Noises,” the Long Beach-based art group, FLOOD, presented its last SoundWalk.
With SoundWalk gone, sound artists and art professionals felt a vacuum. Following the final SoundWalk, however, sound artists and art professionals perceived a vacuum. They had lost a high-profile event that introduced mainstream communities to sound art, a form often relegated to the margins. In response, Amy Eriksen, Executive Director of Angels Gate Cultural Center, approached FLOOD with the proposition of starting soundpedro. Angels Gate was fertile ground for this endeavor. In 1998, the venue had initiated experiments in the area of sound that would move out of San Pedro and lead to the creation of the Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS) in Los Angeles.
Performances & Installations by:
Aught Collective/Hot Tomorrows, Glenn Bach, Borderline Antigone, Terry Braunstein, César Dávila-Irizarry, The Dirty Chaps, Ear Meal Webcast, Martin Espino & William Almas , Wolf Gowin & Tom Zear, heare, The Laptop Ensemble, Janet Lozada, MicDrop, New Culture Media Group, phog masheeen, Tom Peters, RadioMachineMagazine, sARTe, Susan Rawcliffe, Steven Speciale, TV-MA, Whereas…DivineBrick & BrenNoid, Roxanne Varzi, Elouise Walker, wikiGong, X EYES
Through June 19
Ear Meal Webcast • Terry Braunstein & MLuM • Aught/Collective Hot Tomorrows • Elouise Walker
SynthLab sound art performances, Building H:
5:00 PM – Sander Roscoe Wolff
5:45 PM – QRUX
6:30 PM – Loren Nerell
7:15 PM – Som
8:00 PM – Rychard Cooper
8:30 PM – Faraday Cage
9:15 PM – foreign native
Visuals by univac
Atlas Place sound art performances, Building F:
5:00 PM Southern California Soundscape Ensemble
5:30 PM Panel Discussion: “Atlas Place: Living Sound in Los Angeles” (moderator: Glenn Bach; panelists: Steve Roden, Robert Crouch, Yann Novak)
6:30 PM Steve Roden
7:30 PM Robert Crouch
8:30 PM Yann Novak
9:30 PM Southern California Soundscape Ensemble
Learn more about soundpedro 2017 Artists HERE
EVENT MAP & PROGRAM
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Thanks to Angels Gate Cultural Center, soundpedro 2017 participants, and event visitors, soundpedro 2017 was a successful, well-attended event. It was heartening to know that a new and regular gathering of sound artists had commenced. Were it not for everyone’s efforts, Southern California still might be lamenting the absence of a larger-scale sound event.