Miles Scharff

Physics and Music Technology, Carnegie Mellon University,

Pittsburgh, PA, (BSA), 2022

Sound Art, Columbia University, New York, NY, (MFA), 2025

Lives and Works in New York, NY

A sound artist and improvisor working with radio electronics, sound sculpture, video, spatial audio, and performance. His current research explores how everyday objects double as involuntary antennas, absorbing and re-broadcasting stray electromagnetic and acoustic signals. Spawned by telecom and other industrial systems, these accidental relay points become unlikely portals for intimate acts of listening. Scharff sees them as case studies along a continuum that stretches from the epistemic rigor of Western science to its détournement by conspiratorial and fringe-spiritualist cultures. He builds devices and software that stage, record, and recontextualize these object–signal interactions, transducing latent fields into audible and kinetic forms; granting physical presence to phenomena that usually escape perception, situating them in relation to our bodies, architectures, and ecologies. His aim is not to affix a definitive truth, but to materialize the unseen so that it can be examined—critically and sensorially—within the complex infrastructures that shape contemporary experience.

Works

Even if something did you would never really know
Even if something did you would never really know, 2025

Copper, steel, conductive fabric, felt, variable electromagnetic receiver, magnets, amplifier, speaker 47 x 47 x 66 in. Photo: Mila Rae Mancuso

Looking Machine
Looking Machine, 2025

Steel, roller chain, sprockets, neo-dymium magnet, machine screws,stepper motors, chromebook screen, acrylic

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