Category: COLLABORATIONS

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Paradise Container

Staged across a sprawling set that mimics a deconstructed home, Paradise Container tells the story of a family shaped by addiction and financial enmeshment with a storage solutions company that contracts each of its members. Conceived and written by Monica Mirabile and Mara McKevitt, the newly commissioned performance takes place within the Main Hall of Pioneer Works—reimagined here as a cross between a soundstage and an American fulfillment warehouse.

Paradise Container guides the audience from room to room through light, sound, and performance cues. Charged domestic scenes collapse boundaries between the personal, domestic, and professional environments that define daily life. In this universe, an eroding nuclear family must meet the demands of a modern yet feudal work arrangement, navigate the oscillatory effects of a pharmaceutical drug called Shift, and learn how to live with and love each other. An intimate, performance-theater experience intended for only 80 audience members at a time, Paradise Container crafts a narrative meant to chafe at ideas of stability and disillusion, sickness and health, and the myth of work-life balance.

Composer and Sound Design: Aaron David Ross

PARADISE CONTAINER

by Monica Mirabile and Mara McKevitt
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COLLABORATIONS SOUNDTRACK VIDEO WORKS

PEACE CORE

PEACE CORE A video work of infinite duration that continually auto-edits American television footage first broadcast in the moments before the world-changing events of September 11, 2001.

Peace Core could be seen as a never-ending performance that infinitely extends a final suspended illusion of the end of history. Bathing in the warm light of this historical singularity is an exhibition that draws overlooked connections between the cultural legacies of the West and the violence that has followed in its wake, straddling three event horizons – one that was seen in real time at the twilight of the broadcast era, another that occurred in its geopolitical aftermath but went largely unreported for years, and a third that we face now at the dawn of a technological convergence in the era of artificial intelligence. by Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Annika Khulmann
Original Music by Aaron David Ross

Multichannel Video, Infinite Duration, Spatial Sound

Exhibited at Gagosian, New York, Park & 75, October 2025
WIELS Contemporary Art Centre in Brussels, Belgium, 2024

Documentation available on request
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COLLABORATIONS FILM SOUNDTRACK WORKS

BEING HUMAN

Christopher Kulendran Thomas's 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 considers the rise of Sri Lankan contemporary art in the wake of the country’s decades-long civil war, which ended with a massacre of Tamil civilians in 2009. The installation brings together Kulendran Thomas’s own works with artworks he purchased from galleries in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. Christopher Kulendran Thomas & Annika Khulmann

New on view (2025-2027)
MoMA New York, Floor 2, 213

High-definition video (color, sound; 24 min.) projected on glass, with three paintings and three sculptures

Original Music and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross BEING HUMAN
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Luar SS25 “El Boca Quedó”

Luar SS25 “El Boca Quedó” Rockefeller Center Plaza
Original Music by Aaron David Ross & Gatekeeper New York-bred designer Raul Lopez has become one of the most sought-after names in fashion; season after season, fashion-exumed editors hungrily await their invitations to the Luar show, which is often one of the last on the CFDA calendar. And it never disappoints. Lopez has a natural talent for putting on a show.

The collection’s title, En Boca Quedó, a Dominican phrase signifying a lingering presence even after departure, was fitting. If there’s anyone everybody’s talking about, it’s Raul. Held at Rockefeller center with a star-studded front row, including Madonna and Ice Spice seated together, Amanda Lepore, Paloma Elsesser, and Parris Goebel, among others, Raul debuted 53 looks that left their mark long after the final look had left the runway.
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AUDIENCE PLANT

Aspen ArtWeek 2024 reached an apex with AUDIENCE PLANT 2024 on August 1—a concert of original music Ryan Trecartin, Ashland Mines, Aaron David Ross, Michael Beharie, and Lizzie Fitch. Performed at the top of Aspen Mountain.

Featuring guest performers including Jason Moran, Sam Gendel, Matthew Jamal, JK Kim, and the Aspen Music School’s Contemporary Ensemble, the live event merged a newly composed score of electronic and orchestral music with rollicking sonic improvisations. Between performances of the orchestrated tracks, the band developed new songs in real time against the backdrop of towering pines and mountain peaks approaching dusk.

Aaron David Ross served as Musical Director, Conductor, and Technical Director. WATCH FULL DOCUMENTATION
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LUAR FW23 Calle Pero Elegante

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 15: A model walks the runway at the Luar fashion show during New York Fashion Week February 2023 at Faurschou Foundation in Brooklyn on February 15, 2023 in New York City. (Photo by Hippolyte Petit/FilmMagic)

LUAR - "Calle pero elegante" FW23
Original Music by Gatekeeper
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COLLABORATIONS VIDEO WORKS

THE MAW OF by RACHEL ROSSIN



A transmedia story — a narrative unfolding across multiple platforms and formats about the coming together of flesh, machine, cognition, and code provoked by current research into brain-computer interfaces.

Installed at the Tieranatomisches Theater in Berlin via
and online via
The Whitney KW On Location by Rachel Rossin (*1987, US)
Original Music and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross THE MAW OF
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all things under dog where two things become one

Performance Space New York, New York, US
Original music and Spatial Sound by Aaron David Ross

In all things under dog, where two things are always true, Monica Mirabile looks at the ‘mafia’ as an outlaw ecosystem rising from a lack of resources to cultivate a support structure. Working on a therapeutic level within this architecture, Mirabile builds out a collapsing of time from the combined personal histories of the performers and herself—working through questions of grief, trauma, support, and ultimately resilience in family systems and the society they are influenced by. all things under dog travels through symbolic representations of a house—with five distinct rooms dividing The Keith Haring Theatre—and a black hole. Heightening the intimacy of the work, the audience, viewing the piece in small groups, move through the rooms with the performance.

all things under dog where two things become one
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ADR COLLABORATIONS FILM SOUNDTRACK

Songs Im Trying to Remember

Zsela, Bonaventure, ADR, Korakrit Arunanondchai - A Song for Order
Seraphim - On It
ADR - Rat Roast
Bonaventure - Dance Together
Yen Tech - Lazarus Pit
Seraphim - Do you see the Naga
Wuttipong Leetrakul - As the plane lands on Jeju Island
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Seraphim - Hugs of the Bangkok Boys Remix
ADR - The data is alive but its stuck in a loop
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Field Recording (Garden of Eden)
Grandpa - Im Happy to Know Youll Be There Waiting For Me
Seraphim - Good Morning (Acid)
ADR - Welcome to a world of ghosts
Korakrit Arunanondchai, Seraphim, Physical Therapy - Bangkok City City (Repitch)
Jaki Doyka - Songs for Dreaming
Bonaventure - Watch Together
ADR, Yen Tech - Slime Quest
ADR - Ghost Concerto for Lazerharp
ADR - Words Make Worlds
Mythless - For Joe
Seraphim - Heaven
ADR - There Must be Something More (confronted by a cross)
Seraphim - Bubbles Move No One
ADR - Funeral March Songs from films by Korakrit Arunanondanchi, released on Legendarium November 2021 USB Object + Digital
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let all the poisons that lurk in the mud seep out

Record engineering, mixing & audio production for Kelsey Lu on the Colbert Show

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COLLABORATIONS LAFAWNDAH WORKS

OLD PRAYER

OLD PRAYER Lili Boulanger's composition"Old Buddhist Prayer, 1917
"Reimagined by Lafawndah, Aaron David Ross & Nightfeelings
Latency Records, 2020
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FOREIGN CAR EXHAUST DIFFUSION

Kelsey Lu - Foreign Car

From Kelsey Lu "Blood Transfusion"
Columbia Records, 2019

(NAR x ADR Exhaust Diffusion Rework)
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M.Y.R.I.A.D.

Pulling from long-standing fascinations with film and television tropes, abstract sculpture, game ephemera, poetry, apocryphic histories, internet esoterica, and philosophies of being, MYRIAD generates a conceptual spectrum that is as much a speculation on the unthinkable future as it is an allegory for the current disquiet of a civilization out of balance with its environment.

Live performances in venues internationally, including the Park Avenue Armory, The Barbican, The Roundhouse, and Disney Hall

M.Y.R.I.A.D.

Oneohtrix Point Never's live ensemble featuring Daniel Lopatin, Kelly Moran, Eli Keszler & Aaron David Ross
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LAFAWNDAH – ANCESTOR BOY

Released March 2019 on Concordia
Created by Lafawndah, Nick Weiss, L-vis 1990 & Aaron David Ross ANCESTOR BOY Lafawndah’s journey to her current incarnation as a devotional pop polymath has wound as unpredictably as her compositional style. Her traversing of musical and artistic milieus has been defined by a freedom of tone, surrealist sense of space, and assured manipulation of formal and psychological tension.
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SOULMATES™ – COMPATIBILITY

The SoulMates Archive™ is an ever-expanding collection of songs uncovered through the travels of Adaron and Nico; a gecko and corgi whose friendship and fanaticism guide them across the cosmos. After developing BassGas™, a subwoofer-powered form of renewable fuel, the friends find themselves in frictionless perpetual motion; scouring the most remote corners of the galaxy for rare artifacts in the form of lossless MP3s. The Soulmates Archive™ represents the first time these relics are distributed for public consumption, now offering earth-based lifeforms the choicest editions in the pantheon for their streaming pleasure.

SoulMates Compatibility EP featuring Aaron David Ross (ADR) + Nick Weiss (Nightfeelings)
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COLLABORATIONS MIXES WORKS

SOULMATES – DRIVER DREAMS MIXFILE

SoulMates

Driver Dreams Mixfile for Rinse.fm
Aaron David Ross (ADR) + Nick Weiss (Nightfeelings)
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LUAR – CORPORATIVO

Runway original soundtrack by
Aaron David Ross + Gatekeeper LUAR - CORPORATIVO FW 2018 In Raul Lopez’s Corporate America, Men Wear Skirts and Dresses to the Office"
- Vogue
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COLLABORATIONS FILM SOUNDTRACK WORKS

GROUND ZERO

Projected onto a large transparent screen bisecting the Schinkel Pavillon, the film Being Human (2019) forms a three-dimensional hypertext for a collection of original paintings and sculptures by some of Sri Lanka’s foremost contemporary artists, purchased from one of the capital Colombo’s most influential commercial galleries and presented by Thomas and Kuhlmann as a show-within-a-show. Shot in Sri Lanka, their film traverses documentary and fiction. It features Thomas’ uncle (a family hero who founded the Centre for Human Rights in Tamil Eelam), a well-known painter, a famous pop star and a young Tamil artist—some of them algorithmically synthesized characters—who take the viewer on an elliptical journey around the island, from the fallout of the Sri Lankan Civil War to the biennale founded in its aftermath. Exploring the interrelationship between contemporary art and human rights in an era of technological acceleration, Ground Zero reflects upon issues of individual authenticity, collective sovereignty and what it means to be "human" when machines are able to simulate human understanding ever more convincingly.

"GROUND ZERO"

by Christopher Kulendran Thomas + Annika Kuhlmann
Original Music and Sound Design by Aaron David Ross

at Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
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KELELA – JUPITER

KELELA

"JUPITER"

from "Take Me Apart"
The debut album from Kelela