Scott Benzel

@kaje.world SCOTT BENZEL: OUTER GATEWAYS Outer Gateways (2026) is a continuous 1:50:00 loop weaving together archival recordings, experimental music, EVP phenomena, and esoteric sonic artifacts into a liminal auditory environment. Drawing on sources that span early spirit communication experiments to late 20th-century electronic composition, the piece constructs a threshold space where signal and noise, presence and absence, and human and non-human voices blur. Structured in three movements, Logaeth, Vrihl, and Daäth, the composition layers fragments from artists such as Eliane Radigue, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and György Ligeti alongside recordings attributed to Konstantīns Raudive and materials from Okkulte Stimmen Mediale Musik and The Conet Project. These elements are interwoven with contemporary sound works and field recordings, producing a dense sonic topology. The work’s title evokes both metaphysical portals and technological thresholds, positioning listening as an act of tuning into unstable frequencies—between worlds, histories, and states of perception. Soundcloud link in bio.

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V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (cryonized head of Walt Disney), 2019, foam, latex, acrylic, synthetic hair, wood, glass V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (De Molay), 2019, felt Order of De Molay pennant circa mid-20th Century, prints circa late 19th Century of Gustave Moreau’s Orpheus, 1865, and Salome dancing before Herod, 1876 Rrr V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (Happy Birthday Gunther and Walt), 2026, Duratrans on LED lightbox as part of The Ultimate Zone of Unspeakable Horror, Sublevel, California Institute of the Arts, April 2026, organized by Mateo Alfonso, Jonas Hoehn, Frances Sheehy, and Colette Zighelboim 📸 Sophie Darling @s0darling @maateootms @jhoehn2 @francesrosesheehy @colettezighelboim

@calarts.artschool The Ultimate Zone of Unspeakable Horror April 18th - 25th 2026 The Sublevel California Institute of the Arts Reception with refreshments and performances Thursday, April 23rd from 7-10pm Organized by Mateo Alfonso Jonas Hoehn Frances Sheehy Colette Zighelboim Film School Collaborator Drew Gebhardt Featuring: Mateo Alfonso James Benning Scott Benzel Charlotte Bialas Sophie Darling Al Dawson Jason Roberts Dobrin Jordan Dove Gail Foley Drew Gebhardt Violet Hannesena Jonas Hoehn Michael Ned Holte Fallon Lavertue Erwinson Lemus Ayala Adam Levite Sharon Lockhart Quinn Matthews Nathan Meier Bryan Morello Okey Ofomata Ella Rose Frances Sheehy Vincent Troia Daniel Wang Colette Zighelboim

@kaje.world RTRU*(*Raudive Technoculture Research Unit) April 2 - May 17, 2026 Ka Baird, Scott Benzel, Valdis Celms, Cal Fish, Jason Isolini, Voldemārs Matvejs, Karlīna Mežecka, Adriana Ramič, Konstantīns Raudive, Ieva Rubeze RTRU presents RTRU *(*Raudive Technoculture Research Unit), a group exhibition at KAJE centered on the work of Konstantin Raudive (1909–1974), the Latvian writer and parapsychological researcher known for his experiments with Electronic Voice Phenomena (EVP), or the recording of disembodied voices onto magnetic tape. In the aftermath of World War II, Raudive developed techniques using radio static and blank tape to capture what he believed were fragments of speech from beyond the audible field—utterances that were often multilingual, compressed, and resistant to stable interpretation. The exhibition title extends the name of the curatorial collective itself—RTRU (Riga Technoculture Research Unit), originally referencing the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) and the Baltic’s oldest technical university, Riga Technical University (RTU, est. 1862)—by substituting “Riga” with “Raudive,” aligning the exhibition’s subject with the collective’s own research framework. Bringing together contemporary artworks, non-art objects, archival materials, and newly commissioned sound-based works, the exhibition treats Raudive as material to be re-examined, reinterpreted, and reassembled across artistic, technical, and cultural registers. ~ ABOUT RTRU Established as the Riga Technoculture Research Unit in 2022 under the commission of Kim? Contemporary Art Centre in Riga, RTRU is a curatorial collective (Zane Onckule and Elizaveta Shneyderman) that develops exhibitions as open-ended systems of inquiry. Its projects bring together artworks and non-art objects within structured yet indeterminate frameworks, often organized around figures, concepts, or problematics that resist stable interpretation. Additional curatorial support: State Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia

Clock, 2026, steel and wood sickles circa mid-20th-century, electronics, wood; Saturnal Enquirer, 2026, National Enquirer 11/3/25, AOC 16T15 portable monitor, video, electronics 📸 @brandon_bandy In situ images as part of The Deer Park @paramountartcraft

Ekphrasis/Extended Phenotype (À rebours, Là-bas, et al.), 2016, Nidularium, Caladium, Alocasia metallica, Anthurium, Amorphophallus konjac, Echinopsis, Tillandsia lindeni, Cypripedia, Antilles Fly-trap, Cephalothus, Nepenthes, Sarracenia, Drosera, Hyoscyamus niger (Henbane), Artemisia absinthum (Wormwood), Atropa belladonna (Deadly Nightshade), Datura inoxia (Angels’ Trumpets), Croton, Begonias, Cycad, Cattleya, Rhizomes, soil, ceramic, LED grow lights; installation view as part of Everyday War at Ashes/Ashes curated by Keith J. Varadi

Altered Circulatory Systems, 2016, original CIA-counterfeit 1961 Cuban 20 peso note; original 1942 ‘Breton fisherman’ franc note collage w 1943 German/Vichy stamp; installation views as part of Everyday War at Ashes/Ashes curated by Keith J. Varadi

@paramountartcraft The Deer Park Opening Thursday January 22 7-10pm Paramount-Artcraft 7471 Melrose Ave, Number 5 Los Angeles, CA 90046

Unica, 2025, aluminum, wood, glass, Klein bottle, Le Surréalisme’, même 4, 1958, electronics, LED, oscilloscope

11:11 by @ikivimaki foreword by @scottbenzel @soldes.la accompanying @ikivimaki exhibition 11:11 at @soldes.la