Seeds

process | research | studio art

This section includes images of unfinished explorations, experiments, process, research, pedagogy, etc.

Otzkö Kazo Research Atelier |

The Foundations
October 2023

Wrapping up a year of designing an art residency and creating the world/art and research practice of Otzkö Kazo. Images from an essay recently published on the research conducted and art created out of this practice.

Film from Armenia

Hosted by TUMO Center for AI and Education Symposium in Yerevan, Armenia to present work.

2023

Other imagery from event:

Course: Myths, Rituals, and Sounds

Taught a course to MFA Hunter College IMA students - slides in discussing my mythopoeisis process as a potential template for their’s

2023

Film of Summer in Studio

2023

Symphosynthesis de Soloro and Seira 001

2023

I’ve been building my own world, called Otzkö Kazo. Its intellectual seeds are finally bearing fruit. I’m trying to synopsize its explorations into a few words like Supratemporal-Scientomythopeoia - which generally reflects my interests in studying what’s possible if when we consider mythology to predate science, what happens when mythology transcends contemporary scientific frameworks.

The sound was designed using the original quantum computers, plants - of my garden, and converting its photosynthetic process into electronic voltage for a form of bio-sonification. Overlaid with other beats I’ve built exploring time structures.

Hues of Stzair Echology | 001

2022

Hues of Stzair Echology a series of is a live modular synthesizer sets that explore polyrhythmic beatmaking, celestial sound manipulation, and quasi-Jazz/freesound improvisation on a euclidean sonic structure.

Cosmic Radio (series)

2014-2022

2014+
Watercolor on rice paper
From the archive
Framed in 2022

OhFela (Afrobeats DJ Mix)

An hour long excerpt from a 6 hour long set on some of the most popular Afrobeat songs of 2022. A nod to Fela Kuti, the original pioneer of Afrobeats.

Alternative Life (series)

2022

Rendered images of alternative life via personalized image generations, diffusion model (Dreambooth + Stable Diffusion)

“From me and mine to you and yours❤️ ”

Oct 2022

A comical exploration on Instagram for Thanksgiving Day as I rendered artificial images of “myself and my family” celebrating the holiday

Abstracted Sense of Self

Oct 2022

My explorations with AI Image generation have catalyzed existential wonderings around my understanding of my own identity, and its performance.

Movement Synthesis

Oct 2022

Rendered images of movement via personalized image generations, diffusion model (Dreambooth + Stable Diffusion)

Light Painting Studies 01

2022

Essay | Computational Anthropology and Exploring Identity Through Artificial Synthesis

Recontextualizing Labor for Artistic Imaginings

2022

Through this I wanted to explore labor:
- the act of it,
- the context of it and how what’s considered labor and not worth financial compensation based off of societal values,
- and recontextualizing the movements of labor by using paint pigment to memoralize a usually temporal event

Jatal0 (Vinyl DJ Mix)

2022

Crate digging of vinyl in Barcelona. From Italo Disco to Bossa-Negra to Spanish rap to Dubhouse to Jamaican Jazz and beyond

AbraboAbrabo (Vinyl DJ Mix)

2022

A collage of the melding and bending sounds of the African diaspora's vibrant percussive forms via vinyl.

MongoMangione (Vinyl DJ Mix)

2022

First time spinning and mixing with vinyl. From AfroCuban JazzFunk to Congolese drumming to Japanese electronic minimalism.

Strawberry Sounds

2022

A conversion of the electromagnetic waves of my strawberry plants into sounds through my modular synthesizer for a materialized sonic composition of biology.

Older work | “compost”

Sono de BedWabiStuySabi

2021

A live modular synthesis set merged with environmental sounds of Bed-Stuy, BrooklynFull performance, here.

Electrocology of Sound Travel

2020

Sonically materializing climate data during COVID-19 through a webVR platform. Supported by the Onassis Foundation.Experience, here.

Metamorphosis.FM
2020

An immersive WebVR healing environment that merges indigenous African instrumentalization for revolutions with visual and sonic healing auras of Eastern Spiritual practices, along with psychogeographical techniques.
Experience, here.

Essay | Notes on Omni-Specialized Design for Beautiful Futures

2022

ElectroNegroSynesthesyo

2019

Series of Black cultural artifacts converted into audio-visual instruments - a speculation on the future of culture through re-contextualization

Essay | Radical Technoculture for Racial Equity

2019-20

Essay | Building a Museum for the Future
2018

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