steve roden is a visual and sound artist from los angeles. his work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, and performance. roden's working process uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and translates them through self invented systems into scores; which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and sound composition. these scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions and left turns. the inspirational source material then becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon. in the sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or 'possible landscapes'. the sound works present themselves with an aesthetic roden describes as lower case'' - sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening. roden has been exhibiting his visual and sound works since the mid 1980's, and has had numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including museums, galleries and arts spaces in usa, italy, france, japan, bulgaria, slovenia, england, etc. recent solo shows and projects include susanne vielmetter los angeles projects, nicole klagsbrun gallery new york, san francisco art institute mcbean gallery, fresno metropolitan museum of art and science, tang teaching museum skidmore college, gallery e/static torino and studio la citta verona italy.