All posts by “wavecave

Luisa Pinzon – Páramo Immersion

Inspired by the Páramo ecosystem, a very particular natural area that is found in only 3 countries in the world. It intends to transmit mostly peace and serenity, while at the same time pretends to make some awareness of the human negative impact and destruction. […]

Electroacoustic Seminar – A Mass

What does musical connection look like in the wake of COVID?  What have we lost? A reflection on the past two years of isolation and digitally-mediated interaction, A MASS seeks to explore the impact of isolation through responsive aural and visual elements. A MASS was a collaborative […]

Jack Herscowitz – Intimate Messages

Intimate Messages is an installation for interactive messaging system, sine tones, contact microphone, paper, and yarn, displayed in the CalArts Wave Cave from April 17-23, 2022. The installation was divided into two phases: an interactive phase for audience engagement and a non-interactive fixed phase. I […]

Alex Hawthorn – The Book of Hours

I initially conceived of The Book of Hours after visiting the exhibition, Transcending Time, at the Getty Museum in late 2021. I was drawn to the devotional aspect of the Canonical Hours, specifically: a schedule of daily prayer eight times a day, roughly every three […]

Jeremy Rosenstock – triadic waveforms

There are three “states” in this piece: (1) where sound and  image are aligned, (2) where sound is filtered in just  intervals, and (3) where sound aligns with the resonances  of driftwood. Image remains unprocessed, as a contrast to  any and all sonic transformations. Through […]

Jaslyn Loftin – Mele o Hawaii (The Music of Hawaii)

This eight-minute installation took audiences on a journey of Hawaiian music: from the earliest documented music to the popular Hawaiian music of today. Visuals shown were the historical locations of which the music was practiced, and musical icons that shaped the sound of that era. […]

Jack Dettling – last work//swan song

last work//swan song (2019) computer-driven piano, 4-channel audio, paintings 50 min last work//swan song is an installation based on the music of German Baroque composer Heinrich Schütz. The use of the computer to reconfigure Baroque music was largely inspired by the arca musarithmica, a 17th-century […]

William Gagliano – Silent Transformations

Silent Transformations is a multi-channel video and sound installation which explores the bi-optic lines of reality and abstraction in relation to the lens by which we view, explore and interact with the landscape through qualitative and quantitative data. William Gagliano (1988, Columbus, United States) is […]

IMUU (Weilu x Kelon) – Doppelgänger III

Doppelgänger III is an interactive audiovisual installation that explores the idea of self-awareness. The “mirror” inside the virtual world manifests the audience’s physical body and their psychological projections. The audience is brought into the VR world seeing a primitive state of the mind and they […]

IMUU (Weilu x Kelon) – Doppelgänger

Doppelgänger is an interactive audiovisual installation that explores the idea of surveillance capitalism. It creates an immersive experience that bridges between the physical body and virtual personas. The audience is invited to interact with multimedia elements and characters in a fictional environment while their behavior […]

Abishek Ramesh – Quantum Entanglement

The installation is largely centered around the idea of ‘place’. As the title suggests, I wondered if there is some unavoidable connection (or pull) between you and your place of birth. What are the effects of that connection when you’re physically placed far, far away? […]