The Audio portal hosts installation work, performance projects, scores and DIY electronics.

I work with sound as a lens into discussing the cybernetics of ritual and how systems shape experience and belonging. My performances and installations utilize handmade electronic and acoustic instruments, spatial audio, and node based programming languages as new technologies in discussing the ecological politics. I am interested in how deep listing can reveal the politics of space, and sonic acts can open up new anthologies of research to digest and interact with these histories on a new plane. What are ways in which curated sound can explore the social and historical contexts of environmental crisis? Land and bodies have been governed through colonial extraction and racialized systems. I approach sound as a new way of making these systems perceptible and poetic. Low frequencies can become physical presence while spatial diffusion shifts orientation. Performance becomes an ephemeral/spiritual space where listeners encounter the environment and each other in embodied ways. I propose work that approaches ecological crisis through embodied listening and site-specific engagement. I seek to reveal the conditions that produce collapse through sound as a new media cybernetic medium for design and conversation. Sound can expose relationships that are otherwise invisible: between human activity and environmental change, as well as between collective systems and individual perception. Abstraction and manipulation of sound into these new environments can reorient the way we think and create spaces for mediation. By treating sonic experience as a space of reflection and connection, I hope to contribute to the exhibition’s exploration of ecological responsibility and the possibility of more equitable futures. Sound holds weight as a form of documentation, protest, amplification and peace.

• bandcamp
• youtube
• nina

• sadnoise
• lpw
• wetness
• XLR sex (Adrian Ocone + Femi Shonuga)
• Triplets (Mark Cetilia + Femi Shonuga)
• Sadwarbler (Cryptwarblr + Sadnoise)
• Kouruga (Femi Shonuga + Mackenzie Kourie)
• Oreoreoreo [FKA Oreo Cookie Therapy] (Femi Shonuga and HuiChun Yang)

"Performing and listening to a gradual musical process resembles:
pulling back a swing, releasing it, and observing it gradually come to rest;
turning over an hour glass and watching the sand slowly run through the bottom;
placing your feet in the sand by the ocean's edge and watching, feeling, and listening to the waves gradually bury them." ~ Reich 1968