Transonic Communities Three-Day Workshop

FREE ARTx multi-day sonic community workshop.

Led by ARTx Keynote Presenter Guillermo Galindo. This workshop cultivates both individual expression and communal resonance—literally and metaphorically. Through guided exercises in listening, vocalization, and movement, and a culminating public performance, participants discover how sound resonates not only in spaces, but between people, creating unique sonic textures that emerge from group interaction. Participants will leave with heightened awareness of their sonic environment, confidence in their voice, and an understanding of sound as a medium for human connection. Led by ARTx Keynote Presenter Guillermo Galindo. Participants are expected to attend all three sessions: • Friday, May 1, 2026, from 5:30 – 6:30pm • Saturday, May 2, 2026, from 9:00am – noon • Sunday, May 3, 2026, from 2:00 – 3:00pm Guillermo Galindo Bio Guillermo Galindo began as a classical composer — writing symphonies and operas — before reconceiving sound itself as a living, generative force. Drawing from shamanic traditions, Mesoamerican cosmology, and the animist understanding that all matter carries a life force, his work is animated by a single obsessive inquiry: what happens at the boundary — geographical, political, psychological, biological, and gendered — where one world ends and another begins. Recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), his work is held at LACMA, the de Young, Crystal Bridges, and the National Gallery. He teaches at California College of the Arts in San Francisco. This fusion of visual and sonic thinking runs throughout his work. The Sonic Botany installations pair graphic notation prints with interactive soundscapes that interrogate the commodification of the living world. Sonic Biogenesis, Genomics and Mutant Jungles (2022) treats biological form itself as a boundary — between species, between organic and synthetic life, between legible and mutant form. His exhibition Ruido Negro probes a post-Anthropocene horiz1on beyond the permanence of the human on the planet — where sound, image, matter, figuration, and code serve as elements in the perpetual creation of the living.