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Film Screening at KINDL Berlin November 13th

My sound design works are represented in Federico Cuatlcauatl’s films at the KINDL in Berlin on Nov 13th.

Returned from the Fall 2024 Arctic Circle Artst Residency

I was one of the recipients of the Fall 2024 Arctic Circle Artist Residency. My goal for this voyage was to capture the authentic sonic essence of the Arctic, moving beyond the artificial portrayal often found in big-budget TV and movie nature documentaries. I wanted to experience the environment as a symphony, listening to as many of the instruments that contribute to the rich cacophony of Arctic sounds as possible. This included recording audio both above and below the water, even drilling into ancient glaciers to attach specialized microphones to capture the inner resonances they hold. Additionally, I utilized a data-collecting buoy developed by the brilliant team at Sofar, known for their work in gathering diverse types of scientific data from the world’s oceans.

Using the data and sounds collected from the glaciers in the western and northern fjords of Svalbard, I plan to transform this information into musical instrumentation and explore ways to modulate the recordings for both sound and video compositions. The aim is to highlight and examine the fragile Arctic ecosystem, which is rapidly changing as the climate warms to unprecedented levels. Witnessing these immense, seemingly stable glaciers crumble into the ocean underscored the earth’s environmental fragility. Through my work, I hope to convey the urgency of this message and use my research to illuminate the impact of climate change on these majestic yet vulnerable landscapes.(first photo by Sabine Schründer)

Mutek UAE 2024

Erika Tsuchiya and I performed in the dome at the mini Mutek AE festival in May of 2024. We collaborated on a live set that took audio and visual elements of Doha Qatar and made them into a immersive experience.

Article in Attack Magazine for work Erika and I have done in the IMS at VCUQ

Sound Design project for Federico Cuatlacuatl

I created the sound design for this film, Un tiempero bien rasquache

Sound Design for Amy Young’s VR experience

IMS Live at Tasmeem VCUArts Qatar 2022 - Set 2 from Erika Tsuchiya & Josh Rodenberg.

RhizomeDC Fundraiser

<a href="http://rhizomedc.bandcamp.com/album/stolon-vol-1">Stolon Vol 1 by Rhizome DC</a>

Works from Signal Culture Artist Residency

In a little town called Owego (not Oswego) NY, is a vibrant gem of synthesis. I was lucky enough to attend the Signal Culture Artist Residency for a week with full access to video synthesis equipment that most could only dream of and another large percentile would have no idea what to do with. I processed imagery and audio from the Rasquache Artist Residency that I attended earlierin the summer to create these new works.

Soniverse: Augmented sythesizer, sampler, and site specific sound experience.

With the help from a designer/developer Meredith Brindley, we have been creating an augmented reality application for sound performances and installations. The App will allow users to record samples, create synthesized sounds, manipulate edit and rearrange compositions. The idea is that you can create a soundtrack for a particular area and install that track in geographic locations. You’ll be able to visit tracks in other locations using that app. Prototyping is still commencing and will hopefully be ready for beta testing by winter. stay tuned!

Becoming Biodiversity Intro from Amy Youngs on Vimeo.

So far 2019 has been a year for collabrative projects. New media artist Amy Youngs designed and built a beautiful augmented reality app for mobile platforms and I created the sound design.

From Amy’s site “An augmented reality application that encourages participants to explore and experience local, ecological networks present in an urban park site. Cell phones and headphones are used to experience this artwork, which includes mixed-reality animations and storytelling as an overlay to the actual park. The experience is an embodied one, designed to connect humans empathetically with the biodiversity, symbioses, and unseen worlds in public park spaces.“ read more here

Six channel video and sound Installation at Capital One headquarters

Finding the Time is a collection of audio and video recordings done at the Mountain Lake Biological Research Station in Albemarle County, VA during an artist residency attendance in the summer of 2018. Joshua Rodenberg was invited to the program to collect field recordings and to collaborate with biological research faculty and students from across the country.

While at the residency the artist created a daily ritual of walking into the vast Appalachian flora, documenting hi excursions electronically through mobile tracking applications, video and audio recordings. The main focus was to capture the energy of the area and strip it down to it’s bare essences by focusing on residual environmental frequencies and color palettes. With this piece, the artists is abstracting how audio and visuals are received by condensing them in a short but heighten experiences.

“The piece is a ten minute loop representing my daily ritual of hikes in the morning, afternoon and evening. The intention is not to sit and see/hear every second but to have a escape from your daily routine of walking from one point to another. The piece was specifically created for the. The sounds are frequencies that some believe have healing properties. Each video and speaker has a different soundtrack intended to alleviate stress, anxiety and anger. These sounds are woven together with melodies and are interlaced in the composition to create a sensation of conscientiousness. The intention is for the viewer to be transcended to a place that reminds them of a joyous experience they may have had.