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Let's attend SoundPedro 2025 at Angel's Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro. THIS EVENT IS FREE. No RSVP required.

Food trucks will be on site.
Website: https://soundpedro.art/

Date: June 7, 2025 7-10 pm

Venue:
Angel's Gate Cultural Center
3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro, CA 90731

ABOUT
Chthonic: relating to the Underworld, a realm ruled by enigmas and psychopomps, a place of forgotten or yet to be remembered potential. Don’t mistake it for mere subterranean; chthonic implies both profound existential dread and hope.
Produced by the Long Beach artist group FLOOD, and hosted by Angels Gate Cultural Center, soundpedro is an annual ear-oriented multi-sensory event, presenting artists whose work addresses sound and aural perception in combination with other senses. Soundpedro is NOT a music event.
Angels Gate Cultural Center is located on Tongva land atop a rugged bluff overlooking the Port of Los Angeles, Catalina Island, and the Pacific Ocean. During the 1940s the hilltop site was part of the Fort MacArthur military base. It is now a thriving sanctuary for the arts.
The artists of soundpedro activate, in surprising ways, this unique site--both indoors and out. Unlike music, sound art is the aural equivalent of cinema, painting, theater, sculpture, and literature. “Sound art” as a term has been variously dated to 1974, 1979, and 1982. Since then, artists have taken the genre in a variety of directions. Reframing the act of listening, works and performances explore the progression of sound from hearing to experience.
Soundpedro, like all FLOOD-produced presentations, is an experimental, experiential event, approached as a creative lab for both artists and visitor-participants.
SOUNDPEDRO - Annual Sound Art Festival
soundpedro is a season of experimental sound art events, presented annually, that investigates the way we perceive and experience sound. Many works are multi-sensory, addressing sound and aural perception in combination with other senses. It is produced by the Long Beach artist group FLOOD and hosted by Angels Gate Cultural Center.
What is sound art?
Unlike music, sound art is the aural equivalent of cinema, painting, theater, sculpture, and literature. “Sound art” as a term has been variously dated to 1974, 1979, and 1982. Since then artists have taken the genre in a variety of directions. Reframing the act of listening, works and performances explore the progression of sound from hearing to experience.
Isn't music sound art? So, what's the difference?
While music tends to have structure based on cultural practice and convention, sound art tends to be conceptual and personal. Sound art frequently expresses through more than one medium such as installation, sculpture, performance art, or synesthetic experience.
Sound art has more in common with experimental music than traditional music. Many modern art music, ambient, experimental, musique concrète, drone, and noise practices overlap or share commonalities with sound art .
However, music is characterized by the elements and hierarchical use of pitch, melody, rhythm, tempo or meter.
Note that work may examine the interface on which music and sound art overlap or juxtapose musical content with sound to help further express the differences and tensions relative to aesthetics and ways of listening.
SoundPedro is the successor event to the Long Beach Soundwalk. SoundWalk was a sound art event presented annually by the Long Beach artist group, FLOOD, from 2003 to 2013. The evening operated under the concept of a one-night experience as encountered in various indoor and outdoor spaces throughout the East Village Arts District in Downtown Long Beach. Through an array of practices and procedures, the artwork linked the auditory with visual, tactile, and other sensory systems. There were sculptures, environments, installations, both interactive and passive, as well as presentations, by sound artists with timed performances, that were scheduled during the course of the evening.
http://soundwalk.org/