Coming in May 2026
Audio Interference: Heard in LA is an intra-active initiative—between Integrated Media/Art and Technology artist, Tom Leeser and Composer, Performer, Tim Feeney.
Audio Interference: Heard in LA is an extension of past Center for Integrated Media online and site specific sound projects developed for the Center’s web-based initiative, archive, and virtual studio, viralnet-v4.net—The Lament Project (2008), Dry Run (2012), Imagining Tellus 28 (2017), Project Scream (2019) and Release (2021).
As a nexus, Heard in LA is interested in the turbulent nature of the 21st century and cross-disciplinary collaborations that employ text, media, science, performance and art. We insist on provoking an “indiscipline” that moves us beyond protected borders of history, geography, identity and privileged cultural assumptions. We want to provoke, not predict future tendencies in art and technology.
According to the Oxford Languages Dictionary, interference is defined by “the combination of two or more electromagnetic waveforms to form a resultant wave in which the displacement is either reinforced or canceled.”
This project grew from our desire to curate a group of sound and spoken word artists that engage with extra-musical and textual strategies in their work. We are encouraging the artists to create new ruptures within our critical and conceptual understanding of sound and language through the use of “imperfect metaphors.”
We will invite the artists in Audio Interference: Heard in LA to respond to the word interference and to submit recent or new personal projects that explore a full range of sonic “waves and forms”—spanning spoken word, noise, electronics, acoustic and multi-instrumental compositions and improvisations. As the title implies, Audio Interference: Heard in LA will draw from a diverse group of artists whose practice resonates as an intimate collision across the greater Los Angeles region.
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