SPCUNY Artist
Monica Rocha
Collaborators
- Renate艶子 Rohlfing is a pianist and music therapist who explores how sound shapes our understanding of memory and connection. Memory Remix embodies her belief that relationships with those who have passed are not fixed in time but continue to transform and resonate in the present. She brings performance, psychology, and community music practices to create spaces where memory can be carried and reimagined together.
- Justin Taylor is an interdisciplinary artist and music therapist who creates community-based immersive installations that explore the unconscious through line, color, sound, and form. His work invites viewers into multi-sensory experiences, blending visual and auditory elements. Memory Remix reflects his belief in the therapeutic power of music to support emotional processing, memory, and creation of personalized grief rituals that foster healing, connection, and shared meaning making.
- Shawn Jaeger is a composer, educator, and arts nonprofit leader. By making music with his mother’s recorded voice after she passed, he was able to see himself and his mother in new ways. It is this spirit of self-discovery, play, and connection that he hopes to foster with Memory Remix.
Memory Remix
Memory Remix is a creative practice that reimagines how we engage with the voices of those we’ve lost. Sonic artifacts — voicemails, voice memos, and recordings — have joined photographs and letters as sacred keepsakes. The voice holds a unique power by communicating identity, emotion, and presence. Yet unlike traditional grief rituals that invite participation and transformation, these recordings typically remain static, often experienced passively.
Memory Remix is a memorial practice where participants can engage with recordings through electronic audio processing, instruments, and their own voices, transforming sonic artifacts into new creations that carry both the original voice and the ongoing remembrance.
Through sound and music, Memory Remix transforms our ongoing relationship with those who have passed on. It becomes a space where multiple temporalities intersect — the time of recording, the time of loss, the time of creation, and the imagined future time of listening.
This iteration of the project as a website was developed by Shaun Jaeger, Renate艶子 Rohlfing, and Justin Taylor.
Design by Monica Rocha
Image courtesy of the artist
Photo courtesy of the artist
Photo courtesy of Anisa Hodzic & Edina Hoti
Ania Upstill and Will Shishmanian. Photo by Meranda Flachs-Surmanek.
Image courtesy of the artist