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Femi is a Providence, RI–based architect and sound artist from New York working with handmade electronic and acoustic instruments to examine the cybernetics of gender, race, and culture through site-specific ritual performance. His work explores the intersections of acousmatics and cultural anthropology through architectural design as a radical and experimental practice. He is particularly interested in generative systems, spatial audio, sonic acts as ritual, and the poetics of sound technology. Femi approaches architecture as a political intervention enacted through vibration, embodied experience, and spatial interaction. Since 2018, he has performed solo and collaboratively under the moniker “sadnoise.” Notable performances include the Sonic Acts Biennial (2026, NL), Waterworks Festival (2024, MA), and Ende Tymes (2022, NY), among others.
curriculum vitae
Education:RISD BArch 2026
Leman Manhattan 2019
Exhibitions:Aquaponic Reverberations @ Tiffany Street Projects 04122026 ~ Providence, RI
Sound installation
Sonic Acts Listening Programme 9 @ Zone2Source 02222026 ~ Amsterdam, NL
Commissioned 8.2 channel spatial audio composition
We Collapse and Dream Together @ 42 Grand St 08292025 ~ NY, NY
Performance
Listening Session with Femi Shonuga @ Silence Please NYC 08292025 ~ NY, NY
Curated selection of music
Algorave @ Toledo Museum of Art 09132025 ~ Toledo, OH
Live code electronic music with accompanying visuals
OPEN STUDIOS | If the stars align…: Rena Anakwe, Sonic Liberation Devices, and Femi Shonuga-Fleming, curated by Johann Diedrick @ Center for Performance Research 06122025 ~ NY, NY
Performance and Q&A
War Goes Strait to Their Tummies @ Below Grand 04192025 ~ NY, NY
Exhibiting handmade electronic synthesizers and Arbrassons
Future Sketches: Live Letters @ MIT Museum 04182025 ~ Cambridge, MA
Live code electronic music with accompanying visuals
Ambiance As Noise @ RISD Museum 10152023 ~ Providence, RI
Performance
Sonic Salad @ RISD Museum 04062023 ~ Providence, RI
Processing and performance of acoustic instruments through handmade electronics
Campbient 44 Sound Art Residency 06072026 @ Kanaskat-Palmar State Park, Ravensdale, WA
Field recording residency
Ciat Lonbarde Lil Sidrassi Paper Circuit Workshop @ Salon De Ijzerstaven 02162026-02172026 ~ Amsterdam, NL
Circuit design and building workshop
R. Luke DeBois//Femi Shonuga (Sadnoise) Talk @ Experimental Intermedia Salon @ XI Records 03282026 ~ NY, NY
Performance and presentation
2025 AMIS Meeting Talk on Ciat Lonbarde Paper Circuits @ Georgia Southern University 0601-062025 ~ Savannah, GA
Talk about Ciat Lonbarde
Mixology: Ciat Lonbarde Paper Circuit Workshop @ Roulette 03012025 ~ NY, NY
Circuit design and building workshop
Orca Live-coding Workshop 01172025 @ RISD CIT ~ PVD, RI
Teaching Live code programming language "orca" workshop
Orca Live-coding Workshop 12142024 @ NYC Resistor ~ NY, NY
Orca Live-coding Workshop 07272024 @ Red Eel Lab ~ Atlantic Mills, Providence, RI
Performance:Rhythm in the Kitchen Festival @ Main Drag Music 04172026 ~ NY, NY
Electro-acoustic performance
Sonic Acts Biennial 2026 Heart Rests Twice Performance Series 02162026-02212026 ~ Murmur, Amsterdam, NL
Electro-acoustic performance
Non-Event Series @ Boston City Hall 11152025 ~ Boston, MA
Acoustically site specific electronics performance
Fuck the Fourth Festival @ Obreiddns Pub 07062025 ~ Allston, MA
Performance
Slabfest @ Jewel Music Venue 0518-192024 ~ Manchester, New Hampshire
Electro-acoustic performance
Waterworks Festival 04262024 @ Metropolitan Waterworks Museum ~ Boston, MA
Acoustically site specific electronics performance
Algotrek 4 04222023 ~ Cold Springs, NY
Live Code Music Hike and performance series
Electropixel and Ende Tymes Presents Electronoise 12 (Irrational Collective) @ Trans Pecos 06202022 ~ Brooklyn, NY
Electro-acoustic performance
Ende Tymes 12 @ Trans Pecos 04162022 ~ Brooklyn, NY
Performance
Live Coding Electronic Music Festival @ The State House 04172022 ~ New Haven, CT
Creative Code Festival @ Lightbox NYC 11122020-11152020 ~ Brooklyn, NY
Academic Engagements:Studio Technician and Research Assistant @ RISD SRST (Studio for Research in Sound and Technology) 2021-2024, 2025-2026
Expert on the Serge Modular Synthesizer, Research Assistant to build the Sound department at RISD
Guest Speaker @ School for Poetic Computation 2026
Visiting artist in "Decoding Tendencies in Live Coding: Exploring Notational Systems and Algorithmic Performance" class