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contact: 	mmerkey [at] alumnae.mills.edu

Johnnyrandom is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist living in Barcelona, Spain who specializes in the genre of “Musique Concrète” which is a form of electroacoustic music that is made in part from acousmatic sound. His 2014 release "Bespoken" explores the full potential of sounds generated from bicycles and their components:

www.vimeo.com/jrandom/bespoken 

It quickly became a viral sensation that has been featured in numerous international print publications, online publications, radio, and television. His current projects strive to promote awareness of one’s surroundings by tuning into the intrinsic beauty produced by everyday objects.

Press:

BBC: https://www.bit.ly/2v0yGaV
Red Bull: https://www.bit.ly/2VGpS5G
RNZ: https://www.bit.ly/2Z5OrLm
NPR: https://www.bit.ly/2UtzAf7 
Wired Magazine: https://bit.ly/3CGsJWu
East Bay Express: https://www.bit.ly/2Gfth6e
Gizmodo: https://www.bit.ly/2D9j2hU
Colossal: https://www.bit.ly/2G8P5iq
Mashable: https://www.bit.ly/2uYnTxI
Huffington Post: https://www.bit.ly/2X25Hzi
Grist: https://www.bit.ly/2WY6iC0
Design Boom: https://www.bit.ly/2IcLnba
Boing Boing: https://www.bit.ly/2IwMm5z

Christi Denton is a Portland based composer and sound installation artist who works with found sounds, electronics, and homemade and modified instruments.  She has a degree in Music Composition from Mills College and a graduate certificate from the Centre for Composition of Music Iannis Xenakis (France). 

Christi has built giant chimes as part of the Music for People & Thingamajigs Festival and amplified exhibits in the Exploratorium.  She played at the Spark Festival of Electronic Arts and Music and her music is part of the exhibit Six Seconds Around Me in the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Italy. In 2011 and 2012, her work was featured in collaborative performances for Ten Tiny Dances at the Time Based Art Festival in Portland, where dancers controlled music through light and flex sensors.  She competed in the 2012 Guthman Instrument Competition, was in residency at Caldera in 2014, and has played in every Electrogals festival since 1995.


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