Zac Traeger
Born b. 1986 Racine, Wisconsin
Lives & Works in Austin, TX
Education
B.A., Berklee College of Music, BA, Composition / Music Synthesis
2004-2008
Active
Founder and Executive Director of The Museum of Human Achievement
2012 – Current
Founder and Executive Director of Unlisted Projects (formerly AIR @ MoHA)
2014 – Current
Co-Founder of IRL (a technology hub/resource center)
2015 – Current
Co-Owner/Founder of The Mall of Human Achievement
2016 – Current
Co-Director of Stuff I Like with People I Know (Curator Meet-up)
2015 – Current
Exhibitions / Select Performances
2016 ‘Philharmonic Cunt, An Exploration of dystopia’ Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (4 channel generative dance/visual performance in collaboration with House of Kenzo, small ensemble, Ryan Padget)
2016 ‘Loopmass’ The Off Center, Austin, TX (8 channel, small ensemble generative, graphic notation performance)
2016 ‘Soundscapes’ Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (4 channel generative voice performance)
2016 ‘Beat the Rush’ Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX (cassette tape cannon)
2016 ‘Monkey Town 6’ Austin, TX (5 channel audio/video performance & composition for additional video)
2015 ‘Uncanny Valley Archives’ Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY (4channel composition)
2015 – ‘Between Here and There’ Women and their Work, Austin, TX (performance, composition and sound design)
2014 ‘∆DELTA’ CoLab Project Space, Austin, TX (3 channel audio & VR audio)
2012 ‘Armageddon Outta Here’ Colab Project Space, Austin, TX
2012 ‘Powdered Wig Show’ Welcome Home, Austin, TX
Professional Work
2016 Slaytime (Sound design for Dragon VR Game)
2016 Free Beer Podcast (Composition for a series of 12 themes and bumpers)
2015 Adult Swim Bumpers (sound design, series of 3 bumpers for adult swim)
2014 ‘Off the Air: Worship’ Adult Swim (sound design & composition for video)
2014 ‘Flaming Lips – Sgt Pepper’s’ (song contribution), Warner Brothers
2014 AMD Gizomosphere (sound design) winner of Interactive/Public Exhibit category at Horizon Interactive Awards
2013 Volcom: True To This (song contribution), Voclom
2013 Zorch LP (Sargent House)
2012 The Bastard Full Length Film Score
Select Curation / Production
Kevinpleasure Kevin presents: Pleasurefest, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2016
It’s Been Moving at First w/Tetsuya Umeda, collaboration with Fusebox Festival, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2016
Us and We w/Nasito Mosquito, collaboration with Fusebox Festival, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2016
Our Carnal Hearts w/Rachel Mars, collaboration with Fusebox Festival, MoHA, Austin, TX 2016
Just Some Me Time…, collaboration with Ghosting.TV, AMODA, MoHA, Austin, TX 2016
A Christmas Carol, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2016
Monkey Town 6, 2416 E 6th St, Austin, TX, 2016
Estudio Sobre Triangulo (Studies on a Triangle), collaboration with Fusebox Festival, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2016
Sweaters I Have Known and Loved, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2016
The First Annual Anthropomorphic Costume Competition for Inanimate Objects, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
13 Soft Encounters, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
Plasma Pool VII: Altar Edition, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
Quantum Splendor w/Leah Haney, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
Terror Pigeon/MoHA Company Christmas Spectacular 2, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
TMR SXSW w/Third Man Records, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2014
Friend Island w/Hometapes, MoHA, Austin, TX 2013
Unisex Earplug, w/Tiny Mix Tapes & Northern Spy Records, MoHA, Austin, TX 2013
Terroreyes.tv x The Needledrop Day Party, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2013
Tap the Glass, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
ESP T.V. Austin, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
Altar VI Shapes (and Other Shapes), collaboration with Fusebox Festival, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
The Institute of Desktop Archaeology , collaboration with Fusebox Festival, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
AHoM (winner of best independent work of art, Austin Critics Table), MoHA, Austin, TX, 2015
Altar V: The Society for Hard Determinists, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2014
Altar IV: 1986, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2014
Altar III: The Living Room, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2014
Altar II: H. Thunderbolt, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2014
Altar I: Baroquemon, MoHA, Austin, TX, 2014
South By South Mess 2 w/Grimes, Andrew W.K., Dan Deacon, Pictureplane, 21st st. Coop, Austin, TX, 2013
South By South Mess 1 w/Andrew W.K., Maps+Atlases, Dustin Wong, 21st st. Coop, Austin, TX, 2012
Escapes Concert Series, Club 1808, Austin, TX, 2011-2012
Terroreyes Day Party, Music Makers, Austin, TX, 2012
Publications