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A soloist musician, composer and vibrant collaborator, Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) creates across multiple platforms, including recorded albums, live performances, and filmic and artistic soundtracks. She has collaborated with artists such as Tony Conrad, Jock Soto, Raven Chacon, Nanobah Becker, Okkyung Lee, Martin Bisi, Jeffrey Gibson, Caroline Monnet, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Martha Colburn, New Red Order, and as part of the trio, In Defense of Memory. An inquisitive and exquisite violinist, Ortman is versed in Apache violin, piano, electric guitar, keyboards, and amplified violin, and often sings through a megaphone. She is a producer of capacious field recordings. Ortman has performed at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum and The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, MASS MoCA, MCA Chicago, REWIRE Festival at the Hague, The New Museum, imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival, The Toronto Biennial, and the Centre Pompidou, Paris, among countless established and DIY venues in the US, Canada, and Europe. In 2008, She founded the Coast Orchestra, an all-Native American orchestral ensemble that performed a live soundtrack to Edward Curtis’s film In the Land of the Head Hunters (1914), the first silent feature film to star an all-Native American cast.

Victoria Keddie is an artist working with sound beyond structured language, exploring the instability of communication through error, interference, and the residual artifacts of transmission. Her work considers disruption, ambiguity, and noise as active sites of meaning-making, examining how language fractures and reconstitutes through technological mediation and sonic fragmentation.

MV Carbon is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work encompasses live performance, sound, film, sculpture, and multi-media installation. Her sound is vitalized by the immediate environment; addressing sonic and psychological feedback through poetry, music, and mechanics. Carbon is interested in assembling a fine blend of intensity and tranquility. Rhythm and emotion weave and unravel as dense orchestrations are formed, magnifying the ritual embedded within the human mechanism. Percussive backgrounds are created with hand made instruments as electric cello is processed through a meticulous chain of effects.  Chaotic moments of sonic trajectory are leveled with contrasting elements of pure tone. Structure is established then shifts, allowing sound to metamorphosize in space.