32 SQUARES explores the boundaries of minimalism through a set of ultra-minimalgraphics interpreted by solo players on acoustic and electronic instruments. Each square graphic is projected as large as the wall can accommodate and screened in sync with the corresponding audio. A short set of […]
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Henry Ives- Doppler Study I
Doppler Study I is a kinetic sound art installation that premiered in the CalArts WaveCave on April 28th, 2024. Its inception came from a simple question: “if traditional music composition constitutes continuously manipulating musical qualities over time, how can musical qualities be continuously manipulated over […]
Jules Evens – Cut Happy
Cold Fire – a hand-drawn animation about fragmentation, interruption, nonsense, and error Jules Evens is a musician and visual artist. Through methods of playful analog improvisation and digital experimentation, his work evokes unique sentiments characterized by contradiction: the funny sense of freedom within hopeless pessimism, […]
Arlo Tomecek – Can I Tell You A Secret
Can I Tell You A Secret invited gallery guests to share their personal secrets in a unique and cathartic experience. Secrets were crystalized and remembered throughout the looped soundscape in the exhibition. Arlo Tomeček asked over 40 people to share their secrets and these secrets […]
Matt LeVeque- From the Perspective of Two
In a world where queer art is endlessly fixated on desire, yearning, and reaching, how do queer subjects navigate a post-desire world? How does love change once it is actualized, and how does it continue to act over time? What comes after yearning, and how […]
Kiernan Robinson – A Little Red House on Arbordale Street
This is a piece about memory and place. About those who have loved us, and shaped us. And about how they continue to move us, even when they are gone. Through the speakers overhead you will hear slowed down versions of four different symphonic and […]
Lewis Thompson – Terrain 29
TERRAIN 29 is an interactive installation that pulls the ethereal forces of life and death down to earth. There are two intersecting components: 1.A film made up of several minute-long videos that I captured over the past few months. (i.e., taking a boat to spread my […]
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 […]