Performances by:

• James K
• somesurprises
• Carly Barton
• Casey Adams + Hannah Rice
• The OC34N
• Asa Nakagawa with dance accompaniment by aja
• August V.M.
• THC.XLR featuring Sketch Artist

Art installations by:

• Gia Valente + Max Washburn
• Kate Van Ness
• Jasmine Gervais
• Blazinspace

Workshops at Pipsqueak moderated by enereph:

• Huggy Pillow
• Copyright Linda Fox
  

James K

A version of James K was born. Comprised of bones, reactive metals and a larynx with freckled eyes that catalyzes that mix, she can now see through all the schemes. This is the truth. When she chews gum, it's not clear which one of her personas does it. Since their first release in 2013, describing them separately is grunt work as they switch places, cosplay each other and would most likely lull you into a lonesome dream. Together, they know how to produce, sound, film and edit. Thus, they are brought to the table, performing and DJing in clubs and theaters, along composers and children alike. Over this past year, she has performed in Japan, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico City, throughout Australia, the US, UK and Europe at festivals and venues such as Dekmantel, Sustain Release, Mutek, Lost Festival, Solstice, Dripping Festival, Nowadays, ICA London, Volksbuhne, National Sawdust, Miscellania, Phoenix Central Park, and Public Records. In recent years she has played support for pioneer Morton Subotnick's final run of live shows, shared the stage with James Ferraro, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Yves Tumor, Arushi Jain, and Priori, among many others.

𝒮𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓉𝒾𝓂𝑒𝓈 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒸𝒶𝓃'𝓉 𝒽𝑒𝒶𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓇𝒹𝓈......𝓈𝒾𝓃𝒸𝑒 𝒶𝓃𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒷𝑒𝓎𝑜𝓃𝒹 𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇𝓎𝓉𝒽𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓈𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓈 𝓉𝑜 𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒 𝓎𝑜𝓊 𝒶 𝒽𝒾𝓃𝓉......𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎 (𝒷𝓊𝓉 𝒾𝓉'𝓈 𝓅𝓇𝑒𝓉𝓉𝓎).

somesurprises

somesurprises is the Seattle based band led by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Natasha El-Sergany. What began as a bedroom project focused on spectral balladry and late-night exploration, somesurprises has since evolved into an enigmatic collaboration with synthesist and guitarist Josh Medina. Since 2017, the duo has created a unique blend of reverb drenched folk, motorik dream pop and drone rock. For their Ground Hum performance, the duo will be performing new work with video created by Paul Siple. 

Carly Barton

Carly Barton has spent the last decade plus immersed in Portland’s creative community as a composer, DJ, and visual artist. The bulk of their music catalog prioritizes world-building electronic music, dub, and contemporary piano composition, exploring and creating genre-bending scapes with a specialty in collage and controlled chaos. Most of Carly’s work is self-published: sheet music, concept EPs, Vidya World (an imagined 12-part game soundtrack), Anime Resource Center, OST, Subs Before Dubs, Carb's Bong Orchestra, and the occasional crossword, with additional releases/remixes with friends and labels near and far (MANIC!, Disposable Commodities, Blankstairs, secondnature, iideo, The Periphery, Coast2C, Bed of Roses).

Casey Adams + Hannah Rice

Hannah Rice & Casey Adams are a performance duo from Seattle, Washington centered on the question, does sound move the body, or body move sound?  Their work utilizes movement, sound and spatial practice to create site specific work that is grounded in environmental resonance and exploration. In performance they believe that sound, space and the presence of both audience and performer, are part of an embodied participation in place. One that confronts ideas of presence/absence, silence/noise and the eternal/external experiences of being.  They are looking forward to presenting their most recent experiments in installation for body-based performance at Ground Hum! 

The OC34N

Multi-instrumentalists Morgan Henderson (Past Lives, Fleet Foxes, Blood Brothers) & Joel Cuplin (Constant Lovers) bring their unique & melodic sounds to the stage to create beyond atmospheric music.

Asa Nakagawa

Featuring dance and movement from aja

We share the planet with people that desecrate our bodies and environment. Many have lost the ability to listen to messages from the universe, from other “living” and “non-living” beings. This deficiency is caused by our attachments, wrong perceptions, and delusions. Deep listening is a practice that allows us to reconnect with the divine. We are together in the ocean of suffering, and the ocean of joy. Oceanic photosynthesizing algae is responsible for up to 70% of oxygen production, while algal blooms, often caused by fertilizer runoff and other pollutants, are contributors to mass extinctions. Using synthesis and sound collage sourced from various hydrophone recordings, we will seek reconnection, listening to a collaboration between human people, animal people, and natural sounds. Perhaps we will understand our survival and well-being is contingent upon having reverence for life. We are entangled and dependent on each other.

aja

aja is an interdisciplinary artist who practices durational improvisational dance.

August V.M.

Augustina Moore aka August V. M. is a songwriter, composer, producer & DJ living and working in Seattle, Washington. Her sound world is at once the dewed resonances of her emerald island upbringing, a glitched breath of cybernetic residue, and dubbed-out homage to ambient pop. Sound-as-space that feels meticulously sculpted, yet only discovered beneath some humming molecular periphery. For her Ground Hum performance, August will be playing new music written for voice and electronics. 

THC.XLR featuring Sketch Artist

THC.XLR is a synthesis of the natural and electronic world. With Madi Levine (IVVY) on drum set/percussion and Erik Sanchez (formerly of Richie Dagger's Crime) on synth/sampler, the duo will often feature rotating guest musicians. Take a deep hit, and expect flavors of Jazz, Drone, Ambient/experimental and Dub.

Sketch Artist (saxophone, piano)

Sketch Artist creates frenetic, weirdo tracks and quiet, intense improvisations. From the chaos of late-night dancefloors to the unorthodox beauty of spontaneous sound, each Sketch Artist piece speaks in its own unpredictable voice.

Visual Art

Gia Valente + Max Washburn

Ground Hum organizers Max Washburn and Gia Valente team up to present a multi-dimensional kaleidoscope experience. Drawing viewers into a fluid, dreamlike world, their kaleidoscopes offer ever-shifting scenes of hypnotic, symmetrical patterns.

Kate Van Ness

I had this dream. Imagine a crowded room. Every single person in the room is a version of yourself. And there's a door into another packed room with more versions of yourself. And another door and another room and more selves and so on. And they are all simultaneously true, every version as much you as another. That was it. I'm always thinking about them.

Jasmine Gervais

Jasmine Gervais is a Seattle based slutty goofball who makes art about being a slutty goofball. She works in acrylic paint, found fabric, and trach, and draws on fantasy, sci-fi, and porn imagery. She will be presenting projected live drawing in the style of middle school notes margin doodles.

Blazinspace

Blazinspace (Gardenia Theroux) is a writer, director and VJ. They use light and digital projectors to enhance harmony and tell stories in an immersive space. Their visuals have been featured at the Pacific Science Center, Earshot Jazz Festival, Bumbershoot, Capitol Hill Block Party, Lusio, Arts-a-glow, Band in Seattle, at The Lodge and at over 300 hundred live events over the last 10 years.

Workshops

All workshops will be held at Pipsqueak Community Space from 1:00pm to 3:30pm

1:00pm - 2:00pm
Synth and Sensibility: Demystifying Live Electronic Music Performance
with Huggy Pillow

Live electronic music can feel like a mystery—what’s happening behind all the lights, knobs and buttons? 

In this workshop, hosted by Julian and Koji of Huggy Pillow, they offer a detailed behind-the-scenes look at their technical and creative processes. Through live music, storytelling, and open conversation, they’ll explore the role of gear and effects, their personal musical journeys, and how anyone—no matter their experience—can find their own sound.

Whether you're a musician, a fan, or just synth-curious, you’re invited to listen, learn, and maybe even see electronic music in a whole new way.

2:00pm - 2:30pm
Synth Playground
with Enereph

2:30pm - 3:30pm
The metaphysical act of making music
with Copyright Linda Fox 

Richard James sampling Gene Wilder playing Willy Wonka said it best when they said: “We are the music makers and we are the dreamers of dreams.” Building upon this cryptic statement I‘d like to address the metaphysical dimension of music production. In particular, I’m interested in that strange phenomenon known as “the si_nal from outside”, which many specialists now believe to be a hyperspatial message coming from The Eternal Realm. This fact leads the average music enthusiast to ask the following three questions:

1. How much of contemporary music production can be attributed to contact with “the si_nal from outside” and how much of it is simply generated by industry standards?
2. Does a society made up of people with shortened attention spans risk losing touch with “the si_nal from outside” and thus lapsing into an ersatz existence? What role does “gnoise” play in the production of music that is capable of opening portals between an ersatz existence and The Eternal Realm?

These three questions which bubble up naturally inside of any philosophically engaged music enthusiast will, once answered definitively, resolve any concerns surrounding the imminent threat of AI-generated music.

Merch

Aashish Gadani

Aashish Gadani (b. 1991) is a Brooklyn based artist working primarily in video, sculpture, and textiles, and is the founder of the apparel brand Fish Encyclopedia. His work has been exhibited at Dunkunsthalle, New Uncanny, Hyacinth, Deli Grocery, 205 Hudson Gallery, Sara’s, Blade Study, Mutek NEXUS and Corridor Festival. He’s currently pursuing his MFA at Hunter College in NYC.

We will be selling embroidered balaclavas designed by Aashish at Ground Hum 2025.

KEMC

KEMC is a screenprinter and tattoo artist working in Seattle, WA. Her work explores digital detritus, geological process, conceptual architecture, and underground rave dynamics via home industrial manufacturing. She has been published by SEITH COMMUNITI and COLD CUBE PRESS.

We will be selling shirts designed by KEMC at Ground Hum.

Design by Simone Pierson

Sound by Alex Markey and Madi Levine

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