team
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Composer, inventor, and multimedia artist Kirk Pearson spends half their time putting stuff together, and the other half taking stuff apart. They have written music, built installations, and designed experiences for the the New Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, Museum für Kommunikation Bern, and for hundreds of musical ensembles, films, stage productions, and new media projects. In 2017, Kirk was named a recipient of the Thomas Watson Fellowship, through which they spent a year traveling the world composing works for experimental instruments. Pearson has a BMus from Oberlin Conservatory, which people seem to think is important so we’ll mention it here. They cut their sandwiches diagonally.
Kirk Pearson (they)
Founder/Creative Director Composer/Educator
kirk@dogbotic.com
Sean Russell Hallowell (isorhythmics) is a composer and video artist from San Francisco. He synthesizes experimental techniques developed from hand-built circuitry with a cosmic perspective on the origins of music in number and time. He has installed and performed A/V works at festivals and galleries across the US as well as in Mexico, Chile, Japan, South Korea, the UK, Belgium, Croatia, Poland, and Iceland. More at isorhythmics.xyz
Sean Russell Hallowell (he)
Partner/Technical Director
sean@dogbotic.com
Jasmine Bailey is a self-described collection of creativity who loves to bring the forests of her imagination to life. Inspired by nature, films, and the abilities of different mediums, she strives to make genuine connections with those who interact with her and her creations. Jasmine creates art using alcohol markers, gouache, ink, colored pencils, LEDs, sound waves, digital logic, and interactive webpages, sometimes all at the same time! She is based in Connecticut and has a degree in Audio and Music Production from Western Connecticut State University.
Jasmine Bailey (she)
Workshop Manager
jasmine@dogbotic.com
Roxanne Hoffman is an interaction designer based in Chicago, IL. Her work spans across design and business strategy, UX design and research, and ongoing research and art focused on the entanglement of data and lived experience. Roxanne has managed projects in various fields including medical devices, consumer electronics, and financial services, all while staying curious about DIY electronics and creative technology. She holds degrees in design, business, and engineering.
Roxanne Hoffman (she)
Business Development
roxanne@dogbotic.com
Lydia Froncek started her first band when she was barely tall enough to reach the pedal of her big sister’s drum set. For the last six years, you could find her touring North and South America as the percussionist and songwriter of the world folk band Ley Line. She has planned and managed tours and educational outreach programs in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Brazil.
For Lydia, music has always felt like the clearest form of communication. Her love for the language of rhythm has carried her around the world collecting stories and friendships along the way. Since 2013, she has returned consistently to Senegal where she studies the talking drum with her teacher Pape Mbengue. She speaks five languages (in addition to music) and graduated from Pitzer College with a BA in Anthropology of Expressive Culture.
Now based in Austin, TX, Lydia
continues to collect strange and mesmerizing instruments and write songs in a variety of genres. She also has a passion for cooking Mediterranean food, sewing her own clothing, and spending as much time as possible outdoors.
Lydia Froncek (she)
Producer/Sound Designer
lydia@dogbotic.com
Tommy Marshall (he)
Maker/Educator
Sabrina Ghidossi is an Argentine American writer-director based in California. Specializing in "experimental film that you actually enjoy watching", she combines the use of digital and manipulated celluloid in her fiction films. She works on film sets all over California, in productions for A24, Vice, Google, to name a few.
Sabrina Ghidossi (she/they)
Filmmaker/Educator
Oreofe is a sound designer, composer, music producer, and digital product designer based in Portland, Oregon. Self-taught in all forms of his practice, he is delighted by all things whimsical, organic, and playful and enjoys finding ways to express these themes through his work. Oreofe is also an Art house movie lover, a connoisseur of delectable sweets, and a public transit enthusiast.
Oreofe Aderibigbe (he)
Assistant Composer/Sound Designer
Linh My Truong is an Detroit-based interdisciplinary artist and educator working with textiles, video, and electronics. Through her exploration of the Japanese marbling art of suminagashi and her penchant for hard geometric forms, her work finds a place between chaos theory and an ordered universe. She often incorporates found footage into multi-layered videos to produce non-linear narratives about society, culture, and memory. Her application of technology uses light to create immersive art installations, bringing traditional art forms into the 21st century. She has exhibited work across the United States and in Asia and is a 2023 winner of the Knight Foundation’s New Work Art & Technology grant.
Linh My Truong (she)
Artist/Educator
Andrés has been related to music and sound design from different fields. He has created the sound experience of festivals, the first recorded soundbank with musical instruments over 2000 years old, composed the original music for the official media in his country, has produced sound identities for brands and products of all kinds . In addition, he has played in 14 countries, and his work has been featured in important spaces such as the Gold Museum of Costa Rica, the National Theater of Costa Rica, the National Museum of Costa Rica, the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, and the Museum of Costa Rican Art.
He began in music learning trombone at the National Institute of Music, and studied jazz and Afro-Caribbean music at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music. He is currently musical director of UachiMán, member of the Infibeat collective, member of the Panamanian band Señor Loop, collaborator of Jirondai and founder of the root music label Araima Records.
Interests: Hobbyist cook, diver and mask collector.
IG: @andres_cervilla
Andres Cervilla (he)
Composer/Sound Designer
Born and raised in the Ozarks, Casey Austin is a composer, sound designer, and audio engineer that loves to turn knobs to make abnormal and unique new timbres. He began his career in the analog world mixing and mastering cassette and reel-to-reel limited edition releases at the largest remaining cassette production company in the world - National Audio Company. He graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a masters in Music Composition for the Screen and interned with Jeff Rona (God of War 3, Far Cry 4) helping him orchestrate and mix his upcoming projects. Now living in Burbank, CA, he designs custom synthesizer modules under his new company, Eight Crazy Hearts, and continues to make himself giggle as he discovers weird and wacky new ways to make sound.
Casey Austin (he)
Assistant Composer/Sound Designer
Alex Taylor is a tinkerer, visual artist, and musician based in Owings Mills, MD with a background in classical guitar and teaching. His practice includes collaged electro-acoustic improvisations, mixed media visuals, and unintended computer-driven collaboration.
https://frenchalexander.com/
Alex Taylor (he)
Artist/Instructor
We work with an international network of talented composers, artists, and musical tinkerers. Interested in joining the Dogbotic crew? We would love to hear from you.
