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February 21, 2026
Celloquacious
+ Meridian Alpha
Our inaugural concert was held at FUSION | The Cell –
6:30 doors open
7:00 introductions
7:05 Meridian Alpha performance
7:30 conversation with Jim Coker
of Meridian Alpha
7:40 intermission
8:00 conversation with Keely Mackey-Gonzales of Celloquacious
8:15 Celloquacious performance
9:00 evening concludes
Air Transfiguration
Keely Mackey-Gonzales – known artistically as Celloquacious – is an award-winning cellist, composer, and interdisciplinary performance artist. She has been featured at the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, won multiple New Mexico Music Awards for ambient music, and was twice a semi-finalist in the International Songwriting Competition. Through live-looped cello and electronics, she creates immersive, ritual-inspired performances that invite deep listening, reflection, and connection to place.
Crossing the Orion Trapezium
Jim Coker is a software developer, product designer, visual artist; Meridian Alpha is his musical project. Jim got his start in electronic music at Stanford’s CCRMA computer music group. This sparked a lifelong obsession with electronic and experimental music, eventually leading to the creation of Five12 Inc. and the release of the Numerology sequencing software and the Vector Eurorack-format modular sequencer in the early 2000s.
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About Us
Sandia Soundscapes is a new series of electronic and electro-acoustic music concerts that will escort your imagination on a colorful sonic journey. It will appeal to lovers of ambient, cinematic, downtempo, and other creative, chilled-out non-mainstream styles; fans of jazz, classical, world, and other adventurous music will also find a home at our events.
One of our goals is to weave a closer connection between the audience, artists, and their music. Each performance will start with a discussion about how and why the artist creates their music with their chosen tools. Video cameras and screens will give you a close-up, real-time look at how they create their amazing sonic worlds.
Sandia Soundcapes was co-founded by composers & musicians Chris Meyer (Alias Zone) and Jim Coker (Meridian Alpha).
Our main host for our inaugural season will be FUSION | The Cell at . This 25′ x 50′ space is a flexible “black box” space which we will configure with quadraphonic sound plus video screens so you can enjoy the performances from any seat. Parking at FUSION is free, and street parking is free after 6 PM. Quality bar service is provided for each event by Safe House Distilling Co. and Teller Genuine Vodka.