League of Municipalities Announces first-ever Conference Artist in Residence
League of Wisconsin Municipalities
announces first-ever Artists-in-Residence
at the 126th Annual Conference
October 23-25, 2024 | Middleton, WI
Presented in partnership with Create Wisconsin
The League of Wisconsin Municipalities announces Jeff Herriott and Nick Hwang as the first-ever Conference Artists-in-Residence at the League’s 2024 Annual Conference at the Madison Marriott West Hotel, October 23-25, 2024.
Herriott and Hwang were chosen through an open call and a juried process for Wisconsin artists, performers, and other creative people to submit proposals recognizing the power, value and commitment of the public sector and local government - specifically, cities and villages - to community engagement, access, and service; entailing community-engaged practice; and bringing the conference attendees the gathered community into the creative process.
Herriott and Hwang are both professors in the Media Arts and Game Development program at UW-Whitewater, where they teach courses in interactivity, music technology, and music composition.
They will share Resonating Stories, an interactive audio installation that celebrates inspirational ideas from communities around the state of Wisconsin. Using a series of custom-built, interactive speakers, Resonating Stories will immerse people in the sounds of recorded text that they will be invited to process themselves, in real-time. Conference attendees will build the project during the conference by recording their own stories, sharing experiences and successes from their own communities around the state, which will be incorporated into the installation. The project will thus reflect and refract, in colorful sound, ideas and concepts that revitalize, beautify, build, and connect with people from around the state.
About the Artists-in-Residence:
Composer Jeff Herriott creates immersive sonic experiences that combine acoustic sounds with delicate, carefully sculpted electronic textures. His work, which includes a range of concert music, film scores, installations, video art, popular music, and improvisational electronics, has been described as “colorful…darkly atmospheric” (New York Times), “shimmering… otherworldly” (Chicago Tribune), and “incredibly soft, beautiful, and delicate” (Computer Music Journal). He is active as a collaborator in a range of musical styles, including with my sleepy rock/ ambient project Bell Monks; with the heavy metal band Realmbuilder; with the noise duo Mindscrubber; with synth-duo Binary Reptile; as a laptop composer/ improviser with Skewed and Such and Sonict; and as co-composer with S. Craig Zahler for the music and songs in his films, Bone Tomahawk, Brawl In Cell Block 99, and Dragged Across Concrete.
Nick Hwang is a composer, sound artist, software, and game developer with a diverse and impressive career spanning multiple disciplines. Nick’s music has been described as ‘evocative’ and ‘emotional yet cerebral.’ He holds a Ph.D. in Music Composition focusing on Experimental Music and Digital Media and a Master’s Degree from Louisiana State University. Nick earned his Bachelor of Arts in Music Composition and Theory from the University of Florida. His creative works, which include music compositions, interactive installations, electronic music, and networked music performances, have been performed and exhibited worldwide, including at the Edinburgh Fringe, Federal Hall in New York, Ars Electronica Festival, International Society for Electronic Art, and the International Computer Music Conference.
Create Wisconsin, the state’s community cultural development organization, is presenting the Artists-in-Residence in partnership with the League. Contact Create Wisconsin at 608 255 8316 | info@createwisconsin.org with questions.
