Bio

Agnes leads concept and design through execution. Using a refined design process founded in Design Thinking she has cultivated over the years, she leads teams of artists, producers, and technologists to create tools, animations, marketing and educational videos, decks, podcasts, installations, immersive experiences, and sound pieces. Agnes is an expert video/sound editor and sound designer, as well as an intermediate visual designer.

As an artist and performer Agnes works with sound, light, movement, fabric and space. She has performed and toured nationally and internationally and been a featured artist at the Electronic Music Midwest Festival, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Soundwave Festival, Audio Art Festival, Cologne Online Festival and Streaming Festival. She has performed or installed work at de Young Museum, Theater Artaud, Artists Television Access, CCA, The Stone NY, the Lab SF and many more. Agnes has received support from the Fulbright Research Grant, the Black Rock Arts Foundation, and the Subito Composers Grant.

Agnes earned her B.S. from Northwestern University in Radio/TV/Film and her M.F.A in Electronic Music and Recording Media from Mills College, and is currently freelancing from Idora Studios in Oakland and working at Meowwolf.

Agnes’ music has been hailed as “a distinctive voice in the electro-acoustic field” by Textura, and “gorgeous” by XLR8R.  Her duo with The Norman Conquest, Dokuro, is described by THE WIRE as “discreetly sculptured.”   Myrmyr her collaboration with Marielle Jakobson has numerous reviews for both albums with descriptions such as “soaring chamber compositions in perfect ambient space” by Boomkat.

More details about her music on the Music page.

Artist Statement

I experiment and design in the convergent space between composition and improvisation, immersion and performance, and the material and immaterial.  I explore the relationship between light and sound with the intention of challenging our perception or blending our senses. At the core of my process is experimentation:  with electronics, instruments, light, movement, fabric, and new technology to create a performance or to transform spaces, objects, and the human form. The content of my works oscillates between the visible and invisible, and the tension between noise and melody.

I use a design process that starts with concept and writing,  involves research and a deep dive into a theme or concept, and is often collaborative in some way. The concept is the driving force for the process of creation, and the themes are woven into the final works in subtle ways.  Ideally I’d like participants feeling like they had a new experience or sensation. While my themes shift with my expanding curiosity about our universe, my aesthetic is pretty consistent throughout all of my pieces.  The texture and tones of my sound, the way that I treat light, the beguiling use of the body – these are the choices that connect all that I do.

When working with light I primarily use video projection and custom made LED lights.  My sound world is expansive as I am a multi instrumentalist and electronic musician. Voice and cello are my root instruments and often make it into the layers of sounds. Movement has been an essential part of my work in recent years, expressed either in modern dance, or how I move with and create rhythm with instruments including the voice. The final work manifests in many different ways – as multimedia performances, electro-acoustic works, installations, and experimental video pieces. I like to work with and transform forgotten spaces and discarded objects.