Field Set: Phil Peters, Kelly Akashi, Tara Walters, Kyle Luntz, Simona Prives, Ryan Vahey

Floor 5, Outdoor Gallery

Friday, July 31, 10:30 am–9:30 pm
Saturday, August 1, 10:30 am–5:30 pm
Sunday, August 2, 10:30 am–5:30 pm

Join us for a weekend of sound and live music with Field Set, a collaboration between Phil Peters and Biennial artist Kelly Akashi. 

Using subterranean microphones, Peters has been continuously recording Akashi’s property in Los Angeles since May 2025, capturing the sounds of demolition, debris removal, and nearby rebuilding in the wake of the devastating Eaton Fire that burned Akashi’s home and studio. Arranged into a durational soundscape, these field recordings meditate on the aftermath of the fires and the excavation of the site. 

Large-scale subwoofers constructed by Peters amplify low-frequency sounds, creating a field of resonance between Akashi’s sculpture, Monument (Altadena), and the place it honors. The resulting soundscape is physical as well as sonic, offering an embodied way to contend with widespread destruction and its aftermath. Additional performances by artists who have been directly impacted by fires in both Los Angeles and New York will take place over the course of the weekend. 

The first iteration of Field Set was organized by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and took place at the site of Kelly Akashi’s former home in Altadena. 

Schedule of Performances  

Saturday 4 pm – Tara Walters
Walters creates atmospheric music that explores memory, nature, and transformation. In the aftermath of the Los Angeles fires, which destroyed her home, Walters returned to search through the rubble and discovered her sound bowl still intact. The bowl had been transformed by the fire, its surface bleached to a pale, smoke-blushed color, with ash and debris fused into the crystal. Even its tone had changed, shifting from an E to an A. As part of her electronic and acoustic performance, Walters will play the sound bowl and offer a trance mediumship transmission focused on how we move forward through times of loss, change, and renewal.

Sunday 4 pm – Kyle Luntz, Simona Prives, and Ryan Vahey
Void is a live performance by Luntz, Prives, and Vahey created in response to the loss of their collaborative work Behind the Sky, an immersive installation that was destroyed by a fire in Red Hook, Brooklyn in September 2025. The improvisational work follows the arc of the fire: an initial emergence and accumulation, a sudden destructive event, and the profound absence that follows. Fragments of the original composition are reintroduced through live instruments and archival samples, transformed by analog tape degradation and convolution reverb generated from the impulse responses of cavernous spaces. Rather than reconstructing what was lost, Void inhabits its aftermath, exploring absence and memory, destruction and persistence.

Kelly Akashi (b. 1983, Los Angeles, CA) received a BFA from Otis College of Art & Design in 2006 and an MFA from the University of Southern California in 2014. She also studied at the Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste (Städelschule) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany in 2010. Akashi has been commissioned to create a monumental sculpture for John F. Kennedy International Airport’s New Terminal One (NTO), opening in 2026. 

Kyle Luntz is a Brooklyn-based artist who deals with time, emergent phenomena, illusion and memory in his multimedia installations. He makes generative audio-visual compositions which are altered by the presence and actions of participants. Using sound, light, acoustics, feedback systems, sensors and robotics, his work crosses spatial and temporal dynamics, treating time as malleable material.

Phil Peters makes sound installations that render audible the geological substrates of built space. Working with custom-built microphones and infrasonic subwoofers that he designs and fabricates himself, Peters records forces traveling through the earth — beneath oil fields, fault lines, shipping ports, and mountains — at frequencies that extend below the threshold of hearing. Played back through speakers that shake walls and resonate in the chest, these recordings find continuity between the geological and the biological, making legible large systems too vast or too slow to apprehend directly.

Simona Prives is a Brooklyn-based visual artist whose work includes painting, drawing, and time-based media. Prives creates animated collages that incorporate a variety of themes and materials. Every artwork combines multiple forms of printmaking, intricately layering video, sound, drawings and ink paintings to assemble the composition. Often presented in life-sized projections, her work plays with time, space and perception.  

Ryan Vahey is a Brooklyn-based artist and musician whose interdisciplinary practice spans sound, sculpture, photography, and moving image. Across sound performances and multisensory installations, he explores the mutability of memory and the ways individual recollections are shared, transformed, and reimagined. Drawing on field recordings, analog and digital instruments, and live performance, his work considers listening as an active process through which sound, place, and memory are continually reshaped.

Tara Walters is a painter and musician based in New York City. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally, including solo exhibitions with Nina Johnson in Miami, Kristina Kite Gallery in Los Angeles, Antenna Space in Shanghai, and Barbati Gallery in Venice. Her work is held in museum and institutional collections in the United States and China, including the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami and X Museum, Beijing. In 2025, Phaidon published The Cathedrals of Central Park, a series of forty unique artist prints featuring her work. Often performing under the name FAERYTEETH, Walters creates atmospheric music that explores memory, nature, and transformation. Her debut album, Looking Glass, was released in 2026.