FotoFest and Nameless Sound collaborate again, presenting three experimental musicians engaged in a sonic dialog—all within the context of three exhibiting Biennial photographers featured in the Ten by Ten 2026 exhibition.
Megan Easley, Ruairi Obrien, and Laura Dykes will weave a single piece of music through overlapping solo and duo improvisations. Each performer stationed within the work of an exhibiting Biennial photographer, their soundings will draw the public to move through the gallery in order to experience this encounter of three and three.
Megan Easley has developed a singular approach to sounding and performing with the amplification of water and its vessels. Easely’s elegant hydrophonic textures will accompany Yohan Choi’s Nonlinear, which documents the photographer’s experience of the Camino de Santiago, the ancient but living network of pilgrimage routes in Southwest Europe.
Sound engineer and electronic musician Ruairi Obrien uses recording processes and their side-effects, such as noise and feedback, to “exaggerate the boundaries between sounds and to discover what appears when the parts don’t become a whole”. In Leigh Merrill’s Garden of Artificial Sugar, otherworldly and digital landscape collages will provide a context for Obrien’s digital sonic conversions.
Laura Dykes' meditative and resounding double bass can ground the sonic landscape with ocean-like depth, and fill space like the wind. Like a photo image, it can make a moment feel eternal. Dykes' act of performance will occur in front of Tomiko Jones’ Hatsubon, where the human bodies perform an act of ritual, timelessly framed within the vastness of the sea and ocean cliffs.
Raffle of Painting by Gabriel Martinez
for They, Who Salon
"Untitled"
2021
found fabric on linen
12 x 9 in
All proceeds support
They, Who Sound
