soundbox 6 festival oregon state university

Soundbox 6: Biosphere Remix: Calling all Artists to Create and Conserve

Soundbox 6 is festival of makers in music, technology, poetry, art, engineering, science and more.

The Biosphere is a complex, interconnected system that sustains all life on Earth. Submissions can explore any aspect of the Biosphere, including biodiversity, ecosystems, climate change, sustainable living and environmental justice. We ask artists to explore the possibilities of re-mixing the natural world by re-using existing materials or incorporating technology. Artworks that incorporate recycled or repurposed digital or physical materials are highly encouraged.

Music - Technology - Poetry - Art - Engineering - Science - Interdisciplinary

Schedule May 22-26, 2023:

All events take place in the Memorial Union, room 109 unless otherwise indicated.

Read the full, detailed program at bit.ly/soundbox6.

  • 10-11 a.m. - Open Talk: "Ecoacoustics and Soundscape Composition" with Peter Swendsen, director of the School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts.
  • 11-12 p.m. - Salon 1: Desktop Documentary and Performance Art.
  • 12-1 p.m. - Synth Performance: Interactive durational live piece (hour 1) by Johnny Beaver, artist and instructor.
  • 1-2 p.m. - Synth Performance: Interactive durational live piece (hour 2) by Johnny Beaver, artist and instructor.
  • 2:15-3:15 p.m. - Panel Discussion: "Soundings: Art, Objects and Nature" with featured visiting artists Melody Owen and Jack Snell-Ryan. Moderated by Anna Fidler, artist and instructor.
  • 3:15-4 p.m. - Self-guided "Sound Hunts" created by OSU Honors College students.
  • 4-5 p.m. - Performance: Bossa Nova and Samba originals and arrangements with Joshua Philips, guitar and vocals.
  • 5-7 p.m. - Dinner (On your own).
  • 7-7:05 p.m. - Opening: Welcome and greetings with Jan Michael Looking Wolf, musician and instructor.
  • 7-8 p.m. - Album Release Party: OSU Music Technology and Production) students and Jason Fick, professor.
  • 9-10 a.m. -  Self-guided "Sound Hunts" created by OSU Honors College students.
  • 10:15-11:15 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self-guided tours: 2D Art installation by Jack Snell-Ryan. Installation by Melody Owen and more.
  • 11-12 p.m. - Open Synth Playground with Luthor Maggot.
  • 12-1 p.m. - Bio Sonification: plants, synth and human duo demonstration and performance with Victor Viillegas.
  • 1 -2 p.m. - Bio Sonification: plants, synth and human duo demonstration and performance with Victor Viillegas. 
  • 2-3:15 p.m. - "What the World Needs Now" poetry readings by: 
    • Andrew Mobbs, “Organ Pipe”, Natalie Patterson, “Sikes Cut, St. George Island”, Nola Iwasaki, “Poem from the River, Alsea”, Jessica Bajorek, “The Lake; Your Body”, Rachel Villa, “On the Sea Cliffs of the Tasman Peninsula”, Lila Cutter, “Morning on the Mendocino Bluffs”, Anna Gayle, “falling in love with the desert in Moab, Utah”, Hannah Ariesen, “Late at Night I Dream of Canyons”, MFA Graduate Students in Jennifer Richter's class with live musical responses by: Rebecca Sabine (Artist in Residence) and Joshua Philips, and more.
  • 3:30-5:30 p.m. - Confluences: Art-Science fellows opening show (The Little Gallery, 210 Kidder Hall). 
  • 5:30-6:30 p.m. -  Dinner (On your own).
  • 7-8:00 p.m. - 8-channel EA concert- MTP Students (Music Technology and Production) students with Jason Fick, professor.
  • 9-10 a.m. - Self-guided "Sound Hunts" created by OSU Honors College students.
  • 10-10:50 a.m. - Open Talk: "Modern Percussion Music In the 21st century" with Visiting Artist Ivan Manzanilla from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico.
  • 11-11:30 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self-guided tours: 2D Art installation by Jack Snell-Ryan. Installation by Melody Owen and more.
  • 11:30-1 p.m. - Open Rehearsal: "In C" by Terry Riley led by Ivan Manzanilla (Visiting artist from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico), with students from Bob Brudvig's OSU Percussion Studio. 
  • 1-2 p.m. - Lunch (On your own).
  • 2-2:45 pm - Both Things Are True, and Nanci Griffith covers and stories from singer-songwriter, Marilyn Jordan, MAIS graduate student.
  • 3:15-4 p.m. - Salon 2: "Interspecies Collaborations, Field Studies and Sonification Music: by OSU faculty, alumni and beyond." Featuring Peter Swendsen, Catherine Lee, Jason Fick, Leah Reid, Chet Udell, Nathan Boals, and Rebecca Sabine.
  • 4-5 p.m - Fairbanks gallery artist, Rhiannon Skye Tafoya talk (Fairbanks Hall).
  • 5-6 p.m. Dinner (On your own).
  • 7-9 p.m. - Ivan Manzanilla Featured visiting artist from the University of Guanajuato, Mexico. Percussion and technology music by Antonio Fernández Ros, Eduardo Soto Millán, Joao Pedro Oliveira, José Julio Díaz Infante, Erika Vega, Karlheinz Essl and Javier Alvarez.
  • 9-10 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self-guided tours: 2D Art installation by Jack Snell-Ryan. Installation by Melody Owen and more.
  • 10:15-11 a.m. - Open Studio: Johnny Beaver's live drawing class.
  • 11-12 p.m. - Open Studio: Johnny Beaver's live drawing class.
  • 12-1 p.m. - Open Studio: Johnny Beaver's live drawing class.
  • 1-2 p.m. - Lunch (On your own)
  • 2:00- 2:30 p.m. - Video art class showcase directed by Julia Bradshaw (professor) and students.
  • 2:30-4 p.m. - Visiting Artist: Ivan Manzanilla's percussion workshop with the OSU Percussion Studio.
  • 4:30-5:15 p.m - Live Performance: "In C" (1964) by Terry Riley, 45-minute performance led by Ivan Manzanilla with OSU Percussion Studio, Bob Brudvig and music students.
  • 5:15 - 6:30 p.m. - Dinner (On your own).
  • 7-9 p.m. - "The Snowbird " (1916) Feature archival film from Cinemas First Nasty Women Collection (Kino Lorber), with new original score by Dana Reason, musician and professor. Screening and discussion with Jon Lewis and Dana Reason (Darkside Theatre (Free admission) 215 SW 4th St., Corvallis (Limited Seating)).
  • 9-10 a.m. - Open Gallery: Self-guided tours: 2D Art installation by Jack Snell-Ryan. Installation by Melody Owen and more.
  • 10-11 a.m. - Open Talk: "Deep Listening, Acoustic Ecologies" with Rebecca Sabine moderated by Dana Reason.
  • 11-12 p.m. - Self-guided "Sound Hunts" created by OSU Honors College students.
  • 12-1 p.m. - Violin Sound Santuary: With Rebecca Sabine (Main Stage Memorial Union).
  • 1-2 p.m. - "The Situation" Wyatt Cross MFA Thesis: Dance/Theatre work:
    • This piece tells the story of my experience growing up as a queer person in a rural location and includes music as a central component of the story telling. This performance draws on the queer histories of cabaret-style performance as well as artistic work by other queer/rural folks in an effort to contribute to these intellectual genealogies. As I am a graduate student at OSU. This performance piece serves as both a chapter of my master’s thesis, as well as the public defense “presentation” of my thesis.
  • 2:30-3:30 p.m. - Open Cart: Sensors with Chet Udell and students.
  • 3:30-4:30 p.m. - Salon 3: Music. Song. Noise: Video and Audio. Original music by Died Tired Band, Thredge: Ryan Duswalt and Anthony Laurie, Joshua Phillips, Megan Reynolds, Leo Barron, Mira Batti, Nathan Nolte, and more.
  • 4:30-6:30 p.m. - Dinner (On your own).
  • 6-9 p.m. - Songwriters' Workshop Showcase: With students and guests. Including: Jeremy Haney, Skylar Kim, Ethan Morton, Fiona Daley, Annabella Eisner, Kainoa Dall, Mackenzie Ruff, Drew Robertson, Hunter Price, Ian Shields, Coastal Saturday, Bluessence and more.

Submit your work

Soundbox 6 invites you to submit intermedia, sound, text, music, radio art, video art, performance-art, social media art and digital installations.

Submissions are open to OSU students, faculty, alumni and the general public.

Please submit a link to your work and fill out the submission form by Midnight (PST), Sunday, April 30, 2023.

Submit your work

  • Soundbox 6 is open to many interpretations and submissions, but would also like to encourage you to use pre-existing works as a starting point for remixing, recycling, and reimagining your works while exploring our central theme of nature, biosphere and communities of diverse ways of making. We are especially interested in works that utilize open source repositories such as: Creative Commons “Openverse”; the Library of Congress, or Internet Archive. Consider collecting and making or (re)making your own works: visual, sonic, movement-based, media-based, text-based, and connecting your work with something that exists in “Openverse” or other pre-existing copyright free sources. 
  • Digital and performance works should be no longer than 10 minutes, and you must provide an UNLISTED YouTube that gives us permission to view and download the work. Please make sure that your Creative Commons license is identified, and all contributing authors are properly credited. The work can be anywhere from 1-10 minutes. Pre-recorded “Live” performances should be 15 minutes or less. Please send a link and to your work via soundboxsix@gmail.com.
  • Tell us about your work in a 100 word description. Include: your full name, title of the work, duration, and contact email/phone and if you are a student, faculty or community member. Please tell us your city/town/country. 
  • Also include an additional short bio (100 words or less). All work should represent your own original work (and be copyright infringement free). Please put all work in 12-point Calibri font. 
  • Please be sure to copyright your work and license under Creative Commons.
  • A committee will review submissions. Notifications of accepted work sent by email by Sunday May 7th. For questions or inquiries, please contact Dana Reason at soundboxsix@gmail.com.
  • NOTE: By submitting your work, you authorize OSU and Soundbox 6 festival organizers to stream or share your work during the festival on a variety of social media and digital platforms. A small proportion of your work may also be included in a highlight reel of the festival as part of the permanent public archive of the work at no charge to OSU. If you are submitting a photo of a physical object for the event, please note that you will be responsible for dropping off and picking up the object. All people involved in Soundbox are volunteers.
     

Organizers

  • Artistic Director: Dana Reason (SVPDA: Contemporary Music Industry/Popular Music)
  • OSU Curation Committee:
    • Julia Bradshaw (SVPDA: ART & Communications)
    • Jason Fick (SVPDA: Music Technology & Production)
    • Victor Villegas (OSU Extension: Technology & Media Coordinator) 

Presented by College of Liberal Arts, Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts and School of Visual, Performing and Design Arts