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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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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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RED SANDS

On the notorious border of El Paso, Texas and Cd. Juárez, Mexico, an off-road culture thrives in the untamed dunes of the Chihuahuan desert. Red Sands is about the singular identity of an intergenerational community and the scene they’ve created in a desert known for its red hues. The Mexican-American population finds solace through off-roading, using the desert dunes as a canvas to imprint their unique identities. The film follows characters from the past and present reflecting on their journey while headlines of danger loom overhead, threatening the very space in which their identity is rooted. Red Sands pulls the viewer into an exhilarating never-before-seen world, highlighting the resilience and beauty in a place mostly unknown to outsiders.

Directed by Romina Censori
Original Soundtrack by Aaron David Ross

Samples Available Upon Request
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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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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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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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LUAR SS23
La Alta Gama

LUAR - LA ALTA GAMA SS23
Original Music by Gatekeeper
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SOUNDTRACK VIDEO

SONGS FOR LIVING

By Korakrit Arunanondanchi + Alex Gvojic Read more on SONGS FOR LIVING ArtBasel.com Film and Installation shown at Film Festival Rotterdam Carlos Ishikawa Migros Museum Moderna Museet Original soundtrack by Aaron David Ross featuring music by Zsela, Brian Chippendale, and more
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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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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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UNCUT GEMS

Composition, Synthesis & Programming on: Directed by The Safdie Brothers

Starring Adam Sandler, Julia Fox, Idina Menzel

Original Music by Daniel Lopatin, Gatekeeper
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TOGETHER

For the Performa 19 Biennial, New York and Bangkok based artist Korakrit Arunanondchai, in collaboration with boychild, Bonaventure, Alex Gvojic, and Aaron David Ross, will present a performance in the form of an invented reality, collapsing oral storytelling and local mythologies into Thailand’s complex history with the American military, national policies and Buddhist kingship.

Based on Ghost Cinema, a post-Vietnam War ritual in Thailand where outdoor screenings function as communions between the audience and the spirits. Introduced by American soldiers stationed in Thailand who screened films in the forests, creating enigmatic projections which locals attributed to ghosts, the appropriation of the ritual by locals reflects the rich history of military coups and their effect on local folklore and rituals.
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NO HISTORY 5

Opening with the myth of spirits summoning projectionists to initiate an outdoor film projection, artist Korakrit Arunanondchai’s dynamic film is charged with the idea of community — among humans and non-humans — in Thailand’s contemporary moment of instability. Boys trapped in a cave trigger a reflection on the geopolitics of the region and the fragility of its history.The recurring central character, a fictional Thai painter, is depicted in situations that reflect the interaction between traditional beliefs, the natural environment, and developments in the technology, politics, and culture of a changing Thailand. The sculptural installation presented in the Central Pavilion is a series of ‘post-natural’ tree-like forms, while the Arsenale hosts a three-screen installation made with Alex Gvojic (1984, USA).

Film & Installation by Korakrit Arunanondchai & Alex Gvojic
Featuring boychild
Music & Sound Design by Aaron David Ross
Featured in the 2019 Venice Biennale

No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5
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NATURAL GODS

NATURAL GODS

by Korakrit Arunanondchai

Original Music by Aaron David Ross

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This is a nature show about the least natural thing of all: God.

Permanent Collection De Young Museum, San Francisco
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GENRE NON-CONFORMING

GENRE NON-CONFORMING

dis.art exhibition at the DeYoung Museum in San Fransisco, CA

Presented by DIS, Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network is the inaugural exhibition for their streaming platform, dis.art, offering a "DIS-topian" look at the future of education. The installation features a continuous loop of videos on 36 LED screens in the de Young's atrium, highlighting a blend of entertainment and education. This project involved collaborations with numerous international artists and theorists, including Korakrit Arunanondchai, Aria Dean, Ilana Harris-Babou, and Ryan Trecartin, with sound design by Aaron David Ross.
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CULTURESPORT

CULTURESPORT Developed in relative secrecy over the past five years, CULTURESPORT is an animated science fiction web series set inside a sprawling fictional universe—the result of intensive and ongoing collaboration between artists, designers, musicians, actors, dancers, brands, and CULTURESPORT’s in-house creative team.

Music & sound design by Aaron David Ross, Joe Kubler, Jake Merrick, Javier Morales & Rotterdam Terror Corps

Arranged, Mixed & Mastered by Aaron David Ross "ROTTERDAM 95"
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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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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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YOU WASTED A GOOD CRISIS

YOU WASTED A GOOD CRISIS

A Good Crisis features the Night King from HBO’s Game of Thrones discussing the missed opportunity for economic revolution following the mid-2000s global financial crisis. He explains how financiers and CEOs now revel in the feudal frenzy of the “new rentership society,” a term propagated by private equity firms to explain the economic shift that has seen the renter population of the United States soar in the aftermath of the 2008 housing crash.

Created by DIS
Score by Aaron David Ross
Directors of Photography Alex Gvojic and Rory Muhlere
Edited by Anthony Valdez
SFX Supervisor Zanzie Addington-White
SFX Makeup April Townes
Featuring Brett Benowitz, and Jason Kappus