FETA Water Fest
March 13–14, 2026
The Bridge Miami
4220 NW 7th Ave, Miami, FL 33127
Festival Pass: $15
Students and seniors: $10
FETA Water Fest, in partnership with The Bridge Miami, is a two‑day experimental sound‑art‑and‑technology festival dedicated to drinking water—its sonic life, its cultural presence, and our shared responsibility for its future. The festival features artists including Alex Lough (NJ), Margaret Lancaster (NYC), Troy Rogers (MN), May Klug (MN), Charles Peoples III (VT), Paula Matthusen (CT), Jeniffer Beattie (NC), Nicole Martinez (FL), Quiana Major (FL), Xavier Cortada (FL), Juraj Kojš (FL), Jose Hernandez Sanchez (FL) and Dimitry Chamy (FL). Additional programming includes a session on water quality in beverages with Todd Space (Master Brewer Academy) and the Best Miami Tap Water Tasting Competition with Rodrigo Anglarill (SIP House of Water).
Adults are approximately 50–60% water, yet national data indicate that nearly one‑third of U.S. adults are underhydrated on any given day. FETA Water Fest invites audiences to listen to water—and refill the gap.
The festival brings drinking water to the center of artistic inquiry, turning listening into care and sound into action. Across two days of performances, installations, conversations, and demonstrations, audiences are invited to hear, feel, and re‑imagine their relationship with water.
At FETA Water Fest, water isn’t a backdrop—it’s a collaborator. We ask: How does the sound of water shape our experience of water itself? Everything touches everything.
In South Florida, drinking water carries the imprint of its journey: treated with chlorine, filtered through porous limestone, and increasingly stressed by pollution and saltwater intrusion. The peninsula’s geology behaves like a slow‑moving instrument—its underground rivers filtering, archiving, and amplifying behavior at the surface. Rain, the purest source, sets the tempo.
Dehydration affects physical energy, cognition, and decision‑making. When water systems are strained, so are our bodies and communities. FETA Water Fest reframes drinking water as a daily practice of care—supported by listening, art, and open access to knowledge.
With the support of FETA, The Bride Miami, Master Brewer Academy, SIP House of Water, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.
Schedule
Friday, March 13
• 6:30–8 PM — Tea Ceremony and Water in Beverages
Demonstration and discussion on the role of water in beverages. Todd Space (Master Brewer Academy).
• 8:30–10:30 PM — Performances & Installations
Opening with an artist perspectives panel.
Saturday, March 14
• 6:30–8 PM — What Do We Drink?
Best Miami Tap Water Tasting Competition, led by master water sommelier Rodrigo Anglarill (SIP House of Water).
• 8:30–10:30 PM — Performances & Installations
Opening with an artist perspectives panel.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Troy Rogers: Drip, squeak, gurgle
The oceans began with a drip. So might their end their finale. Drip, Squeak, Gurgle traces water’s slow accumulation on an adolescent planet — from solitary droplets to vessels, valves, and human throats. Delivered through a deep-time lens, the piece unfolds as a playful hydro-cosmology: gravity composes, mechanisms murmur, and bodies briefly learn to swallow the sea. Between condensation and evaporation lies our improbable, gurgling interval.
Troy Rogers is a composer, sound artist, and instrument builder whose instruments and performances joyfully teeter between mind-bending wonder and catastrophic failure. His Robot Rickshaw is a human-driven cart full of musical robots designed for all-terrain performance scenarios ranging from guerrilla drive-by dadaist street interventions to extended duration post-human dronecore therapy sessions. His work drifts between playful malfunction and geological scale, treating water, breath, and circuitry as co-conspirators. Founder of SubSuperior, an annual underwater music gathering on Lake Superior, he approaches performance as a brief alignment of bodies and forces—an improbable interval in which matter learns to resonate with itself.
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Quiana Major: Converging Boundaries
Tectonic plates push the water into motion. Experience standing waves in Converging Boundaries.
Quiana Major, a black queer southern Rock N’ Roller from Miami, Florida. Her music is an expression of her soul and will take you on a journey of emotions. Quiana is also a skilled experimental electronic musician, exploring the domains of live performance and installation.
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May Klug: Ripples (Feedback System Test)
Using hydrophones to amplify several water bodies, vessels, or sources, May will be experimenting with a feedback and delay system that she has been recently developing. This system contains an analogue delay unit and a digital multi-effects processor that are networked together. This system can create various physical and artificial feedback loops, both from microphone inputs and no-input circuits. The purpose of this system is to allow small sonic events and gestures to ripple out into larger, cascading effects, mirroring the movement of water and the ecological feedback loops that affect our water system.
May Klug is a Minneapolis-based composer/performer and improviser whose deep relationships with pieces of audio equipment and electronic instruments are a bridge through which she explores the networks of technological development, industry, and modern social life. Her performances blend electroacoustic experimentalism with the visual aesthetics of pop, high-femme fashion, and camp theatrics. May’s primary electronic collaborators are Casio CZ-101 synthesizers, through which she generates sounds that capture the natural process of memory loss in volatile RAM. She also has built a variety of feedback systems, and works with Max/MSP. Her work celebrates the agency of these unpredictable machines.
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Alex Lough: Microcosmic Reflection Pool
Alex Lough is: an electronicist; a creative sound designer; a modular enthusiast; a very poor dancer; someone who likes to listen to insects and animals and occasionally attempt to communicate with them; a performance artist (whatever that means); a person who possesses several pieces of paper with various academic credentials; a builder of circuits, software, and swimming pools; a fan of performing in unusual spaces and places, particularly those that are unfriendly to electronic devices such as moats, lakes, forests, beaches, cages, and silos; a person involved in an ongoing and deeply passionate affair with sine tones; and a pretty good chef.
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Charles Peoples III: Sounds of the Aquifer: Miami
Sounds of the Aquifer: Miami is a somatic sonic ritual that traces the journey of a single raindrop from the sky, through the porous Miami Oolite (limestone), and into the Biscayne Aquifer.
Charles Peoples III, founder of The Sonic Changemakers, is an experimental vocalist, performer-composer, and Actors’ Equity theatremaker exploring performance, experimental music, and spirituality. A Dartmouth College MFA graduate, Charles creates immersive, transformative experiences using voice, sound, and technology. Their work has been presented at festivals, theaters, and conferences worldwide, with support from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Bread Loaf, and more.
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Margaret Lancaster: Project: H2ohhhh!!!
Margaret Lancaster will host an interactive game show entitled H2ohhhh!!! which explores the ways in which we use, waste and NEED clean water!
“New-music luminary” (The New York Times) and multi-hyphenate creative, Margaret Lancaster (flutist/performance artist/actor/dancer/amateur furniture designer) has built a large repertoire of cross-disciplinary solo and installation works that employ electronics and mixed media. Performance highlights include Lincoln Center Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, MoMA, Art Basel/Miami, Santa Fe New Music, NIME/Copenhagen, and the 7-year global run of OBIE-winning Mabou Mines Dollhouse (Helene). A member of Either/Or, Ensemble Ipse, Ghost Ensemble, and One System, guest appearances include Argento and the New York Philharmonic. Lancaster is passionate about collaborating, spontaneous dance parties and cellophane.
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Jennifer Beattie: River of Love
River of Love: poetry, love songs & stories that bring us closer to the sacred waters of the River. The story-set includes original poetry, arrangements of “au bord de l’eau” (at the edge of the water) by Gabriel Fauré & “down in the river to pray” (traditional / Allison Kraus); and a performance of “Home” by Paula Matthusen with fixed media crafted from recordings made by the Echo River in Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave.
Jennifer Beattie is a vocalist, poet and composer. She sings old songs, new songs, and really long songs by Mahler with (“warmth”, the New York Times). She is a member of SpacePants, a duo of performer/ composers controlled by Rad Aliens from the Andromeda Galaxy via a 25-ft-long TUBE (w/ violist Diana Wade). She holds a master’s degree in vocal performance from the Manhattan School of Music, is a company member at Opera Philadelphia, and is a regular artist-in-residence with composition and media studies programs, focusing on both writing for the voice and poetry. She creates undisciplinary works with adventurous collaborators, and currently lives and teaches in Raleigh, North Carolina.
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2026, 3m33s single-channel loop with 5.1 surround sound, 16:9 4K
“I was walking down a flooded street on my way to work when I noticed bubbles emerging from cracks in the asphalt. I took out my phone, wondering if at any moment the ground would give way to a sinkhole and I would disappear into a chasm. I wanted to express that underground feeling. Water seeps below working its way underground and refracts and reflects the light by which we come to see our strength. This is a meditation, a moment of rest and resilience before resistance, for all who feel oppressed.” —Dimitry Saïd Chamy
Dimitry Saïd Chamy is a transdisciplinary artist, designer, and socially engaged cultural producer working with hybrid generative systems rooted in collaboration, play, and inquiry. A multiple Miami Individual Artists grant recipient and Oolite Arts Ellies Creator awardee, his work spans exhibitions, film festivals, live performance, and large-scale cultural projects, with presentations at New York Fashion Week, Beijing Design Week, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Lowe Museum, and Locust Projects, where he was also in residence. In 2022, he produced and assistant-curated The BluPrnt Show, featured by The New York Times as emblematic of Miami’s art history and global rise. He designs live scenic visuals, co-founded the audiovisual collective Brian Niños, and performs as VJ 2urn. Chamy holds an MFA in Graphic Design from Yale, has taught at six universities, served as an Erasmus+ Scholar and Honorary Chair in Riga, and is a Co-Founder and Research Associate at the Ratcliffe Art & Design Incubator at Florida International University, in Miami where he is based.
José Hernández Sánchez is a composer whose practice extends beyond music into performance and film. His work weaves sound, text, and image into layered contexts, using their connotations to generate ambiguity and uncertainty as a core artistic strategy.
His work has been presented across North America, Latin America, and Europe at festivals including Electric Eclectics, Subtropics, INC, NWEAMO, Miami Performance Festival. In 2018, Radio Nacional de España devoted a monographic broadcast to his work.
He has lectured on aesthetics, contemporary music, and digital arts internationally and has served as juror for composition competitions, including for New Music USA. He taught composition at Javeriana University in Bogotá, where he also directed the Composition Department.
Based in Miami since 2010, he continues to present work internationally and directs The Sound of Art at MUD Foundation, focusing on experimental music and new technologies.
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Xavier Cortada: Five Actions to Stop Rising Seas: Eat it!
Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American artist whose work transforms public spaces into platforms for community engagement, education, and activism. Inducted into the State of Florida Artists Hall of Fame and appointed as Miami-Dade County’s inaugural Artist-in-Residence, Cortada has been commissioned to create art for the White House, the World Bank, and CERN, among many other art, science, and government venues. Pioneering art for social change, he is also the only artist to create work at both of the Earth’s poles.
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Paula Matthusen‘s work often considers discrepancies in musical space—real, imagined, and remembered. Awards include the Walter Hinrichsen Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Fulbright Grant, two ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composers’ Awards, and the 2014 – 2015 Elliott Carter Rome Prize. Matthusen has also held residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Hambidge, ACRE, create@iEar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, STEIM, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, VCCA, CMMAS, Konstepidemin, Copland House, Composers NOW Residency at Pocantico, the Hambidge Center, and Loghaven. Matthusen is currently Professor of Music at Wesleyan University. Matthusen’s work is available through Innova, Cantaloupe Music, New Amsterdam Records, AntiCausal Systems, Carrier Records, Quiet Design Records, and C.F. Peters.Juraj Kojš: Convo Fountain
Convo Fountain centers water as a living collaborator—an elemental voice that shapes, carries, and transforms sound. Visitors are invited to join a dialogue with this fluid world: a single spoken chirp is immediately entwined with the rush, ripple, and shimmer of flowing water. Through real-time convolution, water becomes both instrument and interpreter, refracting the human voice into something more porous, more aquatic, more shared.
At FETA Water Fest, Convo Fountain becomes a small meditation on interdependence: a reminder that every stream carries stories, every droplet shapes a world, and every voice—human or otherwise—enters the water cycle.
Juraj Kojš (Slovakia/USA) is an artphibian exploring the fields of music, sound art, theater, poetry, mixed media, multimedia, bioacoustics and technologies as a maker and performer. Kojš’s commissions include The Knight Foundation, Meet the Composer, Harvestworks, Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, Miami Theater Center and Live Arts Miami. He received awards at Europe—A Sound Panorama, Eastman Electroacoustic Composition and Performance Competition and the Digital Art Award. Organized Sound, Leonardo Music Journal and Computer Music Journal published his research. Kojš directs FETA Foundation and is an Associate Professor of Professional Practice at the University of Miami’s Frost School of Music. www.kojs.net
