soundpedro - 2023

Alexandros Hadjitimotheou

sheri — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 01:08:47 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
SPARAGMATA
I admire the way that Renos Apostolides used to read the poems. He had a passion about transfering the world of the poem through his voice. That's why I decided to use for this miniature his voice, with the rich timbre and dynamic changes.

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About the artist:
Alexandros Hadjitimotheou (1997) is a composer and sound artist based in Greece and Italy. Currently he is a student at the Tor Vergata University of Rome where he stundies "Sonic Arts". His work have been performed in several places around the world and his interest is around soundscape composition, field recordings and sound art.

Artist Location: Florina/Greece
Social Media: instagram

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Ajani Brannum

sheri — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 01:05:54 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
An hiatus
For the past two years, I've explored some of the stories that live in my stomach and diaphragm. As I probe the memories, myths, and metaphors that shape my understanding of my body, I wonder: how do these stories bear witness to trauma and violence? How can I rewrite these stories? How can they help me practice more unruly ways of being alive? What lurks in the gap between the body I know, and the body I am forever emerging into?
I learn so much from my vital organs. True to the descriptor, they are wonderfully alive -- and incredibly talkative. Here, in An hiatus, I invite them to conversation. What you hear and see is a transcript of our dialogue.

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About the artist:
Ajani Brannum (they/them) is an artist working between performance, writing, digital media, facilitation, and divination. Guided by a commitment to psycho-spiritual inquiry, Ajani examines the stories that structure our being-in-the-world. Ajani has presented work at REDCAT, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Performance Practice, Pieter Performance Space, Highways Performance Space, on tabletops and screens, in classrooms, and when no one is looking.

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

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Vav Vavrek

sheri — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:57:42 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
sublimeControl/subliminalControl
sublimeControl/subliminalControl started out as two distinct poems created from virtual modular synthesis patches in VCV Rack 2; constructed through sequencing the Surge XT Twist Oscillator, which includes a vocoder type virtual synth with a limited vocabulary. Processing of the poems led to integrating them into each other as an amalgamation; allowing the listeners to devour meaning while the audio devours itself. The growl was initially the word generate, now slowed to sublime rising growl with a rumbling echo, and all that remains from the first poem, Sublime Control. Subliminal Control consists of the words universal filter control alpha echo and the shimmering echoes that they create giving other words, including friend. All the sounds in this piece come from the words, their reverberations, and their temporal deconstructions, offering a meditative opportunity to consider the invisible controls applied to oneself and one's life.

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About the artist:
Vav Vavrek earned his MFA in Sculpture / 4D from California State University at Long Beach and is currently a PhD student in Media Study with the University at Buffalo where he is applying research into affect theory, crip technoscience, and physical computing to interactive artworks and live & virtual audio-visual performances. His artwork has received press from The Arizona Republic, The Phoenix New Times, the OC Art Blog, ABC News 15, and Arizona Highways TV. He currently lives in Almond, NY and works out of his home studio and his offices in Alfred and Buffalo.

Artist Location: Alfred, NY
Social Media: Artist Website | instagram | soundcloud | YouTube

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ILIAS LIOSATOS

sheri — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:52:15 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
P(h)o(n)em(e)_short
A phoneme is the basic element of the majority of the languages all around the world. What are the vocal limits and their relation to the geographical boundaries? Hearing them is like hearing our roots and how much these are connected throughout the history. Exploring them could emerge our imagination of their future sound or form. Even more by associating them to the sounds around us, whether they are born from humans, animals, objects or everything else than can produce them. This piece is a first attempt to experiment and to experience the world of phonetics. I like to see it as an evolutionary sound poem.

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About the artist:
Ilias Liosatos started by studying materials' science and his passion for the sound led him to work with a stringed instruments' maker. Since then he immersed himself to that abstract feeling of controlling each step of a sound object
manufacturing. Indeed the control of such a process is limited to "abstract" which ever since has its unique contribution in his sound projects. Today I'm still fascinated by this approach, which seeks to strike a balance between the concreteness of science and the "free will" of sound objects, whether analog or digital.

Artist Location: Greece - France
Social Media: Artist Website

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Sam Anthem & Lorenzo Osterheim

sheri — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 00:47:36 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
Funeral in my Brain
"Funeral in my Brain" is an adaptation/fragmentation of Emily Dickinson's poem, "I Felt a Funeral in my Brain." We use the poem as a frame to make sense of the experience of undergoing an MRI and viewing these images of one's insides. Accordingly, we've mapped the poem and a real MRI image of one of the artist's body on top of their body, and then perform the poem in harmony with electronic sounds imitating, mutating, and relating to the sounds produced by an MRI machine.

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About the artists:
Sam Anthem is a sound and performance artist who approaches art and life as a fool and a guest: a fool because they are critical of status quo knowing; a guest because they walk on land and move through space that is never their own. Accordingly, as an artist who unclaims and resists “craft” and “mastery,” they platform agencies of (other) affects, collaborators, species, and materials.

Artist Location: Chicago, Illinois
Social Media: Artist Website | instagram

Lorenzo Osterheim is a Los Angeles based artist-researcher, whose works are a reflection on the individual's phenomenological relationship to digital media and technologies. In a variety of mediums Using humor and the absurd Osterheim brings forth or makes present the technological enframing of everyday activities.

Artist Location: Irwindale, CA
Social Media: Instagram

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comar muwaren & Chung Shih Hoh

sheri — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 17:02:47 +0000

UnƧightly [Sound Poetry] online Nov 19th:
Moirology
Channeled experientially and epigenetically, are muted soundpoems inscribed on tablets of sound batting.

muwaren chose to mashup and arrange performances of 忆故人 (Remembering an Old Friend) and 秋江夜泊 (On a Boat in Autumn Night by the River) performed by Singaporean composer and guqin master Chung Shih Hoh.

These renditions were both an appreciation and consolation, by Chung Shih, for his first composition teacher, as the latter was nearing the end of life.

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Performance at Nomad II: soundprints
October 29, 2023
Part of the Torrance Art Museum's NOMAD II

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About the Artist:
comar muwaren grew up inside an animal hospital. After long days, in Catholic school, comar returned home to bark in cages and to assist his father in birthing, operating on, and in euthanizing beloved pets.

Now, a sick puppy themself, comar takes on the ancient-ish role of auto-moirologist (a funereal actor compensated to lament, eulogize and grieve themself).

Takeshi Kanemura & Cris Law

sheri — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:58:35 +0000

Performance at Nomad II: soundprints
October 29, 2023
Part of the Torrance Art Museum's NOMAD II

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About the Artist:
Southern California-based Performance/Installation artist Takeshi Kanemura was born in Okinawa, Japan, and lives and works in Los Angeles. Kanemura has exhibited internationally in Japan, Taiwan, and the U.S. He received a BA from University of California, Riverside, an MA from California State University, San Bernardino, and an MFA from Claremont Graduate University. Kanemura has transcended traditional Japanese art and absorbed those practices into his current art form of mixed media performance art. With the influences of Japanese performance dancing called Butoh, traditional large scale Japanese brush stroke painting, and traditional music, Kanemura’s current pieces incorporate all these elements with Americanized flair, to humbly represent the new present-day American status: the amalgamation of one’s identity. Kanemura proudly displays the identity of the Japanese-American. His goals with his art are to promote cultural awareness and the embracing of all cultural heritages.

Artist Location: Los Angeles, CA

Devin Sarno

sheri — Tue, 10 Oct 2023 21:48:04 +0000

Performance at Nomad II: soundprints
October 29, 2023
Part of the Torrance Art Museum's NOMAD II

Thru the use of varied sound devices and field recordings both statically embedded in a given environment and also physically coaxed thru movement, the intent is to provide an undulating aural experience that plays upon the contrasts of distance and intimacy within the listening process.

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About the artist:
Over three decades, Devin Sarno has cultivated an esteemed position in the Los Angeles underground. Beginning with his dalliances in the fertile experimentation of mid-80’s SST Records bands (including providing lyrics for Saccharine Trust) and onto his ruminative ventures into high-frequency noise and low- end facing drone under the CRIB alias and his own name, Sarno’s prodigious itinerary of critically-lauded solo and collaborative ventures reveal an experimental ear with an unremitting dedication to his craft.

Social Media: Artist Website

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Grace Shannon

sheri — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:15:20 +0000

ACE [artist curated event]
Audio presentation, Program #3 October 29th:
Bioacoustic Variability
Bioacoustics as a means of data collection is a unique and developing field. Soundscape ecology allows for biological research through the application of biophonic sound intake (species identification, biodiversity estimations, etc.), but also presents the increasing intervention of anthropophonic sound and its implications.

"Bioacoustic Variability" examines birdsong recorded in Long Beach and in San Pedro’s White Point Nature Preserve. The reception of birdsong by the human ear has been studied and interpreted scientifically, recreationally, and spiritually. "Bioacoustic Variability" receives and manipulates this sound and the created environment, as human interference disrupts the natural and instinctive communication & processes of its organisms.

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About the artist(s):
Grace Shannon is a musician based in San Pedro. She is studying Environmental Science & Policy at California State University Long Beach with interests in geology, sustainability, and environmental justice. Her music is published under Gustopher Bones, and her recent work takes inspiration from geologic processes and earth systems. She is a local performer and music teacher at the Gray School of Music.

Artist Location: San Pedro, CA
Social Media: Spotify | bandcamp | Instagram

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Chad Eby

sheri — Tue, 19 Sep 2023 22:12:58 +0000

ACE [artist curated event]
Audio presentation, Program #1 October 27th:
Wire Ghost Garden
In the Wireghost Garden is a generative sound piece which arises from a simulation of spring networks, physically modeled resonators, and synthetic tape delays. Once initiated, the system runs autonomously creating an ethereal but somewhat threatening soundscape of uncertain acoustic ecology.

A modified version of this piece was exhibited as part of a geolocated technologically-mediated soundwalk at Studio 300 in October of 2021 at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.

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About the artist(s):
Chad Eby creates work, by turns stark and whimsical, that explores humanity's fraught relationship with made objects using sound, light, and digital tools.

He is fascinated by the complex relationships between digital and physical objects and between artists and autonomous art-making systems. He has never had a day so good that it could not be improved by a great cup of coffee.

Artist Location: Lexington, KY
Social Media: Artist Website

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