About the Lab & Performance

Across six collaboratively produced works, the group explores and transmutes original and archival sounds that illuminate the self, our loved ones, and our political consciousness.

The Lab brought together a multidisciplinary group of seven audio artists, whose backgrounds range from audio production, oral history, and instrumentation to improvisation, dance, and new media. Together, they pitched, conceived, researched, and created a series of audio-first experimentations, with the rigorous guidance of program director Aaron Edwards, mentors Jazmine T. Green and Lisa Schonberg, and an inspiring roster of guest artists with diverse approaches to how sound can be experienced in physical space. 

​The resulting pieces take on a range of voices and subjectivities, drawing from personal and public material, recorded testimonies, and moments of quiet introspection, grief, and play. What does it mean to reshape echoes and fragments of what’s absent or amorphous? How can movement, presence, and adaptation help us make sense of memory, longing, and political identity?