Current Members
Randy H.Y. Yau
Randy H.Y. Yau is a curator and sound artist who has been active
in the sonic arts since 1993. He has produced multiple solo and
collaborative audio works which have been distributed internationally.
He has also performed extensively throughout the United States,
Europe, Japan, Peru, Australia, Taiwan and China. Yau founded and
co-curates Activating the Medium, an annual sonic arts festival
which traveled through Universities, museums and alternative art
spaces across California including The San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art. He also founded Auscultare Research, a record label releasing
sound works from artists all over the world. He has conducted radio
programs focused on sound art for over 13 years and continues to
broadcast on KPFA's "No Other Radio Network." Since 1999,
Yau has served as Curatorial Director of 23five Incorporated and
currently serves as the organization's Executive Director. Yau holds
a Bachelor of Science in Applied Art and Design from California
Polytechnic State University.
www.23five.org/rhy
Jim Haynes
Jim Haynes is an artist who has exhibited and performed internationally,
with noted exhibitions at Jack Straw Productions (Seattle), Diapason
(New York), and The Exploratorium (San Francisco). He has participated
in a number of fruitful colloborations with Loren Chasse, Keith
Evans, Steven Stapleton, and M.S. Waldron. Since December 2001,
Haynes has been a pivotal member of 23five serving as the Editorial
Director and distribution manager for 23five's published works.
Through 23five, Haynes has co-curated the 2003 San Francisco Electronic
Music Festival, the 2007 Activating the Medium Festival at the Exploratorium,
and the 2008 Activating the Medium festival. Furthermore, he has
written extensively on sound art, noise culture, minimalism, and
general music experimentation for The Wire, The San Francisco Bay
Guardian, The Sound Projector, Metro Pulse, and Chunklet. Haynes
attained his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute and his
B.A. from Oberlin College.
www.helenscarsdale.com/haynes
Loren Chasse
Loren Chasse is very active in Jewelled Antler, a loosely knit collective
of musicians that speak in the tongues of pastorally psychedelic
improvisations. He also is a credentialed instructor within the
San Francisco school district, where he teaches his students in
the art of imaginative listening within the core curriculum. Since
2000, Loren has served as 23five's Director of Education. He received
his M.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Teaching Credential
from San Francisco State.
www.23five.org/lchasse
Aaron Ximm
Aaron Ximm is a San-Francisco-based field recordist and sound artist.
He is best known for his composition, installation, and performance
work as Quiet American, much of which can be found at www.quietamerican.org.
From 2001 to 2005, Aaron curated and hosted the Field Effects concert
series, which, like his own work, sought to showcase the quiet,
fragile, and lovely side of sound art, particularly that working
with found sound and field recordings. Along with his wife Bronwyn,
Aaron produces the occasionally popular One Minute Vacation podcast.
www.quietamerican.org
www.oneminutevacation.org
Maria Jenerik
Maria Jenerik serves as 23five's resident Treasurer and Secretary.
Jenerik serves as Secratary and Board Member for The Creative Arts
Charter Schools where she also teaches. Previously Maria Jenerik
was the manager of the traffic and continuity department for four
major market radio stations in San Francisco.
Previous Members
Scot Jenerik, Former Executive Director and Co-founder
Mark C. Jackman, Co-founder
Kim Cascone
Tim Pozar
Larnie Fox
Patricia Ravarra
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