WORKSSound Field: a new body of work by Rob Funkhouser, Justin Cooper, and Landon Caldwell exploring the intersection between simple forms and wide possibility. Comprised of a set of three large wooden lattices with embedded electronics, the pieces serve both as physical sculptures and sonic canvases with the sound coming directly from the wooden panels of the sculpture. The centerpiece of this trio is a 20 foot long lattice that will be projecting 48 channel works composed specifically for this show. This is the first project for this team as a trio, bringing together Funkhouser’s mad scientist leanings, Cooper’s sage visual style, and Caldwell’s immersive sound practice.
Guichelaar Gallery at Tube Factory Artspace August/September 2024Branching Paths is a series of live performances and recordings that explores improvisation and multichannel sound. The series explores choice making in systems built of asynchronous loops, a compositional system built to replicate systems in the natural world, scaling compositional universes from macro to micro.
C.L.E.A.T. at Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL 2024 // Dear Mom, Indianapolis 2024 // Guichelaar Gallery, Tube Factory, Indianapolis 2024Light Music: a public generative light installation in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Commissioned by the Chicago Chamber of Commerce.
2475 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL 2024Symbiotic Hum: an audiovisual poem by Jessica Dunn and Landon Caldwell that celebrates Indiana’s biodiversity through a series of artistic explorations. During the creation of the lm, the artist-filmmakers immersed themselves into the natural world by researching, collecting, and documenting as many native plants and seeds as possible throughout the year. Through a seamless blend of animation, soundscapes, poetry, and macro/microscope videography, the film takes audiences on an enchanting exploration of the natural world from new perspectives. Commissioned by Indiana Humanities. The film premiered at Heartland Film Festival’s Indy Shorts at Newfields.A House Is Alive With Sound: an immersive installation created with help from Rob Funkhouser that uses kinetic & interactive sculpture, video, painting, an 8 channel generative sound installation, and non-traditional scores to bring focus and awareness to the sounds in our immediate domestic environments
July & August 2023, Guichelaar Gallery, IndianapolisReverie Garden: made in collaboration with visual artist Jessica Dunn, is an immersive audio-visual dreamscape inspired by the natural world. Viewers are invited to explore THE LUME to discover delights for the senses. Dunn led the visual component, creating enchanting environments inspired by memories from her frequent hikes in Indiana parks. Combining painting and animation techniques, she developed numerous habitats showcasing native biodiversity from surreal perspectives. Caldwell composed the audio drawing on the sounds of nature, running them through a hypnagogic filter, and summoning a contemplative sonic environment. Reverie Garden provides a space where viewers can play, meditate and reflect. On display into 2024.
2023, Indianapolis Museum of Art at NewfieldsHidden World: a collaborative exhibition series focused on sound and its relation to ecology, community, and accessibility. Hidden World presents new works that directly engage listeners with their immediate environment. Hidden World has included pop-up exhibitions in collaboration with Kelly Cook, Morgan Robinson-Gay, Rob Funkhouser, Jessica Dunn, and April Knauber. This series was made possible by the Power Plant Grant program of Big Car Collaborative.Pantry Connection: a collaborative sound and space experience made with Nat Russell, inspired by some of his existing print and sculpture piece. Pantry Connection is an ambient commercial for an imaginary existential convenience store. Presented at Russell's HERE IT IS IT ALWAYS IS show.
Tube Factory, IndianapolisLoom: an interactive and playable sonic environment inspired by the Jacquard Loom commissioned by the Indiana State Museum for Gallery One
Indiana State MuseumOcean Music: this sound installation was created for the seventh annual Shitsurai exhibition at The Terminal Gallery, a Kyo-machiya townhouse in Kyoto, Japan. It was created in collaboration with the photographer Lane Diko for a site-specific installation in the underground bomb shelter space of the building.
The Terminal, Kyoto, Japan. 2021Unified Stream: a series of site-specific interactive soundtracks for public greenspaces. Using GPS-driven, interactive soundscapes, the artist created site-specific soundtracks posing the entirety of several public parks as a dynamic and changing musical universe.
Garfield Park, Indianapolis & Ellenberger Park, IndianapolisSonic Potluck: initially an artist-in-residence program in collaboration with Rob Funkhouser for Cat Head Press, the residency’s explorations of community building through experimental composition grew into an ongoing series of workshops, performances, installations, and an exhibition where the artists aimed to demystify the processes used in experimental music, create community, and encourage exploration and play. Exhibition video. Workshop and performance audio.
Various locations, Indianapolis, 2021 - presentBlack River: Composition for video by Jan Staller
score, 2021Dear Friend: this film was created as a gift for our loved ones while we were all in isolation. The sole utility of the piece is to brighten up your day and to bring you back to the little pleasures of childhood. Filmed and in-camera edited in Super 8mm by Rocio Mesa with an original soundtrack by Landon Caldwell.Found In A House: multimedia group performance incorporating music, film, and dance.
2019, White Rabbit

INCOMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY

Landon Caldwell
Black Beauty (Medium Sound)
White Tape (self-released)
Red Tape (self-released)
Global Drift (Medium Sound)
Prelude to the Dog Ballet: Select Works '15 - '18 (self released)
Unity (Atlantic Rhythms)
Bicycle Day (Mock Records)
Unity In Isolation (with Nick Yeck-Stauffer) (Astral Editions)
Deep Strand (Trouble In Mind)
Simultaneous Systems (with Flower Head Ensemble) (Moon Glyph)
Linear Revolutions (with Mac Blackout) (Trouble In Mind)
More Unity (Atlantic Rhythms)
Desire Paths (Obsolete Staircases)
F.M._S.M. (self released)Caldwell/Tester
Former Sucker (Medium Sound)
Sugar Times (Castle Bravo)
Two Reels (Medium Sound)
Live Times (Medium Sound)
Little Flower (Astral Spirits)
Mark and Landon - Vol. 1 (Medium Sound)
Moon Drones (split with American Cream) (Drone Not Drones)Creeping Pink
A Feast from the Village Pantry (On Credit)
Future Acid Family (Holy Infinite Freedom Revival)
Mirror Woods (Castle Face)
Glass Castle (Medium Sound)
A Parliament of Trees (Magnetic South)
__________ (self released)
Found In A House (self released)Crazy Doberman
S/T - (Mastermind)
Rust Clatter For the Midwest Sun (I Dischi Del Barone)
Illusory Expansion (Astral Spirits)
FOUR hymns for UN-REST (self-released)
hypnagogic relapse and other penumberal phenomena (Digital Regress)Burnt Ones
Gift (Castle Face)
The Space Lady/Burnt Ones split (Castle Face)
Last Draft in Different Rooms (self-released)Thee Open Sex
White Horses (Sophomore Lounge)Nathaniel Russell & Landon Caldwell
Peace Jazz Now (The Smudge)