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Palmerie builds community and advances local artistic practice through explorations in sound, music, and attentive listening. The project is rooted in supporting curious listeners, musicians, and sound artists to connect, grow their practices, experiment, and exchange ideas.
As Palmerie, Kara Gionfriddo and Adam Engle have been facilitating collaborative practice, workshops, and public performances in and around Santa Fe, New Mexico since 2023.
We are devoted to working alongside local artists and organizers for a rich, thoughtful, and expansive local sound culture.
NEWS & EVENTS
ONGOING SERIES
PAST EVENTS
The Sound Studio and Guesthouse are the residential spaces that support Palmerie’s work. They are home to ongoing community series, our personal practices and projects, workshops, and residency / rehearsal / teaching / recording space for artists visiting Santa Fe.
For bookings please reach out to us here.
SOUND STUDIO
professional sound studio and rehearsal space designed for experimentation, practice, and focused creative work.
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GUESTHOUSE
private, fully-equipped accommodation adjacent to the sound studio.
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RESIDENCY PROGRAM
self-guided residency in Santa Fe, NM for sound artists & musicians seeking time, space, and focus.
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NEWS & EVENTS
DRONE CLUB
4.5.2026
ONGOING SERIES
DRONE CLUB
Drone Club occurs monthly at the Palmerie sound studio. It is a safe space for all skill levels from curious to experienced to come and have fun and explore timbre, tunings, intervals, and duration. No musical experience necessary. Drone Club is always free.
HOUSE BAND
House Band is a collaborative group of local musicians and sound artists who meet biweekly to workshop and practice historic scores and new pieces/works by members of the group; it is an exploration in ensemble playing. The band also serves to build an extended network of players to perform experimental pieces and advance our local experimental music community in Santa Fe.
JUST INTONATION STUDY GROUP
This self-directed group meets biweekly for an investigative and practical examination of harmonic series-based tunings. Studies include: listening to current and historic recordings, researching tuning concepts and techniques, and sounding ratio-based intervals with voice and instruments.
ECHO CAMP
Echo Camp is an annual weekend residency and public show at Echo Amphitheater in Carson National Forest. It is an experimental opportunity for an intimate group to spend three days camping and exploring the acoustic space of the amphitheater and surroundings through activation and field recording. The program also includes an afternoon of public site-specific performances in the amphitheater. Echo Camp 2026 will take place 9.18.26 - 9.20.26.
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NEW MEXICO FIELD RECORDING SOCIETY
PAST EVENTS
ECHO CAMP 2025
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Echo Camp was a weekend residency at Echo Amphitheater in Carson National Forest in September 2025. It was an experimental opportunity for a group to spend three days camping and exploring the acoustic space of the amphitheater and surroundings through activation and field recording. Programming included ecoacoustic and field recording-focused workshops. A public program on Saturday featured five site-specific performances by local musicians and sound artists. The weekend was Palmerie and volunteer-run and free of charge, apart from camping and parking fees paid to the Carson National Forest.
ASPEN VISTA SHOW
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Co-presented with Santa Fe Noise Ordinance (SFNO), the 2025 Aspen Vista show featured a public sound walk of performances and installations through high aspen meadows in the Santa Fe National Forest. In addition to their instruments and voices, performers utilized the natural topography, human-built wooden structures, and weather conditions present at the site to facilitate dynamic acoustic and visual experiences.
DRONE PICNIC
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The picnic gathered Drone Club players to improvise in an outdoor setting for the first time, in the arid foothills of the Sangre de Cristo mountains. Organized to develop social bonds between players and celebrate the first anniversary of Drone Club, the event also cemented the group’s interests and commitment to site-specific explorations.
A TRIBUTE TO PHILL NIBLOCK
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Co-presented with the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Santa Fe and Santa Fe Noise Ordinance (SFNO), A Tribute to Phill Niblock (1933 - 2024) brought together over 20 musicians from Northern New Mexico to honor the artist’s practice with a new improvisational long-form microtonal drone composition (performed by members of Drone Club), an homage to Niblock’s own marathon performances. A presentation of Steve Reich’s Pendulum Music (1968) was performed, and the event ended with a multi-channel durational screening of Niblock’s films from Movement of People Working (1972 - 1991) that played into the night.
LISTENING TO PLACE
2023_2024
Listening to Place was a series designed to facilitate sonic engagement in a group setting with our surrounding Northern New Mexico environment (whether a tract of public forest, a wetland preserve, or an historic adobe church in Santa Fe). The series encouraged participants to develop creative bonds and exchange with the place where we live, through careful listening, ecological relationship-building, and site-specific experimentation and practice.