The American artist Steve Roden passed away on September 6, 2023 in Los Angeles. On April 27, 2025, his 61st birthday, singuhr — projects and silent green present an eight-hour concert in memory of Steve Roden with a selection of works from Roden’s various creative periods.
Steve Roden was born in Los Angeles in 1964. His works in painting, sculpture, sound and video develop a visionary and individual aesthetic language across and in-between multiple media based on his interest in transmedia translation systems. By experimenting with visual images, music, language, code, objects, instruments, field recordings and the act of listening itself, he has created his own unique connections between different artistic formats and media.
Steve Roden has collaborated with singuhr on two solo exhibitions and a concert project: In 2002, he presented two new sound installations in the tower of the Parochialkirche in the singuhr – hoergalerie in parochial: “Light Forms” and “The Moon Gatherers”. In summer 2004 he collaborated in a concert project “Suite Nuit” (together with Frank Bretschneider) as part of the “suite in parochial” festival. Most recently, in 2012, Roden presented another solo exhibition, “Rag Picking”, at “singuhr – projekte” in the Meinblau project space in Berlin.
“in be tween noise” wants to pay tribute to the artist in a special way. The event in his memory is a long-duration concert: Over the course of eight hours, it allows people to come, listen, leave and return quietly.
Steve Roden was a visual artist and sound artist, who lived in Pasadena, California. He studied design at the École Parsons in Paris, at the Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design in Los Angeles and at the Art Center College for Design in Pasadena. Steve Roden’s work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film, music and sound installations. Since the 1980s, numerous solo and group exhibitions in international museums, galleries and art spaces.
