BLACK HOLE  is an artist-run center for audio located in Los Angeles. Our purpose is to create a situation where people can listen to, think, and talk about audio materials that are not possible to experience with widely-distributed audio technologies for home, headphones, or cinema. You can reach us by email: hello@blackhole.la

For nearly a century, audio has been used as a material for art and non-art conditions. Although there is an expansive and internationally produced body of work addressing the medium’s possibilities beyond representations of music and transubstantive affective realism, there have never been widely accessible facilities to render it. Unlike other areas of culture based around people listening (like music or lecturing), there is also no pervasive publisher, no collector, and no hub in the USA for dispersing knowledge even of the experiments produced. We believe that making these materials available is of cultural importance.  

BLACK HOLE is an alternative model for the continuance of this trajectory. Its primary goals are to slowly define a new type of listening space which will function as a research library, a production space, a platform for conversation and inspiration in relation to these materials, creating vectors into civic dimensions of listening and the definition of public space.

BLACK HOLE  is a non-profit with a collectivized financial model. We are funded by small donations made when booking listening Sessions and by individuals and organizations who support our mission and community.

You can donate to Black Hole’s general fund here.

Specifications for our listening room are located here

We acknowledge that we are situated on the ancestral lands of the Tongva and Acjachemen peoples, who have been caretakers of this land for generations. We also acknowledge the unjust displacement of Japanese Americans during World War II, who were forcibly removed and interned, further complicating the history of this area. We recognize that the current ownership of this land is a product of a nation-state framework, established by the United States of America, the State of California, and Los Angeles County that is fundamentally immoral. We suggest that the only just path forward would be to return this land to an unowned system of order, acknowledging the knowledge and ineffable frameworks of understanding that formerly defined this territory, effectively canceling all “deeds” produced by the settler institutions.