“Floating Nest” in Brooklyn!
@mozari and I were honored to have “Floating Nest”— our 24-channel resynthesized birdsong piece— included in Of Earth, a weekend of spatialized audio sound art curated by @chloealxandra at @reforesters.io on their incredible 24.2 system.
Endless thanks to Chloe and the Reforesters Laboratories for having us, and to everyone who made the scene!
Of Earth: Sat/ Sun June 21/22
“Floating Nest" is a multichannel composition by Milad Mozari and Peter Speer that presents the calls of 28 birds native to the Chicagoland area and provides a speculative vantage on how a changing climate may affect the songs they sing (via collage, time-stretching and resynthesis).
Artist: Peter Speer, Milad Mozari
Peter Speer is an artist based out of in Asheville, NC working within practices of sound-making and listening. Residencies include STEIM and the Chicago Parks Department, installations at the Pritzker Pavilion and the historic Black Mountain College campus, and his work with the transmission art quintet NRRF has been broadcast internationally.
He currently creates media for modular synthesizer manufacturer Make Noise.
Milad Mozari is an artist and researcher working in sonic investigations that draw connections to surfaces and social layers. His projects travel through concepts of music, language, and absence. Awards and residencies include Asian Cultural Council Grant to Individuals, Wave Farm, Pioneer Works, Incheon Art Platform, Taipei Artist Village, Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship, MIT Open Documentary Lab, and Anthem Community Voice in Humanitarian Innovation.
He is currently an Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and Planning at the University of Utah and subject matter expert at International Rescue Committee’s Headquarters.
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Of Earth - A Spatial Audio Assemblage
A weekend of spatialized sound art, field recordings, electronic music & performance.
Experience a weekend of immersive sound as artists from around the globe present original works on our 24.2-point D&B Audiotechnik spatial sound system.
Featuring compositions built from field recordings and electronic sound, the event offers both abstract and literal aural glimpses of life on Earth—inviting deep listening and reflection on and of our shared planet.
Excited to be part of the 22nd annual @gamesforchange Festival June 26 - 27 in NYC! 🎉
Centered around the theme of ‘Designing for Tomorrow,’ I’ll join a group of global leaders and changemakers to explore how games and immersive media can break down barriers and drive collaborative solutions for a better future.
#G4C2025 #DesigningForTomorrow #GamesForGood #GamesforChange #NYCEvent
Motion and volumetric details of the photo frame at “Language of Movement” alongside some photos from the past 5 years. Most notably: the photo of Ghaffar on a moving platform in costume and make up in Iran.
Thank you @utahmoca for all support to put this show together. The community there has been incredibly intelligent and kind. Thank you @jake___welch and @alialrodha for the technical assistance for this rendition of the archive.
Now that the photos and videos are aired out, I can finish the film.
The work is up UMOCA for about 2 more months.
🗣️ Join us on Thursday, October 24 at 7 PM for a free discussion on memory and displacement, part of our "In Memory" exhibition programming. Registration is required—link in bio! 🌍✨
Moderator:
Renato Olmedo-González: Salt Lake City Arts Council Public Art Program Manager and proud queer immigrant from Guadalajara, México.
Panelists:
Dalila Sanabria:
Chilean-Colombian-American artist and 2024-2025 Artist-in-Residence for the Latinx Project at New York University exploring displacement through sculpture and video.
Milad Mozari:
Tehran-born, Salt Lake City-raised artist and University of Utah Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture + Planning in the Multi-disciplinary Design program. investigating sound and social connections.
Kristina Gibby:
Assistant Professor of Humanities at Utah Valley University with a focus on Comparative Literature.
Don't miss it!
This event is made possible with generous support from the @artbridgesfoundation and @utahhumanities
“Floating Nest: Future Birdsongs”
This summer, my friend @mozari and I collaborated on a sound installation called “Floating Nest: Future Birdsongs” in Chicago’s Millennium Park.
It took the calls of 28 birds native to the Chicagoland area and provided a speculative vantage on how a changing climate may affect the songs they sing (via collage, time-stretching and resynthesis).
This was installed as part of the 2024 Urban+Nature Sonic Pavilion event, organized by @esschicago , @dr.aloi and @chicagodcase and ran from July-August in @millennium_park . “Future Birdsongs” was a multi-channel piece, mixed for the park’s overhead 28-speaker array and featured flocking birds, haunted choirs and crashing waves in constant motion above the listeners.
An endless thank you to Milad, the Experimental Sound Studio, Chris and Giovanni, and to my fellow artists who shared work in the installation. This was an incredible time and I’m honored to have been a part of it.
Slide 2 is a video I filmed at home in 2008, playing around with homemade equipment in one of my first synthesized birdsong experiments.
“Floating Nest” starts this weekend!!
Honored to share a new 24-channel sound work with my friend and collaborator Milad Mozari (@mozari ), premiering this Saturday, July 13 in downtown Chicago at Pritzker Pavilion as part of “the urban + nature sonic pavilion.”
“Floating Nest: Future Birdsongs” collages, time-stretches and resynthesizes the calls of 28 birds native to the Chicagoland area and hypothesizes how a shifting climate would affect the songs they sing.
Curated by Giovanni Aloi ( @dr.aloi ) and Chris Hunter and presented by Experimental Sound Studio (@esschicago ), this exhibition explores the natural voices embedded in the sonance of the city. More info and full schedule at bit.ly/SonicPavilion2024
This exhibition is part of the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Event (@chicagodcase )‘s Millennium Park Residency, supported by Pritzker Foundation and Millennium Park Foundation ( @millennium_park ).
Fellow artists in the installation:
@c.manion@bbradfish@stevereidell@coleswansonart@staceymarq@hhrrssnn@felix_just_felix@nunolobo.composer@evgenia_emets@eternalforestglobal@david_velez_rod@arkfrqs@michaelpalumbo_
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#MillenniumPark #ESS #AntennaeProject #JayPritzkerPavilion #soundart #urbanecology
Finally saw the master tapes and original art for #dariushdolatshahi records. These albums deeply shaped who I am, and more people should hear them. Deep gratitude to @smithsonianfolkways for opening their climate-controlled archival doors.
“Sounds to Accompany Sokut”
Special broadcast today with @wavefarmradio in solidarity with the continued #womenlifefreedom movement in Iran. Amazing recent and newly commissioned works by artists in Iran and the diaspora. This spans from poetry reading by my aunt, artists I look up to, and anonymous new works from young sound nerds in Iran. Premier broadcast at 5 PM EST and again at 3 AM for the other side of the world to hear. Link to broadcast in story.
Graphics by @sahar.ebn
Punctuation in life post. Learning a lot in residence @opendoclab at MIT to develop VR work for newly arrived refugees. Excited to take it back to apply project with @ircsaltlakecity
Finally releasing a limited run lathe cut record from the Quarantine Concert last year with @esschicago on my website on August 15th. The record consists of air quality data sonified alongside the Twitch comments from the concert in live time sung by William Salmon. All of the proceeds will be going to @healutah .
Went to visit this brilliant and well-considered exhibition alone today. Thank you for everyone’s energy in putting this together.
Please see Gregory Bae’s show at the MCA. The connections to place and time are endless. It runs through January 29th, 2023.
#gregorybae
