In this intense moment in the world, emotion can sometimes feel like pure noise. Audium residency alumni Alex Abalos & Roco Córdova explore history, identity, and the struggle for justice in this replay of their residency works.

Alex Abalos presents Soliloquy of Chaos, an “encyclopedia of sound” drawn from San Francisco’s Filipino community, weaving historic city recordings around the story of the International I Hotel eviction and the activist movement it sparked. 

Roco Córdova blends voice and recordings from daily life in Things You May Find Hidden in my Ear. They confront the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, connecting the realities of occupied Palestine with their own Puerto Rican heritage. 

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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.