Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.1.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Geneva Skeen ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://www.genevaskeen.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [Petra Cortright - Webcam still life with flowers: blue, green, and red](https://www.genevaskeen.com/pc-webcam-still-life/) - Original score for Petra Cortright's public art commission for Art on The Mart, Chicago (2019). https://artonthemart.com/art/petra-cortright - [Transformer](https://www.genevaskeen.com/transformer/) - [I can see a little further ahead...](https://www.genevaskeen.com/i-can-see-a-little-further-ahead/) - "I can see a little further ahead..." is a video essay, audio installation, and set of transferred images based on materials recorded in the Alps in 2022-23. What results is a daydream on inbetween-ness, becoming, the desire to leave one's body, and the experiences of love, loss, bewilderment, and longing that holds a spirit "in - [the mind is a tight / is a tight rope / is a fire](https://www.genevaskeen.com/the-mind-is-a-tight-is-a-tight-rope-is-a-fire/) - Aeolian harps are sounded only by wind, or rather, any fast-moving laminar air flow. They are ancient instruments, referenced in Biblical times and found globally. During the Romantic era, they experienced a resurgence and were thought to act as a metaphor for the human nervous system. Often made of wood or metal, they produce only - [Liz Glynn: The Fear Index](https://www.genevaskeen.com/liz-glynn-the-fear-index/) - Original sound design for Liz Glynn's The Fear Index (2018) at Frieze London. https://www.frieze.com/video/liz-glynn-frieze-live-2018 Based on interviews with professionals in the financial sector, Glynn’s interactive performance for Live at Frieze London 2018 explores volatility and risk. Dancers move in response to sales, data points and traffic at the fair, probing the commodification of uncertainty and - [Julien Creuzet:](https://www.genevaskeen.com/julien-creuzet/) - Original score commissioned by Julien Creuzet for a VR component of his solo show at Centre d'Art Neuchâtel (2019). - [Castle of Enchantment](https://www.genevaskeen.com/castle-of-enchantment/) - Original score for the film Castle of Enchantment (2025) by Weston Lyon & Karolina Lavergne Written & Directed by Weston Lyon & Karolina LavergneCast – Sterling Wells, Joyce SindelProducer – Jennifer HaareCo-Producer – Bryan Munroe SimpsonDirector of Photography – Walter DiazEditors – Weston Lyon, Bryan Munroe SimpsonComposer – Geneva SkeenCasting – Mike Page, CSA & - [Alex Schweder: The Third Thing & His Dilution](https://www.genevaskeen.com/alex-schweder-the-third-thing-his-dilution/) - Sound design for Alex Schweder's animate sculpture His Dilution in The Third Thing Fur, inflatables, sonic wire, mirror, electronics. 2023. - [Felipe Meres: Global Illumination](https://www.genevaskeen.com/felipe-meres-global-illumination/) - Original score composed for Felipe Meres's Global Illumination, first debuted at the Ecuador Biennial 2018. View the work here: https://www.felipemeres.com/works/globalIllumination Global Illumination, 2018HD video, sound, 8 minutes - [Channels (LDM #1 for Pittsburgh and Los Angeles)](https://www.genevaskeen.com/channels-ldm-1-for-pittsburgh-and-los-angeles/) - Channels (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles) is a technical cover-song to artist and composer Maryanne Amacher's City Links series, adapted for a high-speed interconnected world of streaming, liveness, and hybridity. This project, inspired by early iterations of City Links, brings together live audio from multiple remote sites into a new sonic situation. In (#1 Pittsburgh/Los Angeles) the - [Universal Building Supply](https://www.genevaskeen.com/universal-building-supply/) - "Innovative Scaffolding, Hoisting, Protection & Access Solutions for Major Construction Projects since 1931." Recorded in Red Hook, NY in June and July of 2021, during my final sprint of graduate school. Alongside the exhibition center was a large drainage ditch which, most of the summer, was filled with floodwater and frogs. One of these stormy - [Desire Paths](https://www.genevaskeen.com/desire-paths/) - Desire Paths is a work created for an institutional building. Two subwoofers playing two different low-frequency sine tones are positioned specifically in a large high-ceilinged room constructed with concrete, drywall, steel, glass, and soundproofing panels. Four wall monitors, one in each corner play two different high-frequency sine tones. Poles extend mark an open path through - [Nasturtium - Please Us](https://www.genevaskeen.com/nasturtium-please-us/) - We met right as the pandemic began. On our first meeting, our chatter circled around Sade, Yellow Eyes (and then, Yellow Swans), Xasthur, Boys II Men. Soon after, we began casually swapping sketches of compositions originally intended for solo projects, but this quickly became a game of remixing each others’ stems and building a sound - [The Clap of the Fading-Out Sound of Your Shoes](https://www.genevaskeen.com/the-clap-of-the-fading-out-sound-of-your-shoes/) - This piece is composed of recordings throughout a city on pause, though not silent, during the early months of 2021. Roughly hewn around the edges, the track acts as a concrete mixer for the industrial materials of Los Angeles and the composer's resonating, listening body within it. Following Touch: Isolation which covered the first lockdown - [Turning of the Day](https://www.genevaskeen.com/turning-of-the-day/) - Turning of the Day is a challenging longform work in two parts, meant to be listened to in full, but at half-attention. Skeen recycles snippets of ambient sound from her household environment, from found cassettes, and scraps from the studio heap to assemble an aural body processing its own stuckness. Written for interstitial time, written for - [Double Bind](https://www.genevaskeen.com/double-bind/) - I wrote this album over the past year––a bleak but transformative period of time. This work became an extraverbal expression of my interior experience. With that in mind, I decided not to write about it myself. Instead, I asked my dear friend to reflect on her listening of the record. Poet Aristilde Kirby writes: Flower - [The Saffron Green](https://www.genevaskeen.com/the-saffron-green/) - A Space Opera in three movements written for voice, walkie talkie, megaphone, and radio composed by Geneva Skeen and Mathew Timmons (radio score by Garrick Hogg, Andrew Lessman and Max Mayer). Employing a minimal modular score The Saffron Green brings together multiple analog technologies to explore the concept of both an outer space opera and - [Dark Speech](https://www.genevaskeen.com/dark-speech/) - “I wanted you to discover everything here and if at times you understand my meaning but not my words or syllables, I have revealed everything to you.” - Michael Sendivogius Dark Speech was conceived of in October 2014, and has developed over time to include recordings from several geographical locations marked by intense transformation — - [A Parallel Array Of Horses](https://www.genevaskeen.com/a-parallel-array-of-horses/) - As I’ve tried to understand what is happening now without judgement––a collapse of systems, boundaries, and symbols that crumble faster with each forcible attempt to reinstate them––I am finding equal failure in streamlined, singular methodologies for both comprehension and composition. Outside, reason and rationale wane in heft and clarity. Representation in a world that refuses - [DREAM STATE](https://www.genevaskeen.com/dream-state/) - DREAM STATE (RECURRING) - 2018 Remix DREAM STATE (THE ROOM) - 2016 Live recording DREAM STATE was first composed and performed in residency at LAND AND SEA in Oakland, CA, November 2016. My original intention when accepting the residency had been to make an audiovisual piece in response to Agnes Varda’s Les Glaneurs et la Glaneuse––her - [Touch: Isolation](https://www.genevaskeen.com/touch-isolation/) - 28 new and exclusive tracks recorded by Touch artists, with the final track delivered on 25th May 2020. A photographic counterpoint, the view from Hampstead Heath during the London lockdown. Touch: Isolation is a subscription project that evolved over April and May 2020. Click here to subscribe. A time to support independent music while it still exists! - [Arrangement for Mixed Memos](https://www.genevaskeen.com/arrangement-for-mixed-memos/) - [(Untitled) El Sereno Evening](https://www.genevaskeen.com/untitled-el-sereno-evening/) - Tucked into the base of a north-facing hillside in the Los Angeles neighborhood of El Sereno, this audio composition was comprised of field recordings from the site and surrounding block, processed and distilled through digital effects. Framing the sound, the installation places the listener in the actual location of the original recording, provoking an internal - [Non Sequence](https://www.genevaskeen.com/nonsequence/) - Non Sequence documents opposite banks of the Hudson River in a double-frame audio-video installation. A work that adapts to various physical frameworks, Non Sequence investigates the interdependence between visual and auditory experience. Each component loops in its own duration, all different from each other, creating a slow but infinitely permutational space. In the video channels, - [multnomah_fall](https://www.genevaskeen.com/multnomah_fall/) - [glaciers and the devaluation of real time](https://www.genevaskeen.com/glaciers-and-the-devaluation-of-real-time/) - composed and recorded in los angeles, ca field recordings taken in elyrian canyon park, los angeles and from chicago police dashcam footage - [untitled (field variations) live](https://www.genevaskeen.com/untitled-field-variations-live/) - performed and recorded from the live room 1/14/16 at VOLUME: South of Sunset Los Angeles scored for Johanna Breiding's video 'Swarm' organized by Robert Crouch www.volume.la/events/johanna-breiding-geneva-skeen-field-variations/ - [Touch Live in California](https://www.genevaskeen.com/touch-live-in-california/) - Simon Scott – Live at The Battery, San Francisco [19:09] Desk recording – 15th May 2019 by Mike Harding. Mastered by SPS Mastering. Zachary Paul – Live at Land and Sea, Oakland [14:24] Desk recording – 16th May 2019 by Mike Harding. Mastered (mono) by Stephan Mathieu. Geneva Skeen – Live at Zebulon, Los Angeles - [Live at Human Resources](https://www.genevaskeen.com/live-at-human-resources/) - Garek Druss - Live at Human Resources Jake Muir - Live at Human Resources Robert Crouch - Live at Human Resources Zachary Paul - Live at Human Resources The Ensemble - Tribute (to Jóhann Jóhannsson) Jasmin Blasco - Live at Human Resources Geneva Skeen - Live at Human Resources Yann Novak - Live at Human ## Pages - [Geneva Skeen](https://www.genevaskeen.com/) - Geneva Skeen is an artist and composer based in Pittsburgh, PA. - [News](https://www.genevaskeen.com/news/) - Upcoming I have a solo exhibition titled 'I can see a little further ahead' on view at Night Club gallery in Minneapolis/St.Paul, Minnesota through April 28, 2024. Please visit or make an appointment via their website nightclub.gallery 08.12.21 So much news to share. Wow. Hope you are safe and healthy. I'm thrilled to announce that - [About](https://www.genevaskeen.com/about/) - Bio Geneva Skeen is an artist and composer. Influenced by écriture féminine, alchemical metaphors, and a range of musical traditions ranging from holy mysticism to industrial, her recordings, performances, publications, and installations focus on site-specific studies as a means to highlight interdependencies between perception, attention, and internal states. 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