Wayfinding Objects on Lunch Break

Albert Ortega is most known for his 20 years of Acousmatic practice in Los Angeles having deep involvements across several experimental music scenes. His more recent work explores building augmented & virtual worlds for his sounds to play with as an alternate way of experiencing sound.
Prior to Covid, he taught an Immersive Sound Design class at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts informed not by standard film theory but by applied exhibit design practices and the practice of “object-oriented ontology” (a Graham Harman term) which advocates for giving equal agency to inanimate objects as humans—a great mindset for world building.