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Wednesday – Thursday, February 23-24 In Zoom, YouTube Live & Virtual Galleries

Extending our Special Thanks to all the Community Member:

SOUNDBOX 5

Interstitial Spaces: Collaborations & Creative Catalysts Art - Engineering - Intermedia - Music - Poetry - Science - Technology

A two-day mini festival of makers in music, technology, poetry, art, engineering, science and more, co-hosted by College of Liberal Arts, Arts & Education Complex, School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts, OSU Extension, OSU Cascades and the Soundbox5 Programming Committee: Dana Reason and Julia Bradshaw co-chairs, Victor Villegas and Andrew Lorish. Special thanks to all the participants on Soundbox5 that have volunteered their time, talents, research, and creative works to make this free program possible!

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Nicole Martin is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, writer, and production professional with over fifteen years of experience producing live events and designing multi-channel immersive audio installations focused on environmental themes. During the pandemic she began studying Deep Listening™ alongside ethnobotany and global herbalism traditions. These avenues are all reflected in the subject matter and approach of her newest piece, Hibiscus Variations. Prior works include the Threshold Shift series on 90.7 FM KBOO Community Radio and Hear and There: Audio Postcards from Earth at the OMSI Kendall Planetarium. Her collections and compositions have been featured at SoundBox 4, HearSay International Audio Arts Festivals, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Goethe-Institut, Georgetown University and in various regional theaters. She was a 2021 Shot Pouch Resident Artist, the 2017 KBOO Sound Artist in Residence, and a 2012 Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Sound Design, Resident Production.

What happens when a sound artist gets a piece of gear that allows living beings' electrical biorhythms to become MIDI controllers? An artist's duet with their "Lucy Sharon" Hibiscus.

Nicole Martin (Echo Collector)

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Catherine Lee has performed extensively as a solo, chamber, and orchestral musician on oboe, oboe d’amore, and English horn in a wide range of artistic settings, including classical, contemporary, and free improvisation. Lee actively commissions new solo works that explore experimental compositional and performance techniques, her most recent solo CD, Remote Together (Redshift Records, 2021), features works by Canadian and American composers residing in the Pacific Northwest. Lee is on faculty at Willamette University and holds a Doctor of Music in Oboe performance from McGill University (Montreal, Quebec), and a certification from the Deep Listening Institute (New York).

Shedding Skin (2021) An interspecies improvisation with the Bombyx mori (domestic silkworm moth) Catherine Lee, oboe d'amore and electronics by the Scuffed Computer Improviser (SCI), programmed by Taylor Brook. Juniana Lanning, video I have spent the past three summers raising Bombyx mori (domestic silkworm moths), and they have been a profound source of inspiration. I recorded this piece using a single microphone placed directly in the box with the silkworms. This microphone captured both the constant drone-like sound of the silkworms voraciously eating mulberry leaves and my improvisation on oboe d’amore in response to them. These sounds were sent directly into the Scuffed Computer Improviser (SCI), programmed by Taylor Brook, which listens, learns, and improvises with the sounds that it has heard.

Catherine Lee

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JIM RYAN

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Jim Ryan was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and began listening to bebop at age 15. In 1958 after obtaining a degree in philosophy from the University of Minnesota, Jim was drafted into the army and sent to Europe. After serving for 21 months, Jim found himself attending the Sorbonne in Paris France. A short time after he became involved with the beat poet community that was blossoming in France and throughout the world, rubbing elbows with such poets as Boroughs, and Ginsberg.

Poet, writer, philosopher and musician, Jim Ryan is an original member of the exploratory family of artists of the 20th century. His powerful playing style and truly original voice permeates with vibrant spirit.

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Brenda Congdon produced health promotion and prevention video and multimedia programs for over 30 years, mostly working in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. Much of her work was grant supported and used innovative approaches to engage audiences of different cultures, ethnicities, and ages. Greg Power is a percussionist/sound designer in Los Angeles. He graduated with a master’s in Percussion Performance from California State University Northridge. He teaches with Drum Corps International. He is an adjunct percussion professor at Bakersfield College in California and teaches at several high schools around LA, including award-winning Chino Hills and Los Alamitos.

This video is the result of a mother and son collaboration during COVID lockdown. Originally created for “Mysticism in COVID,” a 2021 exhibit at Joan Truckenbrod’s Corvallis gallery, the video mixes original art, live action camera shots, and an original music and effects score. Based on the loss of a close friend during COVID, the filmmaker (Brenda) and the musician and composer (Greg) put together a piece that explores beauty, mysticism, loss, and renewal. What do we value when we no longer have the same connections and interaction with the world? What are we really in control of after all?

Brenda Congdon & Greg Power

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Max Kerwien is a poet and comedian. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Creative Writing from the University of Washington. In 2016, he won the Joan Grayston Poetry Prize. In 2018, he published his first collection of poetry, “Poems to Ruin Dinner with”.

A short showcase of my concrete poetry, which is a type of poem where the words are used to paint a visual image.

Check out: https://maxkerwien.com/pics

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Max Kerwien

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Serge Bulat is a Moldovan-American multidisciplinary artist, composer and sound designer, who has been contributing to both European and American scenes, exploring various mediums: from music and visuals to video games, radio and theater productions. Artist's most notable works are "Queuelbum" (IMA award for Best Electronic Album Of The Year), the immersive video game "Wurroom" (created in collaboration with Michael Rfdshir), the audiovisual installations "Third World Walker" (presented at festivals and conferences around the world including NYCEMF, Convergence, Technarte, New Music Gathering, and Video Art Forum. Recent artistic activities include the release of the multi-format albums "Wurmenai", "Similarities Between Fish And A Chair" (a collaboration with artists from 10 countries), and the score for the experimental video game "Isolomus". Bulat's ongoing immersive project 'Inkblot', presented at selected festivals was recently published in the scientific journal Vortex. Inkblot description:

"Inkblot" is designed to trigger the listener's imagination to demonstrate our unique ability to process data and create a "personal reality" construct. Much like in the psychological evaluation, the audiovisual inkblots are expected to produce an association or feeling, which the audience interprets uniquely. The project takes the standard test one step further by including an additional sense: hearing; and aims to reveal more information about ourselves. Stimulated by both visuals and sound, the subjects are invited for a"self-diagnosis", formed through the sensory experience. The success of the test depends solely on the testee, based on the idea that the participant is both the experiment and the experimenter. Described as "listening parties for the thinkers", "Inkblot" is made to bring back the wonder of sound, interactivity and conceptualism in music.

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The Border Song (Official Video)

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Serge Bulat

WURROOM BY MICHAEL RFDSHIR & SERGE BULAT

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Jill R Baker & Karin Bolender

Jill R Baker is a visual artist whose work employs drawing, performance, and video to document improvised interactions with the natural world. Her holds an MFA in Intermedia from the University of Iowa and is currently a new member of Eugene Contemporary Art. Her work has been included in galleries, project spaces, and screenings throughout the U.S. Her work is also featured in the Common Ground online exhibition Performances for Hands and Desert Floor. Karin Bolender is an artist-researcher who seeks stories within muddy meshes of mammals, plants, pollinators, microbes, and many others. Under the auspices of the Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.), she cultivates a homegrown, collaborative living-art-research practice that explores dirty words and entangled wisdoms of earthly ecologies through performance, writing, video\/sound installation, and other experimental arts of multispecies storytelling.

Welcome to the Secretome (2016 – present) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary project cultivated by Rural Alchemy Workshop (R.A.W.) artist Karin Bolender (she/we/they) that proposes experimental methods for co-composing stories with/in living places. The project invites participants to delve into dynamic ecologies in new ways, through images of microbial cultures gathered within them. The R.A.W. resides in Philomath, Oregon. Jill R Baker (she/her) is an artist, educator, and parent whose improvised interactions with her immediate environments inhabit many forms. Baker and Bolender began collaborating within local webs of familial and ecological relations in May 2020.

RURAL ALCHEMY WORKSHOP (R.A.W.)

Lisa Schonberg

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Lisa Ann Schonberg is a composer and percussionist creating sound works based on ecological research. Informed by her background in ecology and entomology, Schonberg is interested how these sound works can reveal and challenge assumptions about nonhuman sound-worlds and agency, with

a focus on insects. She has been collaborating with Brazilian entomologists on ATTA (Amplifying the Tropical Ants), a project investigating ant bioacoustics in the Amazon. Her other recent work includes investigations of old-growth forests in Oregon and endangered Hawaiian Hylaeus bees. Schonberg's compositions are often performed by percussion ensembles Secret Drum Band (@secretdrumband) and UAU.

Invertebrate Feelings is a music composition that explores ideas around invertebrate acoustic communication and agency in our shared soundscapes. It focuses on insect sound, featuring field recordings made in Manaus, Brazil and Gamboa, Panama in tropical forest environments. Invertebrates are critical contributors to tropical forest ecosystem integrity, which are in turn crucial to global climate regulation. This work instead asks us to move towards recognizing invertebrates’ intrinsic, rather than utilitarian, value. It positions invertebrates in speculative interactions with each other, my drumming, and human-made sound in their environments. This work was composed while in residence at Pioneerworks.

Christopher W. Tyler

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Christopher Tyler is Head of the Brain Imaging Center at the Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute, San Francisco, with more than 300 scientific publications to his credit. One main interest has been how the human brain derives a full understanding of the three-dimensional world in which we move and operate from the 2D information provided by the two eyes, revealing the importance of 3D structure in object and face perception. In the process, he developed the concept for the 'Magic Eye' images for showing 3D scenes in a single image without special glasses, which became very popular in the 1990s. He has discovered many aspects of the neural interactions involved with studies of motion, flicker, color, symmetry and the channel structure of human spatial vision. He has recently developed a new theory of the nature of consciousness as the activity of the interstitial pathways linking the various well-known brain structures of cortex and subcortical nuclei, as opposed to any of those structures themselves.

In considering the nature of consciousness proposed by past theorization, this new analysis indicates that abstract theories of consciousness as a purely information processing state have no force unless they are grounded in the physiology of the brain, since the organization of a dynamic system like the sun could equally well qualify as conscious under such abstract information-based theories. It concludes that results of many previous proposals for the neural substrate of consciousness over the past century can be integrated into the novel concept that consciousness is the neural activity extending through a subcortical network of interlaminar structures running from the brainstem to the claustrum. This interstitial structure has both the specificity and the extended connectivity to account for the unified yet diverse array of the experiences of reportable consciousness.

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C.W. TYLER (2021) THE INTERSTITIAL PATHWAYS AS THE SUBSTRATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS: A NEW SYNTHESIS. ENTROPY 2021, 23(11), 1443

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Nicole D Sanchez

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Nicole, a native of Virginia, has been writing poetry since high school, where her early work was included in her school’s literary magazine. She moved to Klamath Falls in 2016, but her time in the South is often reflected in her poetry. In July 2011 she was the winner of the Rogue Poetry Slam in Ashland, and some of her work is included in a soon-to-be-released anthology of Klamath poets. Themes range from works described as “gut-punching” poems addressing difficult topics to observations on plants and nature derived from more than thirty years as a career horticulturist and entomologist.

Living in the PNW after 45 years in the Southern US has provided ample opportunity for reflection on similarities, differences, and themes pertaining to the two regions. Several of her works pertaining to southern life were included in a recent anthology of Klamath County poets, published November 2021.

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Joan Truckenbrod is a digital artist programming computers in FORTRAN and BASIC, to create coded algorithmic textiles beginning in 1979. These were exhibited recently at the Schneider Art Museum in Ashland Oregon in a one person exhibit titled Digital Fibers 1979 to Present. Some of the early textiles in this exhibition will be included in a solo exhibition at the RCM Galeri in Paris in late Spring 2022. Currently her work addresses the social construction of difference, expressed through hand digital Jacquard weavings with metallic threads. The Spring issue of Surface Design Journal includes an article about this artwork. She is Professor Emeritus in the Art and Technology Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Joan Truckenbrod is represented by the RCM Galerie.

Dry Horizon Joan Truckenbrod Dry Horizon speaks about environmental degradation caused by our behaviors, including the continued use of fossil fuel, and lack of serious water conservation. Coal and ore docks, loading coal onto ships to be used in a variety of areas, is contrast with a journey through a lush but darkened forest, while slowly rotating cracked earth on the edge of a lake that drys up each summer because of the dispute over water rights, symbolizes this vanishing resource. Pulling a globe of the earth through the ocean currents until it comes apart, is a metaphor for “pulling the earth through the dirt”.

Joan Truckenbrod

Helen Liu

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Helen Liu was born in Taiwan and raised on a chicken farm in the southern part of the island. She came to study at the University of Oregon in 1977 and eventually received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland. In 2013, Helen began using non-recyclable waste plastic bags generated from her own household as well as from local coffee shops, friends and neighbors. Over the next 8 years, Helen’s art has focused on using these non-recyclable plastic bags.

Two of the largest works from this period were American Luminosity, shown in Beall Hall, Univ. of Oregon in 2014 and From Plastic Waste to Art Quilt, 40ft x 12ft, funded in part by the Springfield Arts Commission and displayed in downtown Springfield, Earth Day 2021. Helen’s newest project involves locally sourced wool from small farmers and homegrown dyes.

More at helenliuartwork.com

Aurora Josephson

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Aurora Josephson is a musician and visual artist who currently resides in Portland, Oregon. Building on the foundation of operatic training and a BA and an MFA in Music Performance from Mills College, she has forged a bold vocal style that is uniquely her own. To unleash the limitless range of sonic possibilities in the voice, Josephson employs a variety of extended and unconventional techniques drawn from the worlds of contemporary composition, improvisation, and rock. She has performed and recorded with Alvin Curran, Gianni Gebbia, Henry Kaiser, Joelle Leandre and William Winant, and musical groups Big City Orchestrae, Flying Luttenbachers, The Molecules, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, T.D. Skatchitband and the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

https://www.aurorajosephson.com/

Max Romney

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Inspired by a picture book, Max Romey heads to a remote beach on Alaska's coastline in search of marine debris. What he finds is a different story altogether. "Five years ago I returned from an ocean plastics clean-up on the remote shores of Kayak Island in Alaska. I wanted to share about the amount of marine debris and the solutions to address this problem, but the more I looked into it the more overwhelming and complex the issue became for me. This slow-moving tsunami of plastic sat in the back of my head until I returned home and had time to look at this issue in a new light. I still find marine debris overwhelming and complex but sharing the big picture helps me see the ways amazing people from all over could come together to find solutions."

Working together with Dr. Skip Rochefort, Associate Professor, OSU School of Chemical, Biological, and Environmental Engineering Max has made - The short film, “If you give a beach a Bottle” by Max Romney chronicles a marine debris clean- up expedition to the Katmai National Park in Alaska organized by the Ocean Plastics Recovery Project, in partnership with the NOAA Marine Debris Program. In summer 2021 OSU students from the PTF research group joined scientists, artists, plastics recycling experts, and local residents on the marine debris clean-up expedition. They were provided the amazing educational opportunity to view first-hand the scale of the problem of ocean plastic wastes that they are trying to solve in the laboratory with their reactor design and operation. We would like to acknowledge the support of Eugene-based waste plastic artist Helen Liu for funding the PTF reactor construction and the trip to Alaska for four OSU students.