MIT Dissolve Music Conference @ Warehouse XI | Cambridge, MA_2018
MIT Dissolve Music Conference @ Warehouse XI | Cambridge, MA_2018
performances + events
::2025::
—MAR 28
RISE & RETURN Equinox Festival
w/ Liberation Ecosytem @ Middlebury College (VT)
[facilitator:: Expanded Listening Practice_sound and map walk]
::2024::
—NOV 1_6:00pm
Community meal and activation of What is your first memory of dirt? centering a Puerto Rican meal prepared by Castro using local ingredients from Nuestras Raíces, a grassroots urban agriculture organization based in Holyoke founded by migrating farmers from Puerto Rico. The meal will center land and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation. @ A.P.E. Ltd’s Workroom (Northampton, MA)
—OCT 25_1:00pm—10:00pm
Aural archive installation of What is your first memory of dirt? gathers participants’ first memories of dirt in an intimate, analog recording session @ CPR – Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY)
—OCT 16_5:00pm
Storytelling and Aural Archive Event featuring What is your first memory of dirt? centering family, land, and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation. Local teens interview their families and neighbors about their first memories of land@ Holyoke Public Library with Holyoke Media (Holyoke, MA)
—OCT 6_12:00pm
Activation of What is your first memory of dirt? with community garden members centering land and remembrance as a collective tool toward liberation @ La Huerta Roots & Rays Garden as part of their Autumn Equinox Celebration with refreshments, drum circle with Entera Music & Wellness and a Water Ceremony with Cristina Puzio (Chicago, IL)
—SEP 28_2:00pm—4:00pm (on view —NOV 6)
Activation of What is your first memory of dirt? with tea and dialogue @ The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center part of Historias Launch Block Party (Manahatta)
—SEP 7 (on view —NOV 6)
Activation of What is your first memory of dirt? followed by a movement score performed by devynn emory with ice pops, limbers de coco y limón, @ The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY)
—MAY 18-19
24HR Drone Festival ‘24 @ Basilica Hudson (Hudson, NY) ︎︎︎
[solo audio performance]
—APR 18-21
Blue Ecology for Future Memory presentation for BECOMING FUTURES Festival: A sound festival dedicated to science fiction, utopias and imaginative futures // Radiophonic Futurities A playlist curated by Mark Vernon of Radiophrenia
@ Radio Papesse at Timespan (Scottish Highlands, UK) ︎︎︎
—FEB
VT Releaf Winter Storytelling Workshop @ Virtual
[co-facilitated workshop w/ Murphy Barney]
::2023::
—SEP 29-31
Cannonball Festival + Philadelphia Fringe Festival @ FIDGET Space, Philadelphia
flooding is what they call it | live sound score for dance w/ Tyler Rai, Maghan Baptiste, Sophia Dunn-Fox, and marion spencer ︎︎︎
—SEP 21
Equinox Festival // Vermont Releaf Collective @ New Suns Space, Thetford VT
event production, concert, artist curation, workshops
—AUG 23
Radiophrenia 2023
Blue Ecology for Future Memory radio broadcast for 87.9 FM Glasgow ︎︎︎
—JULY 13
WaveForms: A multimedia art occurrence
@ Museum of Science, Boston ︎︎︎
Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave︎︎︎ 4.1 presentation (Futures of Listening Spatial Sound Mixtape)
—MAY 21
Sound + Map Workshop for youth
@ Earth Sky Time w/ Vermont Village School and VT EduColor Retreat
—APR 27-30
Radio Preservation Task Force Conference @ Library of Congress_D.C.︎︎︎
Radio Art Archive Presentation w/ Wave Farm + solo performance of Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave
—MAR 21
VT Releaf Oral History + Storytelling Event @ Alchemist Brewery in Stowe, VT
[co-facilitated workshop w/ Murphy Barney]
—MAR 6-8 [full moon] Blue Ecology for Future Memory radio piece @ Radio Amnion ︎︎︎
[radio broadcast]
WGXC Afternoon Show: José Alejandro Rivera's "Blue Ecology for Future Memory" for Radio Amnion @ WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears ︎︎︎
[radio broadcast]
Visting Artist // workshop and in-progress presentation @ Mason Gross Dance_Rutgers University
[radio, sound, dance/movement performance w/ Tyler Rai and Marion Spencer]
Art's Birthday Radio: The Conduction Series ︎︎︎
[3-hour live collaborative remote performance and broadcast)
::2022::
WGXCAfternoon Show: José Alejandro Rivera and Gregory Whitehead @ WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears ︎︎︎
[radio broadcast and interview]
Audio Exchange Network:: delay, relay, feedback, loop workshop @ Wave Farm ︎︎︎
[3-part remote workshop on collaborative radio making]
Unlocking the Air “EXCHANGE” @ A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater | Northhampton, MA
[radio, sound, dance/movement performance w/ Tyler Rai]
Tidewater Residency @ Bennington College | Bennington, VT [sound performance for dance/movement score w/ Tyler Rai, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Marion Spencer, Sophia Dunn-Fox]
::2020::
Violence in Boston Fundraiser / Nonevent @ Virtual
[solo performance, electronics, field recordings, processing]
NonEvent At Home 7 @ Virtual
[solo performance, electronics, field recordings, processing]
Electric Streams of Wind CD booklet/object release @ Industry Lab | Cambridge, MA
[AV 4-channel performance, radio, EM, field recordings, electronics]
Sonorium @ Salem Access TV | Salem, MA
[custom maxmsp patch, radio feedback, electronics]
::2019::
Grounding Aether @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
[channel exterior audio performance / field activation, custom software]
Solo Performance :: Variations @ Bromfield Arts Gallery | Boston, MA
[4 channel audio performance]
::2018::
Solo Performance :: Moon Villian @ Chinatown | Boston, MA
[4-channel AV performance]
MIT Dissolve Music Conference @ Warehouse XI | Cambridge, MA
[19.9-channel audio performance]
Solo Performance @ Washington Street Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[3-channel audio performance]
Unknown Results // The Perception Of Order Within Group Exhibition @ Aviary Gallery | Jamaica Plain, MA
[solo & duo audio performance w/ Michael Rosenstien]
Sonic Section Perspectives (For Paul Rudolph) @ CVPA UMass Dartmouth | New Bedford, MA
[co-composer, technical director, performer, multichannel audio performance for 6 participants]
::2017::
Vespers 08: Seasonalities | Somerville, MA
[solo audio performance, map notation, field recordings, electronics]
Electric Streams Performance @ Goethe Institut Boston | Boston, MA
[solo AV performance, radio, field recordings, processing]
Together Boston Festival @ Middlesex Lounge | Cambridge, MA
[solo multimedia performance, field recordings, processing, electronics]
Solo multimedia presentation @ Washington St. Arts Center | Somerville, MA
[AV performance, field recordings, processing, electronics]
Xfest 2017 Group Exhibition @ Holyoke City Hall | Holyoke, MA
[collective audio performances, workshops]
Rare Frequency Podcast 58 @ WZBC 90.3fm | Newton, MA
[solo radio performance]
Multimedia presentation @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[solo 4 channel AV performance]
::2016::
The Document @ fortyK Gallery | Cambridge, MA
[solo AV presentation: MECHAN 32-0, group exhibition]
METAPATTERNS: PROCESSES IN TIME — An evening of experimental sound works by ANDREA PENSADO / FORREST LARSON / JOSE RIVERA / JAKE MEGINSKY / VICTORIA SHEN @ MIT List Visual Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[co-curator, solo 8-channel audio performance]
Multimedia presentation @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[EM, field recordings, electronics, 4-channel]
::2015::
5 Actions, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933–1957 @ ICA Boston | Boston, MA
[4 experimental music performances, room notations & electronics, workshops, group exhibition]
Reflections of a Thousand Faces @ MIT List Visual Art Center | Cambridge, MA
[12-channel sound installation & performance, field recordings, electronics]
::2014::
Pangea Project 59 @ Venture Compound | St. Petersburg, FL
[solo piece for guitar, electronics and vhs data feedback]
Multimedia Presentation @ Seahive | Sarasota, FL
[solo piece for guitar, electronics and vhs data feedback]
—MAR 28
RISE & RETURN Equinox Festival
w/ Liberation Ecosytem @ Middlebury College (VT)
[facilitator:: Expanded Listening Practice_sound and map walk]
::2024::
—NOV 1_6:00pm
Community meal and activation of What is your first memory of dirt? centering a Puerto Rican meal prepared by Castro using local ingredients from Nuestras Raíces, a grassroots urban agriculture organization based in Holyoke founded by migrating farmers from Puerto Rico. The meal will center land and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation. @ A.P.E. Ltd’s Workroom (Northampton, MA)
—OCT 25_1:00pm—10:00pm
Aural archive installation of What is your first memory of dirt? gathers participants’ first memories of dirt in an intimate, analog recording session @ CPR – Center for Performance Research (Brooklyn, NY)
—OCT 16_5:00pm
Storytelling and Aural Archive Event featuring What is your first memory of dirt? centering family, land, and remembrance as a collective tool towards liberation. Local teens interview their families and neighbors about their first memories of land@ Holyoke Public Library with Holyoke Media (Holyoke, MA)
—OCT 6_12:00pm
Activation of What is your first memory of dirt? with community garden members centering land and remembrance as a collective tool toward liberation @ La Huerta Roots & Rays Garden as part of their Autumn Equinox Celebration with refreshments, drum circle with Entera Music & Wellness and a Water Ceremony with Cristina Puzio (Chicago, IL)
—SEP 28_2:00pm—4:00pm (on view —NOV 6)
Activation of What is your first memory of dirt? with tea and dialogue @ The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center part of Historias Launch Block Party (Manahatta)
—SEP 7 (on view —NOV 6)
Activation of What is your first memory of dirt? followed by a movement score performed by devynn emory with ice pops, limbers de coco y limón, @ The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY)
—MAY 18-19
24HR Drone Festival ‘24 @ Basilica Hudson (Hudson, NY) ︎︎︎
[solo audio performance]
—APR 18-21
Blue Ecology for Future Memory presentation for BECOMING FUTURES Festival: A sound festival dedicated to science fiction, utopias and imaginative futures // Radiophonic Futurities A playlist curated by Mark Vernon of Radiophrenia
@ Radio Papesse at Timespan (Scottish Highlands, UK) ︎︎︎
—FEB
VT Releaf Winter Storytelling Workshop @ Virtual
[co-facilitated workshop w/ Murphy Barney]
::2023::
—SEP 29-31
Cannonball Festival + Philadelphia Fringe Festival @ FIDGET Space, Philadelphia
flooding is what they call it | live sound score for dance w/ Tyler Rai, Maghan Baptiste, Sophia Dunn-Fox, and marion spencer ︎︎︎
—SEP 21
Equinox Festival // Vermont Releaf Collective @ New Suns Space, Thetford VT
event production, concert, artist curation, workshops
—AUG 23
Radiophrenia 2023
Blue Ecology for Future Memory radio broadcast for 87.9 FM Glasgow ︎︎︎
—JULY 13
WaveForms: A multimedia art occurrence
@ Museum of Science, Boston ︎︎︎
Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave︎︎︎ 4.1 presentation (Futures of Listening Spatial Sound Mixtape)
—MAY 21
Sound + Map Workshop for youth
@ Earth Sky Time w/ Vermont Village School and VT EduColor Retreat
—APR 27-30
Radio Preservation Task Force Conference @ Library of Congress_D.C.︎︎︎
Radio Art Archive Presentation w/ Wave Farm + solo performance of Co-regulating the Spectrum: Meanwhile the wave
—MAR 21
VT Releaf Oral History + Storytelling Event @ Alchemist Brewery in Stowe, VT
[co-facilitated workshop w/ Murphy Barney]
—MAR 6-8 [full moon] Blue Ecology for Future Memory radio piece @ Radio Amnion ︎︎︎
[radio broadcast]
WGXC Afternoon Show: José Alejandro Rivera's "Blue Ecology for Future Memory" for Radio Amnion @ WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears ︎︎︎
[radio broadcast]
Visting Artist // workshop and in-progress presentation @ Mason Gross Dance_Rutgers University
[radio, sound, dance/movement performance w/ Tyler Rai and Marion Spencer]
Art's Birthday Radio: The Conduction Series ︎︎︎
[3-hour live collaborative remote performance and broadcast)
::2022::
WGXCAfternoon Show: José Alejandro Rivera and Gregory Whitehead @ WGXC 90.7-FM: Radio for Open Ears ︎︎︎
[radio broadcast and interview]
Audio Exchange Network:: delay, relay, feedback, loop workshop @ Wave Farm ︎︎︎
[3-part remote workshop on collaborative radio making]
Unlocking the Air “EXCHANGE” @ A.P.E.'s Workroom Theater | Northhampton, MA
[radio, sound, dance/movement performance w/ Tyler Rai]
Tidewater Residency @ Bennington College | Bennington, VT [sound performance for dance/movement score w/ Tyler Rai, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Marion Spencer, Sophia Dunn-Fox]
::2020::
Violence in Boston Fundraiser / Nonevent @ Virtual
[solo performance, electronics, field recordings, processing]
NonEvent At Home 7 @ Virtual
[solo performance, electronics, field recordings, processing]
Electric Streams of Wind CD booklet/object release @ Industry Lab | Cambridge, MA
[AV 4-channel performance, radio, EM, field recordings, electronics]
Sonorium @ Salem Access TV | Salem, MA
[custom maxmsp patch, radio feedback, electronics]
::2019::
Grounding Aether @ deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum | Lincoln, MA
[channel exterior audio performance / field activation, custom software]
Solo Performance :: Variations @ Bromfield Arts Gallery | Boston, MA
[4 channel audio performance]
::2018::
Solo Performance :: Moon Villian @ Chinatown | Boston, MA
[4-channel AV performance]
MIT Dissolve Music Conference @ Warehouse XI | Cambridge, MA
[19.9-channel audio performance]
Solo Performance @ Washington Street Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[3-channel audio performance]
Unknown Results // The Perception Of Order Within Group Exhibition @ Aviary Gallery | Jamaica Plain, MA
[solo & duo audio performance w/ Michael Rosenstien]
Sonic Section Perspectives (For Paul Rudolph) @ CVPA UMass Dartmouth | New Bedford, MA
[co-composer, technical director, performer, multichannel audio performance for 6 participants]
::2017::
Vespers 08: Seasonalities | Somerville, MA
[solo audio performance, map notation, field recordings, electronics]
Electric Streams Performance @ Goethe Institut Boston | Boston, MA
[solo AV performance, radio, field recordings, processing]
Together Boston Festival @ Middlesex Lounge | Cambridge, MA
[solo multimedia performance, field recordings, processing, electronics]
Solo multimedia presentation @ Washington St. Arts Center | Somerville, MA
[AV performance, field recordings, processing, electronics]
Xfest 2017 Group Exhibition @ Holyoke City Hall | Holyoke, MA
[collective audio performances, workshops]
Rare Frequency Podcast 58 @ WZBC 90.3fm | Newton, MA
[solo radio performance]
Multimedia presentation @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[solo 4 channel AV performance]
::2016::
The Document @ fortyK Gallery | Cambridge, MA
[solo AV presentation: MECHAN 32-0, group exhibition]
METAPATTERNS: PROCESSES IN TIME — An evening of experimental sound works by ANDREA PENSADO / FORREST LARSON / JOSE RIVERA / JAKE MEGINSKY / VICTORIA SHEN @ MIT List Visual Arts Center | Cambridge, MA
[co-curator, solo 8-channel audio performance]
Multimedia presentation @ Le Laboratoire | Cambridge, MA
[EM, field recordings, electronics, 4-channel]
::2015::
5 Actions, Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College, 1933–1957 @ ICA Boston | Boston, MA
[4 experimental music performances, room notations & electronics, workshops, group exhibition]
Reflections of a Thousand Faces @ MIT List Visual Art Center | Cambridge, MA
[12-channel sound installation & performance, field recordings, electronics]
::2014::
Pangea Project 59 @ Venture Compound | St. Petersburg, FL
[solo piece for guitar, electronics and vhs data feedback]
Multimedia Presentation @ Seahive | Sarasota, FL
[solo piece for guitar, electronics and vhs data feedback]