Elizabeth (Eli) Hougland is a multidisciplinary artist, composer, violinist, and violist residing in Kansas City. Initially she was trained as a classical violinist, but has shifted her primary focus to composing. Her creative output is split between interactive installation work and concert pieces.
Hougland creates site-specific interactive sound environments that either augment or reconstruct the space and the artwork present. Most notably, she designed sound for a gallery in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. She first got started creating installations through participating in several ArtSounds events– a “cross-media expression through creative concert-making.” In contrast, her concert music explores her influences of ambient techno, sample-driven glitch and classical symphonic literature. She has had works recorded by Quadrivium and NewEar.
Hougland started up EliTronics, her own live sound design label and publishing company in 2015. As a performer, Hougland has played in groups such as Musica Nova, RIP ensemble, and Black House Collective, and has performed with members of Eighth Blackbird. She is currently a member of Mnemosyne Quartet.
Through her work with Mnemosyne Quartet, Hougland explores the idea of transporting a listener to a completely new place through the use of field recordings. Mnemosyne received an Art in the Loop grant to play at Prairie Logic, in which they fused the sounds of prairie, city, and of the KC Zoo to reconstruct the landscape sonically.
Full CV coming soon. . .
Hougland creates site-specific interactive sound environments that either augment or reconstruct the space and the artwork present. Most notably, she designed sound for a gallery in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. She first got started creating installations through participating in several ArtSounds events– a “cross-media expression through creative concert-making.” In contrast, her concert music explores her influences of ambient techno, sample-driven glitch and classical symphonic literature. She has had works recorded by Quadrivium and NewEar.
Hougland started up EliTronics, her own live sound design label and publishing company in 2015. As a performer, Hougland has played in groups such as Musica Nova, RIP ensemble, and Black House Collective, and has performed with members of Eighth Blackbird. She is currently a member of Mnemosyne Quartet.
Through her work with Mnemosyne Quartet, Hougland explores the idea of transporting a listener to a completely new place through the use of field recordings. Mnemosyne received an Art in the Loop grant to play at Prairie Logic, in which they fused the sounds of prairie, city, and of the KC Zoo to reconstruct the landscape sonically.
Full CV coming soon. . .