soundpedro - 2022

Shih-Lin Hung

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:33:29 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
Sound Poem “Dictator's Signature” for voice solo, or other sounds. (2022)
An endless cycle of disaster, tragedy, and death.
In the current year of 2022, if you look closely at my score and listen to my works, it should not be difficult to guess which dictator I am referring to.
In addition to using vocals to express scenes related to dictators, wars, and massacres, this work can also be used as a performance medium in any way, such as musical instruments, objects, and even electronic music.(As the subtitle says: "for voice solo, or other sounds.")

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About the artist(s):
Shih-Lin Hung is based in Taiwan. His music zeroes in on personal emotions and every moment of life.

Artist Location: Taiwan
Social Media: Artist Website

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ok nephew

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:29:27 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
Free Shadow Boxing Lessons

A lesson worth taking.
Bob and weave, ignore the phone, order food, stay home, check phone, turn the lights off, talk to yourself for a hour, create a fake situation, now get out of it , acknowledge your reflection, guilty for being, there’s no such thing as “I”, food’s here.

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About the artist(s):
ok nephew is a musician/soundwiz born in Los Angeles and currently based in San Pedro. He presents sharp expressions of hard knock textures over chaotic pleasures for the sake of communicating. Language is merely sound.

Artist Location: San Pedro, CA
Social Media: Instagram

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nostoppinganytime

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:27:01 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
Something Nonsensical
“Something Nonsensical” examines the use of AI and its relationship to artists and their art. Using a poem generator, a simple PD Patch, and some software for ciphering the generated text, we created the entire piece with the simple prompt, “Something Nonsensical”. In a time where AI is commonplace, and artists are examining the validity and role of this tool for making art, we explored the idea of creating a predominantly computer-generated piece of work and then reintroducing the human element. The pd patch intermingles these elements: while the poem and sounds are created entirely with a computer, it needs a human voice to activate it, bringing it to life. The power balance between the intelligibility of the reader and the disruptive patch allows the audience to question: who is the performer and who is the filter? Are you able to make something solely through the process of random generators and have a meaningful connection to it? Or is it something nonsensical?

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About the artist(s):
nostoppinganytime is a Los Angeles based duo featuring Eric Lennartson and m a harms. Using drums as resonant bodies, field recordings, and everyday objects, they deliberately create a chaotic atmosphere. Pressing, intense, and observant, their improvisations span a wide range of energies. Much like hanging out around a campfire, they navigate sharing emotions, stories, and life experiences around shared setups through the medium of their improvisations.

Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA
Social Media: Artist Website | Instagram | Instagram

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Mystic Elevator

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:25:03 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
AHKESPLUM
AHKESPLUM deconstructs and reconstructs Abigail's improvised gibberish. The text imitates an improvised passage of deconstructed words in one of Abigail's improvisations. Abigail reinterprets this transcription as quickly as possible to transform the text while Jack adds a slowly enveloping distortion to build the intensity of this poetic outburst.

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About the artist(s):
Mystic Elevator is an improvisation duo using live vocals (Abigail Whitman, she/her) and electronic loops (Jack Herscowitz, he/him). The two are LA-based and perform in a variety of indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the city, adapting their sound to respond to the environment in which they find themselves. Abigail explores new ways of sound production with the voice by using extended techniques such as screaming, word deconstruction, gibberish, and haunting melodic lines. Jack carefully distorts these sounds through live processing in Max/MSP, deconstructing the very core of the voice and isolating minute details of performance.

Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA
Social Media:

Abigail's Website | Jack's Website | Instagram | Bandcamp

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Leeqsol Mullein

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:23:32 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
Pace Babbling
This piece is a reflection of feelings of seasonal shifts - inspired by "Race Babbling" by Stevie Wonder. A mix of babbles over the time with videos that were crafted when communicating how I process information received from various experiences. It features me babbling and an instrumental titled "House Shoes Blues" by J Dilla.

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About the artist(s):
Malik “Sol” Coburn (he/they) is a crate digging, oracle card reading, eclectic earth servant and learning teacher hailing from Potawotami/Miami/Illinois territory - also known as inner city Chicago. Sol has dedicated their life to finding spaces where care for the earth, people, and sharing resources is embraced and illuminated.

He has a genuine non-stop curiosity for embodying processes that are taught by nature. This is channeled through cultivating fun and culturally sensitive curricula; co-curation of events; and consulting with those who seek to find the parallels to their daily lives in nature.

Artist Location: Chapel Hill, NC
Social Media: Artist Website

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David Kendall

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:16:29 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
Vowel Trio Catalog
Every vowel, as synthesized in every localization offered by MacOS. Arranged as a trio, with U as the guiding voice.

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About the artist:
A native of Southern California, David Kendall has been working on the edges of the noise, improvised music and sound art communities for over 20 years. David Kendall is interested in generative musical or conceptual ideas--processes that unfold and develop over years through repetition and consistency.

Artist Location: Los Angeles
Social Media: Bandcamp

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Aglaíze Damasceno

sheri — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 18:06:22 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
my friends
Sound poem with the abstract reading of the name of some of my friends.

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About the artist:
Multidisciplinary artist. Researches and carries out projects in arts, visual languages, musical culture and sound arts.

Artist Location: Juazeiro do Norte, Ceará - Brazil
Social Media: Bandcamp

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Amy Melissa Reed

sheri — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:56:18 +0000

ACE [artist curated event] online video October 14th:
Listening with my father
This project is a meditation on navigating my father's rapid loss of hearing and collaborating together as a improviser and composer and listeners. My father has worked with heavy machinery most his life, loves music, and loves to listen to and to tell stories. Navigating hearing loss informs our work together and new ways of listening/composing. This new work is a meditation on the visual as sound and ways to listen through hearing loss. These new visual and sonic scores emerge from working with new ways to communicate through sound via listening with my father.

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About the Artist:
Amy Melissa Reed is a California Painter and improviser working in the realms of Creative and Electronic Music, Guitar and Song, Telematic and Networked performance. Moving in and contributing to practices of listening, sound, performance, video, composition, ecology, peace and community building.

They have performed and worked with Biggi Vinkeloe, Pauline Oliveros, Ione, and Anne Bourne

They founded Ma Series in 2013 creating a space for women composers and improvisers to curate, workshop, and perform new work and we co-founded MA SERIES ARTS in 2018 an artist-led organization of support. Ordained as Priestess in 2020 and invited Board of Trustee at the Ministry of Maåt 2022.

Artist Location: Auburn

Social Media: Artist website | Instagram

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Jim Andrews

sheri — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 01:10:29 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry]:
Woork of Art
From my period of awakening as an artist in 1987.

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VBODOBV [sounding videos]:
Enigma n^2022
Enigma n^2022 is a philosophical poetry and music toy for musicians, poets and philosophers from the age of 7 up. It's voice-based interactive granular synthesis + color music + digital poetry. The audio, which is listenable for hours, is nonetheless all sampled from a 5 second recording of the word 'meaning' spoken backwards once, forwards twice. This is the sound of the meaning of meaning of meaning. This is the look of the parsing and making of meaning.

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About the artist:
Jim Andrews has been publishing vispo.com since 1996. It is the center of his work as a poet-programmer. On it, you find interactive poetry of many types: visual, sonic, wordular, and all combos thereof. His life's work as a literary artist is this web site.

Through his work, Andrews has been taking poetry places it's never been, and to work with it in a synthesis of arts and media via programming; to explore the poetical possibs of the web as a serious medium for textual art, visual art, sonic art, interactive art, and communications art synthesized via programming, beyond baby steps from print, deep into a new sort of literacy.

Artist Location:
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Social Media: Artist Website

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Mariah Anne Johnson

sheri — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:23:04 +0000

VBODOBV [sounding videos]:
Rehearsal
I explore the lived reality of bodily experience in the landscape through art making. I use my body as a tool for direct exploration of the world around me, defining edges, filling spaces, and calling attention to natural phenomena.

Sound has recently become an important trigger for and component of my creative work. During the years of the COVID-19 pandemic, as family life became compressed and time distorted, I began to notice the sounds that populate my existence; chief among these is my son’s daily piano practice. Rehearsal is a response to this experience of repetitive listening: focusing energy and attention, anticipating mistakes, balancing emotional involvement with intellectual detachment, and coming to understand a musician’s own patterns of breath, variation, and hesitation. The overlapping images and recordings illustrate this accumulation of layers of sensory experience.

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About the artist:
Mariah Anne Johnson explores the physical realities of bodily experience and art making in the landscape through drawing, movement, and installation. Originally from Little Rock, Arkansas, she focused on art and literature at Rice University while performing with Rice Dance Theater, earning her MFA from the University of Illinois in 2006. Her work has been shown around the US and abroad.

Through teaching, international residencies, and open-ended multi-media projects, she keeps her studio practice open to new ideas and methodologies. She currently lives with her family in Los Angeles, where she continues to find the adventure in art making.

Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA
Social Media: Artist Website | Instagram

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