Mike Root - Narrow Petals
Mike Root is a Santa Fe-based artist who fuses generative sound, reactive visuals, and live instrumentation into immersive performances. His evolving sets merge algorithms with field recordings, electronics, guitar, and voice to create environments both intimate and expansive, blurring the boundaries between physical, digital, and ethereal worlds. Mike pipes live instruments into Ableton where they're processed by Max/MSP patches. The resulting data is sent to Touchdesigner to generate and influence visuals in real time. A combination of audio recordings collected over the past 15 years, and video captured on nature walks grounds the performance in personal experiences. Chance is often used to decide algorithmically where the music will go: rolling the dice to choose the next note or chord. This non-deterministic approach makes each performance unique and creates space instagram: @itrekmoo facebook.com/mike.root.526/ soundcloud.com/hermeticalloom website: mikeroot.studio
Keely - Celloquacious
Luminous Convergence
Composed, Performed and Directed by Celloquacious (Keely Mackey-Gonzales)
Featuring Quannumthrows / Michael Pino (projection artist) and Gabriel Carrión-Gonzales (dancer and choreographer)
Program Notes:
Luminous Convergence is a weaving of sound, shadow, and sky—an offering to survival, transformation, and our elemental kinship with Earth and Cosmos. Conceived and directed by award-winning cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary artist Celloquacious (Keely Mackey-Gonzales), the performance unfolds live on looping electroacoustic cello, processed through a BOSS ME-70 effects system. What emerges is a living landscape of resonance and light—where sound becomes image, and image becomes movement.
In collaboration with dancer and choreographer Gabriel Carrión-Gonzales, Luminous Convergence transforms into an immersive, multidisciplinary journey—where body, instrument, and projection converge in a shared act of creation. Visual artist Quannumthrows (Michael Pino) extends this vision through real-time projection mapping, blending Keely’s original slow-motion macro videography and photography with archival imagery to create an evolving visual cosmos.
Her work has been honored with multiple New Mexico Music Awards and recognized as a two-time semifinalist in the International Songwriting Competition. Internationally acknowledged for her emotive compositions and visionary performances, Celloquacious has presented her work at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival and throughout the Southwest, engaging audiences in experiences that are both profoundly intimate and expansively cosmic.
This evening’s performance features several movements within her ongoing elemental series:
Fire: Requiem and Ether: Angels, from her collaborative Downwinders Memorial Project with Michael Pino—honoring remembrance, resilience, and renewal.
Ether: I AM YOU, developed during her artist residency at Keshet’s Hear Here Festival, invites audiences into a meditative exploration of empathy and unity, accompanied by her original macro and wide angle imagery.
The evening culminates with the debut of her newest composition, Ether: Whispers of the Celestial—a luminous invocation of connection beyond form, where sound and spirit dissolve into light.
Instagram, Facebook, YouTube and streaming platforms: @celloquacious
Website: keelymackey.com
Chris Meyer’s Alias Zone
Chris Meyer stands at the intersection of technical mastery and creative expression embodying a unique approach to electronic music that bridges decades of synthesis history with modern innovation. His creative process reveals a systematic yet deeply artistic methodology that has made him one of the most influential voices in electronic music creation. Chris combines electronic music synthesizers of the modular hardware and software variety with the sounds of acoustic instruments – including flute cello piano and handpan as well as field recordings of thunder birds surf and fire. He melds together the roles of conductor and musician during his performances, thinking of each component of his system as being a member of a specialized ensemble he has hand-selected and taught to execute his musical dreams. web: AliasZone.com Bandcamp: aliaszone.bandcamp.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LearningModular/ Instagram: @learningmodular YouTube: @LearningModular Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/LearningModular
Trovarsi
Trovarsi is an LA-based music composer/producer, live electronic artist, educator, and streaming YouTube host. Over the past decade, Trovarsi has released her music on a wide variety of notable electronic music labels. Her work transcends genres, cultures, and boundaries, yet also authentically and reverentially embraces many creative traditions. With a hybrid blend of modular and analog synthesizers, drum machines, and Ableton, Trovarsi embraces Afrofuturistic electronic expression while remaining firmly planted by her musical roots. Trovarsi is the curator and host of SIGNAL on Analog – Insomniac Radio, a monthly interview/performance show highlighting unique live performance artists, composers, and producers in electronic music.
Artha Meadors
Artha Meadors, an Albuquerque native, has spent over 20 years on electric bass, weaving together influences from soul, jazz, blues, gospel, punk, and metal into a genre-blending musical voice. Since releasing his debut single,d I Want to Be an Architect in 2022, he has been stepping out with adventurous collaborators to craft original compositions and immersive performances, and will debut new songs from his forthcoming EP.
Ben Wright - Subtle Electric
Subtle Electric is a new AV project from Santa Fe-based musician, Ben Wright. Ben has had a long and dynamic relationship with music. He has been an active member of myriad bands including, Mary & Mars, David Berkeley, Detroit Lightning, Mi and D Numbers; he DJs as Bacon and has spent over 10 years designing immersive soundscapes for Meow Wolf’s legendary exhibits. Subtle Electric represents the creative output from his deepest interior spaces. This project fuses his love of musical texture and emotion with his keen eye for magic in the often-overlooked minutiae of our daily experience. In this debut performance, audio and video content will share a holistic sensory environment reacting to each other in gesture and form along with live input from Ben’s guitar, synths and processing. The experience should be simultaneously intimate and expansive, detailed and imperfect, abstract and formal. Ben can’t wait to embark on this journey with you.
Morgan Barnard
Morgan Barnard is a new media artist exploring the relationship between light, data, and sound through immersive installations and audiovisual performance. His work creates experimental environments where technology and perception converge.
Sam Negri and Grey
Whether engineering live broadcasts, designing cutting-edge sound facilities, or guiding the next generation of artists, my focus has always been on innovation, collaboration, and the pursuit of musical excellence.
I have always been fascinated by alternative ways of controlling melodic and rhythmic data such as EEGs, biosensors, and gestural controllers in my own studio and performances. I have been fortunate to work alongside extraordinary musicians and creative minds from five continents. Collaboration is an essential part of my creative process. Working with Grey Barrera is exciting and productive inspiring us both to stretch and try fresh perspectives and approaches to making music.
Grey is a drummer whose playing is both energetic and fiercely interactive. After honing her craft in New York City she has returned to the Albuquerque scene with a fresh new voice. A veteran of the Outpost Performance space, she plays in Indigo Jazz and, most recently, the EQNX Jazztet. Teaming up with Sam Negri, this duo ventures into experimental and highly improvisational territory.
Etude for water bottle, plant and eye movement.
With the generated sounds from 2 eeg and 1 bioelectric sensors, we will use the data to form musical ideas as a basis for our improvised performance.
The performance starts with a video piece called ‘Statues’ performed by Mayo De Frenchie directed by Scott Leonard with extra video manipulation by John-Mark Collins.
We will accompany the film live with the pre-recorded parts that you will hear.
Next, We will utilize a bioelectric sensor attached to a plant and eeg sensors attached to 2 humans for a living performance combined with a live improvised performance. The EEG sensor worn by Grey Barrera will be melodically based. You will hear a constant low level flow of music depending on Grey’s meditative state. The brain waves will also be controlling volume and tone (amplitude and timber). Grey’s eye movement and blinking will trigger another channel of musical ideas with more activity.
The EEG sensor I wear will be contributing a data flow for video manipulation using X, Y and Z axes in the quest to expand our musical palette. In addition to the bio sensors, I also will be using a gestural system based on an iPhone and Apple Watch for sounds and melodies.
May the electrical gods smile upon us!
Rogue Scholar
Rogue Scholar is an Albuquerque-based producer, sound designer, and interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of electronic music, collaborative art, and community engagement. Known for lush textures, emotional depth, cinematic storytelling, and rhythmic experimentation, Rogue Scholar creates immersive sonic landscapes that invite movement, introspection, and exploration of consciousness.
Collaboration and interconnection are foundational to the relational creative process. Rogue Scholar is more focused on emotional depth and dynamic contrast while actively pursuing balance between playfulness and refined production. Rather than exemplifying self-expression through rigid genre conventions, Rogue Scholar seeks to model a creative practice grounded in intention, storytelling, curiosity, and connection. Drawing from an ever-expanding spectrum of influences, ambient soundscapes, and experimental electronic roots, the sounds of Rogue Scholar are an ever-evolving tool for sculpting connection, inspiring curiosity and expanding perspectives.
Short Process or performance description
Rogue Scholar will be performing selections from an upcoming album shaped by a diverse blend of digital and analog tools. The music integrates sequencing and sampling synthesizers through a modular Eurorack setup. The textures of sampled vinyl and curated recordings are performed as an intentional rhythmic structure that balances improvisation and preparatory composition offering an immersive listening experience grounded in both sonic precision and emotional exploration.
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Jess Merritt
"Identity Facet Installation" Description/Artist Statement: This installation explores the interconnection of how the landscape one inhabits influences trauma processing and identity formation, while also exploring the “Querencia” of New Mexico’s landscapes. For those unfamiliar with the term, “Querencia” is the place where one feels most secure, gains the strength of their character, and feels at home. Through my work I use the beauty of New Mexico’s land and cityscapes, and the strength that I draw from them, as metaphors for mapping the narrative of my personal journey to process and overcome trauma. I have Complex PTSD and use a combination of landscape imagery and abstractions to represent the challenges, successes, and sometimes disorienting views of the world associated with the condition. Each paper sculpture is a facet of an actual location in the NM landscape, but also a small facet of the state’s identity and an influence on mine. I form personal bonds with the land that I inhabit. Those landscapes become active participants in the pivotal moments of my life… they become the foundations on which me and my loved ones have gathered, they are a companion through stressful times, they provide a source of healing, they offer lessons on resilience through the passage of time, and the concept of the beauty found through changes in physical state. Alternatively, some landscapes become the embodiment of challenges and stressful states that I have yet to overcome and others, unfortunately, actively validate past traumas.” www.jessmerritt.com IG: the_singularity_of_jess