Meet this year’s crew of sound residency artists:

Pat Mesiti-Miller is an Artist and Audio Producer based in Oakland, CA. Known for his inventive storytelling and immersive sound design, Pat blends fantasy and documentary elements to explore deeper truths. His work pushes boundaries of form and genre, using storytelling as a tool for resistance, empathy, and collective empowerment. In addition to his own musical projects, his audio work spans collaborations with Proximity Media, Ear Hustle, People’s Programs, and KQED’s Snap Studios.

Find out more about Pat’s work for Audium, 1000 Whispers from our Future.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist making works for voice, electronics, samples, gesture activated MIDI controllers, and video. She has toured throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. Her work has been presented at venues and exhibitions including Bang on a Can (NY), the Japan Interlink Festival, Other Minds (SF), MoMA (NY), the Venice Biennale, and Dakar Biennale. She has composed scores for dance, film, and chamber ensembles (including Kronos Quartet and Eighth Blackbird). Her awards include the Rome Prize, Berlin Prize, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, MIT McDermott Award, the Guggenheim, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 

Barbara Nerness is an artist and scientist whose work spans music composition, live performance, video, and cognitive science. She currently teaches in Technology and Applied Composition at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She received her PhD and Doctoral Certificate in Composition from Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA). She has performed at venues throughout the Bay Area and Los Angeles, as well as the Brooklyn Academy of Music, ZKM, and the Sonic Arts Research Centre.

golden lionheart collier golden lionheart collier (he/they) is an award-winning transdisciplinary artistic researcher and archival alchemist whose polymathic practice flourishes in the generative nexus where disciplines, communities, and epistemologies converge. For example, their synergistic work has recently spanned a performance of Gorecki’s Symphony of Sorrowful Songs, film/sonic collaborations in the Arctic Circle, hosting a weekly radio show, and receiving a CODEX International Book Arts Biennial Research Fellowship. A MacDowell fellow, current Audium Theatre Spatial Sound Artist in Residence, and contributor to the Kirkus-starred Black Punk Now, collier was also a Fulbright Research Grant Nominee and finalist for the XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books. Through engaging, accessible research dissemination, they forge portals to encounter marginalized histories as living testimonies of resistance, weaving generative connections towards more just futures.

Click here to learn more about golden’s innovative practice and research. 

Audium’s Sound & Space Residency Program is funded in part through the SF Arts Commission’s Arts Impact Endowment & the New Music USA organization fund in 2025-26.