Landon Caldwell
Landon Caldwell is a composer and multi-disciplinary artist in Indianapolis whose work examines environment, family, & class through the language of intuition and other hidden layers of reality. Through sound, words, color and other materials, his work creates environments that redirect attention to the present and open new realities through the minutiae of the everyday.Since 2016 he has co-operated Medium Sound, producing a number of the label's releases. From 2017 to 2020 he was a co-owner/operator of A-Space, a community-focused audio workspace. He has toured in the United States, Canada, and Europe and is regularly engaged with artists and musicians across the Midwest and beyond.His collaborative work expands into multi-disciplinary fields, working with film, visual arts, sculpture, poetry, dance, and more.
SELECT WORKS
| A House Is Alive With Sound | An immersive installation created with help from Rob Funkhouser that uses kinetic & interactive sculpture, video, painting, an 8 channel generative sound installation, and non-traditional scores to bring focus and awareness to the sounds in our immediate domestic environments | July & August 2023, Guichelaar Gallery, Indianapolis |
| Reverie Garden | Reverie Garden, made in collaboration with visual artist Jessica Dunn, is an immersive audio-visual dreamscape inspired by the natural world. Viewers are invited to explore THE LUME to discover delights for the senses. Dunn led the visual component, creating enchanting environments inspired by memories from her frequent hikes in Indiana parks. Combining painting and animation techniques, she developed numerous habitats showcasing native biodiversity from surreal perspectives. Caldwell composed the audio drawing on the sounds of nature, running them through a hypnagogic filter, and summoning a contemplative sonic environment. Reverie Garden provides a space where viewers can play, meditate and reflect. On display into 2024. | 2023, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields |
| Hidden World | A collaborative exhibition series focused on sound and its relation to ecology, community, and accessibility. Hidden World presents new works that directly engage listeners with their immediate environment. Hidden World has included pop-up exhibitions in collaboration with Kelly Cook, Morgan Robinson-Gay, Rob Funkhouser, Jessica Dunn, and April Knauber. This series was made possible by the Power Plant Grant program of Big Car Collaborative funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. The project received additional funding from the Puffin Foundation. | |
| Pantry Connection | A collaborative sound and space experience made with Nat Russell, inspired by some of his existing print and sculpture piece. Pantry Connection is an ambient commercial for an imaginary existential convenience store. Presented at Russell's HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS show. | Tube Factory, Indianapolis |
| Loom | An interactive and playable sonic environment inspired by the Jacquard Loom commissioned by the Indiana State Museum for Gallery One | Indiana State Museum |
| 91 Minutes of Ocean Music | This sound installation was created for the seventh annual Shitsurai exhibition at The Terminal Gallery, a Kyo-machiya townhouse in Kyoto, Japan. It was created in collaboration with the photographer Lane Diko for a site-specific installation in the underground bomb shelter space of the building. | The Terminal, Kyoto, Japan. 2021 |
| Unified Stream | A series of site-specific immersive compositions for walking in greenspaces. Using the freely-available platform ECHOES, which allows for the creation of GPS-driven, interactive soundscapes, the artist created site-specific soundtracks posing the entirety of several public parks as a dynamic and changing musical universe. | Garfield Park, Indianapolis & Ellenberger Park, Indianapolis |
| Sonic Potluck | An artist-in-residence program for Cat Head Press in collaboration with Rob Funkhouser. The residency explored community building through experimental composition. Through workshops, performances, installations, publications, and an exhibition the artists aimed to demystify the processes used in experimental music, create community, and encourage exploration and play. | Cathead Press, Indianapolis, November & December 2021 |
| Black River | Composition for video by Jan Staller | score, 2021 |
| THIS IS A ONE OF A KIND RECORDING OF GENERATIVE MUSIC | One of a kind tapes of music created using a generative synthesis engine controlling various synthesizers including self-programmed digital synthesizer, as well as FM, wave-table, and analog. This is a collection of sounds that have been featured in some installation work, as well as other recorded work. | tape, 2021 |
| PEACE PARK | Site specific composition for the Peace Park at the Paramount School of Excellence. The park was created by students and staff. The piece was commissioned by Keep Indianapolis Beautiful and the Arts Council of Indianapolis. | 2020, Brookside Neighborhood, Indianapolis |
| DEAR FRIEND | This film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to bring you back to the little pleasures of childhood. Filmed and in-camera edited in Super 8mm by Rocio Mesa with an original soundtrack by Landon Caldwell. | |
| FOUND IN A HOUSE | multimedia group performance incorporating music, film, and dance. | 2019, White Rabbit |
SERVICES
stereo and spatial mixing, original compositions & scores, album production, installations, and creative workshops & lessons
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