Submit your video and digital works for “Earmaginations,” a curated project that adds greater conceptual breadth to soundpedro by moving beyond sound to “ear orientation.”

Submit all sound-oriented works to the General Call.

The “Earmaginations” event will add greater conceptual breadth to soundpedro by moving beyond sound to “ear orientation.” Taking place at Angels Gate Cultural Center, soundpedro is an annual event, produced by the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD.

Here are a few more highlights from soundpedro 2018.

Francene Kaplan noted there is something primal, starting in infancy, about hitting an object to create a sound—cause and effect with input sonic instead of visual. She also noted that there are lots of guidelines and parameters regarding painting or sculpture, but participants at sound art events have no prior expectations as to what may be good or bad as in other art media shows. This allows sound artists more freedom and less fear of judgment.

Zzyzxzyzz's performance of a synchronized visual and sonic environment was created in an intimate print shop setting. It contrasted the extremes of minimal and maximal, light and dark, loud and quiet, rhythmic and arrhythmic in order to explore the variety of ways in which participants listened. Their set used electromagnetic sensors that recorded battery chargers, a Microsoft Zune, hard drives, bike lights, portable phone chargers and a CD player. These everyday objects, that are often unheard, provided a sonic landscape in this post-industrial world.

Dillon Bastan's "fluctuations" was an interactive sound installation that centered on the viewer’s experience with motion, sound and setting without a communicated theme or narrative via text. The swings’ hinges had contact microphones on them which were amplified and sent through speakers. The various amplified rhythms of the swings created a dynamic and trance-like sonic experience.