About Us
Sravana is an experimental multimedia studio devoted to new sounds, deep listening and training a new generation of sound artists. Born out of the intersection of sound design, technology and research. Hailing from Brave Earth, Costa Rica and formed in 2018, Carl Golembeski and Felipe Viveros came together around a shared passion for sound, music production and live performances. It is this careful fusion of genres that makes Sravana’s work both mesmerising and explosive, pushing the boundaries of music into new dimensions.
Carl Golembeski
Carl is a pioneering sound artist, vocal fx engineer and music producer in various sonic territories. His career began in Pennsylvania in 1999, running ‘Home Base’ a brand new space supporting the local music scene in all its forms. From backyard wrestling to late night psychedelic dance parties with an overall punk/ DIY aesthetic and culture. He then went to study Recording arts at Full Sail in 2003.
In 2004 moved to NYC for a ten year term. During that time with his partners at G2 Audio Solutions they developed early portable Pro Tools playback systems for touring globally, eventually becoming NYC’s major supplier or Pro Tools Systems for live performance playback from 2006- 20015. Carl has toured globally with artists such as Beyonce, Bruno Mars , Carlinhos Brown, Mary J Blige, Hall and Oates, Diddy, Jonas Bros and has served organizations like Ram Dass’ LSR Foundation and Joseph Campbell's audio archives.
For the past 4 years he has worked as Beyonce’s Vocal FX engineer developing a system to take her studio fx seamlessly into a live sound environment for real time control. His passion lies in the discovery of sound itself which has led him on a universal sonic journey in pursuit of the intersection of harmony, love and truth. Carl’s approach to music currently is what he calls “creativity as service” placing the art form and its expression as the priority over the industry standards like deadlines, budgets and marketing.
His recent collaboration with Brazilian artist RĀAE was blossomed from this approach. Studying Symbolic Sound’s Kyma system, the world's most powerful sound computation engine for sound, Carl has had the opportunity to participate in Cristian Vogel and Gustav Scholda’s Never Engine Labs which has developed some of the most contemporary sound design tools in existence as far as he is concerned. Carl is also a partner at Brave Earth, a living laboratory in service to regeneration and co-evolution with nature in Costa Rica.
Carl is a sound artist, vocal fx engineer and music producer in various sonic territories. Originally from Pennsylvania, he has toured globally and collaborated with artists such as Beyonce, Bruno Mars, Carlinhos Brown, Mary J. Blige and Madonna. A polymath and sound forager, Carl’s work seamlessly integrates technology and improvisation; and the voices of the more than human world with electronic music.
Felipe Viveros
Felipe Viveros is a Chilean born multi-media artist, producer, songwriter and composer. Felipe’s work focuses at the intersection of immersive art, ethnomusicology and experimental music.
Gathering experimental research on movement building, deep ecology and post capitalism, his practice focuses on challenging the dominant narratives by centering the voices, knowledge and experience of the global majority--BIPOC communities in the diaspora & and Indigenous perspectives and experiences. Felipe takes particular interest in exploring Indigenous narratives that speak to the spirit of the commons and challenge us to move toward radical relationality with one another and with our planet, as these are already opening up new cultural possibilities. His aim: to shift public narratives and create the conditions for models of collective care, post-extractive, post-anthropocentric—so that art may help us improve our quality of life, rekindle connection to the Earth, and deepen our relationships with one another.
His installations take the form of immersive art, performance, videos and publications which are designed to heal the effects of late capitalism and ecological destruction, while exploring need new ways of being with one another - glimpses of liberatory abolitionist futures that show that other ways are possible. In his practice, Felipe explores multiple epistemologies and many ways of knowing and being: from the myths and ceremonies that have allowed people and the more than human world to converse over millennia to care as an act of renewal and resistance.
From his collaboration with British artist Nick Mulvey to produce the world’s first Ocean Vinyl to his ongoing exploration with acclaimed sound artist artist Marco Perry,Felipe has worked with artists and composers globally.
Recent exhibitions include: Tate Modern (2023), London Design Biennale (2023), Black Earth, Amsterdam (2023), SPATIAL Festival, Berlin (2022), Glastonbury Festival (2022), Medicine Festival (2021).