Marielle V Jakobsons creates immersive compositions for synthesizers and expressive strings — minimal in structure, deeply felt in presence. Her latest album The Patterns Lost to Air, out on Thrill Jockey Records, has been called “spare, but not simple” and “one of the finest examples of contemporary ambient music in 2026.”
David Wesley Golightly (Hair and Space Museum, Midday Veil) is a pianist, synthesist, and composer based in Oakland. With his solo piano album Seven Songs for Solo Piano, he offers simple, drifting, and meditative pieces to encourage deep listening and sympathetic resonance.
Marcus Fischer is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Oregon. He is a first-generation American artist that exolores the possibilities of sound to exoress convey ideas and information. Through the creation and transformation of sound, rischer constructs immersive, layered compositions for live performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and handmade objects are characteristic of his installations, often paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial as the only artist from the Pacific Northwest region included in that installment. Fischer’s most recent solo exhibition “What Was Lost and What Remains” addressed themes of loss, generational trauma, and gun violence in the United States.
Marcus has recorded and performed nationally and internationally as a solo artist and in collaborations with artists including Taylor Dupree, Aki Onda, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laura Ortman, Stephen Vitiello, Calexico, Raven Chacon, and Eileen Myles. He has been honored as a Hallie Ford Fellow for the Visual Arts by The Ford Family Foundation and selected for residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation’s Rauschenberg Residency, MacDowell, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and Headlands Center For the Arts.
