SONIC FUTURES: Magic Circle: Video Game Soundscape Design

ARTIST TALK: 6:00 – 6:45

BREAK: 6:45 – 7:00

MUSIC WORKSHOP: 7:00 – 8:00

Engage in a dynamic soundscape workshop at MOCAD, presented in collaboration with Detroit’s Underground Music Academy. Led by exhibiting artists Clare Gatto and Kara Gut, this interactive session allows participants to create soundscapes alongside the artists, with a special focus on video game soundtrack design led by local musician and educator Andy Jarema. Attendees will explore the fundamentals of electronic music and learn to craft immersive soundscapes that enhance both visual art and interactive gaming experiences.

ANDY JAREMA is a music educator, composer, and trumpet player based in Clawson, MI.  He holds degrees from Michigan State University (B.A. Music Education/Jazz Studies Minor) and Wayne State University (M.M. Music Composition). He has a decade of music teaching experience in the public schools, including four years as a middle school band director in Howell, Michigan and four years as a K-6 general music/band teacher in Warren, Michigan. He also served as a virtual teaching artist for the Great Bend Center for Music (Washington state) developing new curriculum to teach Video Game Music, Digital Audio Production, Family Ukulele, and other virtual music courses. As a composer, he has been commissioned by the Detroit Composers Project (2018), nominated for the Detroit Music Awards (2021), and featured in the Earth Day Art Model Telematic Festival (2020-22). Andy received a Fund For Teachers fellowship in 2016 to explore the musical culture of Route 66 and has also served as an Artist-in-Residence through the National Park Service (Great Smoky Mountains in 2018 and Hawai’i Volcanoes in 2019).

CLARE GATTO and KARA GÜT are image-based digital media artists who have collaborated and shown work together over the past 10+ years alongside their independent practices. They attended Ohio State University and Cranbrook Academy of Art. Güt’s work investigates the shape of human intimacy formed by internet lifestyles and constructed detachment from reality, while Gatto uses 3D rendering software to create and explore simulated bodies, egg sacs, and interstitial space. They live and work in Cleveland, OH, and Detroit, MI, respectively. In February of 2024, Gatto and Güt were artists-in-residence at The Institute for Electronic Arts at Alfred University. They both exhibited nationally and internationally as collaborators and independent artists. Güt is a 2023 Knight Art + Tech Fellow, and Gatto is a recipient of Culture Sources’ 2023 Creators of Culture and Flourish Fund.