Hoʻākea Source 2026 Grant Awardees

Honolulu Soundscapes

Alec Singer
2026 Visual Art Grant Recipient

Honolulu Soundscapes is a workshop initiative that provides a learning environment for participants to engage with sound theory, equipment, field recording, audio editing programs, and sound systems. This project aims to harness sound as technology and listening as technique through a series of workshops that will culminate in various forms of presentation and performance as a way to facilitate participants understanding of soundscapes in and of themselves as respite from daily life and as a way to access aspects of reality that are often unheard and overlooked during waking life. Sharing out in this way is a vital part of Honolulu Soundscapes as it provides an opportunity for the public to engage with sound and to learn more about how sound is an important part of the visual arts ecosystem in the process.

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ALEC YASUNORI SINGER (b. 1991) is an artist, musician, projectionist, and A/V technician living and working in Honolulu, Hawai’i. He is a product of US imperial policies; born on a military base in Guam, spending time in Japan, and shifting across the coasts of the U.S. continent until his family eventually settled on O’ahu in 2002. Conscious of his place in Hawai’i’s art ecosystems, Alec has developed a collaborative, responsive, and community-oriented practice that is sustained by long-term relationships with other artists’ ideas and processes.