Hannah Spector
This week, PSO is excited to present a work by Austin-based interdisciplinary artist and poet Hannah Spector. The video still and audio is an excerpt from Spector’s recent seven-channel video and sound installation, entitled if you stare at a cowboy’s face for long enough, it turns into a sunset, at Women and Their Work Gallery in Austin, Texas which was on view September 27-November 16, 2025. The video and sound installation was presented alongside a beautiful selection of their ceramics and prints.
Spector has shown their work at Transformer Gallery (DC), The CAM Perennial (TX), Stoveworks (TN), The Katzen (DC), and Women and Their Work (ATX). Spector’s short films have won prizes at Dumbo Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, and Bodega Film Festival. They have completed residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), Stoveworks (TN), The Museum of Human Achievement (ATX), and MASS Gallery (ATX).
They are an Assistant Professor of Practice at UT Austin and a member of MASS Gallery.
More at HannahSpector.com on Bandcamp
Spector has shown their work at Transformer Gallery (DC), The CAM Perennial (TX), Stoveworks (TN), The Katzen (DC), and Women and Their Work (ATX). Spector’s short films have won prizes at Dumbo Film Festival, Berlin Short Film Festival, and Bodega Film Festival. They have completed residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2024), Stoveworks (TN), The Museum of Human Achievement (ATX), and MASS Gallery (ATX).
They are an Assistant Professor of Practice at UT Austin and a member of MASS Gallery.
More at HannahSpector.com on Bandcamp
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UPCOMING PSO EVENTS
Performance Saturday, March 28, 2026, 11am - 3pmWild for Good Day at Shield Ranch
PSO will perform over a period of two hours as hikers discover our site.
Wild for Good Day is hosted by the Shield Ranch Foundation. By attending a program or reserving the Campsite, you help support El Ranchito and retreat scholarships, conservation efforts, and provide access for small nonprofits to use the Campsite.
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LETS'S MAKE SOMETHING TOGETHER
I love to collaborate, remotely or in person, but if you have a piece you would like to feature on PSO (without contributions by me), by all means, please reach out!Email us at info(at)porchswingorchestra.org
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ABOUT PSO
Porch Swing Orchestra is an art project begun by Barry Stone that explores the interplay between still images and sound.Photographs and musical improvisations build a framework for deep listening and visual contemplation. Barry Stone plays acoustic guitar with a Fahey-inspired picking style mixed in with electronic effects, like My Bloody Valentine for a campfire. The sounds of the outside—bird calls, stray conversations, passing cars—become part of the music.
Stone scrambles the code and layers images taken on-site to produce new imaginaries. We discover fresh ways to see and hear everything.
Since 2018, PSO has collaborated with dozens of musicians, artists, poets, writers, and activists to publish over 240 unique combinations of images and sounds.
Most PSO pieces are made on Stone’s front porch in Austin, Texas, but PSO has traveled to Spiral Jetty in Utah, the border town of Del Rio, Texas, Maine, the San Juan Islands, and performes live in unconventional venues such as the James Turrell Skyspace, The Color Inside as a part of The University of Texas Landmarks Songs in the Skyspace Program.
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PSO JUKEBOX
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Exclusively here at PSO HQ.
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Orchestra Players:
Gregory Brooks, Bob Warner, Emily Scarlet Kramer, Rainey Knudson, Ryan Lauderdale, Tamara Gonzales, Katy Chrisler, Gibson + Recoder, Paul Stautinger, Sarah Hennies, Eric Zimmerman, Matt Bauer, Sandy Carson, Ryan Rhodes, Rebecca Marino, Shannon Spurgeon, Aaron Winslow, Ivy Stone, Mark Menjivar, Gavin Watts, Ryan Sprott, Brad Tucker, Caleb Churchill, John Hunt, Audra Wolowiec, Lauren Grant, Bill McCullough, Henry Smith, Anthony Francis, Xavier Gilmore, Ana Treviño, Ariana Gomez, Jessica Mallios, Thomas Hooper, SKLOSS, The Reformers, Zuriel Waters, Joe Williams, Jason Reed, Adam Henry, Saumon Oboudiyat, Hannah Spector
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