CCAM Sound Art Series: Chloe Alexandra Thompson

The CCAM Sound Art Series presents Chloe Alexandra Thompson. The CCAM Sound Art Series is centered around the sonic arts in its many forms. It presents a diversity of works by guest artists that investigate sound through musical performance, installation art, performance art, or any cross-pollination of these and other approaches, followed by discussions with the audience.

Chloe Alexanda Thompson is a Cree, Canadian interdisciplinary artist and technologist. Thompson approaches sound as a mode of connection — embracing the kinesthetic agency of sound to compose abstract feats of spatialized audio recording and synthesis. Her work engages tactics of material minimalism to create site-specific installations that sculpt droning, maximalist experiences out of space and sound. Thompson views spatial audio, as well as other modes of distributed media as presenting opportunities to decentralize the performer, implicating a more active role to the “audience.” To Thompson, the poetic and abstracted allegories formed in these interactions, across any medium, allows for space to both practice and enact possibilities for change.