A day of audiospatial exploration and discovery guided by an ensemble of sound and movement artists from around the Salish Sea. If your taste runs to the experimental, improvisational, ambient, playful, electro-acoustic, quirky, contemplative, contemporary, and site-specific—then join us!
The day's experiences will be organized as a soundwalk: a leisurely tour through a sequence of overlapping sound installations and performances in the evocative and resonant spaces provided by the century-old artillery batteries and bunkers of Fort Flagler.
The soundwalk will begin at 2:00 pm. Participating artists and audience members will convene at the parking lot at the northern terminus of the main road entering the state park (please see attached map for details). Artists will then lead a processional along Downes Trail to the Bluff Trail along the northern end of Marrowstone Island linking the main battery and bunker installations. Soundwalk will follow this trail to a sequence of individual sites (at batteries Calwell, Downes, Revere, Wihelm, and Rawlins) where solo and small group performances will be offered throughout the afternoon. Performers and audience members will move together from each site to the next.
In late afternoon there will be a break and a reset, during which the participating artists will convene and set up at Battery Wihelm for a large ensemble performance that will be the finale of the day's activities.
The terrain of the walk is easy, over gently sloping and well-maintained trails, but the entire walk (round trip to parking) will cover about a mile.
Soundlab 4 is a free event, but a state parks Discovery Pass is required for parking at Fort Flagler. The Fort Flagler State Park website has other useful park information, including an area map, and a downloadable PDF map of the trails and bunkers at the fort is available here.
For any other questions you may have, please contact us at artlab.thuja@icloud.com
Participating Artists
Christopher Arnett has been making electro-acoustic, field-recording-based ambient or noise music since he was 14. He studied vocal music and sound yoga with mystic musician Parvathy Baul in India and over the past ten years he has been studying with a variety of butoh dancers to apply their methodologies to music composition and improvisation.
Dmitry Artamanov
SPITRAT bringsno-input noise mixed with distorted soundscapes and toy piano. https://www.instagram.com/ratbolt
Angela Downs
Camille Hildebrandt will investigate the movement and sounds generated from a concentrated somatic response to the environment of the bunkers. She is a longtime movement practitioner, interdisciplinary artist, and teacher.
Soonie Kania
Justin Lazar
Eric Lanzillotta is director of the ensemble Eye Music. As a live performer he has played solo and collaboratively in the United States, Canada and Japan. For this event he will be playing acoustic instruments and objects.
Silas Morrow is a sculptor and non-genre improviser from Seattle, Washington. His great aunt utilized labyrinths in her religious observance and constructed one in her yard which Silas would be directed to walk through when visiting. He explores memory through a contemplative hard listening practice with wind instruments and objects. https://www.instagram.com/phone.call.communication
Rebecca Novak Relocating from Houston, TX to Seattle in April 2026, Rebecca Novak is an artist and improviser who plays on a shifting configuration of instruments and objects (cornet, Autoharp, piano, shortwave radio, glassware) with an ear for fine-grained textures and mechanical or electronic sounds using acoustic instruments. https://www.rebeccanovak.net
David Noble
Bobbie Sax
David Stanford & Carl Lierman create electronic sounds to explore the latent qualities of acoustic space. They both play with Eye Music, the feedback-based electronic trio Gyre, and various other configurations devoted to experimental music and sonic exploration.
John Teske
Stephanie Wood