Subwoofer Duo is a new collaboration between Bryce Hackford and Alma Laprida exploring sound amplified exclusively via subwoofers in performance, installation and workshops. A subwoofer is a type of speaker that produces lower frequencies; the type that is responsible for making a car bumper bump. SD performances dialog with the architectures in which they take place (often exceeding those architectures), and have so far used electronics, synthesizers, voices, tromba marina, recordings of animals among other beings, and vibrators in their instrumentation. The custom SD sound system is currently being built.

Robbie Wing is an artist, musician, and composer born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His practice focuses on composition, sonic sculpture, psycho-geographies, and performance. Robbie has a Master's Degree in Urban Design from the University of Oklahoma. Robbie has presented his work and performed at various venues, including the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship Gallery, Philbrook Museum, University of Kent in Chatham, UK, Institute for Advanced Studies in Kуszeg, Hungary, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater and the Center for Arts, Research & Alliances.

Kite aka Suzanne Kite (b. 1990, Sylmar, CA; lives in Catskill, NY) is an Oglála Lakȟóta artist, composer, and scholar. Her artworks and performances have recently been featured at the 2024 Whitney Biennial; Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin; Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York; and the 2024 Shanghai Biennial; among other venues. Her awards and honors include a Ruth Award, a 2023 United States Artist Fellowship, a Creative Time open call commission (with Alisha Wormsley), and a Creative Capital grant. She is currently Director of Wihanble S’a Lab, Distinguished Artist in Residence, and Assistant Professor of American and Indigenous Studies at Bard College. Kite holds degrees from California Institute of the Arts, Bard College, and received her PhD from Concordia University. Known for her sound and video performance with her Machine Learning hair-braid interface, Kite’s groundbreaking scholarship and practice investigate contemporary Lakota ontologies through research-creation, computational media, and performance, often working in collaboration with family and community members. Kite develops body interfaces for machine learning driven performance, sculptures generated by dreams, and experimental sound and video work. Working with machine learning techniques since 2017 and developing body interfaces for performance since 2013, Kite is a first American Indian artist to utilize Machine Learning in art practice. Kite has been included in numerous publications such as Atlas of Anomalous AI, Indigenous Futurisms, Creative AI Database from Serpentine Gallery, the American Indian Culture and Research Journal, the Journal of Design and Science (MIT Press), with the award winning article, “Making Kin with Machines”, and the sculpture Ínyan Iyé (Telling Rock) (2019) was featured on the cover of Canadian Art.

Subwoofer Duo / Kite/Wing

Subwoofer Duo / Kite/Wing