
RM Francis is an artist based in Queens working with computer-generated sound and language via recording, installation, and performance. His practice foregrounds computation-based compositional strategies, focusing on methods that exploit discrepancies between human and artificial auditory systems. His current work exploits latent phonological data extracted from non-linguistic sound in order to generate the tonal, rhythmic, and semantic content of synthesized speech. The resulting asubjective narration articulates the potentialities of speech decoupled from embodied human expression, navigating between abstract sound and uncanny characterological specificity.
His oeuvre spans multimedia work incorporating sound, video, performance, and chocolate (Hyperplastic Other, 2017), investigations of historical computer synthesis methods (A Taxonomy of Guffaws, 2020), procedural text works for a chorus of synthetic voices (Every Single Person Has Some Muscle, 2022), and hallucinatory duets between dictation apps and deep learning networks (pedimos un mensaje, 2023, and H E L L O After-Person, 2025). In addition to his solo projects, in recent years he has collaborated with Jack Callahan & Jeff Witscher, Jung An Tagen, and farmersmanual, among others.
Future
- August 29–October 25, 2026: “Het Hallerbos” (with Lawrence McGuire) in Textura at West, The Hague
- September 4, 2026: Studio Artificiel, Montreal
Past
- March 27, 2026: Gallery 1412, Seattle
- January 29, 2026: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- November 15, 2025: Fidget Space, Philadelphia
- November 14, 2025: The Voxel, Baltimore
- October 18, 2025: Wave Archive, Tucson
- October 17, 2025: Bread & Salt, San Diego
- October 14, 2025: Trade School, Los Angeles
- October 10, 2025: High Desert Soundings, Wonder Valley
- October 9, 2025: Arizona State University, Tempe
- July 15, 2025: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- June 23, 2025: Bad Bar, Seattle
- March 22, 2025: Moscow Contemporary, Moscow, ID
- March 21, 2025: WSU Planetarium, Pullman
- March 21, 2025: WSU Libraries Terrell Atrium (lecture), Pullman
- November 16, 2024: Center for Performing Arts, Minneapolis
- November 15, 2024: Common Sage, Madison
- November 14, 2024: Tritriangle, Chicago
- October 26, 2024: Triest, New York
- September 27, 2024: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- August 30, 2024: Gallery 1412, Seattle
- July 20, 2024: Parken, Vienna
- July 12, 2024: P3 Annihilation Eve, Manchester
- July 11, 2024: Wharf Chambers, Leeds
- July 10, 2024: Hotelier, Porto
- July 6, 2024: Cosmos Campolide, Lisbon
- June 24, 2024: Panke, Berlin
- June 23, 2024: Asimmetric, Cologne
- June 22, 2024: Aquarium, Leipzig
- June 19, 2024: WURM, Basel
- June 18, 2024: KULTUM, Graz
- May 30, 2024: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- May 18, 2024: The Lab, San Francisco
- May 17, 2024: Indexical, Santa Cruz
- April 26, 2024: Silverfish, Portland, ME
- April 25, 2024: AS220 Black Box, Providence
- April 24, 2024: Cold Spring Hollow, Belchertown
- April 23, 2024: Music Under the Moon, WCUW 91.3 FM, Worcester
- April 20, 2024: Pageant:Soloveev, Philadelphia
- April 19, 2024: Red Room, Baltimore
- April 18, 2024: Rhizome, Washington, D.C.
- April 13, 2024: Revolve, Asheville
- April 12, 2024: Cine, Athens, GA
- October 27, 2023: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- September 1-30, 2023: “Hello, Bipster,” Kolonia Artystów, Gdańsk (installation with Jung An Tagen)
- April 14, 2022: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- March 11, 2022: “Impossible Listening” (talk), Algorithmic Art Assembly, Gray Area, San Francisco
- March 10, 2022: Algorithmic Art Assembly, Gray Area, San Francisco
- October 19, 2020: Imaginary Network Topologies, twitch.tv/2xmono
- February 25, 2020: extra.resonance.fm, guest mix on Conditional
- February 10, 2020: Mills College, Oakland
- February 9, 2020: The Secret Alley, San Francisco
- February 7, 2020: Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles
- September 7, 2019: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- September 6, 2019: Leaven Community Center, Portland
- August 23, 2019: Patchwerks, Seattle
- May 30, 2019: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- March 30, 2019: S1, Portland
- August 29, 2018: in "H (Hallway, extended mix)" by LIMITS, Yellow Fish Durational Performance Art Festival, LoveCityLove, Seattle
- August 25, 2018: Coaxial Arts, Los Angeles
- August 24, 2018: Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana
- August 23, 2018: The Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco
- August 20, 2018: Studio Grand, Oakland
- August 18, 2018: Color Therapy, Portland
- August 16, 2018: The Toast, Vancouver
- August 11, 2018: The Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- February 3, 2018: Network ensemble performance with Mesh Collaborative, Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- January 6, 2018: Gallery 1412, Seattle
- November 30-December 2, 2017: Sound spatialization for Befort & Graczyk's Rose Blue, with Jason E Anderson, Base, Seattle
- October 22, 2017: H0L0, NYC
- October 21, 2017: Icebox Project Space, Philadelphia
- October 20, 2017: Red Room, Baltimore
- October 6, 2017: Gallery 1412, Seattle
- May 20, 2017: Leaven Community Center, Portland
- May 19, 2017: Timbre Room, Seattle
- May 6, 2017: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- August 27, 2016: S1, Portland
- August 26, 2016: Chapel Performance Space, Seattle
- July 22, 2016: Gallery 1412, Seattle
- April 3, 2016: Broadcast of 1-hour in-studio performance on Sonarchy, KEXP.org (90.3 FM), Midnight-1am