Beatie Wolfe
Musical weirdo and visionary” (Vice) Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and held a solo exhibition of her ‘world first’ designs at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum. Named by WIRED as one of “22 people changing the world,” Wolfe is at the forefront of pioneering […]
Carmina Escobar
Carmina Escobar is a Los Angeles-based extreme vocalist, improviser, performer, and sound and intermedia artist whose work explores the boundaries of voice and sound to investigate emotions, politics, alienation, and human connection. Through performances, installations, and video works, she challenges conventions of musicality, gender, queerness, race, language, and communication. As an immigrant, her practice often […]
claire rousay
claire rousay is a Canadian-American musician, composer, and artist currently living in Los Angeles. rousay’s work operates in genre-spanning fashion; she is primarily known for composing highly emotive, whisper-quiet musical works that heavily forefront musique concrète and sound design elements like haptic sound and field recordings. These avant garde elements are often paired with strings, […]
L. Frank
L. Frank (they, them, pó) is the nom d’arte of L. Frank Manriquez, a Tongva/Acjachemem/Rarámuri two-spirited artist, writer, tribal scholar, decolonizationist, native canoe maker/revivalist, and indigenous language activist. Pó has been involved with Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival and Tongva Taraxat Paxaaavxa Conservancy and serves on the board of The Cultural Conservancy. Pó lives […]
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, music director, producer, and educator from Los Angeles, California. He has recorded on over 600 albums, films and TV shows, collaborating with the likes of Ray Charles, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Stevie Wonder, Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Esa Pekka Salonen, Smokey Robinson, Wayne Shorter, Billy Higgins, Ray Brown, Brad Mehldau, […]
Odeya Nini
Odeya Nini is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary vocalist, composer, vocal embodiment coach and sound meditation practitioner. Her work has been performed internationally from concert halls to galleries, tunnels and caves and has been presented at venues such as The LA Phil, Merkin Concert Hall, The Broad Museum, and MONA from Los Angeles to Australia, Mongolia, […]
Qur’an Shaheed
Qur’an Shaheed is an experimental pianist, poet, singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA. Trained extensively in jazz, classical and contemporary music, her sound is innovative and personal, incorporating elements of improvisation as well as neo-classical and neo-soul techniques. Shaheed also composes film scores, focusing on projects that reflect on society, history and unifying […]
Sarah Rara
Sarah Rara’s multi-disciplinary practice— including video, sound, performance, and writing— explores the position of witness within fragile systems, and the socio-political and personal dimensions of sensing technologies. They are a primary organizer of the ongoing project lucky dragons (2005-present). Their work, solo and in collaboration, has been presented at such institutions as the Whitney Museum […]