During the week prior to the opening of Paseo, Conceptual artist Alyce Santoro and composer Julian Mock engaged the public in collecting audio samples from the Taos soundscape. Working with the samples, the duo created an intricately layered collage of found sounds to be presented in a live performance combined with improvisation for electrified flute and guitar. In addition, Santoro installed a site-specific string of flags made of fabric woven from recorded cassette tape in a location along the Paseo. Santoro and Mock have produced similar sound art workshops/installations in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, NYC, and in Albuquerque, NM during ISEA2012.

About the artist: Alyce Santoro is an interdisciplinary conceptual and sound artist whose work is deeply informed by science and philosophy. Drawing on a background in biology and scientific illustration, she creates “Philosoprops” (or "Props for Installation and Diatribe") using video, assemblage, text, and live performance to draw parallels between seemingly disparate fields and to spark dialog about holistic approaches to challenges facing the environment and society.  Julian Mock is a composer and guitarist who explores the effects of sound on perception of time and space. He has produced two albums of innovative compositions for solo steel- and nylon-stringed guitar. Collaboratively the pair produced “Between Stations”, an album of sound collages composed of samples collected on and under the streets of New York City. In 2011 they were commissioned to create a sound collage and special edition of Santoro’s “sonic fabric” – a textile woven from recorded audio cassette tape – in the Galician region of northwestern Spain.