Events and Workshops

SOUNDLAB 2025 | 14 June | Port Townsend

A daylong voyage of audiospatial exploration and discovery guided by an ensemble of sound and movement artists from Seattle and the Olympic Peninsula.

The day's events will be divided into two separate programs:

(1) Soundwalk: a leisurely tour through a sequence of overlapping sound installations and performances in the resonant spaces provided by the batteries and bunkers of Fort Worden's Artillery Hill.

(2) Evening Program at Gallery Osminog Blanco (267 Hudson Street), a new art venue in Point Hudson, featuring Eye Music and the Animist Orchestra, with a collective sonic excursion to the nearby beach.

Soundwalk | 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm | Artillery Hill

Soundwalk will follow a clockwise circle of the main installations on Artillery Hill at Fort Worden. A downloadable/printable PDF map of the fort is available at the Friends of Fort Worden website. Our route will begin at the Artillery Hill Gate near Copper Canyon Press and the Port Townsend School of Woodworking, heading from there via Battery Way West to Battery Tolles. There will be a overlapping sequence of events/performances beginning at Battery Tolles and following the route and schedule below:

1:00–2:00 pm Battery Tolles

2:00–3:00 pm Battery Benson

3:00–4:00 pm Main Gun Line Batteries (Ash, Quarles, Randol)

4:00–5:00 pm Mortar Batteries (Battery Brannan)

Performers and audience members will move as a group from one location to the next.

Intermission | 5:00 to 7:00 pm

There will be a two-hour break from 5:00 to 7:00 to allow time for packing out, dinner, and regrouping at Point Hudson for the evening program.

Evening Program: Eye Music + Animist Orchestra | 7:00 pm to 9:00 |

Gallery Osminog Blanco (267 Hudson Street, Port Townsend)

Eye Music is a continually evolving coalition (now in its twentieth year) for the performance of music based on graphic scores or written instructions that allow for a certain amount of individual interpretation and improvisation on the part of the performers. The openness of these compositions allows Eye Music to draw its membership from a wide range of musical backgrounds, instrumentation, and musical skill.

With soft textures gently coaxed from a range of natural materials, founding members of Jeph Jerman’s Animist Orchestra will present this approach to listening and letting the sounds be. As much a meditation as a performance, audience members will be invited to join the orchestra in an auditory-kinetic communion bringing a resonant end to the day's events.

Callery Osminog Blanco is a newly created space for interdisciplinary arts. It includes a small gallery which will feature paintings and photography by Katrina Wolfe, Dmitry Artamonov, Kawtee Wolfe, and guest artists, and an intimate performance space where Katrina will present her installations  integrated with her movement art. The space will also host workshops, classes and other interdisciplinary art events. The grand opening will take place later in the summer.

Participating Artists

Dave Knott explores the sounds of natural materials (dripping water, pine cones, stones, etc.) employing contact mics and amplification. He will also conduct the Animist Orchestra in Saturday's concluding performance. Dave is a board-certified music therapist, fellow in the Academy of Neurologic Music Therapy, instrument maker, improvisor, and composer living and working in Seattle.

David Stanford & Carl Lierman create electronic sounds to explore the latent qualities of acoustic space. They will use an array of three small FM synths and three amps in an experiment with spatial audio. David and Carl both play with Eye Music, the feedback-based electronic trio Gyre, and various other configurations devoted to experimental music and sonic exploration.

Michael Shannon is a sound/recording artist, musician, photographer, and experimental media-maker, specializing in the use of a variety of string instruments from Asia, field recordings, percussion, sound objects, electro-acoustic strings, and electronics—a selection of which can he will bring to the bunkers of Fort Worden.

Camille Hildebrandt & Soonie Kania will investigate the movement and sounds generated from a concentrated somatic response to the environment of the bunkers. Camille is a longtime movement practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, and teacher. Soonie studied visual art in Korea, where she also began an authentic movement and breath practice she has continued since moving to Port Townsend, using it as a basis for creating dance pieces.

Eric Lanzillotta has headed a record store and label (Anomalous Records) and has been involved in sound in various aspects since the late 1980s. As a live performer, he has appeared in United States, Canada, and Japan. For Soundwalk, he will play the khaen (a Laotian multireed mouth organ) in a circumambulation of cavernous mortar battery Brannan, and lead the evening performance of Eye Music.

David Noble, primarily a visual artist and photographer, will wrestle with a cantankerous eight-voiced analog synthesizer in one of the resonant chambers of the Artillery Hill batteries.

Dan Kibke & Emma Tomic of Vancouver, BC, make electroacoustic music using a variety of equipment, particularly modular synthesizers and field recordings. They will participate in Soundlab Thuja via a recording based on earlier experiences in the Fort Worden bunkers.

Katrina Wolfe is an interdisciplinary artist focused on the integration of performance and visual arts. She utilizes organic and recycled materials to create installations and sculptural costumes amongst which her butoh-inspired movement art is performed. For Soundlab she will activate rusted metal doors inside the bunkers to create an organic, percussive soundscape which she will respond to with voice and movement.