Hidhawk y Pánica, Yucca Valley Intertribal Noise Symposium

YVML hosted the Yucca Valley Intertribal Noise Symposium from Sept 19 - 21, 2025, a groundbreaking event celebrating contemporary Indigenous sonic art, curated by renowned native artist and scholar Nathan Young. The symposium featured Indigenous, Filipina-American and Chicano film screenings, poetry, discussions, and immersive sound performances. This gathering will amplified Indigenous voices, explored land-based sonic practices, and fostered cultural exchange in our hi-desert setting.

Hidhawk y Pánica worked to dissect creative embodiment and collective practices of processing broader socio-political issues at a personal, intuitive, and physical level. Experimenting with the notion of affected environments, their work considers languages of resistance, deconstruction in movement, healing in protest, and soundscapes in noise. Hidhawk y Pánica are current Mellon Foundation grant recipients for their continuous work with nettnettradio, the Borderlandnoise performance series, and Area Zero workshops and itinerant radio lab in and around the California and Baja California region.