THE PROGRAM
SOUNDBOX 8| 2025 PROGRAM | MAY 1 - 2, 2025
SOUNDBOX 8| 2025 PROGRAM | MAY 1 - 2, 2025
MAY 2
DAY 2: YOU TUBE LIVE STREAMING
Thanks for a great Soundbox8!
See you next time in 2026!
View the 2025 Featured Artists + Participants links above, to learn more about each event
8:30-9:50AM
Join us our Featured Collaboration with CATALYST, Institute for Creative Arts + Technology, in Berlin for a special program featuring Audio + Video Works by Catalyst Students (Program Curated by: Renée Coulombe and Benjamin Bacon) Available via YOUTUBE LIVE + Detrick Hall. An astounding program of 20+ New Audio/Video Works.
Be sure to check out all the bios and descriptions about the works under "Feature Participants" to learn more about the artist and the works
10:00-10:50AM (Detrick Hall)
Experience the World of ICE from Ice Scientitist: Jennifer Hutchings (OSU Professor: Sea ice dynamics and mechanics), as she presents ICE Field Recordings and her unique Research Projects. Next, expand your mind by listening to how creative composer-improviser and singer, Aurora Josephson (ICE QUEEN), as she demonstrates the SOUND of Dry Ice with her Extended Vocal Techniques, and Various Sonic Reactions of Metals Touching Dry Ice! Questions and Short Discussion Following this Research + Creative Perfomance. Moderated by Dana Reason
INTERMISSION
11:00-12:00PM TOOMEY LOBBY PRAx
Todd Fadel (PDX Community Member) VR OPEN Workshop + Exploration (Open from 11-4pm)
11-12:00PM DETRICK HALL PRAx
Original Compositions + Live Performance Session #1 Moderated by Dana Reason
11:00-11:10 AM
Fairview Mission Statement, performance (Bruce Burris, Community Artist)
Foggy Sunrise, and A Little Bit of Turbulence by Brooke Taylor for Strings (8 min)
11:10-11:20 AM
Flat Five - August Rabel
11:20-11:30 AM
Surprise Guest(s)
11:30-11:40
Submerge by Alden Leback for Percussion ( 8 min)
12:00 - 12:30 p.m. (TOOMEY LOBBY)
24 Hour Game Music Hackathon + Team Registration CLOSES : Moderated by Peter Valsamis
Be sure to join us at 5pm for the screening of the Games and see which team wins!
12:30-1pm
LUNCH BREAK
Original Compositions, Performance Art + Live Performance Session #2
1:00-1:10 p.m.DETRICK HALL PRAX
1:10: 1:25 p.m.
Collection of Songs, Annabella Eisner (OSU Music CMI, Senior)
1:25-1:35 p.m
Spring of Helicon for Clarinet Choir + Alto Saxophone, Danielle Painter (OSU CMI, Music)
1:40-1:55 p.m.
Collection of New Songs (Guitar, Voice) OLEO (aka J. PHILLIPS) (OSU Music CMI, Senior)
INTERMISSION
2:00-2:55 PM DETRICK HALL PRAX
Video + Sound Artists, Moderated by Julia Bradshaw (OSU Emerita)
Matterlurgy, A Film. Featured Artists: Mark Peter Wright and Helena Hunter, UK
2:15- 2:20PM
VIrtual Seas, Melody Owen (4:30 min)
2:20-2:30PM
Watershed, Premiere, 2025 Sound and video, Sasha Petrenko Video (10 Min)
2:30-2:40 PM
Dry Horizion, Video, Joan Truckenbrod (10 min)
2:40-2:55PM
(LIVE) Golden Shovel Poem, Created + Perfomed by Cleavon Smith with Live Music by: Peter Valsamis, Mike Gamble, and Dana Reason
INTERMISSION
3:00-3:45PM
Mixed Original Songs (Pre-Recorded) + Video Showcase Session #3 Moderator (Danielle Painter)
3:10-3:12
"It Was Heard Across The Lagoon : 2025 Juliana Souther (OSU Alumni), + Cascade Junior High Art Club
3:12-3:19
The Silence of Birds, Danielle Painter (Fixed Audio) (7:18 min)
3:12-3:20
River Light, Jack Fenlin (10 min)
3:20-3:30
Hope, Leonardo Barron (2:55 min)
3:30-3:40
Bathtub", Oil on Canvas (Fixed Image), by Avery McDowell
3:40-3:45
Finding My Fairy Fountain; Original song and animation,
Fared Ziya Vance and Jon Anthony Thomson (8 MIn)
INTERMISSION
4:00-4:50PM (RAY THEATER)
Featured Artists: Alexandria Smith (Georgia Tech) & Caroline Louise Miller (PSU)
(Peter Swendsen, Moderator)
Reflections on Water (5 min) – live vocals/trumpet, electronics, video
Sub Song (7 min) – fixed media
Subaqueous (8 min) – fixed media with video
Oxyluciferin (12-15 min) – live trumpet/electronics and vocals and electronics.
5:00 - 5:45 PM
24 Hour Game Music Hackathon- Showcase & Awards Judges: Raza Ahmad (Creative Director, Narrative Creation & Game Design Niantic): Peter Valsamis (Former IGT, Game Music Composer + Producer); Mathew L.C. Boyle (Music Theorist)
TEAM A
TEAM B
TEAM C
TEAM D
TEAM E
AWARDS : Presented by Raza Ahmad, Peter Valsamis, and Mathew Boyle
6:00-6:30 PM
DINNER
6:30-7:00 PM
RAY Theatre Evening Video and Audio Program (Moderator, Danielle Painter)
6:30-6:35PM
Water Ways, Evan Mount, Video + Audio Work, 5 min
6:35-6:39
Paper in the Floodplain, Jill R Baker (3:46 video)
6:39--6:49PM
ritual / release / roses is a full moon ritual performance, by Swan Ferraro & Krista Bloom Community Artist + Doctoral Student (Madison, WI)
6:49- 6:52 PM
Rhapsody in Gray
Keith Van Norman- Artwork (AR) with special Video (Community Artist)
INTERMISSION
7:00-9:00PM
Water Walk (2025) for oboe d'amore and SCI Improviser programmed by Taylor Brook - Catherine Lee Featured Artist (Portland)
7:20- 7:30PM
Improvisation with voice, feedback percussion and machine learning algorithms, Aj Stillabower Featured Artist (Portland)
7:30-7:40 PM
Improvisation, David Collins, Sax/ Electronics (Community Artist)
7:40-830 P.M.
Soundbox 8 ROUND ROBIN: Moderator: Mike Gamble
Live Performance with Guests. Faculty. Students.
8:30-9:00 p.m.
Chris Lock_LIVE DJ Set Featured Artist (YOUTUBE LIVE) PERFORMANCE
SOUNDBOX OVER at 9PM
THANKS FOR JOINING US! HOPE TO SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!
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10:00AM -1:00 PM
Johnny Beaver works with OSU Visual Arts Students: Open Project (Visual and Sound) - TOOMEY LOBBY
12:00-12:15 PM (RCB)
WELCOME SOUNDBOX 8: WATER and MOTHER EARTH + The One Heart Song by Jan Michael Looking Wolf (12 min) Video
OSU'S: FIRST EVER 24 Hour Game Music Hackathon + Team Registration. Facilitated by Peter Valsamis, TOOMEY LOBBY (PRAx) - Official Competition
12:30-1:00 PM
Join us our Featured Program #1 with CATALYST, Institute for Creative Arts + Technology, in Berlin for a special program featuring 8 Channel Program Audio Works by Catalyst Students (Curated by Renée Coulombe)
Live Performance Featuring OSU Faculty, OSU Extension, Community Artists Moderator (TBC)
1:00-1:50 PM
Atmospheric River: Chris Rorrer, Cello Improvisation (6 min)
Falling Water, Justin Preece, Motion Capture + Percussion ( 10 min)
Particle Flow, They Gamble (Audio Reactive Wave/Water Visuals + Improvised Sound) (10 min)
"Gota de Aguas," by Victor Villegas (A creative audio performance that transforms the simple sound of a single water droplet into an immersive sonic journey).
diffraction-interference - David B Collins (Tenor saxophone and electronics) (5 min)
Interplay: Reason x Valsamis (10 min) (Piano+ & Drums)
INTERMISSION
2:00-3:00 PM
SIGNAL FLOW Open Workshop+ Audio Technologies Moderated by Blake Harris Lane
3:00-3:50 PM
Sea Calm, Blake Harrison-Lane Piece (6min)
Graceful Degradation I–IV, Benjamin Bacon. Featured Artist: Technische Universität Berlin 11 min
Song for Circular Space, (2004), Peter Swendsen 10 min
Haunted Weather, Renée Coulombe. Featured Artists:Catalyst, Berlin 11 min
Alien Bog, in the forest (1967/2020), Pauline Oliveros
4:00-5:00PM
8 Channel OSU Student Concert by Music Technology + Production Students + Alumni: Moderated by Jason Fick, Associate Professor
Ripple, Cooper Reynolds
Pinball, Jeremy Haney
Palindrome, Mackenzie Ruff
Winter Whispers: A Sonic Tapestry of Fall’s Embrace to New Year’s Dawn, Andrea Pauls
Built by the Venetian Moon ,Smith Will
Gaslin Daydream, Josh Wright
Bellsong, Neph Hillis
TURMOIL, Sage Jarvie
INTERMISSION
5:00- 6:00 PM
VIDEO + AUDIO PROGRAM
Abrogation, Sally Maish (Video Art/Music) In 2 Movements (2min) - Moderated by Mike Gamble
5:17 5:27PM
Original Songs and Music Video, Sage Fisher, (10 Minutes)
5:30-6:00PM
Join us our Featured Collaboration #3 with CATALYST, Institute for Creative Arts + Technology, in Berlin for a special program featuring Video Works by Catalyst Students (Curated by Renée Coulombe)
6:00-7:00pm
DInner Break
7:00-7:20 pm (RCB)
Soundbox Songwriter Workshop : Join us for an unforgettable evening where emerging and established songwriters come together to share their craft. Takes place in RCB Marilyn Jordan + Fiona Daley, Facillitators
WORKSHOP: Marilyn Jordan and Fiona Daley
7:30-9pm Showcase
Songwriters + Poets
Marilyn Jordan
Nicolette Ratz, (MFA, Poetry Student), Reading Original Poems
Annabella Eisner
Libby Bateman +
Bill Smyth
Andrew Jutten
Jeremey Haney, Sea of Misery (Piano/Voice)
Fiona Daley
Josh Phillips 'Oleo', OSU Contemporary Music Industry Student
REAL-TIME JAMS WITH Special Guests, Students, + FACULTY (RCB)