1000 Whispers From Our Future pulls from Audium residency artist Pat Mesiti-Miller’s near-decade of work inside California prisons. It features the sounds of the physical structures of incarceration, the people living within them, and the power of our collective imagination and spirit.

Central to the piece is a collection of whispers recorded during a series of community visioning events where participants were asked to share their visions of a new world. The whispers become guides as they float over gritty textures, materialize, and expand before returning to the echoic ether.

The project explores the abolitionist principle: as we dismantle systems of harm and oppression, we must also imagine new ways of being, and join in building them together.

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Now remastered for Audium’s newest sound technology, Audium VI rewinds audiences back to 1975. This audio time capsule was originally composed on tape by Audium’s founder Stan Shaff, for the openning of Audium’s current theater on 1616 Bush Street.

Field recordings and electronic textures will transport you onto a rumbling freight train, into a fog horn-filled bay, and alongside children’s voices that chase each other around the room.  One can only imagine what audiences at that time (54 years ago!) must have thought.

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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.