In 2025, I was asked to join the creative team behind experimental performance sensation, poolboy.

poolboy, created by Sam Mayer, is a live, participatory reality show and experimental memoir investigating queerness, friendship, and community in the age of surveillance capitalism and digital isolation. Blending the voyeurism of reality TV with the intimacy of a house party, we transform non-traditional spaces into sites of radical connection. Our mission is to disrupt digital isolation by empowering audiences as active co-creators, fostering an ephemeral community rooted in joy and anti-algorithmic vulnerability.

As a sound designer I was tasked with managing multiple live and playback inputs that were engaged at will by both performance and audience members. Those were distributed to localized multi-channel outputs across the venue. First as an AV workshop version in October 2025 which will culminated in a full production with multiple performances for Austin’s Fusebox festival in April 2026.

Additionally for the workshop I created an audio reality show-themed recap to bring the audience up to speed on story as they passed through the lobby of Crashbox.

Workshop

Signal Diagram

Rig

Audio Stage Plot

Performance

Full Production

Coming April 2026