aaron ximm		  quietamerican.org
179 elsie st		  (415) 648-2327
sf ca 94110		  aaron.ximm@gmail.com

awards, artist visits & residencies

2009	Artist in Residence			Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2008	Visiting Artist	 		University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
2007	Artist in Residence			Binaural Media’s Nodar Guest Studio, Nodar, Portugal
2004	Best Venue for Sound Art 		San Francisco Bay Guardian, for Field Effects concert series
2004	Belle Foundation 			Individual Grant
2003	Best Ear to the Ground		SF Weekly, for Field Effects concert series
2002	Director's Choice Award		Third Coast International Audio Festival, for Annapurna: Memories in Sound

artist talks

2009	Artist talk: ‘Right Here, Right Now’	Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2009	Guest lecture			San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2007	Guest lecture			SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA 
2007	Guest lecture			Nature Sound Society Field Workshop, Yuba Pass, CA
2006	Panel: ‘Phonography’			Edgetone Music Summit, Oakland, CA
2006	Guest lecture			California College of Art, Oakland, CA
2005	Breakout session			Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, IL
2005	Guest lecture			University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
2005	Guest lecture			University of Washington, Seattle, WA
2004	Artist conversation: AIR Spotlight		Association of Independents in Radio (online)				 
2003	Guest lecture			San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
2003	Panel: ‘Make Art or DIY Trying’		Spanganga Gallery, San Francisco, CA

commissions & solicited work

2010	Lassitude				for Soundwalk.com
2009	Elevated (Grand Chicago)		for Third Coast International Audio Festival, Chicago, IL
2009	Angorsaway			for San Francisco Tape Music Festival, San Francisco, CA
2008	Embertide				for Binaural Audio Art Symposium, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
2008	Linden				for Martin Williams’ All Day, Everyday, on ResonanceFM, London, UK
2008	The Stone Giant			for Program’s SOUND CONSTRUCTIONS,  Berlin, Germany
2007	The Far Range			for Binaural Audio Art Symposium, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK
2007	Backwaters Nocturne			for Activating the Medium 10, San Francisco, CA 
2006	Madurai Mani Fold			for LISTEN05, Berkeley, CA
2006	Kagbeni Reconsidered			for Edgetone Music Summit, Oakland, CA
2006	Guantánamo Express			for Radio Roadmovie on Kunstradio, Austria
2005	performance			for plug headphone festival, San Francisco, CA
2005	Gyantse Nuns			for SOUNDSCAPEpgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2005	On Top of the World			for the wedding of Kate Demong and Zack Tripp
2005	performance			for so.cal.sonic, San Diego, CA
2005	various work			for Silence Radio, atelier de création sonore radiophonique, Belgium
2004	various recordings			for Phonographic Migrations #3, Garage Festival, Stralsund, Germany
2004	Rockets of the Mekong		for Past Forward, Cabinet Magazine Issue 13
2004	The Idea of Ninth			for WNYC’s RadioLab
2004	Buriganga Canon; City Sines I-IV		for Drift: Resonant Cities, New Media Scotland’s festival of sound art
2003	Bell Bang				for The Voice of the Planet is the Muse, Greenmuseum.org
2003	What the Thunder Said		for San Francisco Electronic Music Festival (multi-channel diffusion)
2003	various work			for the Sound Art Collective of Taiwan’s BIAS festival
2003	Would You, Would You?		for the wedding of Rachel and Greg Lambert
2003	San Francisco Sauvignon		for Minnesota Public Radio’s The Savvy Traveler
2003	Beach Rain				for Hearing Place, Australian Sound Design Project | Move Records
2002	Hanoi Roundabout			for Fällt’s Invisible Cities, Festival at Queen's, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2002	Ocean Beach Soundwalk		for Chris Cutler’s Out of the Blue Radio, ResonanceFM, London, UK
2002	For Vincent Fecteau			for Berkeley Art Museum’s MATRIX program, Berkeley, CA
2002	Deep Creatures			for Dawn Neal at San Francisco Open Studios
2002	For Monkey Pod			for Gina Telcocci, at Biophilia, New Mexico State Capitol Building

aaron ximm		  quietamerican.org
179 elsie st		  (415) 648-2327
sf ca 94110		  aaron.ximm@gmail.com

installations

2009	Rodeo Soundial			Site-specific, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2008	The Other Rooms			Garden of Memory, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA
2007	As Paredes Têm Ouvidos		Binaural Media Nodar Guest Studio, Nodar, Portugal
2005	Desert Sun				Simnuke, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005	The Other Side			Garden of Memory, Chapel of the Chimes, Oakland, CA 
2005	caesurae: 30fpd year one		T-Minus 2005, Synchronicity Space, New York, NY
2004	Audio Restoration #1			at the Cathedral in the Desert, Glen Canyon, UT
2004	Burmese Daze			Cowley Benefit, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004	Serendipity Machine 02.20.04		Activating the Medium 7, San Luis Obispo, CA
2004	Serendipity Machine 02.01.04		CEAIT Festival, CalArts, Valencia, CA
2003	Serendipity Machine 11.19.03		Supersonic, Rx Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003	Deep Creatures Revisited		Special Ops and Lollipops, Build, San Francisco, CA
2002	Serendipity Machine 03.31.02		Day of Attention, Whoose, Hollywood, CA
2002	Serendipity Machine 03.19.02		Systems Up!, Black Hole, San Francisco, CA

publications

2010	Marincello Unsoundwalk		Self-published book, 65-pages
2008	Sound, Art, Music?			In Field Notes #1, the online journal of Gruenrekorder (Germany)
2007	Audio Restoration at 			In Hearing Places, Sound Place Time Culture (Ros Bandt, Michelle Duffy, and
Cathedral in the Desert		  Dolly MacKinnon, editors. Cambridge Scholars Publishing)

ongoing media projects

2002~	One-Minute Vacation Project		Contribution-based online exhibit and weekly podcast of field recordings 
2003~	30fpd: a day, a month, a year...		Daily documentary process video (intended completion 2013)

curation

2001~5	Field Effects concert series 		20+ concerts, 60+ international sound and video artists
2002	Quiet, Please			Four-hour radio documentary for radio station KFJC, Los Altos Hills, CA

soundtracks

2004	The Birth of Pillowheads 		film by Amy Cheung, 2 minutes

affiliations

2009~	American Society for Sound Ecology	Member
2008~	23five, Incorporated			Board member
2007~	Bay Area Sound Ecology 		Co-founder and co-chair
2004~	Nature Sound Society			Member

discography

2009	Embertide				self-released
2008	Turns in the South			self-released (2xCD)
2006	Guantánamo Express			self-released
2005	Dusk Machines			self-released (2xCD)
2004	Kagbeni Variations			self-released (2xCD)
2003	Rockets of the Mekong		Grain of Sound (Portugal)
2003	Plumbing & Irrigation of South Asia	and/OAR
2002	Annapurna: Memories in Sound		self-released
2001	Moments in Burma			self-released
2000	S3				self-released
2000	Moorish Idol			self-released
1999	Maritime Suite			self-released
1999	Vox Americana			self-released

aaron ximm		  quietamerican.org
179 elsie st		  (415) 648-2327
sf ca 94110		  aaron.ximm@gmail.com

discography  continued

compilations

2008	Favourite Places			Audiobulb (UK)
2007	Location Study			Dirty Demos (UK)
2007	Field Recording All-Stars		Dielectric Records
2006	May 6, 2001			and/OAR
2006	Recorded in the field by...		Gruenrekorder (Germany)
2006	Incidental Amplifications		Arts Queensland |Brisbane City Council
2005	Upstreamers (Suoni Dalla Teca 9)		La Fonoteca | Assessorato alla Cultura – Comune de Capi (Italy)
2005	Twice Around the World		Recommended Records
2005	Radure 3: Oltreumano		Webbed Hand Records
2005	Far Afield				Webbed Hand Records
2004	Sonic Scope			Grain of Sound (Portugal)
2004	BIAS				Sound Art Collective of Taiwan
2004	Locations 2			Chain Tape Collective
2003	Praeface				Praemedia
2003	Phonography 4			and/OAR
2003	Hearing Place			Move Records (Australia)
2003	Phonography Composers' Series		and/OAR
2002	60 degrees somewhere | else		Throat
2000	Droplift Project			droplift.org