Skooby Laposky

Presenting: Sound designer and artist Skooby Laposky has shaped the personality for consumer robots, produced original music for couture runway shows, remixed music for major label artists and global brands, and added depth to documentary films with his field recordings and original scores. His most recent work has focused on biodata sonification music to enhance restorative experiences and to promote better environmental stewardship. For ArtTechPsyche, Laposky will discuss how biodata sonification has reshaped his understanding of storytelling as an artist and how non-human collaboration has unlocked new possibilities for his sonic explorations.

Skooby Laposky is a sound designer and artist based in Cambridge, MA and Hudson, NY. Through the use of biodata sonification, acoustic ecology and deep listening techniques, Laposky creates generative real-time sound installations, musical recordings, and live performances based on the dynamics of ecosystems that are often hidden or unconsidered.

Recent work includes the public art project Hidden Life Radio and his ongoing site-specific project, Palm Reading, with LA-based guitarist Charles Copley. Palm Reading’s debut location release was Malibu: Point Mugu on the Myndstream wellness music label. Their latest location release is a collection of compositions recorded in Joshua Tree National Park. Upcoming location releases include Walden Pond and oases in Palestine and Israel. Hidden Life Radio was awarded NYFA’s Tomorrowlands Project Award in 2022 and broadcast in 2023 from New York’s Hudson Valley. Laposky is currently a Luminary at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.