jamJamStrawberry: Strawberry Sweets

An immersive, durational performance by the experimental collective jamJam Strawberry, featuring Sony Mao and Emile Milgrim with participation of original dropbox contributor Øivind Idsø and Tokyobased, sound artist and singer Moskitoo (a.k.a. Sanae Yamasaki) and media support by Barron Sherer and Freddy Jouwayed.

Date: Sunday, August 16th, 2026
Time: 4:00 PM
Location: Deering Estate Theater
7220 SW 168th Street
Palmetto Bay, FL 33157
Tickets: Free of charge, RSVP on Eventbrite required.

Originally formed as a longdistance collaboration between Miami and Tokyo based artists, the project developed through the exchange of digital audio files, shaping a distinctive language of soft electronics, granular synthesis, and post-digital sound textures. This performance presents an extended sonic environment that includes the premiere of a new installment in the Strawberry Sweet series, alongside earlier works. Incorporating electroacoustic percussion, live processing, and collaborative structures, the program unfolds as a continuous perceptual field bridging digital precision and human presence. jamJamStrawberry is an experimental collaboration originating in early network-based music exchange between Sony Mao and Sawako. Known for its hybrid of granular synthesis, glitch aesthetics, and distributed collaboration, the project continues as a live and evolving performance platform integrating additional collaborators and expanded instrumentation.

Gustavo Matamoros is a Miami-based intermedia artist, composer, and curator working in experimental music, sound installation, and interdisciplinary performance. Born in Caracas, Venezuela, he has been active in South Florida since 1979 and is the founding artistic director of the Subtropics Festival. His work explores listening as a spatial and perceptual practice through immersive and site-responsive environments. He is currently in residence at Florida International University’s i360 XR Theater and at Deering Estate Theater, supported by a Knight Arts Challenge award.

Freddy Jouwayed is a Miami-based multimedia artist and exhibition designer and a resident artist at Deering Estate. His practice spans projection environments, multimedia installation, and exhibition design. For this series, he develops the multiscreen realization of ¡Que Viva México! materials and contributes visual projection and spatial image design across the programs.

Barron Sherer A Miami-based visual artist, Barron Sherer works across moving image, projection, and immersive media. His practice explores light, abstraction, and perceptual experience through layered visual systems that respond to sound and spatial context. Drawing from both analog and digital processes, he creates dynamic visual environments that emphasize transformation, rhythm, and texture. For Subtropics: Audible Fields at Deering Estate, Sherer contributes live visual elements for Strawberry Sweets, in collaboration with Freddy Jouwayed.

Sony Mao is an experimental sound artist and composer based in Miami and Los Angeles. Associated with microsound and tactical media practices, their work centers on granular synthesis, electroacoustic processes, and the intersection of sound and social context. They have released music on labels including Mille Plateaux, Fals.ch, and Rice & Beans, and have collaborated with artists such as Kim Cascone and Frank Metzger (Oval).

Sawako (Sawako Kato) was a Tokyo-based electronic musician and multimedia artist known for her “soft glitch” aesthetic and immersive sound environments. Her work combined field recordings and digital processing, and was widely released on labels including 12k and Mille Plateaux.

Emile Blair Milgrim is a Miami-based multi-instrumentalist, archivist, and cultural organizer, and the founder of the Other Electricities label. Her work spans the “dream punk” rhythms of the band Las Nubes, to site-specific sound art with the duo Archival Feedback, reflecting a deeply community-driven approach to music-making. Milgrim frequently contributes live percussion and documentation to experimental projects, bridging performance and archival practice. She is actively involved in the Subtropics sound art community and is a co-founder of the Miami Girls Rock Camp. Additionally, she performs caixa with MiamiBloco’s Bateria Saideira, the largest Brazilian percussion orchestra in the United States.

Moskitoo (a.k.a. Sanae Yamasaki) A Tokyo-based sound artist and musician, Moskitoo is a longtime collaborator within the Jamjam Strawberry ecosystem. Known for her ethereal blending of organic instruments, vocals, and digital textures, she contributes to the project’s ongoing digital evolution. Her work has been featured on the second of the "Strawberry Sweets" and the forthcoming vinyl release, Strawberry Moon in Aspic.

Øivind Idsø (a.k.a. Skurr) A digital artist and musician, Øivind Idsø was one of the original "Dropbox Darlings" whose file-sharing contributions were instrumental to jamJam Strawberry’s inception. By introducing "rough edges" into the project’s early file exchanges, Idsø helped define the duo's signature "soft glitch" evolution through a unique tension of texture. He continues to sustain the group's digital roots from Norway.

Deering Estate, located at 16701 SW 72 Ave. in Miami, is a 21st Century house museum, cultural and ecological field station, and a national landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places, owned by the State of Florida and managed by Miami-Dade County Parks, Recreation and Open Spaces Department. Deering Estate is designated as one of seven Miami Dade County “Heritage Parks” which have a vital role in our community’s history, environment and in providing recreational and cultural experiences.

Cultural Arts Programming at the Deering Estate is made possible with the support of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners, and The Deering Estate Foundation, Inc. Programming in the Deering Estate theater is also possible thanks to The Jorge M. Perez Family Foundation at The Miami Foundation.

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