Alan Nakagawa, sound artist based in Los Angeles. He is an inter-disciplinary artist that melds visual practices with sound and video. Primarily creating work through automatic techniques and improvisation, inherently campaigning to make humanized technology driven art, and giving the neat and the messy equal opportunity.
Nakagawa co-founded arts collective Collage Ensemble Inc. (1984-2012), curates the weekly Ear Meal Webcast, coordinates public art for the LA Metro, documents his meals, is a member of Ear Diorama Ear and the Southern California Soundscape Ensemble, and prefers crunchy peanut butter over smooth.
COOL, is a two hour sound loop created specifically for the Coolhaus Ice Cream Truck for the 2011 Soundwalk.