Sat, Jan 26

5 pm - 11 pm

Capacity: 200

Tickets for Sat, Jan 26 performance

General admission
$25
$70 covers the average, per-ticket cost of staging a production at On the Boards

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Join us for an immersive evening of sound art, featuring sonic works by a diverse selection of Northwest-based artists. For six hours, our lobby & Studio Theater spaces will be transformed by a range of auditory & musical experimentations, with audiences free to come and go throughout the event. The evening’s line-up includes a cross-section of regional sound artists, musicians, and composers, including Chloe Alexandra Thompson (PDX), Nico Tower (Seattle), Benjamin Hunter, Felisha Ledesma (PDX), Holland Andrews (PDX), and DJ REVEREND DOLLARS (Seattle). Our lobby bar will be open for the duration of the event.

Soundscapes Lineup

In the Studio Theater

5:00-5:45pm Holland Andrews

6:00-6:30pm Chloe Thompson

7:00-7:45pm Nico Tower

8:00-8:45pm Felisha Ledesma

9:00-9:45pm Ben Hunter

In the Lobby

5:00 pm-5:30 pm Nico Tower

9:00-11:00 pm REVEREND DOLLARS

About the Artists

Nico Tower

Nico Tower

Nico Tower is an intermedia artist with a thirst for the unknown. Educated in multimedia design, she works with graphics, photography, video, and lighting design in tandem with her music and dance practices. Over the past seventeen years, Tower has released ten albums and performed in more than 40 cities across the US. This SeattleDances 2018 Dance Crush Award recipient, has scored more than 50 contemporary dance works, appearing in every major dance festival in Washington state. Her works with collaborator Maya Soto have received support from 4Culture, Office or Arts and Culture, Cornish College of the Arts, and Velocity Dance Center in partnership with 10 Degrees. NicoTowerStudios.com

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Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Chloe Alexandra Thompson

Chloe Alexandra Thompson is a Canadian, Cree, artist and curator, living and working in Portland, Oregon. Using Pure Data, Arduino, hardware and voice, Thompson creates unique sonic experiences and expressions through the spatialization of isolated frequencies. Thompson’s work has been shown at Corridor (Seattle), Quiet City (Vancouver, Canada), The Wiltern (LA), Qubit (New York), Panoply Performance Lab (New York), Wayward Concert Series (Seattle), Subharmonic: Sonic Arts Symposium (PICA), Sl*t Island (Montreal, Canada), Littman and White Galleries, Variform Gallery, Compliance Division, Open Signal, Bronco Gallery, and PCC. She has also presented in collaborations for Converge45, Disjecta, Out of Sight (Seattle), PICA T:BA:17, PICA T:BA:16, and Nationale. Thompson has given lectures and facilitated workshops as a part of T:BA:17 Institute in dialogue with Tanya Tagaq, Subharmonic: Sonic Arts Symposium (PICA) with France Jobin, PNCA, PSU, Open Signal, and home school pdx. Thompson’s written work has also been been released through Art in America, Zero Cool, Provision, Cig Thesis, and Blankstairs.

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Holland Andrews(they/them)

Holland Andrews

they/them

Holland Andrews (they/them) is a vocalist, composer, clarinetist, and performance artist. In addition to creating solo work, Andrews composes and performs for dance, theatre, and film. Their work is presented nationally and internationally, collaborating with artists such as Bill T. Jones, Dorothée Munyaneza, Otobong Nkanga, Will Rawls, NARCISSISTER, Sonya Tayeh, Jenn Freeman, Oliver Beer, & Demian DinéYazhi'. Musical collaborations include Son Lux, Nils Frahm, JJJJJerome Ellis, Christina Vantzou, Peter Broderick, Darian Donovan Thomas, & Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste. Andrews is a Guggenheim Fellow, Creative Capital Awardee, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Awardee, and United States Artists Fellow.

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Felisha Ledesma

Felisha Ledesma

Felisha Ledesma is an interdisciplinary artist and organizer based in Portland, Oregon. Ledesma is the Director of S1, an artist run space that focuses on experimental sound, critical contemporary art, and non-traditional education. Felisha co-founded the Synth Library - a low-cost resource for hands-on access to synthesizers, DJ gear, recording equipment and other electronic instruments for people of all experience levels. She has been exploring field recording and tape collage, modular synths, and the sound of secrets. Soundcloud.com/felishaledesma

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Reverend Dollars

Reverend Dollars

REVEREND DOLLARS (Renee Jarreau Greene) is a Seattle-based DJ and producer who is the founder of the Darqness Seattle Queer and Trans People of Color Arts Collective, as well as a member of the TUF and BabexHouse collectives. Her work focuses on bringing together marginalized Black, Trans, Queer, and People of Color communities through the mediums of music and dance with energetic DJ sets known for club, house and hiphop beats played at a frenetic pace. After a series of EPs dating back to 2011, she is currently working on her latest project WHEN THE GIRLS ARE FREE as well as a collaboration with vocalist Jazz Goldman called JAZZ/REV.

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