Jack Straw New Media Gallery

Since relocating to the Pacific Northwest in 2012, artist Andy Behrle has been developing ways to visualize sound and make light audible while exploring ideas of place and location.

New Media Gallery 2015-16: luminous soundscape

James Borchers is an American composer, musician, and sound artist. His recent works focus on the threshold between sound as a naturally occurring phenomenon and sound as a vessel for the transmission of cultural meaning. He has been awarded numerous residencies and fellowships including at Tanglewood Music Center, Wellesley Composers Conference, and Atlantic Center for the Arts. His music has been performed by prominent ensembles including the ICE ensemble, Talujon Percussion Quartet, Lydian String Quartet, Dinosaur Annex, and American Opera Projects.

New Media Gallery 2015-16: Obiectum Resonare

Paul Kikuchi attended an Ella Fitzgerald concert while in the womb and was born the next day. He shares a birthday with Prince. His music is wide ranging — from drone/ambient soundscapes to compositions for traditional Japanese instruments, and has been described as “. . . somewhere between natural and deliberate, between wind chimes and the strict order of a composition” (The Stranger)  and “A Morricone showdown in a John Cage rock garden.” (Paris Transatlantic). His work has been supported by Chamber Music America, National Endowment of the Arts, and New Music USA, among others. Paul is tenured music faculty at South Seattle College.

Watch: Paul Kikuchi with Mako and Stan Shikuma, live at Jack Straw

Artist Support Program 2022: An album of original works that features traditional Japanese instruments along with electronics and “Western” classical and popular instrumentation.

New Media Gallery 2015-16: AUTONOMIC

Artist Support Program 2013: Recording and production of Bat of No Bird Island, a song cycle for chamber-jazz ensemble based on the memoir of his grandfather Zenkichi Kikuchi.

Artist Support Program 2008 (with Tiffany Lin)

Erin Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh. Erin is the author of the multimedia memoir, What Hadn’t Happened, winner of a 2013 Digital Storymakers Award Grand Prize in multimedia nonfiction, sponsored by The Atavist and the Pearson Foundation. Her interactive documentary, The Olive Project: An Oral History Composition in Multiple Modes, was selected for the Kairos Best Webtext Award, sponsored by Kairos journal, in 2012. She has also published several articles in peer-reviewed academic journals and presents regularly at national conferences in writing, media studies, and oral history.

Erin earned her Ph.D. in Critical and Cultural Studies from the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation, The Material Poetics of Digital Voice: A Creative-Critical Inquiry, uses practice-based media to explore the creative and ethical potential of writing with the voices of others.

Born and raised in Kent, Washington, Erin holds Bachelors degrees in Comparative History of Ideas and Communication from the University of Washington and a Masters degree in Community Development and Planning from Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts. Previously, she worked in independent media and homeless advocacy, locally with Seattle’s Real Change News and at the headquarters of the International Network of Street Papers in Glasgow, Scotland.

New Media Gallery 2015-16 (Atrium Gallery): Our Time Is Up