Meet this year’s crew of sound residency artists:

Shanti Lalita is an interdisciplinary artist who blends cello performance and spoken word poetry. Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Shanti draws inspiration from their queer, non-binary Afro-Caribbean identity and cultural heritage. Shanti uses sound improvisation and poetry to explore identity and diaspora. 

Phillip Laurent is a Haitian-American artist living and working in San Francisco. He works in multiple disciplines including music, visual art, and dramaturgy. Laurent approaches his practice as an inquiry into ethnogenesis and a mediation between identity as asserted by oneself and that which is observed by others.

Briana Marela is a Peruvian American composer, vocalist, and performing artist based out of Oakland, CA. Her recent music centers the voice, embodied technology through gesture and enhanced objects. Her gestural and lyrical song performances draw from elements of both experimental electronic music and vocal-driven pop music. 

Audium’s Sound & Space Residency Program is funded in part through a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.