artistic collaborations

jimmy peggie collaborates with a variety of artists from around the world

Video art and sound collaboration with London based artist Egle Saka

Album and film collaboration with England artist British Sports Car

Video art collaboration with Berlin based artist Karo Goldt

Stills are from video art pieces - Vanitas & Ever Now

Art piece sound/painting collaboration with Santa Fe based artist Christine Cassano

More information via The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts

Interview with Christine Cassano

'Experimental Arizona' film - a co-production with London based art space Iklectik (UK) curated by jimmy peggie

More information and interview with jimmy peggie from Mark Brodie at KJZZ Radio Phoenix

More information via Art Rabbit

More information via Phoenix New Times

Arizona artists featured on the 'Experimental Arizona' film curated by jimmy peggie with Iklectik Arts UK

pincushioned

pincushioned is a live interactive performance duo from Phoenix featuring Barry Moon (BAZ) and Doug Nottingham (DUG). Since 2007 they have been seeking to reexamine performance by combining emerging and anachronistic technologies to create improvised performances of non-linear sound and visuals. 

Ryan Wade Ruehlen 

Ryan Wade Ruehlen melts feral actions and archives into blobs of light using an array of objects and recording processes. Ruehlen practices a life exploded by anarchism and deep listening.  

Josh Kasselman & Seth Kasselman 

Josh and Seth Kasselman are brothers living in Phoenix, Arizona. The two of them have worked on music endeavors for years and, more recently, have collaborated on Josh’s film works with Seth providing musical accompaniment. 

Butoh Sonics 

The concept of blending post-Butoh body movement with ritual art noise was relatively new to the Phoenix, Arizona art scene when Butoh Sonics first started in 2015. Butoh ritualist Eric Hodgins and pioneer sound artist Vic VOID initiated the collaboration with Steve Guardino and Parker Weston joined them a year later. 

Windy Boijen

Windy Boijen is a musical performer using traditional instruments to make experimental improvised sound pieces. Blending percussion, voice, and stringed instruments together in new ways with various preparations and extended technique.    

Gabriella Isaac 

Gabriella Isaac is an electronic musician from Tempe, Arizona. 

Steev Hise 

Steev Hise is a human being, video artist, musician, software developer, coffee roaster, and parent, among other things that contribute to his identity. He lives in Tucson, Arizona.  

Jacob Adler 

Jacob Adler is a composer, teacher, and performer in Phoenix, Arizona. 

Bryn Corbett 

Bryn Corbett - nostalgist, dilettante – interested in the long now but willing to explore the short now. 

Jeph Jerman 

Jeph Jerman’s formative years were spent in various anonymous bar bands while simultaneously developing his own primitive music. he swam with the ’80’s cassette purveyors and formed the bands City Of Worms, Big Joey and Blowhole. these days he wanders the desert looking for sonic opportunity. 

James Fella 

James Fella is an artist and musician from Phoenix, AZ, primarily working in the realms of eleco-acoustic and (tape) collage. He also is the primary member of the band, Soft Shoulder. While performing and releasing records, CDs, cassettes, lathe cut items and xerox prints and booklets for over 20 years, he has also operated the record label and mail-order, Gilgongo Records, since 2004. 

Owen Davis 

Owen Davis is a composer, percussionist, improviser, noise artist, educator, and curator based in Flagstaff, AZ where he runs the Interference Series.  

Kristen Miologos 

Kristen Miologos is a Phoenix-based artist who seeks out the emotional liminal space of her hyphenated Greek-American identity through the production of objects, performance, and sound. She holds an MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art and a BFA in Fibers from Arizona State University. Kristen has performed durational sound pieces nationally including Phoenix Art Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, and Angels Gate Cultural Center in Los Angeles.  

Jimmy Peggie  

Textural and abstracted soundscapes along with static and moving images - observations on shared vibrations / frequencies and the transient nature of all things.  

Lauren Sarah Hayes 

Lauren Sarah Hayes is a Scottish improviser and sound artist. Her music is a mix of experimental pop/live electronics/techno/noise/free improvisation and has been described as ‘voracious’ and ‘exhilarating’. She is a sculptress of sound, manipulating, remixing, and bending voice, drum machines, analogue synths and self-built software, live and physically.  

Kendra Sollars 

Kendra Sollars is a multidisciplinary artist native to Arizona whose practice combines video projection, performance, and large-scale installation. With an extensive background as a competitive Artistic Swimmer, Sollars choreographs digital video projections, often using her own physical form filmed underwater, to investigate the interconnected world. The relationships between humans, nonhuman animals, plant species, and the natural landscape are brought to the fore in her ecologically-informed works.  

Keith Kelly 

Keith Kelly is an improviser, composer, and educator who plays saxophone, flute, and clarinet in a variety jazz and experimental groups.  His recordings can be found on Edgetone Records, Castor & Pollux, and his own label – EX(P)HX. 

Jordan Tompkins 

Jordan Tompkins is a multi-instrumentalist (drums, guitar, piano, bass, vocals, banjo, kazoo, u-plex, loopers) and visual artist. 

Christine Cassano 

Christine Cassano is an intermedia artist living and working in Arizona and exhibits regionally, nationally and internationally. Her work explores connection, accumulation and convergence as metaphor within our new, hyper-connected era. She gains this inspiration and understanding by investigating recursive interconnections within our biological, ecological, technological and cosmological systems. 

Shomit Barua 

Shomit Barua is a Bengali-American intermedia artist specializing in ecoacoustics, interaction design, and emergent narratives. His work is rooted in poetry and architecture, and reflects the shared tenets of contained space, economy of materials, and movement that is both physical and emotional. 

Vic VOID 

A musician and mixed media artist, performing and exhibiting throughout Arizona and S. California. Art pieces made of found objects are transformed into sound sculptures as guitars are artfully deconstructed. In the pursuit of experimental video, Vic seeks to bridge the gap between proton and photon. 

John Melillo 

Algae & Tentacles is the sound work of writer and performer John Melillo: voice, noise, poetry, electronics, occasional songs. 

Transcript - Jimmy Peggie Interviewed about Experimental Arizona by KJZZ Public Radio 

A movie premiering this afternoon aims to highlight Arizona's art scene, specifically its experimental art scene. Experimental Arizona goes live today and includes 20 Arizona-based artists. The film was commissioned by the UK-based art collective Iklectik, which asked Scottsdale-based sound artist Jimmy Peggie to curate and put it together. Peggie joins me to talk more about the project, and Jimmy, let me ask you first off, how do you define experimental art? 

"Well, experimental art, it explores different art processes and techniques and combinations. And experimental artists may invent or discover new ways or new ways of expressing themselves through experimentation. In many cases, there's no fixed roadmap about how to do things, so they have to find their own way."

Yeah, I guess kind of the nature of experimental is you can't follow what somebody else has done before, right? 

"Exactly, yeah. You may be influenced by other people, but often the case is that you take that influence and you look for new ways of expanding your own work." 

So what is Arizona's experimental arts community like? Like, are there a lot of people here doing this? 

"Well, yes. I mean, we have world-class experimental artists. artists in many different fields here, including performance art, sound, video, installation art. And my attempt was to sort of increase exposure and get the work about them more. And I think this film shows the wide variety of work being produced at this time."

How did you go about trying to find the artists that you wanted to include in the film and then sort of narrow it down to the ones that would make the final cut? 

"Well, I have worked with a lot of these individual artists in different ways through performing, through discussions, through research, different things. And I basically contacted people and asked if they were interested. And I was... amazed at the response I got, which was great."

You were surprised that people wanted to be in a movie? 

"Well, you know, sometimes people can maybe be flaky, but I was happy with the response." 

So for people who watch this movie, what do they learn? What do you hope they take away from it? 

"Well, I I would like people to find interest in the artists that are out there in Arizona. The amazing thing for me was the wide variety of responses I got from people. I asked them basically to produce a five minute piece in whatever realm they wanted. And so when they all came in, I was like, wow, there's a great variety of different things here. And because, you know, like they're five minute pieces, then, you know, people can watch it. And if they don't like one piece, but they can hang on for the next piece and explore the different options. Um, and I just, I think it's raising awareness of, um, Arizona artists." 

So we should point out that you are one of the artists in the film, which makes sense. You made the film, you should be in it. Um, I'm curious, given the way that the world has been, especially in the arts world over the last year, um, How are you doing? 

"Well, a lot of this has been done online for the past year. People have moved in new ways. This film was co-produced by Iklectik, which is based in London, in the UK. And their response to the pandemic was to open an online creative platform focusing on art experimentation. And they... reached out to me to, to curate this event." 

Have you noticed that your art has changed over the last year? Like, have you been doing things that are in response to the pandemic or anything else that's been going on for the last 12 plus months? 

"Yes. Apart from going insane and living very quietly and working in my studio. Absolutely. You, you, Because the isolation, it makes you explore things more in your head and you try out different things. It's not a matter of getting out there. It's a matter of looking at your internal self and really re-evaluating what you're doing and how you're doing things. That's what I found most interesting about the pandemic."

How has the sound of your art changed over the last year as you've been doing some of this reflection and being in this kind of isolation? 

"Well, the type of work that I do is very introspective. I work with quiet sounds. I work with location, going out and recording in different places, and then bring it back to my sound lab studio and work on things there. So in many ways, I look for smaller things, and probably because of the pandemic, I've I've gone even into more localized small areas to look at."

So you were still able to go out and find sounds. I would imagine you just had to avoid places that had lots of other people. 

"Oh, yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you go out into nature, out into the desert, I did a record in a CD last year called Ghost Towns of Arizona. So that meant that I went out visited many ghost towns around the state. And often these places are pretty deserted." 

All right. That is Jimmy Peggie, a sound artist based in Scottsdale. He's also the person behind the film Experimental Arizona. It goes live at 1230 this afternoon. Jimmy, nice to talk to you. Good luck with the film. 

"Thank you. Thank you very much, Mark. Appreciate it!" 

jimmy peggie films -  part of the International Stories & Desert Stories performance by Corpora Aliena at Iklectik, London

Corpora Aliena is an ongoing series of experimental music concerts and events held at IKLECTIK, a London-based art and music venue. These events, organized by Corpora Aliena, feature artists working with diverse forms of digital and analogue music, exploring themes such as digital connectivity, artificial intelligence, and collective intelligence through various experimental performances.

'Cries from the Deep' featured on Cities and Memory Castle Geyser, Yellowstone

Collaboration with Anna Marti Suberana featured on Black Ops show - Tak Tent Radio

Collaboration with Angelo Hart on Wind and Whispers

Angelo Hart - Storytellers album review

Sound Art Arizona is a collective that engages with sound as an artistic medium, emphasizing the integration of music and community. Formed by artists Jimmy Peggie and others, the collective hosts monthly meetings where members can collaborate and share their work. They also produce and distribute sound work, showcasing various performances and recordings from local artists on platforms like SoundCloud and Youtube.