Soft Noise Skillshare Series #11: Looping the Everyday (Part Two)

Looping The Everyday

This workshop presents sonic looping, with a focus on non-musical potentials of spatialized layered loops, asynchronous looping, short and extended duration loops, and found sound/speech sampling. It will begin with the artist’s demonstration of making loops on looping pedals, samplers, and DAW, followed by group exercises to create spatialized sound installations. Please bring a phone. Open to all skill-levels. (Max 12 people)

****At this time, Soft Noise Skillshare is open only to women, non-binary, and trans participants in an effort to encourage equity in sound and audio spaces. All levels welcome, no experience necessary.*****

August 2nd, 2025

4:30-6:30 PM

Hairpin Arts Center

*For access needs please e-mail softnoiseskillsharechi@gmail.com

**This project is partially supported by an Individual Artists Program grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events.**

About the Artist:

Maya Nguyen is a Vietnamese-Russian interdisciplinary artist with a focus on critical sound performance and diasporic making. She gathers speech fragments, urban recordings, body movements, migratory routes, sounds imitating nature sounds, and videos of daily encounters into open-ended works. Through ambiguity and interaction across borders, her works lay out unconventional research paths along sonic trails in the domestic sphere, colonial histories, migratory routes, and the relating between the human and the natural world. These works often take the shape of performative sound essays, installation, and video.

MN holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from The University of Chicago and an M.F.A in Sound from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has shown work with Vincom Center for Contemporary Art (Hanoi), Zentrum für Kunst und Urbanistik (Berlin), UCLA New Wight Gallery (Los Angeles), Manzi Art Space (Hanoi), World Forum For Acoustic Ecology 2023 (Florida), Internationales Digitalkunst Festival 2022 (Stuttgart), Terrain Biennial 2021 (Chicago), Watershed Art & Ecology (Chicago), Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics (Colorado), and elsewhere. She is currently based in Chicago, where she co-curates the Sound-Lab Series and works at the Poetry Foundation.