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.

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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