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Inspired by fluid dynamics, Eddy is a collaborative feedback system resulting in an improvised, transdisciplinary artwork. It begins with sound generated on a modular synthesizer with a focus on real time and unreplicable content. This sonic composition is observed by participants who respond by creating visual artworks. These visuals collectively form "vortex streets"—sequences of related images—which subsequently serve as graphic scores, feeding back into the modular synthesizer and influencing the original soundscape.

Visitors are invited to listen, look, and engage in a casual, open Q&A with students and instructor 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.

“Water is a tasteless liquid that hydrates the body” - a 7th grader. “It Was Heard Across The Lagoon” is a wide interpretation stemming from experiences of water in its physical form, dream-like state, and mystical characters that embody its myths and legends. Drawings, on huge puzzle pieces, connect to show transitions between stages of what student artists imagine “water” is. Additionally, paired audio encapsulates the tone of the sequencing images. Examples include: confetti, water from a forest, anime-esque characters, and drippy cheese. The story changes as rapidly as the coastal tide, sweeping us away in a calm yet demanding silence.

At Cascade Junior High, a public school located in Turner, Oregon, 13 students from 6th, 7th and 8th grades meet twice a week after school to create art with OSU Art alumna Julianna Souther BFA. Ms. Souther also has first-hand experience with Soundbox, having been a Soundbox4 Intern in 2021.  This second year of CJHS Art Club, students continue to enjoy creative hands-on projects like music, drawing, sculpting and others. The range of artistic ability among the Club’s student artists, and their willingness to learn from each other and Ms. Souther, make Art Club a place where creativity thrives!

A collection of work that Annabella Eisner has written and performed since joining Oregon State University.

Dedicated to exploring the power of sound and music to inspire connection, healing, and transformation, my work combines intricate lyricism, atmospheric soundscapes, and a deep commitment to healing and liberating the Earth from the patriarchal systems in place.

As a musician and performer, I bring innovation and heart to every project, composing and performing music that blends genres and challenges boundaries. Whether it’s captivating an audience at an event or creating intimate, reflective songs, I thrive on translating raw emotion into melodies and lyrics that linger in the mind and soul.

Jan Michael Looking Wolf welcomes us to SOUNDBOX8! 

Jan Michael (Looking Wolf) Reibach, a Kalapuya Tribal Elder of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, is a celebrated musician and educator. Residing in his indigenous homelands, Reibach has received the Global Music Award Lifetime Achievement and is a Hall of Fame Inductee by One World Music Radio. With 28 commercial recordings, over 700 performances, and 70 awards, he is internationally renowned.

At Oregon State University, Reibach instructs Native American Flute, having developed an accredited curriculum in 2004 that emphasizes cultural diversity and musical self-expression. By 2022, he had taught over 16,000 students, with his classes being highly popular and diverse. He also coordinates a world record flute circle with over 600 students performing together annually.

Reibach has authored two books on the Native American Flute: "One Heart, Journey with the Native American Flute," provided free to his students, and "The First Flute," co-authored with David Bouchard. He founded the World Flute Circle, promoting global peace through music.

Committed to sharing "One Heart," Reibach continues to record, perform, and teach. He is working on a new album, "Gratitude," and remains inspired by his students and colleagues at OSU.

Jan Michael is the Great Grandson of Santiam Kalapuya Chief Joseph Sangretta (signer of the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855) and a Global Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient.

Oregon State University in Corvallis, OR is located within the traditional homelands of the Mary's River or Ampinefu Band of Kalapuya. Following the Willamette Valley Treaty of 1855 (Kalapuya etc. Treaty), Kalapuya people were forcibly removed to reservations in Western Oregon. Today, living descendants of these people are a part of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde Community of Oregon (https://www.grandronde.org) and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians (https://ctsi.nsn.us).

Jan Michael Looking Wolf Reibach is an enrolled member of the Kalapuya Tribe. He is a Global Music Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient and Hall of Fame Inductee by One World Music Radio. Additionally, he is a 28 time commercial recording artist with 70 national awards for his music.   A Kalapuya Tribal Elder of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, who resides within his indigenous homelands, Jan Michael Looking Wolf  is a Global Music Award Lifetime Achievement Recipient, Hall of Fame Inductee by One World Music Radio, and Artist of the Year Winner by the Native American Music Awards.  In addition to being a renowned musician with 30 commercial recordings/700+ performances/70 award recognitions, Jan instructs Native American Flute at Oregon State University. 

Submerge is a composition for percussion ensemble that takes the listener on a sonic journey through the layers of the ocean. Beginning in the bright and energetic Sunlight Zone, brilliant orchestration and rhythmic ostinatos evoke the water teeming with ocean life. As you submerge, the Twilight Zone becomes darker and less busy; the music slows and lowers in pitch to mimic the continued descent. In the dark and desolate Midnight and Abyss Zones, the activity slows to a crawl, and low rumbles accentuated by occasional flashes of bioluminescence fill the void. Finally, the Trenches slowly fade out to complete silence as no more light reaches the depths.

Alden Leback is a multi-instrumentalist, composer and current student in his fourth year at Oregon State University majoring in Contemporary Music Industry with a minor in Music Performance. Since starting his studies as a Mechanical Engineer, Alden has immersed himself in the music program at Oregon State, being at various points a performer in the Oregon State University Marching Band, Wind Symphony and Wind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and Symphony Orchestra. He started his compositional career writing a piece for a friend’s senior recital, and has since written pieces for percussion ensemble, solo percussion, and concert band, in addition to scoring a few student short films. After he graduates, he wishes to continue his musical journey composing and performing wherever he can.

Videos of original songs composed for harp, voice and electronics. A song about resilience, fluidity and strength in softness correlating water literally and figuratively with the female lived experience, a song about being a vessel and a space, and a song about giving and receiving. 

Cyane is the project of Portland experimental composer/producer, harpist, and singer, Sage Fisher.  Through the lens of mythological water nymph, Cyane, she explores the impossible betweens and shadows inhabited by femmes - both currently and throughout western colonialist history - and the immense power inherent in our bodies, our breaking, our healing, and our transformation. Honoring and bringing to light the hidden intricacies of this ancestral balancing act, Cyane draws on influences from early choral music, pop, electronica, avant classical and R&B for a performance that dances between disguise and exposé. 

They say one should "read the room" in life and performing. Well, what if your audience actually told you the narrative of where they want you to take the music? To involve my audience more and showcase their creativity, I started asking them for emotional cues (adjectives) of what I should keep in mind when improvising a piece. While I sometimes cap it at three, I can take multiple sets of buzzwords, as the improvisation might take the form of a multi-movement piece. In this improvisatory framework, I perform on cello solo using effects and loops, creating a unique sonic tapestry featuring groove, atmosphere, and audience-inspired spontaneity. 

Chris Rorrer is a cellist, multi-instrumentalist, session musician, multi-genre composer & arranger, music producer, and music educator based on the West Coast. He earned his M.M. in Cello Performance from the Bob Cole Conservatory of Music at California State University in 2020 and his B.S. in Public Health Management and Policy from Oregon State University in 2014.  He is also a highly skilled vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist, and bassist. His proficiency in numerous styles has garnered him success in the classical, pop-rock, and improvisational/ experimental music worlds. 

No matter the setting, a strong faith is the foundation from which Chris creates. Chris has shared his music at venues ranging from lively rock festival stages to the most intimate and reflective church services. His music is featured in film scores throughout the United States and Europe.  Always an educator, Chris seeks to give back to the community by helping empower the next generation of musicians to play from the heart. 

Performing under the new name, Oleo (O-Leo), this compilation of collected works showcases how Phillips and his music has grown throughout his time at OSU, now at his third Soundbox event. 

Requiem - Solo Piano 

Milk & Honey Part 1 - Teaser 

Joshua Phillips is a Portland based multi-instrumentalist, composer, studio engineer and teacher with a passion for popular music genres across the world. Including music in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French, in genres of jazz, Latin, MBP, folk, and more; Joshua brings sunshine wherever his music is heard. 

Spring of Helicon is a tone poem inspired by the Umpqua River in Roseburg, Oregon. Growing up there as a child, the most memorable parts of Roseburg were always the luscious trees, the way light dances across the water— be it puddles or the Umpqua itself—and the fog creeping over the hills and mountains. The title is drawn from the final lines of Henry H. Woodward’s 1889 poem “To Roseburgh, Oregon,” which features a dialogue to the Muse, using the river as a metaphor for creative flow, memory, and the passing of time. 

The Silence of Birds: Inspired from the first chapter of Keturah and Lord Death by Martine Leavitt, where the titular characters Keturah and Lord Death encounter each other in a forest. During this scene, Keturah notices that the birds are silent.

Danielle Painter has been immersed in the world of music for over 13 years. She began with the saxophone and later developed a passion for composition, with works performed by the Oregon State University Saxophone Choir. On May 20, 2025, her latest piece debuted with Kino Lorber Films’ WONDER DOGS!

Inspired by fantasy and whimsy, Danielle’s music blends storytelling with surreal charm. Currently studying in Oregon State University’s Contemporary Music Industry program, she continues to create compositions that stir the heart, spark the imagination, and bring magical worlds to life.

"River Light" is a piece of music combining samples of water and nature sounds woven with electronic and sampled instruments, focused on the concept of "sound healing", featuring singing bowls, crystal harp, and more. Inspired by the beauty of the McKenzie River here in Oregon, "River Light" also features a soft ambient guitar part using an E-Bow, which is performed live and not recorded on the track. This piece was performed live at the river and attracted a mama and baby deer who stayed to listen to the whole song.

I am a musician (going by The Moss) and environmental science student at Oregon State University E-Campus. I was born in New York and raised near Philadelphia, and I have lived in Oregon since 2020. Passionate about nature, I enjoy swimming, hiking, camping, climbing, and kayaking. I have a calico cat named Marble, and we live a simple life on a forested property near Veneta, Oregon. Our goal is to contribute to research to help save the coral reefs.

ritual / release / roses is a full moon ritual performed by two trans friends to release gender expectations & longings that were holding them back. They use improvised movement to explore the relationship between their bodies and the landscape to cleanse themselves. Water is traditionally a cleansing component of nature, and the full moon is traditionally a great time to do release magick. The film is edited in a chaotic way to show the different levels of emotion and healing that take place during a full moon release ritual. 

Swan Ferraro is an artist working in installation, performance, and photo/video. Landscape and bodies are explored to abstract identity and space. Individual and collective healing are emphasized in the work through the use of ritual. Their current research is titled Creative Improvisation as a Form of Divination in the Trans Body. By surrendering to the body and the space which holds it, magick can seep into the work. Trauma can be transcended and new realities can be created through this practice.

Krista Bloom is an English doctoral student at UIC who works with video art, performance art and electronic music.

“You are the voyeur in my time of rest. Just let me float.” One of several brightly colored self-portraits following themes of gender, ability, and desire, "Bathtub" explores water as a place of refuge and relief from chronic pain. 

Avery McDowell is a multidisciplinary artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work draws on personal experiences with gender, disability, and navigating the modern social landscape as a person it wasn't designed for. After graduating from Oregon State University in 2025 with her BFA in Studio Art, Avery plans to pursue her MFA and teach art full-time. Her work has been shown in Oregon State University's Praxis Gallery, the Valley Library, and sold in art shows across the state. Avery's work is not meant for education or activism, but to bring visibility to disability and provide perspective outside of established conventions of what disabled people are allowed to do or desire.

This artwork interprets the sounds observed in various locations in and around Corvallis. For eight days, I visited natural spaces and sat/lay there for 30 or more minutes with my eyes closed. The painting documents the sounds and emotions felt while at the location. The video includes the audio recorded during the 30 minutes, as well as visual recordings of where I sat. Through different processes, I warped the visuals to highlight the influence the sounds may have on imagination while vision is eliminated, and how visual experiences before can unintentionally affect it.

My name is Ena Bronstein and I am a third year BFA student at OSU. My work is often guided by my passion for biological sciences and the natural world and my desire to spread knowledge and raise awareness about them. I primarily work within the realm of painting but do not hesitate to incorporate multimedia elements that elevate my message or the experience of the audience. 

Total duration 8 min.

We have an original song and animation, created using acrylic painting and paper craft, then digitized and animated - both 2D and 3D.

Supporting artwork for the theme including “Thunder Panel” (interactive). 3’ x 4’x 2’ acrylic paint on galvanized steel, “Reformation 1: Triptych” digitally manipulated photography 3 - 12’x16” images framed and hung in sequence. Artwork created during the production: 1 - 20” x 16” acrylic painting on canvas, 4 - 11” x 14” acrylic paintings on canvas, paper crafted letters on a standard poster board.

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 over a decade of combined professional and hobby photography experience. Specializing in concert, event, Portrait, and Real Estate. 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.

Jared Vance is a multidisciplinary artist in Corvallis, Oregon who has painted murals, made clothing, and created animations for his music. Vance graduated from Oregon State University, concentrating on Atmospheric Sciences, and later experienced working in LiDAR. Learning about light scattering and absorption taught him a lot about shadows, depth, refraction of light, and visual effects on perception. Jared’s exposure to surrealism opened his mind to the visual expansion of thought. Vance’s musical influences are too many to include in this bio. Jared has released for two projects, and is currently working on a solo project called Cyan Synthius.

I will perform a medley of original music as a culmination of my evolution as a songwriter while completing my undergraduate degree at OSU. An ultimate songwriters showcase for my senior capstone, if you will. 

Annabella Eisner's journey as a sound artist has been rich, full, diverse and unique- and it is only just beginning. Starting out as a double major in CMI and Spanish at Oregon State, she arrived as a solo artist creating electronic pop music on bandlab, with choral and folk training and influences as well. In freshman year, she began to really hone in on lyricism and guitar techniques. By sophomore year, she founded the progressive rock band 'Bluessence', playing throughout the PNW and beyond, recording and releasing two professional singles in collaboration with her peers. As a grand upperclassman finale, she went international with her Spanish language and culture degree, traveling abroad to Spain and then to the immersive soundscapes of Southeast Asia, gigging, recording and creating along the way. 

In June 2022, torn apart by the sudden loss of their special long-distanced romantic connection, Jeremy wrote his response to the dramatic breakup - all of which happened after he sent her a picture of a heart he carved in the sand at the coast to comfort her, as she was going through a personal loss. Though thought to be a well-intentioned gesture, it only made everything worse, as Jeremy was solely blamed for the mutual confusion and misunderstanding of mixed signals. 

Introducing the captivating musical world of Jeremy Haney, an autistic singer-songwriter who often feels misunderstood beyond the medium of live performance.​

His bright voice, ranging from a mature low timbre to his delicate high tenor range, delivers heartfelt lyrics crafted from his vulnerable experiences as a poet with an old soul.​​

Besides being a musician, he’s embraced other titles in his lifetime - including American Kenpo Martial Artist and Photographer. He’s currently a student at Oregon State University, looking to earn his degree in Music with an emphasis in Music Production.

This is a piece that was inspired by Chopin's nocturnes and his use of a wider range of harmonies. I wanted it to start like a lullaby but become much more virtuosic at the end, opening up into a piece that envelopes the room that it's performed in. The form is mostly just ABAB, having two themes repeated but elaborated during the second iteration. The version I sent is a rough draft that I plan on fine tuning in the next week.

I am a recent graduate of OSU's piano program and compose primarily for my own entertainment. I am taking time off of school to figure out a clearer direction for my career, but am currently working at OSU as a student accompanist.

Original Music.

OSU Music Student.

Bruce Burris and Living Studios will be performing a reading of a "mission statement" from Fairview Training Center in the 1990's as part of the "Our Fairview..." project.  Performing the mission statement is one piece in the larger project that opens up the well of materials found in the archive, allowing outside voices and new interpretations to pour in. We know that histories are fluid and this performance is one of many ways the conversations around Fairview ripple across surfaces past, present, and future.

Living Studios is a studio arts program and gallery (administered by Cornerstone Associates, Inc, a non profit 501(c)3 organization) that connects neurodiverse artists and artists experiencing intellectual and developmental disabilities to professional art opportunities and meaningful community based projects. The artists at Living Studios are supported within a creative community to grow their artistic practice through varied material support, collaborations, and mentoring. Founder, director, and artist Bruce Burris is a 2024 recipient of a Creative Heights Initiative Grant by the Oregon Community Foundation to develop a series of conversations, artmaking, and events dedicated to remembering Fairview Training Center (1908-2000).

A through-composed work for tenor saxophone and electronics, diffraction-interference utilizes a dynamic balance of opposites, the evolution of events as a process, and the inevitability of change, within a multi-layered framework of spectral synthesis derived entirely from the tenor saxophone. Like the uneven banks of a river, diffraction-interference expresses the irregular yet flowing passage of energy through a multitude of progressional forms in both micro and macro scales.

Inspired by Oregon's pacific coast, violent beautiful is meant to express the subtle, dynamic and oppositional characteristics of waves crashing onto rocky shores, in symbolic displays of grace, tranquility, turbulence and aggression. Casually observed as contradictory elements, these subtle dynamics serve as a reminder that our world, both natural and cultural, is full of nuanced complexities that are deserving of our attention, introspection and engagement. violent beautiful is a structured improvisation, created for tenor saxophone and electronics.

David B Collins is a composer-performer, sound artist and educator, whose work reflects the nuances and interrelations of cultural complexity and the natural world, found through close observation, participation and self-reflection. Exhibited through a balance of flexibility and restriction, David employs timbre, texture, complex rhythms, and graceful melodies to create rich sonic environments that encourage the listener to embrace the present. An adept multidisciplinary collaborator, David has contributed to several dynamic projects alongside choreographers, dancers, poets, visual artists and musicians, to produce a collage of improvisational and fixed art forms.

Below a clear cut hillside there is a coastal floodplain.

The Performance:

Collect a small amount of water or

mud (with your hand is best)

from the excavated pond (once for cattle

but not for the beaver

or the salmon —

the water will have its way soon).

Choose a place in the grass to find

dry earth (a memory of water).

Pour your water here.

Hold the paper in the wind over

the tall grasses (waves, hair) let it go and follow

the paper will stop the grass will stop the paper.

This is a listening station, a site to attune to.

Paper in the Floodplain was performed and filmed at Newledo Exploration Hub, Oregon as a project of fluxscape2024. The 10 acres that make up Newledo Exploration Hub are in an interim state of transformation, with the plan to undergo major environmental restoration for ocean linked Beaver Creek. In addition to being a major floodplain, registered wetlands, and past cattle pasture, a group of artists will develop a year long series of visits, performances, exhibitions, and events inspired by the site’s current state, and the landscape’s past, present, and future. fluxscape invites visitors to encounter artworks created in conversation with a unique coastal landscape in transition.

Jill R Baker (she/her) is a visual artist, educator, and parent, working across many forms of time based media, including drawing, performance, and video, to map material encounters across time and place. Her work encourages phenomenological and improvisational conversations about human interactions with materials, time and landscape.

Jill is a part-time faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College and artist-in-residence at Living Studios (of Cornerstone Associates) in Corvallis where she is facilitator, collaborator, and advocate. In addition to her own material based studio practice, she is currently project manager for a 2 year community artmaking and storytelling project funded by a Creative Heights Initiative grant by the Oregon Community Foundation with artist Bruce Burris. She holds an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa. 

These two works were inspired by what their titles are. In Foggy Sunrise, the bright A Major chords represent a sunrise but are obscured by the fog which is represented by the parts all doing separate things at once. The violin and viola harmonics represent beams of light reflecting on water droplets in the fog. A Little Bit of Turbulence is about turbulence on an airplane. It’s fast and exciting with changing time signatures and contrasting lines. I wanted it to feel like it’s only a little turbulence and not too much by ending on a major chord.

I am a geography and music student currently involved in OSU’s marching band and wind symphony, where I play mellophone and horn respectively. I also play viola and enjoy arranging and composing. Since 2018, I’ve performed arrangements with small groups at a variety of events, mostly at Christmas. That practice has allowed me to even arrange for the OSUMB this past basketball season. My composing interests mostly involve writing about little things, rather than major events. A lot of my inspiration comes from moments or places I think of because of the wonderful friends who were there with me.

Interplay is a continuation of an iterative musical and musico-philosophical collaboration with drummer Peter Valsamis and invited guests. This work delves into the elemental nature of sound. It aims to separate musical elements, examine them, listen to them, hold them like objects, and accept their existence (initiation and decay), without the need to contain, to develop; to manipulate or control.

A live recording of Interplay (performed at OPEN GATE, Los Angeles, Feb 2025) with the legendary bassist Mark Dresser, with Peter Valsamis and Dana Reason will be released in this summer.

Dana Reason, a Canadian-born composer, recording artist, and educator, exploring the intersections of 21st-century musical genres and interdisciplinary practices. Noteworthy collaborations include: The Space Between trio with electronic music pioneer Pauline Oliveros, and her contributions to over 20 recordings. As a film composer, arranger, and performer, Reason's work spans diverse projects like Pioneers of African-American Cinema (Kino),  Reconstruction: America After the Civil War (PBS), Alice Guy Blachet Vol.2, “The Wonder and the Worry”, a feature-length documentary; and Cinema’s First Nasty Women (working as both music supervisor, and composer). She performed and recorded Roscoe Mitchell’s "Nonaah Trio" with Catherine Lee, oboe, John Savage, Saxophone, Dana Reason, Piano], which was released on Distant Radio Transmission by Roscoe Mitchell, on Wide Hive Records.   In 2023, she co-produced the Cinema’s First Nasty Women Compilation Soundtrack Vol.1 with Grammy winning drummer, Terri Lyne Carrington. Reason is on faculty at Oregon State University where she leads the Contemporary Music Industry major. 

Particle Flow will explore the space between waves both visually and sonically as a meditation on our experience of non experience while investigating if the wave moves the space or the space moves the wave. We will have audio reactive wave/water form visuals that will interact with explorations in the space between sound waves to present an improvised A/V experience

They Gamble is composed of filmmaker Devin Jane Febbroriello and Guitarist/Composer Mike Gamble. Both artists were classically trained in their primary medium, but as technology evolved throughout their careers their interest in expanding their relationship to media, music, and performance art expanded.  They formed They Gamble as a way to blend the skillsets they expertly cultivated within traditional film and music composition with the infinite potential of emerging technology. Ultimately They Gamble’s goal with each performance is to evoke a feeling in the audience, one that ignites our collective presence and the immediacy of our being, and for us as artists to find our humanity within the boundaries of our role in the performance versus the role the technology plays. 

All of the songs are written and performed (though not all produced) by me, Andrew Jutten, aka “Zooka” or “ChefZooka”on all socials and streaming platforms. Each song, apart from Thug It Out, is from my brand new album, “WHAT’S REAL WILL PREVAIL!” Out now everywhere. 

My name is Andrew aka Zooka. I’ve always loved anything involving creativity and expression. This is why music has become my happy place. I just want to share my ideas, experiences, stories, and emotions with as many people as I can, through music. My 2 biggest goals, are to impact others beneficially with my music and to someday be able to make a living off of it.

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.

TBD

Swan Ferraro (they/he) is an MFA student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Working in performance, installation, photo/video, and poetry, their art seeks to abstract identity and space. Movement, improvisation and divination are used to explore themes around individual and collective resistance and healing. Ferraro has been featured in numerous exhibitions and publications, received awards and grants, and invited to give artist talks about their art and healing practices.

 I will share my songwriting process from start to finish, using an example of my work. This will include everything from explaining the reason for writing the song, to choosing instrumentation, sharing clips of voice memos that show the progress and evolution, to ending with a performance of the finished song. 

Fiona Daley has been writing songs for approximately 4 years, with a catalog of over 60 works that is ever growing. As a student in both the visual and performing arts – graphic design and music production, respectively – she is always looking for more ways to bridge the two and use these forms of communication to express her world view and affect what she sees. Fiona writes songs not because anyoeeds her to, but because she needs to. She believes music and art are our greatest tools to be vulnerable and real, and in doing so, connect and grow.

This is a piece that uses voice to osplay sound and using the power of water to Water is used to bring clarity. Liens such as “Wipe Me Clean” “Break Me Free “ and “wash over me” are the sentiments. Bringing symbolism and the meaning of the words to life thoughts sounds like “drip” evoking the movement of the sound as well as the power of it. 

An advocate, songwriter, empowering others to use their voice that was once lost through restoration. Proclaiming freedom and finding hope. I hope to inspire others to reach for the gold and find their intrisique worth and value in everything I do. My work is focused on using the arts to bring restoration to others around the globe through creative outlets like song and dance! While a business major I hope to find sustainable solutions for areas that are the most vulnerable. Find more about my work here: restorethenations.org 

My work is 7-minute solo for vibraphone that is inspired by the original meaning of fantasy in that it is written improvisation that rejects traditional structure. In addition to this, my piece incorporates a lot of different influences in jazz, atonal, modern, classical, and improv music that gives a variety of tonal landscapes for the listener. Furthermore, the piece is a fantasy in the sense that is resembles a dream. Most of the piece is inspired by the rollercoaster of emotions and confusion from a crazy dream maybe unintentionally induced by melatonin or some other form of drowsy drug. In conclusion, my work is intentionally lucid and random at times but in many ways flowing through all the infinite possibilities of our unconscious imagination.

Colton Kohler is second year Music Performance major at Oregon State University from Roseburg Oregon. He holds Principal Percussion positions in the Corvallis OSU Symphony and Willamette Valley Symphony as well as sub positions in the Newport Symphony, Corvallis Repertory Singers, and American Pops Orchestra. Although his career is mostly performance based, he hopes to explore a future in composing starting with debuting one of his first compositions in the Soundbox festival this year. Outside of music, he enjoys the outdoors and long fishing trips with his friends.

Waterways Video: This is a collage of watery/drip themed artworks along with an original composition. I made that reminds me of the ocean.

Evan Mount is a visual artist and musician studying in both the music and arts programs here at Oregon State University. He grew up in Seattle, Washington, playing the violin and developing a love for acrylic painting. Evan enjoys composition, painting, and drawing as express his creative energy. He is currently working with PRAx as a part of the Reser Creative Scholars, learning the ropes of music production in recording classes, honing his drawing skills in studio courses, and developing his radio personality on KBVR-FM every Friday morning at 9am.

"Sea Calm" is a work for solo voice and live electronics, drawing inspiration from Langston Hughes's poem of the same name. As the poem is recited, the performer's voice is captured, serving as material for the electronic component. The voice is analyzed, fragmented, and reshaped into evolving sonic layers through various methods, including granular synthesis. This manipulation is controlled through gesture via the MUGIC motion controller. This wireless sensor translates physical movements into expressive control over the electronic effects, creating an immersive soundscape where the poem's words are transformed into a textural atmosphere dynamically shaped by the performer.

G. Blake Harrison-Lane is a composer, audio engineer, and enactor working at the junction between music technology and traditional forms of musical expression. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine, in Integrated Composition, Improvisation, and Technology (ICIT), a Master of Music in composition from the University of South Florida, and a Bachelor of Music in music recording technology and a Bachelor of Arts in music composition from Lebanon Valley College. His current research is focused on further developing Cross-Domain Notation—a meta-notation representing conceptual domains used in music performance—and sensor-based music composition.

FallingWater is an audio-visual exploration at the interface of live, improvisatory, human performance and motion capture. I will be performing on percussion instruments -- in-person, possibly using water -- accompanied by an oscillating, in-browser Javascript audio generator detecting the presence of my hands in camera space, using a laptop and custom software modified by me. The performance result is a combination of visual input, audio output, and improvisation as a live performance-art melange.

"Dark Ground inhabits an imaginary space where a ritual takes place. I see the space as a circle, and within that circle, cyclic patterns and formations are enacted, each leaving a mark on the space, or an echo that resounds beneath what follows. Everything grows up from a root - the Pedal Bass Drum - a dead sound, with a cycle in a simple yet deceptive 7/8. The shapes and patterns that grow from the Bass Drum have directions of their own, but when they stray too far, they lose power and disappear. Like gravity, the Bass Drum pulls things to the ground." - Tansy Davies

Justin Preece (BMus, MMus - SMU) is a percussionist, composer, and educator based in Corvallis, Oregon. A member of the music faculty at both OSU and Willamette University, Justin teaches studio percussion lessons, directs Willamette Chamber Percussion, co-directs the OSU Percussion Ensemble, is the founding director of OSU Samba Bateria, and is in his eleventh year as Percussion Coordinator and lead drumline instructor/arranger for the Oregon State University Marching Band. Justin composes primarily for solo and chamber percussion, with premieres of his music occuring at the Northwest Percussion Festival and Oregon State University.

Atonal piece for solo piano in two movements: I. Allegro Agitato  II. Tranquillo

Sally Maish holds a B.A. in Music from the University of Chicago where she graduated with honors and completed graduate studies in advanced music theory, analysis and composition. She studied piano and theory under Easley Blackwood (composer, pianist Chicago Pro Musica) and composition under Shulamit Ran (Pulitzer Prize winner and former Composer-in-Residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra) and John Eaton (MacArthur fellow, recipient of Genius Award). She was principal bassoonist with the University of Chicago Symphony and the New Music Ensemble of Chicago. While studying at the International School of Geneva in Switzerland she earned the Royal Schools of Music Diploma in music theory and studied bassoon under Maria Mealey and Spencer Philips (Conservatoire de Genève). Also in Switzerland she held the position of principal bassoonist with the Orchèstre St. Jean de Genève. Her saxophone training included study with Jeff King, Peter Hart and Tom Van Kanegan (all Chicago). Since beginning her professional music career in 1993, Sally has performed and recorded as a saxophonist, flautist, keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist. She has had compositions performed and featured in radio broadcasts throughout Europe and the U.S. and has taught at institutions such as the Arlington School of Music and the Schaumburg Academy of Music. In her free time she enjoys cycling, skiing, hiking and simply being in nature.                   

"Gota de Aguas" is a creative audio performance that transforms the simple sound of a single water droplet into an immersive sonic journey. Beginning with a recording of a solitary drip, the piece evolves through digital manipulation, layering, and effects to simulate the many forms water can take—dripping, flowing, crashing, misting, freezing, and evaporating. Each transformation explores the emotional and elemental essence of water using rhythm, texture, and tone. This experimental work blurs the lines between nature and technology, inviting listeners to experience the hidden music of water through a cascade of sound that is both meditative and dynamic. 

Victor Villegas is a creative, bilingual technologist who serves as the Broadband & Digital Technologies Adoption Coordinator for Oregon State University Extension where he works to help bridge the digital divide in Oregon. He is also a multi-instrumentalist, singer-songwriter, storyteller, puppeteer, teaching artist and STEAM edutainer. Online, he is known as “DroneSinger” – the “Weird Al of Drones”, world’s #1 creator of parody songs about drones. He has a passion for leveraging The Arts to engage and educate underserved, underrepresented youth who might not naturally gravitate towards STEM subjects. 

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Leonardo Barron is currently attending Oregon State University in the process of getting his bachelors in Contemporary Music Industry.