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.

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 is a self-taught transdisciplinary polymath, researcher, and sound nerd whose praxis unearths and honors diasporic wisdoms that defy static or linear narratives. Grounded in a polymathic exploration of kindred transatlantic perspectives, their research harnesses ancestral movement, performance, print media, lens-based works, sonic art, interactive facilitation, new media installation, and more. Ultimately, they are most inspired by the power of open research and the verdant fecundity where disciplines, practices, and communities overlap.

Recently, they’ve been a featured artist for Visual Arts Journal, awarded the CODEX International Biennial Research Scholarship, and are a 2025 MacDowell Fellow.

Audium’s Sound & Space Residency Program is funded in part through a grant from the SF Arts Commission