KAYLA ELROD
AWARDS
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2024 Goethe Institute Culture Moves Europe Mobilty Grant, Berlin to Murcia
LODE Collective
2023 Initiative für Neue Musik (INM)
Project funding, Berlin
"Hold-for-Three" in collaboration with Lottie Sebes
2023 EDIII Scholarship for Theatrical Intimacy Education
2022 Kultur Räume Berlin
Funded Project Space for Professional Artists
2021 Music Board Berlin Grant Recipient
Karriersprungbrett Berlin
Sonic Curiosities Collective
2021 Communicator Awards Distinction
Features-Storytelling for Podcasts
Social Cognition in Autism with Dr. Sue Fletcher-Watson and Dr. Catherine Crompton
Stories of Impact Podcast
Mix and Master
2021 Communicator Awards Distinction
Individual Episodes - Science & Medicine for Podcasts
Social Cognition in Autism with Dr. Sue Fletcher-Watson and Dr. Catherine Crompton
Stories of Impact Podcast
Mix and Master
2020 MARCOM Gold Award
Whales and Aliens
Stories of Impact Podcast
Mix and Master
2020 MARCOM Gold Award
Series Overall
Stories of Impact Podcast
Mix and Master
2019 Voice Arts Award
Sound Design
Othello by William Shakespeare
Blackstone Audio and OSF
Script Adaptation, Sound Design, Post production & Mixing/Mastering
2018 Voice Arts Nominee
Outstanding Production
Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare
Blackstone Audio and OSF
Post Production, Mixing
2018 Voice Arts Award
Best Narrator
Nobody Knows My Name by James Baldwin, read by Kevin Kenerly
Blackstone Audio
Director, Recording Engineer
2017 Voice Arts Nominee
Outstanding Production
Richard II by William Shakespeare
Blackstone Audio
Post Production, Mixing
2016 Flixx Fest
Best Emerging Artists
Love Affair With Square
Artistic Consultant, Sound Engineer
2016 Voice Arts Nominee
Best Narrator
Just Above My Head by James Baldwin,
read by Kevin Kenerly
Director, Recording Engineer
2016 Voice Arts Nominee
Outstanding Production
Pericles by William Shakespeare
Post Production, Mixing
2016 A Library Journal Audio-in-Advance Pick
The Beach at Night by Elena Ferrante
Sound Designer
2016 AudioFile Earphones Award
Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone by James Baldwin, read by Kevin Kenerly
Blackstone Audio
Director, Recording Engineer
2016 Washington Post Best Audiobook
Black Elk By Joe Jackson, read by Traber Burns
Blackstone Audio
Director, Recording Engineer
2015 Voice Art Award, Outstanding Audio Engineering
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Blackstone Audio
Assistant Audio Engineer
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE
2020-Present Talkbox Productions, Mix and Mastering Engineer
2018-Present Freelance Engineer / Sound Designer
2018 Spoke Media, Post Production
2016-2017 Relative Being Productions, Founder
2015-2016 PodcastOne Thrilling Tales, Recording Engineer, Sound Designer
2016-Present Freelance Artist
2014-2018 Blackstone Audio Ink, Recording Engineer
2014-2018 KSKQ Community Radio, DJ, Co-Host, Music Director
EDUCATION
2022 Master of Arts, Sound Studies and Sonic Arts, UdK Berlin
2020 TWIS Fall Intensive Vocal Workshop
2015 Studio Production Certification, RVTV, Southern Oregon University
2014 Bachelor of Science, English and Writing, Southern Oregon University
Magna Cum Laude
2011 Associates of Arts, Arts and Humanities, Los Rios Community College
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO:
2021 In the likeness of, Schöneberger Art Week, Berlin, DE
2021 In the likeness of, Kulturhaus Schwartzsche Villa, Berlin, DE
2020 Exploration in Parts: Part Legs, Aperto Raum, Berlin, DE
2020 Space Leaks, SoundSAbout Gallery, Berlin, DE
GROUP:
2023 Touch Me LOUD, LODED BODIES, Errant Sound, Berlin, DE
2022 Failed Escape, SPEICHERn, Potsdam, DE
2022 PLZ KRUSH, UdK Masters Thesis Exhibition, Berlin DE
2022 1,000 Years, HUMP! Film Festival, USA
2021 Deep Digital Space Listening, Online Listening Experiment, Berlin, DE
2021 Windows in two parts, Collegium Hungaricum Berlin, Berlin, DE
2020 Alone Time: An Exercise in Self Voyeurism, SoundsAbout Short Streaming Film Festival, about.sounds.berlin
2020 Wheel of Fortune, SoundSAbout Gallery, Berlin, DE
2019 Get Me Here, Water~Sound~City SoundSAbout Gallery, Berlin, DE
2019 Happy Birthday, A Hi-Fi Wasteland, Berlin, DE
2019 Underwater Trabi Safari, Tropez Gallery Berlin Art Week, Berlin, DE
2019 1,000 Years, Pussy Power, Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2019 Othello, OSF Audio Theater, Ashland, Oregon, USA
2019 ORDER # 113-9681496-3969028, HFBK Installation, Hamburg, DE / 2020 Digital Soup, Boston, MA, USA
2019 Experiment 2039475t982, UdK Final Artistic Practice Exhibition, Berlin, DE
2018 Detour, Public Sound Installation, Berlin, DE
2018 You’re Cool, ARGH Show, Berlin, DE
2018 CAST, b4sex.org Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY, USA
2016 Square Struggles, Thorndike Gallery, Ashland Oregon, USA
2016 Love Affair With Square II, Oregon Fringe Festival, public performance, Ashland Oregon, USA
2016 Love Affair With Square, Flixx Festival, Ashland Oregon, USA
2016 Map Unaided, Blackfish Gallery, Portland Oregon, USA
PERFORMANCES
2024 K+K, Centro Párraga, Murcia, ES
2024 LODE Lemonade, Dinero, Murcia, ES
2023 Hold for Three, Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, DE
2023 K+K, Probensall UdK, Berlin, DE
2023 Cum Stick Boys Bathroom Concert, Berlin, DE
2023 Dwellers, CHB Berlin, DE
2023 K+K, Trixxxter Berlin, DE
2022 Cum Stick, Petersberg Art Space (PAS), Berlin, DE
2022 Cum Stick, Loophole, Berlin, DE
2021 Bald Eve, Countdown Grabowsee Residency, Brandenberg, DE
2021 Strand Straße, Public Performance, Berlin, DE
2020 Within the Shell, Public Performance, Sassnitz, DE
2020 Cymbal Improvisation No. 1, SoundSAbout, Berlin, DE
2020 Temple Mall, Public Performance, Berlin, DE
2020 Space Leaks, Berlin, DE
2019 Maniac, Sonic Curiosities II, Berlin, DE
2019 Partition Composition I: Seen in Parts, Voice in Performative Settings, Berlin, DE
2019 The Red Ink Ones, SoundsAbout, Berlin, DE
RESIDENCIES
2024 AADK Centro Negra, Blanca, ES
2021 Countdown Grabowsee, Brandenburg, DE
2020 DIY Residency, Island of Rügen, DE
PUBLICATIONS
2023 SPEICHERN, Katalog anlässlich der Ausstellung, Kunstraum Potsdam
2021 PASCAL, Universität der Künste Berlin
2020 water≈sound≈city, Francisco Petrucci
INTERVIEWS
2024 Conversation with LODE mediated by Aurora Rodriguez, Dinero, Murcia, ES
2021 Podcast Schwartzsche Villa Folge 05