New Media Art & Sound Summit

Photos from the recent @cotfg event at Cloud Tree Studios are now up on the Flickr feed. Donate to us @cotfg on Venmo to support the 2026 programming ! 🙏🏼

Thanks to our sponsors and donors : COTFG, Museum of Human Achievement, Recspec, Aerocade Music, Collide Arts, Aural Canyon, Me Mer Mo Monday, Delptronics, Synth Library Portland, Stargazer Bar, Batch Craft Beer & Kolaches, Rude Mechs, Salvage Vanguard Theater, Topo Chico, City of Austin Cultural Arts Division, you - the audience - and many others ! Reel by @melonpanmedia #Austin #Texas #Soundart #community

Thank you to everyone involved in this peaceful gathering ! COTFG: New Media Art & Sound Summit 2025. All people involved included but may not be limited to: Marshall Trammell, Brent Crosson, Keegan Streicher, Juan Christian King, Nathan Green, Sarah Ruth Alexander, Lichen Bouboushian, Veronica Anne Salinas, Travis Burns, Steve Landry, Josh Ronsen, Diane Sung, Laura Cañas, Tomás Díaz, Aida Shirazi, Justin Bernard Williams, Mateo Galindo, Warren Realrider, Nathan Young, Lester St. Louis & Chris Williams, Isabel Crespo Pardo, Toto Miranda, Adam Hilton, Melissa Seely, Mingfei Xie, Joey Reyes, Jordan Walsh, Jess Griggs, Sam Wheeler, Ryan Patterson, Luciano Medina, Jack Kloecker, Bella Scotti, Jeffrey Blair, Guillermo Delgado, Andy Beaudoin, Jason Frey, Mario Castellanos, Carolyn Trowbridge, Henna Chou, John-Mike Reed, Elizabeth A. Baker, Aaron Bielish, Jay Roff-Garcia, Grace Pham, Ethan Adkinson, Leila Henley, Cassie Baker, Sonia Flores, Laura Dykes, Juan Garcia, Brent Fariss, Cassie Watson Francillon, Sasha Masakowski, Colin McIntyre, John-Mike Reed, Melinda Barsales, Sheilagh O’hare, Seetha Shivaswamy, Laura Tabor, Ian Huerta, Kit Garcia, Juan Alfredo Rios Rodriguez, Mickey Delp, Drew Silverman, Gina McCool, Hector Martinez, Tor Reynolds, Rachel Stuckey and Zac Traeger. Sound art and experimental music in east Austin, Texas. This event took place at Museum of Human Achievement and Stargazer Bar, 78702. Friday 9/26/2025 - Sunday 9/28/2025 Reel created by Christina Steele. #Austin #Texas #soundart #community

Interiority, 9/26-27/2025 So honored to have been invited to be part of this year’s @nmassfest with this two-day installation 🙏 “Interiority is an interactive audiovisual piece that asks the viewer to look inside themself by literally stepping inside an interior space, where they are prompted to spin dials to ‘align’ their chakras. Doing so brings sonic & visual clarity to a soundscape and visual feed of themself, but they must keep spinning dials like plates to maintain the experience against entropy. Meanwhile the exterior video and soundscape is mangled with each chakra alignment. The inside viewer is shielded from the visual and sonic effects of the outside experience, asked to focus on their own experience and weigh personal fulfillment, novelty, and inner peace against the experience of others.”

Excerpts from Mingfei Xie’s set at Stargazer for our collaboration with Sound Sunday this past Sunday evening – September 28, 2025 Thanks to @sculptureforge for letting us be there and for running sound!

Excerpt from @throwlaserbolts set at Stargazer for our collaboration with Sound Sunday this past Sunday evening – September 28, 2025 Visuals by @sculptureforge

Excerpts from Joey Reyes set at Stargazer for our collaboration with Sound Sunday this past Sunday evening – September 28, 2025 Visuals by @sculptureforge

Thanks to Cassie Watson Francillon x Sasha Masakowski for visiting us all the way from New Orleans! The duo collaboration of harp, electronics, dreamstate bass & sultry-cerebral beats. Ambient, raw and ethereal components merge, transform and leave space for reflection and possibilities. The project started as a DIY activation in their neighborhood record shop in New Orleans and led to the recording + release of their album SUITE, mixed by Nick Hook (Run the Jewels, Lido Pimienta) and mastered by Joe LaPorta (David Bowie, Emily Wells). Check out their recent album at: /album/suite Thanks to Elaine Barber for lending us the harp for the performance on 9/28/2025 afternoon! Visual element by Toto Miranda Video capture by @melonpanmedia

large resonating bodies of wood please and thank you. Laura Dykes, Ethan Adkison, Juan Garcia, Sonia Flores, and Brent Fariss 9/28/2025 ✨ improvisational contrabass quintet Captured by @melonpanmedia

The Hand of Fate (@ebakermusic ) is a work for open instrumentation, it uses glyph and graphic notation around tarot cards to explore themes of self-awareness, society, and the subconscious. Very short clips just to summarize. Thanks to new renaissance artist, The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker for visiting us from Florida to teach this piece ! and thanks to Aaron Bielish, Carolyn Trowbridge, Jay Roff-Garcia, Grace Pham, Ethan Adkison, Leila Henley, Cassie Baker, Toto Miranda, and Josh Ronsen for participating in this at 2pm this past Sunday – September 28, 2025 at Museum of Human Achievement. Video capture by @melonpanmedia

Thanks to Carolyn Trowbridge (composer, vibraphone), Andy Beaudoin (drums), Jason Frey (sax), and Mario Castellanos (bass) for performing at 10pm on Saturday night 9/27/2025 at Stargazer. Learn more about the adventures of Carolyn Trowbridge @carolyntrowbridgemusic

iiisa is the electroacoustic solo project of improviser-composer, isabel crespo pardo. Their intimate songs emerge from warm sonic landscapes filled with familial chatter and field recordings from their home in Costa Rica. Taking great care, they transform opaque memories into powerful ephemera in hopes of offering solace. Their work has been presented by Roulette Intermedium, Big Ears Festival, and Pioneer Works. This set took place on 9/27/2025 around 8:00pm Visual element by @crazy_pavilions Footage collected by @melonpanmedia