CODY W. PERKINS
ALGORYTHM.CODE
Composer · Interdisciplinary Artist · Sound Designer · Cultural Technologist
Los Angeles-based composer and interdisciplinary artist working across sound, dance, performance, installation, opera, film, creative coding, and archival practice.
EDUCATION
2025–Present
California Institute of the Arts
MFA, Art and Technology
2025
California State University, Dominguez Hills
B.A., Audio Engineering
2012
Academy of Art University
Photography Studies
2008
Alexander Hamilton Music Academy
Classical piano, voice, dance, and electronic music training
SELECTED PROJECTS
2026
MOTHERBOARD / MOTHERBOARD II
Creator, composer, and interactive media designer
Responsive installation and dance-centered performance exploring Black memory, femme care, sound, technology, archive, and ritualized interaction.
2025–2026
ROTA FORTUNAE
Composer, writer, and interdisciplinary artist
Experimental opera combining house, classical, hip-hop, gospel-inflected harmony, projection, staging, and movement.
2025
STRAWBERRY STANLEY
Artist and composer
Performance, soundscape, projection, and dance work inspired by the artist’s father and Black Southern-to-Los Angeles migration.
2025
RENT PARTY
Creator, DJ, producer, and curator
Broadcast and community storytelling project rooted in Black sonic traditions and mutual-aid history.
2026
MOTHER WORLD
Lead artist, composer, and creative technologist
Environmental sound shrine using sensors, solar power, responsive light, and meditative sound.
2026
CAPACOCHA PROJECT
Director and composer
Research-based film and sound project exploring sacrifice, selection, rejection, belonging, fate, and survival.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES, EXHIBITIONS, AND COMMISSIONS
2026
What Hangs, What Shapeshifts Between Worlds and Time
Brianna “BJ” Mims / Marooning Bodies
Audubon Center at Debs Park, Los Angeles
Live Music
2025
Echoes of the Riot
V.C.R / Black Reconstruction Collective
Art + Practice Exhibition Space, Los Angeles
Sound Performance Artist / Collaborator
2025
Strawberry Stanley / Judith Center Grand Opening
The Judith Center, Los Angeles
Artist / Performer
2025
Patient Zero
Vanessa Hernández Cruz
LAPP’s LAX Micro Fest / Pieter Performance Space
Original Score / Sound Architect
2025
BLACK City: There’s A Riot Goin’ On
Yolande Daniels / Black Discourse / Black Reconstruction Collective
Score
2024
Ebb & Flow: Exposition Park
Heidi Duckler Dance
Featured Artist / Composer / Performance Artist
2024
ABUNDANCE / Let Your Spirit Fill This Place
LACE at L.A. Dance Project
Featured Performance and Sound Artist
2024
Infinite Rehearsal Closing Event
ICA LA / No)one. Art House
Live Music and Guided Movement Meditation
2023
The Breaks / STEALTH MODE
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Hammer Museum / Made in L.A. 2023
Composer
2023
The Horse
Chris Emile / Long Beach Opera
Composer and Sound Designer
2022
with myself
Shauna Davis / La MaMa, New York
Sound Design
2020
No Sesso: A Vignette of the Renaissance on 24th Street
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Music Support / Performance Sound
SELECTED RELEASES AND BROADCASTS
2024
ICAME
10-track album released as Algorythm.Code
2024
OXTAIL.
Experimental mix; artist, producer, and composer
2023
Take Time
Dublab archive mix; DJ, producer, and curator
2022
THE HORSE
NTS / Chris Emile
Sound architect and collaborator
SELECTED PRESS AND RECOGNITION
Vogue
Vice
Office Magazine
Forbes
Selected for REDCAT New Original Works series, November 2026
SKILLS
Composition · Sound Design · Recording · Mixing · Live Performance · Vocal Production · Audio Restoration
Ableton Live · Pro Tools · Adobe Premiere Pro · After Effects · SP-404
TouchDesigner · Max for Live · Arduino · Sensors · OSC · Interactive Media Prototyping
Creative Direction · Projection Design · Archival Research · Curriculum Development · Youth Mentorship