Bio
tyson ayers is an Oakland based musical instrument inventor, immersive theatre producer, and large scale installation artist. He is an experienced leader and project facilitator, as a director of the Sound Cave Road Show, Living Pulse Project, Centennial Celebration of the Elationists, the Foundation for the Preservation of Fantastic Possibilities, and a core organizer of Million Fishes Arts Collective. At Burning Man he produced the large scale musical instrument installations Musical Bike Paths in 2006, the Living Pulse Project in 2007, the Sound Cave Project in 2008 & 2009 (featured in center camp), and the Sound Cave Road Show in 2010. In 2014 he was the designer and lead builder for the Star Star performance venue/shade structure and collaborated with Sarah Hedden in producing the tea house “Gong Fu Weaver”. His art installations have also been featured at the several music festivals including Lightning in a Bottle, Wanderlust Festival, Maker Faire, What The Festival, and many others. In the civic art world he has shown and/or performed at the DeYoung Museum, SomArts, MCCLA, and has received recognition with the Zellerbach Family Foundation Grant, the San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC) Organizational Project Grant, the SFAC Individual Artist Commission, and art commissions as far away as Beirut, Lebanon to Melbourne, Australia.
Curriculum Vitae
2016 – Star Star Roadhouse at Burning Man 2016
2016 – Pier 70 Putt Putt – Hole #4 – Smash, Bang, Boom!
2016 – Priceless Festival Beach Stage
2016 – Design/Build Commission: Romany Vardo Inspired Tiny Caravan
2016 – Sound Cave Road Show International, Rainbow Serpent Festival, Victoria, Australia
2015 – Star Star Roadhouse – design build commission for new stage, Burning Man
2015 – Star Star Roadhouse – design build commission for circus tent & venue, Burning Man
2015 – SCRS International music tour – Thailand, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, China
2014 – SCRS at Decameron, Immersive Theatre Festival, San Francisco
2014 – Ophelia produced by Carte Blanche – composing / performing, San Francisco
2013 – SCRS as Symbiosis Gathering’s Living Room Stage, California
2013 – SCRS as What the Festival’s LOL stage, Oregon
2012 – SCRS as What the Festival’s LOL stage, Oregon
2012 – Sound Cave Road Show International, Beirut, Lebanon – private commission
2011 – SCRS at Wanderlust Festival
2011 – SCRS at Lightning in a Bottle Festival
2011 – SCRS at Maker Faire Bay Area, Blue Ribbon Awards for Best in Large-Scale Interactive Art Category and Best in Overall Show
2010 – SCRS at Priceless Festival
2010 – SCRS at Maker Faire Bay Area – Editor’s Choice Blue Ribbon Award in Art Installations
2010 – SCRS at False Profit”s Alchemy Festival – art grant
2010 – SF Weekly Masterminds Finalist Award
2009 – Smart Art Juried Show – Honorable Mention Award
2009 – Sound Cave Project featured in Burning Man Center Camp
2009 – San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission for the Sound Cave Project Debut
2008 – Sound Cave Prototype at Burning Man near Temple
2008 – Sound Cave Prototype Showing
2007 – Living Pulse Project arts installation and junk orchestra at Burning Man
2007 – San Francisco Arts Commission Organizational Project Grant 2007 for the Elationist Project
2006 – Musical Bike Paths at Burning Man
2001-2008: Various Art Gallery and Museum shows, Performances, Curation, Installations
2001 – Symphony of the Senses, Kimball Theatre
2000 – Art in the Key of Music, Hall of Music, Whitman College Walla Walla