Rockfall (2024)
Radio mix of a work created during a residency at Zion National Park in Utah.…
ArtEcho (2021)
A commissioned prototype for Cooper Hewitt Interaction Lab's Activating Smithsonian Access. ArtEcho explores a selection of the museum's artifacts through sound.
Green screen & other exercises
This ongoing series of experiments on a green screen work surface combine sound improvisation with post processed video images. These sketches are a chance to "limber up" to let ideas happen and then to contextualize them visually after the fact.
You’re gonna be ready to burn it as soon as you tape it (2020)
This audio work was created for the project "The Dream Had Me" for Earlid, Curated by Joan Schuman. It recontextualizes unearthed minidisc recordings I created between 1999 and 2007. A revised audio biography and sonic reverie.
Earth’s Centre by Sterling Basement (2020)
Audio work created for Project Inferno, a celebration of the 700th Anniversary of Dante's Inferno presented at Cities & Memory. It explores the idea of gravity and as Dante and Virgil get close to Lucifer at the center of the planet, strange things begin to happen.
The Painlevé Exercises
This was a pandemic activity in which I created soundtracks for the remarkable films of Jean Painlevé. When brain-activity is challenged, let the images suggest the sounds.
Frozen Words at Local Project Art Space (2020)
Multi-channel sound installation. Immersive sound and glass objects forge an unlikely connection between an absurd work of 16th century literature, the ancient pseudo-science of alchemy, and political hate speech.
The Vein Flows below (2018)
Audio work created for the online project Earlid, curated by Joan Schuman that features recordings captured at the Marble House Project in Dorset Vermont, the site of an abandoned marble quarry in a village of abandoned marble quarries.
Silicate Soundscapes – with Ben Wright (2018)
Silicate Soundscapes co-taught with Ben Wright UrbanGlass Brooklyn, NY A one-week intensive class co-taught at…
2009 Squeak, tick-tick, crash! Storm Cow
Just added from the archives! a 2009 kids workshop in which we worked together to recreate the sounds of a storm.
Stone Cold Groove (2017)
A series of related works created during a Family residency at Marble House Project in July 2017. The title alludes to the three-part structure of the work with each word of the tile acting as an organizing theme.
I am a Radio (2016)
This is a work created for the online sound journal EARLID that hosts a curated…
Lone Isla Craig
Track from the album Songs of the Highlands (Available on the Free Music Archive). The…
The Two Shades – 2005
This track was created for the Webbed Hand compilation Far Afield in 2005. The sound…
People’s Climate March Recording
Recording from 42nd Street and 6th Avenue. The People's Climate march 09-21-2014
John Roach on UBUWEB
Here's one track from a playlist from the collaborative project Simultaneous Translation that is available…
Drakes Estero – Field Recording
Edit of a hydrophone recording in Drakes Bay Estero in Point Reyes, CA. There is…
A Nice Stone Foundation
Audio from a cassette found in an estate sale in Monument Beach, MA. The tape…
Conversation at 2 west 13th Street (2014)
Conversation at 2 West 13th Street is an extension of a sound showcase hosted by…
Sterling Basement (Ongoing)
Sterling Basement Sterling Basement was born in 2002 when the musician and artist Jason Glasser…
The Dictionary Project (2004)
The Dictionary Project Collaborative sound composition "game" projects.johnroach.net/dictionary Dictionary is a computer-based collaborative compositional environment…
