Bi-weekly from 2024 - Present
Photography by
@daniel__everett
@sam_lee.jpg
@linneastephan
Lead producer for a multi-year, airport-wide public arts and music program delivered in partnership with Los Angeles World Airports. Responsible for production planning, technical execution, and institutional compliance across multiple secure environments.
Key Contributions
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Led production for a $1MM programming contract, delivering bi-weekly concerts across LAX terminals
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Served as Authorized Signer, ensuring compliance with airport security, badging, and access protocols
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Coordinated artists, technical vendors, airport operations, and security teams
- Oversaw schedules, documentation, and on-site execution within a high-risk public infrastructure context
Outcomes
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Sustained public cultural programming across one of the world’s busiest airports
- Successfully delivered recurring programs within strict security and operational constrain1ts
Oct 11, 2025
Photos by @jaylavizion, @bosskie, @chriswelchphotography
- Scouted and contracted venue, managed permitting (LAPD, ABC), and technical production across three stages.
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Curated line-up of 21 artist contributors donating performances.
- Recruited and coordinated 70 volunteers to support operations and hospitality.
- Secured in-kind support for production infrastructure and bar service.
- Produced promotional short-form artist interviews used across channels
June 19, 2025
Partners:
Magdalena O’Neal
Bre Jackson
Youth To The People
Ten to One Rum
Topo Chico
Photos by @harpdigitalmedia
- Co-produced a free community Juneteenth Cookout at dublab studios that drew 1,000+ attendees with 8 hrs of DJ programming.
- Integrated food, beverage, and DJ performance to create a culturally resonant, collective celebration.
- Event generated significant press and visibility during dublab’s Membership Drive, including a feature in The LA Times
June 29, 2025
Partners:
Grand Central Market
Photos by @pixostrangers
- Produced a live, multi-artist showcase celebrating AAPI heritage.
- Featuring performances by Patrick Shiroishi, Dustin Wong, and Dylan Fujioka, alongside DJ sets from T-Kay and Mary Nagakawa
- Produced promotional short-form artist interviews used across channels
dublab Creative Cultivation Salon 2025 April 27, 2025
Photos by @byrachelkupfer, @nagakawaii
Curator & Event Producer
- Produced annual salon featuring performances, video installations, talks, and curated cuisine.
- Headlined by musicians Claire Rousay and Sharada Shashidhar with immersive visual work by Alex Pelly and Clayton McCracken and live dialogue featuring Guadalupe Rosales, Noah Klein, Dwight Trible, and Josephine Shetty
- In partnership with Japanese American Cultural Community Center, realized a 180+ attendee evening, generating $5,000+ profit.
Partners:
LAist
LA Phil Insight
Los Angeles Public Library
Lucas Museum of Narrative Art
Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Photos by @sam_lee.jpg
Produced a large-scale, multi-partner cultural takeover of the Los Angeles Central Library, integrating live performance, broadcast media, and installation across a historic civic site.
Key Contributions
- Successfuly proposed 2 live performances, 4 DJ sets, and an immersive multimedia installation
- Managed technical execution, artist logistics, and site-wide production planning
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Supported programming across multiple spaces with distinct technical and operational needs
Outcomes
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Sold out (3,000 capacity)
- Expanded cultural activation of a major public institution
Spring 2025
Collaborators:
Nina Keith
Whisper
Photos by @sam_lee.jpg
Designed and launched dublab’s first formal Artists-in-Residence program, supporting sustained creative research and public presentation.
Key Contributions
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Developed residency structure, timelines, and deliverables
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Coordinated artist support, collaborators, and production resources
- Integrated exhibition and performance outcomes
Outcomes
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Two-month residency culminating in a 100+ audience public program
- Established a replicable institutional model for future residencies
February 15, 2025
Partners:
Getty Research Institute
Photos by @sam_lee.jpg
Co-produced a site-specific multimedia performance at the Getty Center responding to Sensing the Future: Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.), integrating research-driven interpretation with public programming.
Key Contributions
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Collaborated with Getty Research Institute staff on curatorial framing and production planning
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Commissioned and coordinated experimental sound and video works, including a 162-foot audio tape installation
- Managed technical planning, artist coordination, and rehearsal logistics
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Prepared documentation and supported on-site execution at the Harold Williams Auditorium
Outcomes
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Program generated 1,000+ RSVPs and fully activated a 400-seat auditorium
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Expanded public engagement with archival research through live performance
February 2, 2025
Partners:
In Sheep’s Clothing
Photos by @byrachelkupfer
- Organized a fundraiser for Eaton & Palisades fire relief, raising $28,000+ in direct aid.
- Coordinated intake and management of donations from 100+ labels, vendors, and partners.
- Recruited and directed 50 volunteers across 5 shifts; programmed 8 DJ performances.
October 12 & 14, 2024
Partners:
Fathomers
Photos courtesy of Fathomers
- Curated 3 distinct musical interpretations for Fathomers’ Emergence exhibition at the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center.
- Collaborated with musicians Jeremiah Chiu, Callie Ryan, and Dustin Wong to interpret visual works through sound.
October 19 & 20, 2024
Partners:
Living Earth
CARS
Getty Museum
Photos by @earth__poems and May Rose Smeback
- Collaborated with Community Arts Resources (CARS) to produce musical activations for the Getty Center festival.
- Curated and co-produced performances in the Robert Irwin Central Gardens by Low Leaf and Alexey Seliverstov via Living Earth.
- Programmed dublab DJs T-Kay and Maalbea to soundtrack festival activities in the courtyard.
- Managed artist logistics, production coordination, and on-site execution
Photos by @sam_lee.jpg
- Planned and executed Zebulon takeover featuring 25 DJs, 9 live performances, 2 visual artists, and visual identity by Studio Koto.
- Launched a capsule collection in collaboration with Carhartt WIP.
- Co-curated 40 contributing artists and produced with A/V Coordinator Melody Scallion.
- Drew ~1,000 attendees and raised over $11,000 for the organization.
September 15, 2024
Partners:
Gloria Molina Grand Park (The Music Center)
Salon Recordings
Photos by Will Tee Yang courtesy of Gloria Molina Grand Park
- Collaborated with Damar Davis (Salon Recordings) and Gloria Molina Grand Park to produce a multigenerational dance party.
- Featured DJ sets by Chloëdees, Damar Davis, Joaqu.n, Donis, and Sevyn; MCed by Grandfather.
- Celebrated Salon Recordings’ impact connecting global dance scenes from LA to NYC, London, and beyond.
- Engaged a diverse community audience, fostering cross-generational and cross-cultural musical exchange.
August 10, 2024
Partners:
Grand Performances
Leaving Records
Photos by @farahstop courtesy of Grand Performances
- Curated an installment of Grand Performances’ free summer concert series with Leaving Records.
- Featured live performances by Laraaji & Arji OceAnanda, Low Leaf, and Sharada Shashidhar; music selections by Bae Bae.
- Highlighted Los Angeles public art and community collaboration, making live music accessible to a diverse audience.
- Promoted multi-generational, genre-defying experiences, fostering unity and musical transcendence.
2021 through 2023
Photos by @sam_lee.jpg and @glenjamn
Floating was a weekly all-ages arts series that explored the harmony between sound & setting through intimate outdoor musical gatherings.
In addition to weekly gatherings that encouraged people to contemplate what it means to belong to an ecosystem, our programming supported a funded seasonal artist residency that explored the relationship between process and environment, as well as land residencies produced in reciprocity with local conservationists and arts communities that fostered a deeper connection between people and land.
Over 400 gatherings in 2 years.
Over 300 musicians.
Over 10,000 attendees.
Managed partnerships with The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Hollyhock House, The Audubon Center at Debs Park, Arlington Garden, and more.
In early 2024, our team parted ways with Floating to found a worker-owned collective called Living Earth.
Teammates included Noah Klein, May Rose Smeback, Massima Bell, Nina Keith, Sam Lee, and Light Liu
Summer through winter 2023
Photos by @matthewjsage
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Laid groundwork for a new branch of Floating in the Front Range.
- Secured venue partnerships with Sunset Amphitheater, Inspiration Farm, Rocky Mountain Botanical Gardens.
- Supported operational planning and promotion for site-specific performances directed by Matt Sage.
Summer through winter 2023
Photos by Jack Badler
- Established Floating’s Pacific Northwest branch, securing Leach Botanical Garden as a primary venue partner
- Supported curatorial direction, operations, and promotion for events programmed by Ajay Ravi.
- Series later relaunched as Moment following LA team’s departure to Living Earth.
2022 through 2023
Video by Erren Franklin
- Secured permitting and insurance for monthly all-ages outdoor concert series
- Negotiated agreements with LA Recreation and Parks
- Liaised with city staff on site
2025
Collaborators:
Media Art Nexus
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May 3, 2025
I (Wings) - Tate EC
11 - Horse Vision
Head - Claire Rousay
Floorless Room - Fuubutsushi
Ep.11: With My Heart Open - Brian Hargrove
Mourning Dove - Gia Margaret
A Clearing - M.A. Tiesenga (from Leaving Records fire relief comp)
In Light Of That Learnt Later (Purelink Remix) - Corker Conboy
Another 9 Days (feat. Ethan P. Flynn) - Vegyn
bellboy - Harry the Nightgown
Earth / Fire - Celia Hollander
Innersound Oddity - Low Leaf
Nation Rising - Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra
Lap of Luxury (feat. Qur’an Shaheed, Kintaro) - The Koreatown Oddity
Specials - Lifted
Washed Up - Walt McClements
For Jannis - CTM
90 - Oliver Coates
(Listen on Soundcloud...)
January 17, 2025
“Staying” is an initiative by Leaving Records to raise funds for Angelenos impacted by the recent wildfires.
Glad to have contributed track 97 - “Wings” to this compilation of many friends and community members.
(Press...)
November 18, 2024
Listen to the live recording on dublab
2023
Collaborators:
Media Art Nexus
CraveFX
(More...)
2019
Collaborators:
Media Art Nexus
Bianka Hofman
Bob Kastner
Robert Ursin
(More...)
2020
Collaborators:
Media Art Nexus
(More...)
2016
Collaborators:
Media Art Nexus
2022
Collaborators:
Ana Chavez
Collaborators:
Ana Chavez
Collaborators:
Isabel Damiani
dublab guest session
Collaborators:
Melina Paulli
Ana Chavez (filmmaker)
Bandcamp
Nina
He is a co-founder of Living Earth (formerly Floating) and currently serves as Events Director at dublab, where he oversees large-scale, multi-stakeholder cultural projects from planning through execution. Tate holds a B.A. in Music and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied composition at CNMAT. His creative work has been presented at Ars Electronica, City Digital Skin Art Festival, and international film festivals.
B.A. Economics (honors) & Music
2014 - 2018
Singapore American School
High School Diploma
2010 - 2014
Events Director
2024 - Present
floating
Manager, Creative Ops & Partnerships
2023 - 2024
Operations Lead
2022 - 2023
Greeter Manager
2022
Greeter
2021 - 2022
UC Berkeley & Self Employed
Economics Tutor
2017 - 2023
Infamous PR
Intern, Hip Hop PR
2018
Thesis: Bay Area Rapid Transit and its Effect on Urban Income Segregation
2018
Film awards
2025
‘A Joint Effort...’, by Laura Latzko, Los Angeles Downtown News
2025
‘At 25, dublab is still the gold standard...’, by Sandra Song, The Fader
2024
‘After the death of the Airliner...’, by Jeff Weiss, The Los Angeles Times
2023
‘Text a Cloud Emoji...’, by Steffie Nelson, The Los Angeles Times
2022
‘This Sound Event Series...’, by Liz Ohanesian, The Los Angeles Times
2022
Photos by @sam_lee.jpg
Last Updated January 4, 2026