2024 Playlist

a circle of low white walls surrounds a sound installation in the desert in bright daylight
a circle of low white walls surrounds a sound installation in the desert, lit up with blue and white LED lights at night

2024 was a landmark year for UNPOP. For the first time, we ran the installation via 100% solar power instead of a gasoline generator, which not only increased the sustainability of the piece but also made its operation silent! UNPOP opened on Sunday, August 25, and began running each night with just a few technical snags interrupting our first nights. By Wednesday, we judged that we had the power capacity and enough protection from heat that we could run the piece 24 hours, so for the first time UNPOP played all day and night. As in 2022, we used an algorithm to generate a randomized playlist, ensuring that all pieces were played the same number of times while also ensuring that no piece was repeated too closely together.

a circular sound installation in the desert with a large bank of prominent solar panels, in bright daylight
a circular sound installation in the desert with a large bank of prominent solar panels, lit up by white and blue LED lights at night


This year our collection grew to 145 total pieces, created by 106 different composers (or teams). A list of all of the played pieces for 2024 follows:

ArtistTitle of Work
Alejandro AlbornozThe Light
Nico ArnaezElectrofuga
Nico ArnaezEl Lenguaje de la Piel
Cindy Bakerthings i've forgotten
Jon BellonaLying In Fireflies Beside Brown Curls
Christopher BiggsNew Year's Eve
Olivia BlockDissolution
Beth BradfishCatch Your Breath
Serge BulatInkblot
Rachel BullerWinter Walking
Landon CaldwellBLOOM
Landon CaldwellRings
Raylene CampbellLanding 23
Nicole CarrollIn The Liminal Space
Anna ChaurizeVoce
Ted CoffeyPetals 8
Nick Collins8
Nicolas CollinsImmortal Coil
Darren CopelandWhile Working and Walking
Ian CrutchleyFontana Mix
Troy CruzHighway Hypnosis
Luke DahlAssessment Postponement Nexus No. 5
Shawn DeckerMare
Shawn DeckerRusk
Wayne DeFehr, Linn R. Friberg, Jon Shuemaker, Danica Hoffart, Trevor DePagieFloating for a Time
Hou Lam Wu (Eagle)Fragile
Frank EkebergHyperthermic
Barbara EllisonCybersongs Excerpt
Barbara EllisonFairsinge Series
EvidenceGo Where Light Is
EvidenceThe Way In
EvidenceVisuals
Vincent FillionDensifications
Vincent FillionStridulations
Hugo Flores GarciaWorld of Mouth
Hannah FoerschlerOver Under
forceghosta.m. funk
forceghostattention (a tension)
forceghostwhere does the time go?
Rob FunkhouserIris
Rob FunkhouserSpace Station
Brian GarbetWould You Like Fries With That?
Jeffrey Nils GardnerFive Twenty Three AM
Thierry GauthierAmbient Background Spectrum
Madhav GheiPartial Occluder
Russell GillespieCenter
Big Pal (Doug Barber, Patrick Glennon, Chrystine Rayburn)Florets
Big Pal (Doug Barber, Patrick Glennon, Chrystine Rayburn)Under The Mind/Tacky Airport Swag
Lyn GoeringerLouhi
Mark HannessonChorale
Louise Harrissys_m1
Florian HartleibVerzweigung
Olive HaughRemakings
Olive HaughSolar Winds
Helene HedsundKlinga
Jullian HoffMachine In The Shell
Hu YuUndo
Anthony JanasWhen The Sunshine Acid Turned Sour
Whitney JohnsonPlasmaether
Jonesy JonesPurgatory Park
Jonathan KawchukEverywhen
Kertayuda & Bill ParodYudha Hati
Panayiotis KokorasQualia
Mikel KuehnDancing In The Ether
Sébastien LavoieThe Four Seasons
Vanissa LawExhaled Rhyme
Felix Lebrun-PareLa Volonte du Periscope
Fiona LeeHorizon
Han geul LeeSuperdensity Noir
Elainie LilliosHastening Toward The Half-Moon
Elainie LilliosContemplating Larry
Elainie LilliosListening Beyond
localStyleIgnis Noster
Stephanie LovelessSome Day
Francisco LópezUntitled #370
Johnathan D. MartinOpen Doors
Johnathan D. MartinWalkways I – Interchange
Paula Matthusenwithin the social history of saltpeter
Chris MercerCollatz
Chris MercerThe Audible Phylogeny Of Lemurs
Tom MerklingerCaterpillar Cocoon
Christina Masha MilinusicMarmot Meteorite
Alyssa MiserendinoCoancoan
MoldoverFear of Silence
Allen MooreSolar Church
Stephan MooreA Grid Against The Sky
Stephan MooreCaldera
Stephan MooreCalling Up
Stephan MooreDusk in Goa
James MosesOscillator Pond After Dark
Jascha Narveson8-Ply
Jascha NarvesonDoors
Jascha NarvesonPennsylvania Frogs
Frank NiehusmannFragrance
Bill ParodEvening Forest
Bill ParodForest At Raja Berneh
Bill ParodGarnet
Bill ParodLovina Morning
Bill ParodMorning Water
Shawn PinchbeckKoidulinn
Shawn PinchbeckPathways
Sam PlutaEndangered Species
Kasey PociusPiano Dreamscapes I: Winter Rhythms
Kasey PociusPiano Dreamscapes II: Snowglobe Bells
Kasey PociusPiano Dreamscapes III: Ice Flow Isolation
Christophe PreissingAmbiguation
Laurie RadfordVagus II
Brad RobinConsumption
Tommaso Rosatisy
Danilo RossettiSubstâncias Moldáveis
Kelly RuthTranscendant To Space Transcendant To Time
Michael J. SchumacherVague Awareness
Larry ShuenPartials
Andy SlaterOlde Castlemaigne Gaol
Scott SmallwoodColton Swarm
Scott SmallwoodCosimos Stars
Scott SmallwoodFloe
Scott SmallwoodGreen Stone Cylinder
Scott SmallwoodGrove
Stefan Smulovitz68 Paths Canon
Stefan SmulovitzA Constant Sea
StarkPoint Cloud
Eli StineMurmuration No. 5
Colin Sullivan & Chromatest PantsmakerPhoenix Summer Solstice 2022
Colin SullivanLive Demo Spring 2022
Stephen SyverudEIRTH
Stephen SyverudREBORN
Stephen SyverudTIMIN
Gen TanakaHalfway There
Tat ShamWhat Is Your Soundmark Of The Year?
Matt TestBloop
Matt TestViola
Spencer TopelDeus Gratias
Barry TruaxEarth and Steel
Sam TymorekHeliotropic Patterns
Federico VisiThe Desert Changes
Federico VisiUnfolding Clusters
Hildegard WesterkampFür Dich - For You
Hildegard WesterkampInto the Labyrinth
Hildegard WesterkampTalking Rain
Alex YiuAlter Ego
Gayle YoungCascade
Katherine YoungDiligence
Samson YoungBookshelf Music
Lidia ZielińskaInsektarion

an image captured from above of a circle of low white walls surrounding two couches and a sound installation in the desert in daylight, near sunset
an image captured from above of a circle of low white walls surrounding two couches and a sound installation in the desert at night, lit up with white and blue LED lights


You can also check out playlists from previous years.