Cody Kauhl is a digital media artist that pairs found sound and video with the intimacy of the human voice. His work has been performed internationally in collaboration with organizations including the International Computer Music Conference and the Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium. He serves as Marketing Director for the Kansas City Electronic Music and Arts Alliance. Cody graduated in 2011 with a B.M. in Music Theory/Composition at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and received his M.M. in Music Composition at the University of Missouri – Kansas City in 2015.
Cody regularly collaborates with choreographers and visual, spoken word, and performing artists. He has acted as artist-in-residence at ArtsIceland, Denali National Park and Preserve, Charlotte Street Foundation, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, and Tallgrass Artist Residency. His work has been featured at the Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States, Florida State University Festival of New Music, Center of Cypriot Composers, MUSLAB, NACUSA, Sacramento State Festival of New American Music, Metanast, Hot Air Music Festival, Gallery MC, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, KCAI, Electronic Music Midwest, Bang! Festival, Noisefloor, Electroacoustic Barn Dance, Animation Block Party, GPRTEC, Kansas City Fringe Festival, and others.
As a composer, Cody has worked with a variety of ensembles including the PRISM Quartet, the Boston New Music Initiative, the Black House Collective, UMKC Musica Nova, SIUE Wind Ensemble, Concert Band, and Percussion Ensemble, and the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Donald A. Lentz Concert Band. He has studied under Kimberly Archer, Rome Prize winners James Mobberley and Paul Rudy, and Charles Ives Living Award winner Chen Yi.
As an electronic composer/digital media artist, I record and then delicately arrange inconspicuous or disregarded sound sources, producing an intimate human agency from otherwise lifeless objects. By doing so, I reinterpret the sound saturation of daily life as a liberating yet introverted experience. The resulting product often juxtaposes the delicate and visceral, the intricate and sparse, while maintaining an unabashed intimacy throughout. I conceive the development of these works as a linear transformation, much like an extended crossfade between two film scenes.
Another critical component of my art practice utilizes data-driven instruments. When preparing to create a new composition, I develop programs that read information retrieved by accelerometers, webcams, and infrared cameras in order to create expressive musical instruments or sound modifiers. By creating new methods of human computer interaction, I endeavor to perform with electronics with as much physical expressivity and audience interaction as any acoustic instrument.
Aurum
New York City Electronic Music Festival
Virtual
June 2021
Planes in Memory [Video: Cody Kauhl; Audio: David Witter]
KC PMF: Emergence of Post-Human Cartographies
La Esquina, 1000 W 25th St, Kansas City, MO
Saturday, 29 September 2018, 7:30pm
Salvo, Aurum, and 5 More Irrelevant Facts
National Association of Composers/USA 2018 National Conference
Gano Chapel at William Jewell College, E Mississippi St, Liberty, MO
Wednesday, 17 March 2018, 7pm
I Am Moving Through a Room [Installation]
Space Through Time: Evolution of KcEMA
La Esquina, 1000 W 25th St, Kansas City, MO
Wednesday, 8 November 2017 – Friday, 10 November 2017
40 minute set as duo group Catherinette [Cody Kauhl, Mikaela Sullivan]
Scapi Sessions presents Catherinette
Nitecap Coffee Bar, 1738 W 18th St, Chicago, IL
Tuesday, 25 July 2017, 7pm
45 minute set as duo group Mt. Aster [Cody Kauhl, Stacy Busch]
Charlotte Street Performing Arts Showcase
Paragraph Gallery, 23 E 12th St, Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 22 June 2017, 12pm
45 minute set as duo group Mt. Aster [Cody Kauhl, Stacy Busch]
Charlotte Street Open Studios
Town Pavilion 6th Floor, 1111 Main St, Kansas City, MO
Friday, 28 April 2017, 7pm
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media [Liz Pearse performing]
KcEMA presents: Liz Pearse
Westport Coffee House Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania Ave, Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 20 April 2017, 7:30pm
New work “Edge of Infinity” as duo group Mt. Aster [Cody Kauhl, Stacy Busch]
Soundwalk: Temporal Turn with KcEMA
Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi St, Lawrence, KS
Saturday, 18 February 2017, 2:00pm
30 minute set as duo group Mt. Aster [Cody Kauhl, Stacy Busch]
Listen Local Video Recording Session
Johnson County Library Central Library, 9875 W 87th St, Overland Park, KS
Saturday, 4 February 2017, 12:30pm
15 minute set as duo group Mt. Aster [Cody Kauhl, Stacy Busch]
No Divide Social Causes Benefit Concert
Berg Event Space, 1525 Grand Blvd, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 18 December 2016, 2:30pm
30 minute set as duo group Mt. Aster [Cody Kauhl, Stacy Busch]
Illumaphonic Performing Arts Showcase
La Esquina, 1000 W 25th St, Kansas City, MO
Saturday, 5 November 2016, 7:30pm
Unstable [Video: Cody Kauhl; Audio: Stacy Busch]
2016 Kansas City Digitalfile Salon Wall
H&R Block ARTSPACE, 16 E 43rd St, Kansas City, MO 64111
14 – 24 September 2016
Birds [Video: Cody Kauhl; Audio: Eli Hougland]
2016 Kansas City Digitalfile Salon Wall
H&R Block ARTSPACE, 16 E 43rd St, Kansas City, MO 64111
31 August – 10 September 2016
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media [Mikaela Sullivan performing]
Toronto International Electroacoustic Symposium (TIES)
Geary Lane, 360 Geary Avenue, Toronto, ON, Canada
Saturday, 13 August 2016, 3:30pm
30 minute set as duo group Catherinette [Cody Kauhl, Mikaela Sullivan]
Charlotte Street Foundation Studio Residency Performance Showcase
Oppenstein Park (12th & Walnut), Kansas City, MO
Friday, 22 July 2016, 7pm
Celestial Metamorphosis [Excerpts] [w/ audio by Eli Hougland]
Charlotte Street Open Studios
Town Pavilion 6th Floor, 1111 Main St, Kansas City, MO
Friday, 29 April 2016, 6-10pm
Rain
Sound System Takeover
The Beer Grotto, 303 S Ashley St, Ann Arbor, MI 48104
Saturday, 9 April 2016
Celestial Metamorphosis [collaboration w/ Ted King-Smith, Eli Hougland, et al.]
Art Sounds: Celestial Metamorphosis
Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Institute of Art, 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 9 February 2016, 7:30pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) Regional Conference 2015
Performing Arts Center, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
Tuesday, 19 November 2015, 7:30pm
Aurum
38th Annual Festival of New American Music
Performing Arts Center 106, Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, CA
Monday, 9 November 2015, 6pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
VoxNovus Festival: xMV Screening
Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd St, New York, NY
Thursday, 22 October 2015 6:30pm
As I See You [collaboration w/ Sarah Mundy and Stacy Busch]
Art Sounds: As I See You
Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Institute of Art, 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 13 October 2015, 7:30pm
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media [Mikaela Sullivan performing]
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Lyric Theater, Murchison Performing Arts Center, University ofNorth Texas, Denton, TX
Sunday, 27 September 2015, 4:30pm
Inflections [Thomas Stein performing]
Thomas G. Stein, tuba (Faculty Recital)
White Recital Hall, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Monday, 24 August 2015, 7:30pm
Aurum
Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (KcEMA)
La Esquina, 1000 W 25th St, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 14 June 2015, 7:30pm
Periah by Birth [Brooke McPheeters choreography]
Dance Fest for Funds!
Student Union Theater, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Saturday, 9 May 2015, 7:30pm
Periah by Birth [Brooke McPheeters choreography] (premiere)
Spirit in Bloom: A Collaborative Composer/Choreographer Event
Student Union Theater, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 5 May 2015, 4pm
integrated audio for an exhibition with Molly Garrett (premiere)
A Theory of Human Motivation
Vulpes Bastille, 1737 Locust, Kansas City, MO
Friday, 1 May 2015, 6-9pm
new untitled live electronic video art [in collaboration with Stacy Busch] (premiere)
Art Sounds: A Soul Awake
Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Institute of Art, 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 7:30pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
NoiseFloor 2015
Television Centre, Staffordshire University, Beaconside, Stafford, United Kingdom
Tuesday, 28 April 2015, 4pm
Aurum (premiere) & 5 More Irrelevant Facts
Exchange of Midwest Collegiate Composers (EMCC) 2015
UCC Recital Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Saturday, 18 April 2015, 1pm
Enclencher [UBC Laptop Orchestra performing]
Bang! Festival 2015
Barnett Hall, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Thursday, 16 April 2015, 12pm
Five More Irrelevant Facts
H3 Radiophrenia Shorts - Ham
Glasgow, Scotland
Wednesday, 15 April 2015, 12pm
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media [Mikaela Sullivan performing]
Hot Air Music Festival 2015
Osher Salon, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 50 Oak Street, San Francisco, CA
Sunday, 15 March 2015, 1:30pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
MANTIS Spring Festival 2015
Anthony Burgess Foundation, 3 Cambridge Street, Manchester, United Kingdom
Sunday, 1 March 2015, 7:30pm
Aurum (silent film premiere)
Art Sounds: What If? KC/CT
Epperson Auditorium, Kansas City Institute of Art, 4415 Warwick Boulevard, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 10 February 2015, 7:30pm
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media [Margaret Jackson performing]
Florida State University Festival of New Music 2015
Opperman Music Hall, Florida State University, 600 W College Ave, Tallahassee, FL
Saturday, 31 January 2015, 2pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
Paracademia and Gallery MC: xMV Screening
Gallery MC, 549 W 52nd St, New York, NY
Friday, 19 December 2014, 6pm
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media [Mikaela Sullivan performing]
Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (KcEMA)
Project Space, 21 E. 12th St, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 16 November 2014, 8pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
37th Annual Festival of New American Music
Performing Arts Center 106, Sacramento City College, 3835 Freeport Blvd, Sacramento, CA
Wednesday, 12 November 2014, 6pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (KcEMA) Happy Hour Concert
Grünauer’s Vienna Zimmer, 101 W 22nd St, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 26 October 2014, 8pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts
New Horizons Music Festival
Ophelia Parrish Performance Hall, Truman State University, 100 East Normal Street, Kirksville, MO
Friday, 24 October 2014, 8pm
5 More Irrelevant Facts (premiere)
The Composers’ Guild
White Recital Hall, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 14 October 2014, 7:30pm
Autonomous Agents
Muestra Internacional de Música Electroacústica MUSLAB 2014
Espacio Sonoro UAM-X, Calzada del Hueso 1100, Villa Quietud, 04960 Ciudad de México, D.F., Mexico
Thursday, 9 October 2014, 11:00am
Autonomous Agents
International Computer Music Conference (ICMC)
Old Stock Market Building, Sofokleous 6, Athens, Greece
Wednesday, 17 September 2014, 10:30pm
Music/sound written for short film Phantasmagoria (by Emily Kenyon, Molly Garrett, and Hannah Carr)
Eleventh Annual Animation Block Party
BAM Rose Cinemas, Peter Sharp Building, 30 Lafayette Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
Friday, 25 July 2014, 2:00pm
Music/sound written for short film Phantasmagoria (by Emily Kenyon, Molly Garrett, and Hannah Carr) (premiere)
DOUBLE FEATURE: “Phantasmagoria” and “Cottontail” at the Screenland
Screenland Crown Center, 2450 Grand Blvd. 3rd Floor, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 04 May 2014, 8:00pm
Crimson, a River Runs [Michael Miller, Jing Zhou, and Scott Steele performing]
Music from China / UMKC Composers’ Guild Concert
White Recital Hall, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 7:30pm
Crimson, a River Runs [Michael Miller, Jing Zhou, and Scott Steele performing]
Music from China Forum
Performing Arts Center Room 521, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 29 April 2014, 2:00pm
Excursus – Three Art Songs for Soprano and Flexible Media (premiere) [Mikaela Sullivan performing]
Mikaela Sullivan: Graduate Vocal Recital
Bloch Learning and Performance Hall, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
Saturday, 5 April 2014, 6:00pm
Pulling Focus (premiere) [Boston New Music Initiative performing]
Westfield State University Festival of New Music
Dever Stage, Parenzo Hall, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA
Sunday, 2 March 2014, 3:00pm
Autonomous Agents
University of Iowa Electronic Music Studio
Becker Communications Building Lecture Hall, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Sunday, 15 December 2013, 7:30pm
Autonomous Agents
Second Annual Electroacoustic Barn Dance
Pollard 304, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA
Friday, 8 November 2013, 4:30pm
Enclencher [Caroline Fogg and Kelsey Crawford performing]
Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) Regional Conference 2013
Performing Arts Center, Kansas City Kansas Community College, Kansas City, KS
Friday, 25 October 2013, 5:00pm
Performing “This is the United States Calling” with Russell Thorpe, Scott Steele, and Patrick Chan (premiere)
Matthew Kaney – “All Fun and Games” Exhibition
PLUG Projects, 1613 Genessee, Kansas City, MO
Saturday, 10 October 2013, 3:00pm
Performing “Situational Snafus” by Teri Quinn (premiere)
BLACK LAB: A New Music Festival sponsored by Black House Collective and Charlotte Street
¶ Gallery, 23 E. 12th St., Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 5 September 2013, 7:30pm
Improvised set w/ Paul Rudy, Michael Miller, et al. alongside Chris Chafe and Tom Beyer at the Struer Music School in Denmark.
jamLink session with Jazz-musicians in Struer and Kansas City
Room 521, Performing Arts Center, UMKC, 4949 Cherry Street, Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 29 August 2013, 10:00am
Enclencher (instrumental version) with the band “Rue Lydia”
KC Fringe Festival
The Arts Asylum, 1000 E. 9th St., Kansas City, MO
Friday, 26 July 2013, 11:00pm
Autonomous Agents
Center of Cypriot Composers: First Electronic Music Festival
ARTos Foundation, Nicosia, Cyprus
Friday, 7 June 2013, 8:30pm
Various vocal/electronic/improvisational compositions with the band “Rue Lydia”
Live at the Hollywood Theater
Hollywood Theater, 500 Delaware St., Leavenworth, KS
Saturday, 11 May 2013, 8:00pm
Various vocal/electronic/improvisational compositions with the band “Rue Lydia”
Lydia at the Sandbox
The Sandbox, 1415 W 39th St., Kansas City, MO
Friday, 10 May 2013, 6:00pm
Improvised set w/ RIP Music Ensemble
RIP Music Ensemble Coda
The Blackbox, Grant Hall Room 306, UMKC, Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 9 May 2013, 5:30pm
Improvised set w/ Paul Rudy, Brad Van Wick, and Michael Miller alongside Chris Chafe at Stanford University (in real-time)
Google Fiber: Expanding Your Art Practice
Google Fiber Space, 1814 Westport Rd, Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 7 May 2013, 6:30pm
Inflections for Solo Tuba (premiere) [Bo Atlas performing]
Great Plains Regional Tuba-Euphonium Conference (GPRTEC) Regional Conference 2013
Recital Hall, University of Nebraska-Kearney, Kearney, NE
Saturday, 4 May 2013, 10:00am
Enclencher (premiere) [Caroline Fogg and Kelsey Crawford performing]
Taking Tones in Stride: A Composer/Choreographer Collaboration
Student Union Theater, University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 2 May 2013, 3:30pm
To a Skylark [Donald A. Lentz Concert Band performing]
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE
Thursday, 25 April 2013, 7:30pm
Autonomous Agents
Society of Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) National Conference 2013
McNally Smith College of Music, Saint Paul, MN
Saturday, 20 April 2013, 3:30pm
Autonomous Agents
Kansas City Electronic Music & Arts Alliance (KcEMA)
Unity Temple on the Plaza, Kansas City, MO
Friday, 19 April 2013, 7:30pm
Bedside Sprites [Black House Collective performing]
Black House Collective: Ancient Inspiration
¶ Gallery, 23 E. 12th St., Kansas City, MO
Friday, 8 March 2013, 9:00pm
Bedside Sprites (premiere) [Black House Collective performing]
Black House Collective: Ancient Inspiration
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Sunday, 3 March 2013, 3:00pm
Crimson, a River Runs [Michael Miller, Jing Zhou, and Scott Steele performing]
Musica Nova
White Recital Hall, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Wednesday, 27 February 2013, 7:30pm
To a Skylark (premiere) [SIUE Concert Band performing]
Dunham Hall Theater, Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, IL
Tuesday, 26 February 2013, 7:30pm
Crimson, a River Runs (premiere) [Michael Miller, Jing Zhou, and Scott Steele performing]
Chinese Journeys: Traditional and New
Kirkwood Hall, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Saturday, 23 February 2013, 1:30 and 2:30pm
Mixed Priorities (premiere)
60×60 (2012): PianoForte Mix
PianoForte Foundation, Roosevelt University, Chicago, IL
Friday, 14 December 2012, 6 and 8pm
Autonomous Agents
The Composers’ Guild
Grant Hall Theatre, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Thursday, 6 December 2012, 8pm
Autonomous Agents (premiere)
Electronic Music Midwest (EMM) Regional Conference 2012
Philip Lynch Theatre, Lewis University, Romeoville, IL
Friday, 12 October 2012, 8pm
5 Lines (premiere)
Sounds in Motion: A Composer/Choreographer Collaboration
Student Union Theater, University of Missouri – Kansas City, MO
Tuesday, 24 April 2012, 3:30pm
Pitch Class Preludes [Shao Zheng performing]
Missouri, Iowa, Colorado (MIC) Exchange 2012
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Saturday, 14 April 2012, 1:30pm
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