PARTICIPANTS 

Jan Michael will share a welcome message.

“Hayu-masi (many thanks in my Tribal language)! Being part of the incredible collective greatness of OSU is among the greatest honors of my life. There is no award or recognition that can compare to being there when students connect with their own musical self-expression while they also embrace their feelings and self-worth. My colleagues, students, and faculty continue to provide inspiration. In Tribal culture, teaching is one of the highest honors in the circle. Everyone’s voice and feelings are important.  We all come from Mother Earth and thusly are all related.  I maintain hope that one day the beautiful, incredible diversity of humanity will be fully embraced.   There is still time to show our children that they can walk in beauty, live in peace, and play together in harmony.”  

Sharing the beauty of personal musical self-expression with the Native American Flute is a dedicated focus of Jan’s life.  He founded the World Flute Circle that has members spanning every continent with online play along events for world peace.  

Jan is currently touring with his band "Native Rose", a special performance group that promotes world peace, diversity, equality, social equity, and unity. The uplifting music fusion of the Native Rose includes a beautiful blend of vocals, Native American Flutes, guitars, indigenous chants, violin and world percussion that share an inspirational message of everyone's connection to each other and Mother Earth.

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. Following years of research and lecturing, he worked with the professors in the Music Department and Ethnic Studies to develop accredited curriculum in 2004 for a course that focuses on cultural diversity and musical self-expression with the instrument.   As of 2024, he has taught over 18,000 students how to play the Native American Flute.  His classes have received awards for the most popular course by the students and are among the highest in ethnic-diverse participation at OSU. Jan helps coordinate the world record flute circle with over 600 students of the Native American Flute performing songs in harmony together as part of annual event at the University.  Jan is an author of two published books centered on the Native American Flute, including “One Heart, Journey with the Native American Flute” which he provides for free to his university students. His second book, “The First Flute” is co-authored with top selling Canadian Aboriginal author David Bouchard.  A hard cover book published by Red Deer Press, Jan wrote the original story of a young native brave who, with the help of creation, finds the first flute and plays for love.    

Join OSU arts faculty Johnny Beaver and his Painting II: Concepts class for a casual workshop exploring the transmutation of sonic materials into visual art. Multiple, hands-on synthesizer stations will be erected where visitors are invited to listen, play, and learn about modular synthesis as well as methods for converting what you hear to what you see (and back again!). Participants will have access to a number of mark-making tools and are encouraged to participate in a large scale, collaborative mural based on the various sonic elements on hand. No experience necessary, all are welcome!

James Whittemore has been composing electronic music since the early 1970s.  In the mid-70s, he was Office Manager for the US importer of EMS synths and sold Moog modulars to schools.  A founding member of agit-pop punk dub band, The Scientific Americans, he performed with tape loop devices, Synthi AKS, & MiniMoog.  He has recorded with Elliott Sharp, Human Error, and WKGB.  Recent performances include the Stanford Day Of Noise, Robotspeak Church of The Super Serge in San Francisco, Pacific Northwest Looping Festival, and the Soundbox series at OSU.

My name is Aliyah Lopez but my friends call me Iyah for short. I'm a graphic designer at Oregon State graduating in 2024. I will also be minoring in Studio Art so today I'll be showing you one of my 2D pieces. I was born in California but Oregon raised, as a military brat I like to make anywhere home. Some things about me is that I really enjoy my television and movies- with graphic design I plan to go into film poster production and animation. Feel free to ask me anything Star Wars, Tarantino, A24, or horror. 

Acrylic and molding paste 

This painting is based off of collected sound of OSU campus. It is an abstraction of nature and human life represented through a lineation of time and color. This painting can be read on all sides, each direction whether it's horizontal or vertical will project a different feeling of the representation of sound. 

Monkey Mode is a jazz-funk jam band that places an emphasis on improvisation and longform solos. Their original music crosses the barriers between funk, rock-n-roll, and hip hop, all with a jazz influence. The group consists of Andrew Bell on keys, Paul Streichan and Wesley Yost on electric guitars, Scott Kanavel on bass, Logan Anderson on drums, and Jordan Lapp on alto saxophone as well as various featured musicians. Based in Bend, OR

Paul Streichan wrote this tune. This song is an adaption of a hard hitting funk in a minor mode for most of the tune.

Sage is a member of Soundbox7's  Curation & Production Team, where he assists with festival planning and organization, as well as A/V tech. He is also an Album Project producer and 8-Channel composer.

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. As a composer, his electronic music has been performed at academic and public concerts, festivals, and conferences throughout the United States, Europe, South America, and Asia, including ICMC, NYCEMF,  SEAMUS, WOCMAT, ICAD, CMS, ATMI, Electroacoustic Barndance, International Horn Symposium, and International Tribunal on Fracking and Human Rights. Jason is a past President of College Music Society Northwest Chapter and is the current Vice President for the Association of Technology in Music Instruction (ATMI). For more information, visit www.jasonfick.com. 

In 2024, 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 from over 30 submissions 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. Please come celebrate the release of our newest album on Tuesday, May 21st. We will play the album and hear from the artists and producers on their process. Light refreshments will be served.

Come join students from MUS 443: 8-channel composition as they host an octophonic concert featuring original music. 8-channel is an immersive and dynamic listening experience that utilizes eight speakers surrounding the listener. Close your eyes and let this music place you in another environment while painting pictures in your mind. Musical influences include soundscape, electroacoustic, video games, commercial music and more! Hear music created by OSU students Megan Vasquez, Andrea Sullivan, Mackenzie Ruff, Sage Jarvie, Cruise Hawk, Jed Knorr, Jacob Ire, and Andrew Lloyd McNemar.

I have been working on Serenade Sognante—or “Dreamy Serenade”—for a couple of months now; it started off as a couple of funky chords and then a nice melody started to develop. It’s been fun taking this one original dreamlike theme—which you hear in measure 23—and coming up with nice harmonies that then develop into their own melodic characters themselves. It’s really engaging taking these concepts of developing themes that you hear while listening to classical or instrumental music and then applying them to my own music—which also inspired the traditional Italian translation of the name. Instagram: @mountemusic

Life is bittersweet — excruciating and wonderful. Both things are true. I find healing and light in words and colors, sounds and rivers, adventures and connections. As a student, I study the roles and ways of storytelling. I pour it all into songs of home, hiding out, and running like hell: So much trying to figure it out. I invite you to join me on this exploration of art and humanity. Be love. Be light. Take good care.

Performance by Greg Persons, Lin Musik, Ryan Tevlin, and Max Lydum. Video and Sound by Greg Persons, Lin Musik, Johnathan Loudon, Ben Kelley, and Jill R Baker.

Bio: Living Studios is a studio arts program (administered by Cornerstone Associates) that connects neurodiverse artists and artists with disabilities to professional art opportunities and meaningful community based projects. The artist communities at Living Studios are advancing the disability arts movement by contributing to their communities through their own inspired efforts and stories. We engage in open-ended performances that begin with the idea that our presence and movements through a space is a performance in itself. 

Equipped with cardboard camera sculptures, we embarked on a photo-shoot and improvised performance on a baseball field at a nearby park. 

C A M E R A S O U N D is a video work that includes sound and performance by artists who participate in the studio program at Living Studios Corvallis (administered by Cornerstone Associates) in collaboration with artist Jill R Baker. Through visibility, interaction, and improvisation in public space, we practice liberation that is both radical and ordinary.

At Cascade Junior High, a public school located in Turner, Oregon, ten students from 6 th , 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 first year of CJHS Art Club, students have been enjoying creative hands-on projects like bookmaking, 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 collaborative sound piece including but not limited to DIY instruments, voice and office-supply sounds, CJHS Art Club students bring their own musical instruments or creative ideas to the table, then we choreograph them into a score. With a focus on “Leave No One Behind”, a United Nations Guiding Principle, and the UN Foundation’s “Stronger Together” theme, students hope to communicate to people worldwide that they are not alone and that we all want, and need, to support one another.

A live ritual will utilize dance, music, and poetry as a form of meditation for and with the body. Transphobia lives within our nervous systems, exploiting the body’s survival responses. I will use my body as a form of storytelling to transform and heal. Focusing on the poetics of the performance, viewers will be invited to write a (short) response. A poem will be created with their words, thus the community becomes integrated into the transformation process. The stream of consciousness format is about creating new realities together.

A scientific demonstration, talking about the history of plastic and it's purpose and how to sustainably use plastic. 

The band Coastal Saturday started with a couple friends that met each other through music classes at OSU. They make indie pop/rock music together and are releasing a new single soon called “magnolia.” 

Magnolia by Coastal Saturday is a song about capturing a moment that was so beautiful you wish you could stop the world. It was recorded and produced by Coastal Saturday at Sunday Studios, and is reminiscent of one of their popular songs “City Lights”.

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.

 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. 

A piece for violin that alternates between two tunings of B through E minor and G major. B can be tuned to the E string by 4/3. It can also be tuned to the D string by 5/3. The difference between the two is 81/80, a 5-limit comma measuring 21.5 cents.

Polyphony comes from double stops, delay and difference tones. A bass part is created through difference tones from double stops and effects. Though normally faint, the bass can be clearly heard through amplification, distortion and Just Intonation between two treble notes.

Having been in the music game since the age of 11, Lloyd Andrew McNemar has gone through a revolving door of musical styles and interest. From his orchestral backgrounds and grassroots to delving into the popular indie sound and all the retro sounds he thought there was no place else to turn to in music, so he jumped off the Western World and into the faraway and peculiar lands of the East for new inspiration and outlooks about music. For now he presents Americana Raga, a group of Western musicians who are interested and enamored by Hindustani music.

“Tunes From The Dunes” is a very improvisational piece that takes traditional Eastern oriented music and pays homage to it with grace and style. After I, Lloyd Andrew McNemar, found my interest and taste for Hindustani music I couldn’t help but just get invested as a musician to really see what the hype is about, and it sure is something else. The piece is comprised of a sitar, dilruba, harmonium, and a sur tanpura.

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 Lewis and Clark College, holds a Doctor of Music in Oboe Performance from McGill University, and a certification from the Deep Listening Institute. www.catherinemlee.com 

I have spent the past 5 summers raising domestic silkworm moths, and they have been a profound source of inspiration. This was recorded using one microphone to record the silkworms, and another to capture my improvisation in response to them. Both were sent directly into the SCI, which listens, learns, and improvises with the sounds that it has heard. I continued improvising with the sounds produced by the SCI and the silkworms in real-time. 

For small percussion (metals), darbuka, and digital audio playback.

As a composer-performer, I am particularly interested in the place of human musical agency in an era of computational representation. I mediate this interest through my creative output as a percussionist-improviser. I propose to perform an improvised work (currently under development) using acoustic percussion instruments and possibly also digital percussive sounds (e.g. via MalletKat, malletStation, or Roland SPD-SX) as a way of reclaiming/maintaining space and agency for the original human performer in a world of synthesized reproduction and generation. I want to articulate a collective future that prioritizes human expression and motivation.

Abe’s love of sharing music began as a young boy, performing for his great-grandmother. Along his multifaceted musical journey, Abe has competed statewide for both violin and oboe. Abe is a past winner of the CYS Young Soloists Competition for violin.  In addition, Abe is a fellow in the Newport Youth Symphony Young Composers Symposium. He has been fortunate to perform several of his compositions alongside the Corvallis Camerata Orchestra. 

As the founder of Corvallis Casa Musica, Abe hopes to honor his great-grandmother’s memory. Abe brings together student and adult musicians, spreading joy through music and service to the Corvallis community.  When Abe’s not practicing or composing, he’s probably studying BC calculus, training in the martial art of Aikido, or playing tennis!

“Just as man cannot live without dreams, he cannot live without hope. If dreams reflect the past, hope summons the future.”  - Elie Weisel

I created La Esperanza to reflect a spirit of joy and resilience. In music, there is often a “moving line;” an orchestral voice with a melodic, driving tone. We might say that in life, there exists also such a line, a melody propelling us forward. In this piece, I seek to embody this sound, a spirit that lifts our hearts and compels us to make a difference in this world. La Esperanza sings the song of hope.  Special thanks to my ensemble for performing this piece alongside me! 

John R. Campbell operates at the nexus of landscape and culture. His writing has appeared in prominent journals such as Poetry, The Threepenny Review, Georgia Review, and many others. He’s presented live music in in Chicago, Portland, Eugene, and Corvallis. He’s won awards from Poets and Writers, Utah Arts Council, Fulbright Foundation, and others, and performed his poetry in venues such as The National Arts Club (NYC), the University of Lisbon (Portugal), and the Mountain Writers’ Series (Portland). He has taught at University of Utah, University of Lisbon, and Oregon State University, where he currently teaches in the Honors College. 

Duration: 30 minutes

Spoken word and electronic music presentation in three parts, including elements of improvisation, augury, aleatoric composition, and environmental concern.

This piece is called Afternoon Blues and was improvised over a short jazz progression I wrote a few months ago. This is the first recording over this progression that I recorded and I believe it fully captures the essence I was trying to portray when I originally wrote the progression.

Duration: 10 min (Online Program)

This ten-minute performance combines live scoring with a live coding video synthesis presentation to document the artist’s journey through a year of medical interventions and trauma including a bone graft, internal fixation with titanium screws, and intense physical therapy.  Live scoring will be performed with VCVRack, tape loops, and improvised instruments, live video synth coding will be projected and performed using Hydra combined with a presentation of visuals (including X-rays, videos, illustrations, still images). 

Victor Villegas is the Broadband & Digital Technologies Adoption Coordinator at OSU. He is a futurist, technologist, STEAM edutainer, teaching artist and multidisciplinary artist interested in the convergence of The Arts and Technology as a vehicle for education and science communication. He is best known for his creative K-12 STEAM outreach and engagement as “DroneSinger - the Weird Al of drones,” using technology, music, humor, puppetry and storytelling to reach underserved, underrepresented youth who might not naturally gravitate towards STEM subjects.

Kiana Schiffer transforms the ordinary into visually compelling narratives through her inspiration from classical style, although her art can be defined as abstract expressionism. Born in Ashland, Oregon she now creates from her renovated school bus in Bend, Oregon. Using a culmination of acrylic, film photography, cinematography and calligraphy ink as her primary mediums Kiana has perfected a technique that emphasises the simplicity of the human form. Her art challenges the viewer’s perception of reality, often bending shapes, concepts and human figures into dream-like scenes that evoke a sense of comfort and simplicity. Kiana has no formal training in the arts but came from three generations of professional artists and has derived her inspiration from her great grandmother, Grandmother and mother. The central themes of Kiana’s work explores the human experience and the specific limitations of woman’s experience in westernised society. She frequently addresses themes of isolation, connectivity, presenting these issues in a way that is both inviting and simple. Kiana's work not only reflects her deep personal connections to her surroundings but also resonates with global woman’s concerns, positioning her art within a broader conversation about the humanities and invites viewers to interpret her work as an opportunity for connection.