Sound Art in Portland
Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound, a program that recognizes the rich histories and vibrant communities of sound art in Portland, OR.
Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound (2023) by Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage. Photo by Mario GallucciPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Curated by Roya Amirsoleymani and Felisha Ledesma
This was a multifaceted program of 15+ international, national, and local artists spanning six live performances; five commissioned multichannel compositions; four film/video works; and one month of artist residencies, community workshops, and public engagements.
Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound (2023) by Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage. Photo by Mario GallucciPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Experiments in Sound
From February 17 - March 26, 2023 Remembering to Remember was a program highlighting the collection and collision of impressions and inquiries of sound.
Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound (2023) by Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage. Photo by Mario GallucciPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Remembering to Remember recognized the rich histories and vibrant communities of sound art in Portland, while also offering a dynamic experience of new and recent work in experimental sound across forms by artists from around the world.
Synth Library (2023-03-11) by Synth Library Portland, Crystal Quartez (Cortez), Francisco Botello, Helen Spencer-Wallace, Matthew Rempes, Thomas Fang, Aaron Guice, and Yaw Evans.Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Remembering to Remember workshops
As part of the Remembering to Remember programming, The Synth Library Portland hosted multiple workshops open to everyone, offering both introductory hands-on teaching for beginners and instruction on how to create multi-channel sound compositions.
Listening to Nonhumans (Heard and Unheard) (2023-02-18) by Kite & Robbie WingPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
In the Listening to Nonhumans (Heard and Unheard) workshop by Kite and Robbie Wing, participants were guided in listening to the knowable and the unknowable: listening with and through nonhumans in the physical world and nonhumans in the unseen world.
MAJLES (2023-03-06) by Sholeh AsgaryPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
The last Remembering to Remember workshop was 𝐌𝐀𝐉𝐋𝐄𝐒 with Sholeh Asgary, a series of sound, silence, and movement-based workshops that built new governance through individual creativity in relation to each other.
Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound (2023) by Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage. Photo by Mario GallucciPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Artists included...
Participating artistsin the program include: Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage.
Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound (2023) by Artists include Adee Roberson, Alison O’Daniel, bone lattice, Crystal Quartez, Hiro Kone, Kite & Robbie Wing, Lucy Liyou, Nivhek, Nyokabi Kariũki, Reese Bowes, Saint Abdullah, Sholeh Asgary, Synth Library Portland, Takashi Makino, and Tomoko Sauvage. Photo by Mario GallucciPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Deep Listening: A Composer’s Sound Practice
During your waking or sleeping life, bring yourself to attention with the thought “remembering and remembering to remember.” You might find yourself listening backward in time to a sound that you didn’t know that you heard! — Pauline Oliveros
Hiro Kone, Remembering to Remember: Experiments in Sound by photo credit Tojo AndrianarivoPortland Institute for Contemporary Art
Learn more about Remembering to Remember
To see more about this exhibition and event, please visit the program page here at pica.org.
