Sound Experience with Colloboh

Performance
A man in a white shirt with black pants stands inside a sparse hallway with large windows. By his feet is an electronic device filled with colorful wires.

Photo: Kate Walsh. Courtesy the artist

Feb 15, 2025

6pm

Getty Center

Harold M. Williams Auditorium

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About

Join us for an evening of sonic experimentation with producer and composer Colloboh inspired by the Getty Research Institute exhibition Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.). This performance celebrates collaborations between artists and engineers—integrating technological processes, multi-sensory environments, modular synthesizers, and activated visual effects—tying the historical significance of E.A.T.’s groundbreaking pioneers with contemporary electronic experimentation. Presented in partnership with dublab.

The performance will be available on the Getty Research Institute YouTube channel following the event.

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    1. Colloboh

      Producer and composer

      Colloboh (a portmanteau of Collins Oboh) is a Nigerian-born, Los Angeles-based experimental producer and composer who creates progressive electronic music compositions through the guidance of intuition by primarily utilizing his modular synthesizer as a sonic canvas. A self-taught synthesist, Colloboh’s EP Entity Relation (2021) and Saana Sahel (2023, Leaving Records), showcases the breadth of his ambitious compositions.

    2. dublab

      Internet radio station

      dublab is a Los Angeles-based, community-supported internet radio station and creative collective dedicated to the growth of positive music, arts, and culture. Founded in 1999, dublab has been broadcasting since the “dot-com era” with the mission to share forward-thinking, freeform radio with an international audience. Through local events, international broadcasts, and collaborative multimedia projects, dublab has helped define and connect the next wave of arts, music, and culture across Los Angeles and international communities.

    3. tp Dutchkiss

      Musician

      Spencer Hartling is a Los Angeles-based experimental musician and engineer working under the musical moniker tp Dutchkiss. As a self-taught tape loop artist, Hartling’s work draws inspiration from hisses, hums, and buzzes that are woven into irregular, yet tightly knit compositions. Hartling is also a member of the band Harry the Nightgown and owner/operator of Wiggle World, a recording studio in Altadena, CA. His LP High Functioning was released in 2024 on Leaving Records.

    4. alsoknownasrox

      Artist

      Roxanne Harris “alsoknownasrox” is a new media artist-researcher and musician-programmer based in Los Angeles. Her work invites audiences to engage the creative process as it unfolds, embracing vulnerability and exploring speculative futures through algorithmic transparency. Roxanne holds a BA in computer science and music from Yale University and is pursuing an MFA in design media arts at UCLA.

    5. Clayton McCracken

      Artist

      Clayton McCracken is a video and light artist based in Los Angeles. Inspired by natural phenomena both vast and minute, his work explores the space where science folds to spirituality. McCracken’s combination of analog video technology, lasers, and real-time animation softwares has earned him collaborations with artists such as Charli XCX, Suzanne Ciani, & Laraaji.

    6. Qur’an Shaheed

      Musician

      Qur'an Shaheed is an experimental pianist, poet, singer and songwriter based in Los Angeles. Trained extensively in jazz, classical, and contemporary music, her sound is innovative and personal, incorporating elements of improvisation as well as neo-classical and neo-soul techniques. Shaheed also composes film scores, focusing on projects that reflect on society, history and unifying acts. Her album Process with producer Jesse Justice was released in 2020 on Preference Records.

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