THE PROGRAM
SOUNDBOX 6 | 2023 PROGRAM | MAY 22ND - MAY 26TH, 2023
The sixth annual Soundbox Festival runs from Monday May 22nd - Friday MAY 26th, 2023.
Unless otherwise stated, all festival events take place in Memorial Union (MU) Room 109.
Day 1
Monday May 22nd, 2023 | Location: Memorial Union (MU) Room 109
10-11 a.m. - Open Talk: "Ecoacoustics and Soundscape Composition" with Peter Swendsen, director of the School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts.
11-12 p.m. - Salon 1: "Desktop Documentary and Performance Art". Music by: Kathryn Zix, Jill Baker/Living Studios of the Willamette Valley (Cornerstone Associates), Asher Holland Grell, David B. Collins, Mike Gao, instructor, Jan Michael Looking Wolf, instructor.
12-1 p.m. - Synth Performance: Interactive durational live piece (hour 1) by Johnny Beaver, artist and instructor.
1-2 p.m. - Synth Performance: Interactive durational live piece (hour 2) by Johnny Beaver, artist and instructor.
2:15-3:15 p.m. - Panel Discussion: "Soundings: Art, Objects and Nature" with featured visiting artists Melody Owen (University of New South Wales), and Jack Snell-Ryan, professor UO. Moderated by Anna Fidler, artist and instructor.
3:15-4 p.m. - Self-guided "Sound Hunts" created by OSU Honors College students: Anabel Baker (They/Them/Theirs), Derek Bell, Ashlyn Heusch (She/Her/Hers), Austin Ihde, Benjamin Leonard, Lucy Martin, Maddie, Owen Mau, Peter, Annabelle Owyoung, Blake Peterson, Nathan Pethick (He/Him/His), Heather Seldomridge (They/Them/Theirs), Julia Weirnick from the Soundscape Ecology Colloquium, Spring 2023.
4-5 p.m. - Performance: Bossa Nova and Samba originals and arrangements with Joshua Philips, guitar and vocals.
5-7 p.m. - Dinner (on your own).
7-7:05 p.m. - Opening: Welcome and greetings with Jan Michael Looking Wolf, musician and instructor.
7-8 p.m. - Coalescence, Album Release Party: OSU Music Technology and Production students: Glide Divine, Abigail Zimmerman, Ani Maxwell, Josh Walund, Hannah Richards, Mackenzie Rose, Dylan Baumer, Cooper Reynolds, shrimp, Liam Hull, Slippy and the Sheets, Griffin, Barbeiri, Ant Jello, Jonah Bloom, Fireavle Offense , Bluessence, Kainoa Dall, James Sanchez, Cooper Mitchell, Hannah Richards, Sage Jarvie, Dylan Schillinger, and Jason Fick, professor.
Day 2
Tuesday May 23nd, 2023 | Location: Memorial Union (MU) Room 109
9-10 a.m. - Self-guided "Sound Hunts" created by OSU Honors College students: Anabel Baker, Derek Bell, Ashlyn Heusch, Austin Ihde, Benjamin Leonard, Lucy Martin, Maddie, Owen Mau, Peter, Annabelle Owyoung, Blake Peterson, Nathan Pethick, Heather Seldomridge, and Julia Weirnick from the Sound Ecology Colloquium.
10:15-11:15 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self-guided tours: 2D Art installation by Jack Snell-Ryan. Installation by Melody Owen and more.
11-12 p.m. - Open Synth Playground with Luthor Maggot.
12-2 p.m. - Bio Sonification: plants, synth and human duo demonstration and performance with Victor Villegas, OSU Extension Computing and Technology.
2-3:15 p.m. - "What the World Needs Now" poetry readings by MFA Graduate Students from Poetry Workshop led by Jennifer Richter, School of Writing, Literature and Film
Andrew Mobbs, “Organ Pipe”, Natalie Patterson, “Sikes Cut, St. George Island”, Nola Iwasaki, “Poem from the River, Alsea”, Jessica Bajorek, “The Lake; Your Body”, Rachel Villa, “On the Sea Cliffs of the Tasman Peninsula”, Lila Cutter, “Morning on the Mendocino Bluffs”, Anna Gayle, “falling in love with the desert in Moab, Utah”, Hannah Ariesen, “Late at Night I Dream of Canyons”,
with live musical responses to poets by: violinist, Rebecca Sabine (Artist in Residence) and multi-instrumentalist, Joshua Philips, and more.
3:30-5:30 p.m. - Confluences: Art-Science fellows opening show (The Little Gallery, 210 Kidder Hall).
5:30-6:30 p.m. - Dinner (On your own).
7-8:00 p.m. - Visceral Imagery, an 8-channel Electroacoustic concert- MTP Students: Cooper Reynolds, Griffin Barbieri, Dylan Baumer, Joshua Phillips, Jonah Bloom, Jeremy Haney, Dylan Schillinger, Demetrius Hunter, Cooper Mitchell (Music Technology and Production) with Jason Fick, professor.
Day 3
Wednesday May 24th, 2023
Locations: Memorial Union (MU) Quad and MU Room 109
9-10 a.m. - Self- Guided "Sound Hunts" (created by OSU Honors College Students).
10-10:50 a.m. - Open Talk: "Modern Percussion Music In the 21st century" with Visiting Artist Ivan Manzanilla from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
11-11:30 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self Guided Tours: 2D Art / Installation by Jack Snell-Ryan / Installation by Melody Owen and more.
11:30-1 p.m. - Open Rehearsal in the MU Quad: "In C" by Terry Riley led by Ivan Manzanilla (Visiting Artist from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico), with students from professor, Bob Brudvig's OSU Percussion Studio and other music students.
1-2 p.m. - Lunch (On your own).
2-2:45 pm - Both Things Are True, Album Release with additional covers of Nanci Griffith from singer-songwriter, Marilyn Jordan (MAIS Graduate Student).
3:15-4 p.m. - Salon 2: Interspecies Collaborations, Robots, Field Studies & Sonification by OSU Faculty, Alumni and Beyond: Featuring Peter Swendsen, Catherine Lee, Jason Fick, Leah Reid, Naomi Fidder, Chet Udell, Nathan Boal, and Rebecca Sabine.
4-5 p.m - Fairbanks Gallery artist, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya Gallery Talk, at Fairbanks Hall, 220 SW 26th St, Corvallis, OR 97331
5-6 p.m. Dinner (On your own).
7-9 p.m. - Ivan Manzanilla Featured visiting artist from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Percussion and technology music by: Antonio Fernández Ros, Eduardo Soto Millán, Joao Pedro Oliveira, José Julio Díaz Infante, Erika Vega, Karlheinz Essl and Javier Alvarez.
Day 4
Thursday May 25th, 2023 |
Locations: Memorial Union (MU) Room 109 and Darkside Theatre
9-10 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self Guided Tour: 2d Art / Installation by Jack Snell-Ryan / Installation by Melody Owen and more.
10:15-11 a.m. - Johnny Beaver's Class LIVE DRAWING (Open Studio). 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
11-12 p.m. - Johnny Beaver's Class LIVE DRAWING (Open Studio).
12-1 p.m. - Johnny Beaver's Class LIVE DRAWING (Open Studio).
1-2 p.m. - Lunch (on your own)
2:00- 2:30 p.m.Video Art Class Showcase directed by Julia Bradshaw, professor of photography and new media communications, with students.
2:30-4 p.m. - Visiting Artist, Ivan Manzanilla's Percussion Workshop with the OSU Percussion Studio (open to all to attend).
4:30-5:15 p.m - In C (1964) by Terry Riley - Premiere Performance at Oregon State - 45-minute performance led by Ivan Manzanilla with OSU Percussion Studio, Bob Brudvig, professor, and music students.
5:15 - 6:30 p.m. - Dinner (On your own).
7-9 p.m. - "The Snowbird " (1916) Feature Archival Film from Cinemas First Nasty Women Collection (Kino Lorber), with Original Soundtrack by Dana Reason. Screening and Discussion with Jon Lewis, professor, School of Writing, Literature, and Film & Dana Reason - Darkside Theatre (Free admission) 215 SW 4th St, Corvallis (Limited Seating).
Day 5
Friday May 26th, 2023 | Location: Memorial Union (MU) Room 109
9-10 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self Guided Tour: 2D Art / Installation by Jack Snell-Ryan / Installation by Melody Owen and more.
10-11 a.m. - Open Talk: "Deep Listening, Acoustic Ecologies" with Rebecca Sabine moderated by Dana Reason.
11-12 p.m. - Self- Guided "Sound Hunts" (created by OSU Honors College Students).
12-1 p.m. - Violin Sound Sanctuary: Rebecca Sabine, Las Vegas - Noon time Concert (Main Stage Memorial Union).
1-2 p.m. - Wyatt Cross "The Situation" MFA Thesis: Dance/Theatre Work: 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 piece serves as both a chapter of my master’s thesis, as well as the public defense “presentation” of my thesis.
2:30-3:30 p.m. - Open Cart: Sensors with students: Cosmo Bruckner, John Brunac, Benjamin Delzer, Zhanpei Fang, Caed Folkestad, Nicole Fronda, Natalie Galbraith, Trenton Joseph, Cole Keady, Alden Micklavzina, Ian Rankin, Lexington Russell, Isaiah Steinberg, Daniel Thompson and Chet Udell, professor of Biological and Ecological Engineering. Director of OPEnS Lab.
3:30-4:30 p.m. - Salon 3: Music. Song. Noise: Video & Audio Original Music by: Died Tired Band, Thredge: Ryan Duswalt & Anthony Laurie, Joshua Phillips, Megan Reynolds, Leo Barron, Mira Batti, Nathan Nolte, and more.
4:30-6:30 p.m. - Dinner (On your own).
6-9 p.m. - 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.