Where: California Institute of the Arts
Santa Clarita
CA
91355
United States
Los Angeles
What: Jeffrey Cobbold @ California Institute of the Arts
When:
Please join me for a virtual artist talk to discuss my sound art installation, ‘Welcome Children (Stay Small)’, on view at The Wave Cave: Experimental Sound Space at California Institute of the Arts within the Herb Alpert School of Music, from September 14 - 20, 2025 (https://welcomechildrenstaysmall.splashthat.com/). Please note that the virtual artist talk will be recorded and made publicly available at a later date for those who are unable to attend.
If you are not able to view the installation in person, please visit the online artistic research exposition through Research Catalogue before the virtual artist talk. The exposition will be available on September 14:
Cobbold, Jeffrey. ‘Welcome Children (Stay Small): A Sound Art Installation‘, Research Catalogue (2025) https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/3786470/3786471/0/0
Artist Statement:
‘Welcome Children (Stay Small)’ is a multimedia installation exploring a series of manipulated Google Search images of diverse children, which are juxtaposed with moving images of a children’s night lamp. The images are concurrent with drones and reverberated audio samples, which sonically collide. Through the symbolism that sound and image provide, this installation highlights the inevitable reality of children losing their innocence in an imperfect world and the longing of so many of us to protect them from the harm of life and adulthood.
‘Welcome Children (Stay Small)’ was inspired by the song, “Stay Small” by former North American post-rock band, The Receiving End of Sirens and the New Testament theological essay, “Jesus Loves the Little Children: A Theological Reading of Mark 9:14-29 for Children with Serious Illnesses or Disabilities and Their Caregivers”, written by Dr. Melanie Howard. It is worth noting that from 2004 to 2018, I worked with children as a music teacher and Christian educator. I dedicate ‘Welcome Children (Stay Small)’ to those who also work with children and seek to help them become resilient in the face of life’s pain and ambiguities.
How Much:
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CA
91355
United States
Who: Jeffrey Cobbold
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Jeffrey Cobbold is an artistic researcher, multimedia artist, and New Jerseyan who creates sonically driven multimedia works which have appeared in the MarketLab at Sonar+D in Barcelona, Spain (2016), Artworks-Trenton in Trenton, New Jersey (2017 - 2020) and the 9th edition of Elevator Music (2022), a sound art installation at Newark, New Jersey’s former Gallery Aferro (2003 - 2023). Jeffrey holds degrees from Berklee College of Music’s Valencia, Spain campus, Princeton Theological Seminary and Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts. He is currently a Doctor of Musical Arts student & special faculty lecturer at California Institute of the Arts within their Performer-Composer program.