PARTICIPANTS
SOUNDBOX 6 | 2023 PARTICIPANTS | MAY 22ND - MAY 26TH, 2023
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Jennifer Richter
Jennifer Richter's teaching and research interests include medical humanities, the prose poem, and the hybrid form. As Internship and Outreach Coordinator, she fosters on-campus and community partnerships and places current MFA and MA students in teaching, editing, research, and arts administration internships. Her second collection, No Acute Distress, was named a Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Editor's Selection and was released in March 2016. Richter's first book of poems, Threshold, has been a national bestseller and was named a 2011 Oregon Book Awards Finalist by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky. Her work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, The Missouri Review, and A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-five Years of Women’s Poetry. She received her BA from Indiana University and her MFA from Penn State. She was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Jones Lectureship in Poetry by Stanford University, where she taught in the Creative Writing Program for four years.
MFA poetry workshop: “What the World Needs Now”
This spring, I titled my ENG 589 graduate poetry workshop “What the World Needs Now” and designed it as a study of the love poem. All term, we’re reading and writing poetry that acknowledges the darkness in our life while also finding and articulating points of light within it. For this project, my MFA students have written love poems to a place: a particular natural place that they’ve been to at least once and that has brought them peace or joy. Midway through their generative process, I interrupted the students’ momentum—they had to “remix” a randomly chosen image (written by one of their fellow poets) into their drafts-in-progress and then write the second half of the poem from that new launch point. We’re thrilled to be part of “Soundbox Six: Biosphere Remix.” The biosphere sustains us. So do love poems.
Featured Poets from Jennifer Richter's ENG 589 MFA Workshop:
Andrew Mobbs, “Organ Pipe”
Andrew Alexander Mobbs (he/him/his) is the author of one chapbook, Strangers and Pilgrims (Six Gallery Press, 2013). A Pushcart Prize nominee, he's grateful that his poems are forthcoming/have appeared in Crab Creek Review, Arkansas Review, Frontier Poetry, Ghost Ocean Magazine, and elsewhere. In June 2023, he will earn his MFA in Creative Writing from Oregon State University, and he plans to compile a full-length poetry collection before the end of the summer.
Anna Gayle, “falling in love with the desert in Moab, Utah”
Anna Gayle is a poet, educator, and artist whose work is interested in black womanhood, collective femininity, and chronic illness. She is an MFA candidate in poetry at Oregon State University where she serves as the arts & comics editor for literary magazine 45th Parallel. Her poems have been published, or are forthcoming, in One Art, Rogue Agent, The Mantle, Thimble Lit Magazine, and elsewhere, and have been nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology and a Pushcart Prize.
Nola Iwasaki, “Poem from the River, Alsea”
Nola Iwasaki is a poet living and writing in Oregon. She is currently a Creative Writing MFA candidate at OSU.
Hannah Ariesen, “Late at Night I Dream of Canyons”
Hannah Ariesen is a first-year MFA candidate in poetry from Las Vegas, Nevada. Coming from the desert, experiencing nature in the Pacific Northwest has been nothing but inspiring and awe-inducing. In their writing, they enjoy exploring the relationship between the self, the spirit, the natural world, and how those things are connected beyond the human experience. When not writing, you can find them walking aimlessly in parks and having conversations with trees.
Natalie Patterson, “Sikes Cut, St. George Island”
Natalie Eleanor Patterson is a poet, editor, and instructor from Atlanta, Georgia. She is the author of the chapbook Plainhollow (dancing girl press, 2022) and the editor of Dream of the River (Jacar Press, 2021), and has work featured or forthcoming in Sinister Wisdom, Hunger Mountain, CALYX, and elsewhere. She is currently an MFA candidate in poetry at Oregon State University.
Lila Cutter, “Morning on the Mendocino Bluffs”
Lila Cutter is an MFA candidate at Oregon State University with a background in equitable arts education work. Her poetry often refracts perceptions of femininity filtered through place and has appeared in The Racket Journal, Landfill Journal, and Oatmeal Magazine, among others. Though originally from Iowa, she spent the past 5 years in Oakland, CA.
Rachel Villa, “On the Sea Cliffs of the Tasman Peninsula”
R.T. Villa is an artist from the mid-Atlantic. They're currently an MFA candidate at Oregon State University, where they push at the gelatinous boundaries between literary genres and teach composition. Their work explores inheritance, distance, dependence, and the outer edges of human perception. Her words have appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Believer, and Grub Street, among others. Outside of the classroom, she spends her time making collages, bugging her cat, and frolicking in the sunshine.
Chet Udell & Students
The OSU Sensor Tech and the Arts class is a co-listed undergraduate CLA course focusing on the integration of sensor technology in creative practice. It is also part of the Design for Social Impact certificate program.
Weather Chimes Demo
Many people in the United States are disconnected from their environment: urban residents spend 90% of their time indoors inside confined climate-controlled spaces. In addition to being physically separated from the natural environment, much of human understanding of the world is inferred from data collected by satellites orbiting 22,000 miles away. Irish Bend Covered Bridge 2023 is a site-specific installation and live performance that uses internet-connected sensors, and real-time data sonification and visualization techniques to remix the sights and sounds of its local environment. Audio samples and visual material are collected from the environment and shaped by the weather data. Sound and video projection mapping will be presented on-site.
Catherine Lee
Considered a “new breed of instrumental specialist,” (New Music Buff) Dr. Catherine Lee offers “immaculate, masterful oboe playing” (The Double Reed) in combination with inspired and discerning musicality across an impressive range of genres and styles. With a Juno Award nomination for Classical Album of the Year (solo artist), Lee’s second solo album, Remote Together (2021 – Redshift), received unanimously positive reviews from an international array of media. Lee is on faculty at Willamette University and holds a Doctor of Music in Oboe Performance from McGill University, and certification from the Deep Listening Institute.
Flutterings (2022): An interspecies collaboration with the domestic silk worm moth
Catherine Lee, oboe, with the SCI programmed by Taylor Brook .I have spent the past 4 summers raising domestic silkworm moths, and they have been a profound source of inspiration. I recorded this piece live using a single microphone placed directly in the box with the adult silk moths. This microphone captured both the buzzing of the male silk moth wings and my improvisation on oboe in response to them. These sounds were sent directly into the SCI, which listens, learns, and improvises with the sounds it has heard.
Rebecca Sabine
Rebecca Sabine BA, CMT-P is a concert violinist, composer, recording artist, and certified mindfulness meditation teacher. She graduated from OSU in 2022, receiving the Outstanding Senior award in Liberal Studies. Rebecca has played for Lady Gaga, Celine Dion and Adele in Las Vegas. Her published articles include IAWM (fall 2022) and The Journal of Performance and Mindfulness (2023) Recording as the Violin/Noir duo with composer/producer Aaron Ramsey, their silent film scores are released on DVD by Kino Lorber. Their meditation music is published on the Insight Timer app with over 38K plays.
Chasmic Surfacings
I was inspired to record “Chasmic Surfacings” while listening online to field recordings of whale songs. The resounding pulses of the colossal fin whale are so low as to be almost out of the range of human hearing. It stirred me to create a piece of music from a new sonic perspective...a violin improvisation in duet with the thrilling tones produced by the largest animal of the sea. As I played my violin in my home studio, I imagined a whale in the deep ocean, her songs booming through the waters.
Emmet Ritter
Emmet Ritter is a painter and graphic designer from Denton, Texas. He will be graduating from Oregon State University with a BFA in graphic design in Spring 2023. He uses art to express complex themes of death, sexual assault, and homelessness.
sounds of pleasure indistinguishable from sounds of pain
Assignment 1 for ART 383, Abstract Painting II. An abstract interpretation of how the sounds of bird calls, similar to human noises, are difficult to clarify as joyful & pleasurable noises versus painful & fearful noises.
Songwriters Workshop Showcase (with Friends)
Songwriters' Workshop Showcase from Bob Santelli's class, along with guest acts. Including: Jeremy Haney, Skylar Kim, Ethan Morton, Fiona Daley, Annabella Eisner, Kainoa Dall, Mackenzie Ruff, Drew Robertson, Hunter Price, Ian Shields, Coastal Saturday, Bluessence and more.
sounds of pleasure indistinguishable from sounds of pain
Join us for a live 3 hour event to close out Soundbox 6 (Friday night 6-9PM)!
Songwriters' Workshop Showcase from Bob Santelli's class, along with guest acts. Including: Jeremy Haney, Skylar Kim, Ethan Morton, Fiona Daley, Annabella Eisner, Kainoa Dall, Mackenzie Ruff, Drew Robertson, Hunter Price, Ian Shields, Coastal Saturday, Bluessence and more.
Wyatt Cross
Wyatt Cross (they/he) is a Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Queer Studies graduate student at Oregon State University. Their research at OSU revolves around the ways in which queer folks from rural places utilize performance as a method and medium of survival, resistance, and future (re)imagining.
Working Title: "The Situation", Duration: 30-45 minute performance, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A (roughly 1 hour in total).
This piece tells the story of my experience growing up as a queer person in a rural location and includes music as a central component of the story telling. This performance draws on the queer histories of cabaret-style performance as well as artistic work by other queer/rural folks in an effort to contribute to these intellectual genealogies. As I am a graduate student at OSU – this performance piece serves as both a chapter of my master’s thesis, as well as the public defense “presentation” of my thesis.
Bob Brudvig & OSU Percussion Studio
Dr. Robert Brudvig is the director of percussion studies and associate professor of music at Oregon State University. An active performer, Brudvig has held professional engagements with the Tucson Symphony, Oregon Symphony, Oregon Ballet Theater, Portland Opera, Arizona Opera, Oregon Coast Music Festival, Cascade Festival of Music and the Ernest Bloch Music Festival. He has performed throughout the United States, including at Carnegie Hall; as a solo performer, as a member of the Orkota Percussion Duo, and as a member of Starfire – a trio of two harps and percussion. Brudvig’s international performance engagements have included tours of Japan, China, and Germany. He has performed as percussion soloist with the Corvallis-OSU Symphony Orchestra, University of Arizona Orchestra, and the Portland State University Orchestra.
In C by Terry Riley
(for open instrumentation)
In C is a piece by the American composer, Terry Riley. It was created in 1964, and we believe this to be the "premiere" of the piece on the Oregon State University campus!
Bob Brudvig and his students will be part of the open studio, rehearsal and performance of the famous minimalist piece In C (1964) by Terry Riley. Come out and witness the evolution of the work (in 48 hours) as Brudvig and invited artist, Ivan Manzanilla guide the ensemble in this adventurous and influential work in American music!
Leah Reid
Leah Reid is a composer, sound artist, researcher, and educator, whose works range from opera, chamber, and vocal music, to acousmatic, electroacoustic works, and interactive sound installations. Winner of a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship, Reid has also won the American Prize in Composition, first prize in the KLANG! International Electroacoustic Composition Competition, Sound of the Year’s Composed with Sound Award, IAWM’s Pauline Oliveros Award, and second prizes in the Iannis Xenakis International Electronic Music Competition and the International Destellos Competition. Reid is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia. Additional information may be found at www.leahreid.com.
Reverie
Reverie is an acousmatic composition that leads the listener through an immersive fantasy centered around deconstructed music boxes. The work comprises eight sections that alternate between explorations of the music boxes’ gears and chimes. In the work, the music boxes’ sounds are pulled apart, exaggerated, expanded, and combined with other sounds whose timbres and textures are reminiscent of the original. As the piece unfolds, the timbres increase in spectral and textural density, and the associations become more and more fantastical. Gears are transformed into zippers, coins, chainsaws, motorcycles, and fireworks, and the chimes morph into rainstorms, all sizes of bells, pianos, and more.
Jason Fick
Jason Fick is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Music Technology and Production at Oregon State University, where he teaches courses in composition, audio technologies, and music production. His research explores relationships between commercial and experimental media, and has been published by Audio Engineering Society, Organised Sound, International Community on Auditory Display, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Journal of General Music Education, and College Music Society. Jason currently serves as the President of the College Music Society Northwest Chapter. For more information, visit www.jasonfick.com.
Murky Waters
Murky Waters is a creative data sonification of environmental and spore data at an index point in Klamath River. The video shown demonstrates a real-time rendering from a custom-built software application that reads twelve years of data (2009- 2021) and maps it to sound instruments. The data sonified includes water flow, temperature, and waterborne spore densities. Water flow data is mapped to the sounds of water droplets that become louder and denser as the flow increases. Temperature data is mapped to electronically-generated synthesized tones and wind sounds that increase in frequency as the temperature rises. In general, lower frequency content is more common in colder months, while higher frequency content is expected during warmer months. Waterborne spore density data is mapped to a Karplus string model, which at high rates creates several chaotic attacking sounds. At low rates of infection, the Karplus sound is less active and barely audible, yielding a calmer sonic landscape. When composing this piece, I aimed to create a hybrid between trackable data trends and emotional states that bring about calming and uncomfortable states depending on the amount of infection in the water.
Coalescence Project (Music Technology)
Coalescence: ALBUM RELEASE PARTY 2023
In 2023, the Music Technology and Production area at OSU produced an album in response of a university-wide call for songs. We selected 10 diverse tracks to comprise the album, which was produced by OSU MTP students. Each selected songwriter was paired with student producers in the MTP area. The songwriters and producers worked closely to shape the final version of each song. This event marks the release of the 2023 MTP Album, Coalescence. We will listen to the album and talk with the artists.
Visceral Imagery
Monday, May 22 at 7:00 p.m. | Memorial Union (MU) 109
An octaphonic music concert by students in the OSU Music Technology and Production Program under the director of professor, Jason Fick
Visceral Imagery Program
Naomi Fitter
Dr. Naomi Fitter is an assistant professor of robotics at Oregon State University. She completed her postdoc at the University of Southern California and her graduate degrees at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research program through the Social Haptics, Assistive Robotics, and Embodiment (SHARE) Lab focuses on human-robot interaction. Brian Zhang is a PhD student in the SHARE Lab who is completing his degree on sound profiles for robots. The presented work is a compilation of media from his past human-robot interaction studies on this topic. Collaborators on these videos include Ibrahim Syed, Jason Fick, and Nick Stargu.
Do Robots Sound Like Electric Sheep? An Exploration of Sonic Profiles for Robots
A compilation of robot behavior and sound clips from the Oregon State University SHARE Lab's research on nonverbal robot expression.
"Better Off Alive" Music Video by Die Tired (Band)
Originally derived from the old Marines adage: “You can run, but you’ll just die tired,” one might assume that their music has ominous undertones and potentially dark themes. Well, to Die Tired it is a punk rock way of saying, “Carpe diem!” Being from various parts of the hills and streets of Pennsylvania, the members of Die Tired all bring their own specific flare and personality to the music. Each member has a slightly different taste in music, but in one way or another, these influences blend perfectly to breathe new life into some amazingly addictive alternative and pop rock sounds. Die Tired is a multifaceted band, pulling inspiration from classic rock, heavy metal, pop punk, and just about anything else that they can play on a guitar! On stage, their upbeat and passionate performances always leave you wanting more. It’s impossible to not tap your foot, nod your head, or belt out the lyrics to their incredibly eclectic take on rock ‘n roll. It’s a good day to Die Tired!
David B. Collins
David B Collins is a composer, performer and sound artist. His work is a reflection of his passion for the natural world and the dichotomies, both subtle and severe, found through close observation and participation. These oppositional agencies exhibit themselves through interconnected layers of sound, in a balance of flexibility and restriction in compositional form. Employing pulse, melody, timbre and texture to create rich sonic environments, his work encourages the listener to embrace the present. David has worked alongside choreographers, dancers, poets, visual artists and musicians, to produce a collage of improvisational and fixed art forms.
Ephemeral Succession
Ephemeral Succession: Ephemeral Succession is a kaleidoscopic soundscape derived from an original field recording, taken within the Mill Creek Wilderness, that draws attention to the multifarious perspectives and attributes of an ecosystem recovering from wildfire. Written for processed tenor saxophone and modular synthesizer, Ephemeral Succession reflects the ferocity, grace, power and resiliency of the natural world, the complexities of our relationship with it, and the impermanence of all living things as they pass through cycles of devastation, decay and regeneration.
Nathan Nolte
Experimental video game space noise, blips and bloops echo through the strange floating dimensions. An act that started in Corvallis, art includes audio, video, livestream, and live performances. A friend of "Corvallis Experiments In Noise."
2017 Eclipse -=2=- 2019 What is Noise 2.
A video featuring footage of the 2017 Solar Eclipse with audio from my live performance at "What is Noise 2". The video shows the moon slowly passing in front of the sun. The totallity affecting everyone and everything. A moment seems to last forever. As soon as it's started it begins to end and life returns to normal, more or less.
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is a 21 year old writer currently attending Reed College in Portland, OR. Their writing has been published in No Contact Mag, Gone Lawn, Eunoia Review and others. They live in a blue house with three pet rats, and they grow arugula in a barrel in their backyard. They are interested in creating work about the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Late Stage
This work is called Late Stage. It's a collection of four poems which deal with the topics of climate change and human interaction with the natural world.
Living Studios (Cornerstone) with Jill R Baker
Living Studios of the Willamette Valley (Cornerstone Associates) supports meaningful cultural opportunities in collaboration with adults who identify as neuro-diverse. Through their programs, artists have the opportunity to engage in the social, cultural, and political life of their communities. Living Studios is a collborative, ever-moving art space of constant creation, re-purposing, and participation. Jill R Baker is a visual artist and educator who has been collaborating with Living Studios since 2022. In addition to working with the artists at Living Studios, Jill is a part-time faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College.
Float
Float is a video work that includes sound, animations, and performances by many of the artists who participate in the studio program at Living Studios (Cornerstone Associates) of the Willamette Valley in collaboration with resident artist, Jill R Baker. Utilizing the medium of video to convene, recycle, and collaborate, we seek to weave the artists of Living Studios together as one audio-visual entity, while also extending our mobility and visibility through the community. Our sounds, marks, movements, objects, and environments flow from many sources, spaces, and times, converging in playful and unexpected performances and interactions. Float is a collaborative video featuring the visual work, sound, and performances of Lin Musick, Laura Bruyere, Bonnie Wald, Greg Persons, Alex Russnogle, Ryan Tevlin, Rodger Hancock, Dennis Baisinger, DJ Michelle, Anna Trammel, Mathew Brewster, with Rachel Mulder, Jill R Baker, Kelsey Davis Hamilton, and Angel Black. Our floating eye box seen in the video is an object and intermedia character for performance, interactions and exhibition.
Asher Grell
The video I have created is made to show the cycle of consumption almost all of us go through each day. So may things we use in our daily life have some sort of footprint . This video is supposed to show the rapid passing of time as we use things everyday most of the time never giving a second thought to the impact our usage could be having .
The Consumption Cycle
The Consumption Cycle. The rapid passing of days as we build our footprint
Mira Batti
As a graduating senior, I will always want to see OSU's campus keeps its beauty.
Through four States
In tribute to sustainability, let's take a whirl around America. Through four states, have I captured a view of our world.
Anna Fidler
Anna Fidler (b. 1973, Traverse City, Michigan) lives in Corvallis, Oregon where she is a Senior Instructor of Art at Oregon State University. She earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting from Western Michigan University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in studio art from Portland State University. Fidler has had solo exhibitions at The Boise Art Museum and The Portland Art Museum, and has been widely exhibited at such venues as The Everhart Museum of Natural History, Science, and Art, The University of Southern California, The Tacoma Art Museum and The Sun Valley Museum of Art. Her exhibitions have been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, The Washington Post, The Oregonian and The San Francisco Chronicle. Grants and awards include an Oregon Arts Commission Individual Artist Fellowship, a Regional Arts and Culture Council Project Grant, and residencies at The Iris Project (Los Angeles), Yucca Valley Material Lab (with support from The Ford Family Foundation) and The Sun Valley Museum of Art. Her work is held in the collections of The Portland Art Museum, The Boise Art Museum, The Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Portland Portable Works Collection and Seattle Portable Works Collection. Fidler is represented by Johansson Projects in Oakland.
Panel Discussion with Featured Artists: Melody Owen and Jack Snell-Ryan
Soundings: Art, Objects and Nature." Discussion moderated by Anna Fidler with artists: Melody Owen and Jack Snell-Ryan.
Marilyn Jordan
Marilyn grew up in the forests and savannahs of Oregon, where she walked in the rain, climbed oak trees, and read books from the Carnegie library -- when she wasn't making up songs on her parents' hundred-year-old piano.
As an adult, she saw first-hand some of the tragedies that life can deliver, which expanded her understanding of the kinds of challenges, pain, and joy that no one escapes completely. She found that others craved what she'd learned -- gratitude for patience, compassion, healthcare -- things that were also showing up in her songs.
Marilyn Jordan is a jamband-inspired singer-songwriter who creates songs like impressionist paintings, from her native rural Oregon. Drawing on themes of home, hiding out, and running like hell, Marilyn tells stories of badass adventures through this bittersweet life, with intriguing stories and soul-saving sense of humor. Marilyn Jordan is an MAIS thesis candidate and will graduate this June 2023 with her Masters Degree.
Both Things Are True
Both Things Are True, and Nanci Griffith covers and stories
In this presentation, Jordan will talk about her research findings from her graduate thesis on Nanci Griffith through song as well as share highlights from her recent album release: Both Things Are True
Jan Michael
Jan Michael Looking Wolf is an enrolled member of the Kalapuya Tribe. Global Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient and Hall of Fame Inductee by One World Music Radio. 28 time commercial recording artist with 70 national awards for his music.
One Heart Honor Song
Jan Michael will share two musical pieces:
Live solo Native American Flute performance, filmed last summer in a nature preserve.
A video of students playing from the Native American Flute Course. The Native American Flute Course is very popular at OSU. It was voted Best Bacc Core Course by the students several times and is among the most culturally diverse in student participation.
Annabella Eisner
I am Annabella Eisner, I am 19 years old. I am a contemporary music industry and Spanish double major, and I really like messing around with sound- especially tracks of people talking. Sometimes I take samples from movies, sometimes I record me and my friends during those deep late night convos. I'm a singer-songwriter, pianist, guitarist, and music lover. I'm on all streaming platforms under the name "ANNABELLA."
Songwriters Workshop Showcase
Annabella is playing 3 songs on the Songwriters Workshop Showcase. She is also the MC for the evening!
Johnny Beaver’s Painting II: Abstract and Multimedia class
OSU art students in Johnny Beaver’s Painting II: Abstract and Multimedia class present field recordings from around campus as well as painted graphic scores to represent them, highlighting a diversity of interpretations.
Students include:
Sarah Boser
Josalyn Davis
Tory Kapple
Chelsea Lopez
Avery Mcdowell
Phoebe Mikolaj
Samantha Parrott
Emmet Pettit
Draken Reeves
Emma Rondeau
Caden Ross
Ji Su Ryu
William Saidy
Hal Savage
Carter Shearer
Hope Stevens
Sophia Tapia
Johnny Beaver & Painting ii artists
Come see, experience, and listen to the works!
Dana Reason
Dana Reason is a Canadian-born composer, recording artist, and musicologist. She was the music supervisor for Cinema's First Nasty Women (Kino, 2022); Alice Guy Blachet Vol. 2 (Kino) and arranger for “Reconstruction: America After the Civil War” (PBS, 2019). Reason has released 20 commercial recordings and has been long-listed for Grammys in several categories including jazz, arranging and contemporary classical music. She recorded music by the 2020 NEA Jazz Master, Roscoe Mitchell, and DJ Spooky and has performed with a wide range of acclaimed artists in Canada, Europe and the United States. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Contemporary Music at Oregon State University and the Artistic Director of Soundbox.
The Snowbird (1916) Film
The Snowbird (1916) is a feature-length silent film and is part of the critically acclaimed collection of 99 films in Cinema's First Nasty Women. Reason created and performed original music for this 82 minute feature (Released, Dec. 2022). The score also includes excerpts of Jan Michael Looking Wolf's music. The story traces the trip that a young courageous woman takes through rural Quebec, to help her father untangle his estate affairs!
Join us for the premiere theatrical screening of the work.
For this event, OSU film scholar Jon Lewis will introduce the film and have a short discussion with Reason. This takes place at the Darkside Cinema (free).
https://kinonow.com/film/cinema-s-first-nasty-women-vol-5-the-snowbird/62ed82dc7176280001fd98e
Soundscape Ecology "Sound Hunts"
Students in this Honors Colloquium created “Sound Hunts” to encourage "Earwitnessing (R.Murray Schafer), to encourage people to develop an awareness of sound, noise, and silence on the OSU Campus. They also worked to discover the acoustic signature of various spaces around campus. This is a public participatory sound art activity. Please use the QR code at the venue to participate . There are 4 to choose from.
Sound Hunts...
Students in this Honors Colloquium created “Sound Hunts” to encourage people
to develop an awareness of sound, noise, and silence on the OSU Campus.
Students worked in 4 groups and created 4 unique "Sound Hunts"
Try all 4 of these Sound Hunts out with friends. QR Code at SOUNDBOX 6
Anabel Baker (They/Them/Theirs)
Derek Bell
Ashlyn Heusch (She/Her/Hers)
Austin Ihde
Benjamin Leonard
Lucy Martin
Maddie
Owen Mau
Peter
Annabell Owyoung
Blake Peterson
Nathan Pethick (He/Him/His)
Heather Seldomridge (They/Them/Theirs)
Julia Weirnick
Faculty: Dana Reason (MUS 407H) Spring 2023
Jon Lewis
Jon Lewis is the University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies and a University Honors College Eminent Professor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983. He has published sixteen books, including: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, which won a Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award; Whom God Wishes to Destroy … Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; The New American Cinema; Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, a New York Times New and Noteworthy paperback; The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties, American Film: A History, Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History, for the British Film Institute’s Film Classics series, The Godfather; the popular textbook Essential Cinema, The American Film History Reader, Producing (for Rutgers’ University Press’ Silver Screen series), Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, When the Movies Mattered (with Jonathan Kirschner), Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture, and for the BFI Film Classics series: The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II.
Discussion on Silent Film @ the Darkside
OSU film scholar Jon Lewis will introduce the early silent film, The Snowbird and lead a short discussion with composer, Dana Reason about her role in scoring and performing in the soundtrack. This takes place at the Darkside Cinema Free).
The Snowbird (1916) is a feature-length silent film and is part of the critically acclaimed collection of 99 films in Cinema's First Nasty Women. Reason created and performed original music for this 82 minute feature (Released, Dec. 2022). The story traces the trip that a young courageous woman takes through rural Quebec, to help her father untangle his estate affairs!
Join us for the premiere theatrical screening of the work.
https://kinonow.com/film/cinema-s-first-nasty-women-vol-5-the-snowbird/62ed82dc7176280001fd98e
Victor Villegas
Victor Villegas is the Technology & Media Support Coordinator for Oregon State University Extension Service. He is, however, more widely known for his creative K-12 STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts & Math) outreach, engagement and education. Through his unique online persona as “DroneSinger” – the “Weird Al of Drones,” the world's #1 creator of parody songs about drones, blends technology, music, comedy, parody, poetry, puppetry and storytelling to inspire youth and get them excited about STEAM subjects and life-long learning. Victor especially loves to work with under-represented, under-served youth, using The Arts in culturally relevant and appropriate ways to reach kids who may not naturally gravitate towards STEM subjects or interests. Victor is fully bilingual and bicultural (Spanish/English), a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, media producer and a technologist, and is currently working on a bilingual, science based, space themed children's music album titled “Mariachi on Mars.”
How do plant bio-rhythms sound?
Stop by this plant, synth and human duo demonstration and performance to learn how!
Julia Bradshaw & Student Video Work
Julia Bradshaw is Associate Professor of Photography and New Media Communications at Oregon State University. She teaches all levels of photography classes, video art, landmarks in media content, and new media visualization. Her research interests center on the history and technology of photography with particular emphasis on art and data and art and the environment. She received her MFA from San José State University with an emphasis on photography and video art.
Student Video Works
Julia Bradshaw and students from her video art course will present a program of their current and emerging works.
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey
Esmé Kaplan-Kinsey is a 21 year old writer currently attending Reed College in Portland, OR. Their writing has been published in No Contact Mag, Gone Lawn, Eunoia Review and others. They live in a blue house with three pet rats, and they grow arugula in a barrel in their backyard. They are interested in creating work about the relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Late Stage
This work is called Late Stage. It's a collection of four poems which deal with the topics of climate change and human interaction with the natural world.
Johnny Beaver
I am an artist and arts educator living in Oregon's Wilamette Valley. I conduct an exploratory practice and research related to multidisciplinary / anti-disciplinary art-making, with an emphasis on modular sound design, painting, drawing, and new media. In search of new genres, I see disciplinary art as a vehicle for a more fundamental interest in cross-discipline communication, collaboration, and alternative documentation.
I am currently working as a full time instructor of art at Oregon State University, primarily teaching intermediate and upper division painting and drawing.
Synth Piece - Interactive durational work
The primary work demonstrates and workshops a work using an analog oscilloscope, which is connected to a small projector – which sill project lissajou figures on paper and canvas as an aid for creating sound-based visual pieces.
Beaver also has four small pieces that are four dimensional graphic scores (these go on little table easels).
Luthor Maggot
Luthor Maggot has been digesting and spewing electronic music since the early 1970s. In the mid-70s, he was Office Manager for the US importer of EMS synths and also sold large Moog modulars to schools & Universities. A founding member of agit-pop punk dub band, The Scientific Americans, he performed with tape loop devices, a Synthi AKS, & MiniMoog. The band ran an indie label, booking agency, sound company, and recording studio all under the imprint of Tekno Tunes. He has also recorded with Elliott Sharp, Human Error, and WKGB. Recent performances include the Stanford University Day Of Noise festival, Robotspeak Church of The Super Serge in San Francisco, the Pacific Northwest Looping Festival, and the Sonic Lodge series in Portland. He now resides in Corvallis, OR, where he spends his retirement playing live music, providing PA services for experimental music, booking the Interzone Red Room series, organizing Synth DIY meetings, and assisting the local Noise music community.
Open Synth Playground
Luthor Maggot: Self-Directed Workshops
Synths will be original 1970s Korg MS20, MS50, & SQ 10; large Moog-style modular, and an Ensoniq FIZMO keyboard. Luthor Maggot will demonstrate each synth concept and take questions and ask attendees to play the instruments.
Jon Thomson
Jon Anthony Thomson is a Photographer, Audio Engineer and Intermedia Artist based in Corvallis, OR, USA. Jon studied extensively under the direction of Dr. Dana Reason and improv jazz guitarist extraordinaire Michael Gamble at Oregon State University. Beyond music and audio engineering, Jon has nearly a decade of combined professional and hobby photography experience. Specializing in Portrait, Real Estate, Landscape and Concept photography. Currently, Jon is working in freelance photography and audio engineering, as well as releasing music with Mike Orvis as ‘GlitterWølf’ and producing for the hip hop project REMDY
Multimedia
Jon Thomson is our sound and multimedia support for the Sounbox6 Festival!