Aki Onda is an artist, composer, performer, and curator whose works are often catalyzed by and structured around personal, collective, and historical memories. Crossing genres, Onda has been active internationally in art, film, music and performance. Their artistic collaborators include Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, Paul Clipson, Raha Raissnia, Ho Tzu Nyen, Loren Connors, Alan Licht, Annea Lockwood, David Toop and Akio Suzuki. Onda has presented their work at The Kitchen, MoMA, MoMA P.S.1, New Museum, Blank Forms, ICA Philadelphia, REDCAT, Time-Based Art Festival, Walker Art Center, Novas Frequências, documenta 14, Louvre Museum, Pompidou Center, Palais de Tokyo, Fondation Cartier, Argos, Bozar, ICA London, La Casa Encendida, Caixa Forum, Serralves Museum, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Nam June Paik Art Center and many others. Onda has also been active as a curator and organized major performances and exhibitions throughout Asia and North America. They were Guest Director of TPAM-Performing Arts Meeting in Yokohama (current YPAM), Japan from 2016-19 and currently work as Curator-at-Large at Western Front, Vancouver.

Nicanor Estudillo Evangelista Jr. is a descendant of Evangelista, Angeles, Thomas, Garcia, Sagaysay, Estudillo, Sarmiento, Estancia, Enarciso, Doma, Obispo, and Moriones. He is a native Tagalog, who grew up in Manila and Rizal. His family bloodline consists of Visayan, Illongo, Bulakenyo, and Ilocano. Nicanor is a creative who taps into ancestral symbols and rhythms. He practices Sacred Geometry, Modern Batok, and Eskrima.

Diane Valencia (AKA Diyan Bukobomba) is a diasporic multimedia DIY artist, musician, community organizer, cultural worker & chronic-iLL creatrix. Their family are immigrants from the Bicol region of the Philippines. They were born on Tongva territory and raised in the neighborhoods of Historic Filipinotown and East Hollywood in Los Angeles.

Jasmine Orpilla is a transdisciplinary performance artist, musician and polylingual operatic composer of sound installations carved by her lifelong study of inherited Ilokano occult systems, sacred chant, folk dance and ancient percussive gong-chime music of both Northern and Southern Philippines.

As cultural workers based in Los Angeles, CA, Jasmine Orpilla (kulintang, voice), Diane Valencia (agong) and Nicanor Estudillo Evangelista Jr. (dabakan) are deeply honored to share their Filipino kulintang music practices together at ICA LA in celebration of the presence of Carlos Villa’s artistic legacy, so beautifully represented in Speaking in Tongues 2026.

Andrew Tholl is a performer/composer whose genre-blurring work blends the visceral and the experimental, spanning contemporary classical music, experimental rock and pop, improvisation, film, dance, and theater. Hailed by Los Angeles Times as “vigorously virtuosic,” his compositions and performances have been heard across the United States and Europe. As a composer, Tholl’s work explores the passage of time, the physicality of performance, noise, nostalgia, and memory. His style is heavily informed by a synthesis of musical influences, the integration of improvisation, and a practice-led methodology. As a soloist and chamber musician, he is dedicated to the performance of new music and the collaborative process between composers and performers. He is a co-founder of the “superb” (Los Angeles Times) Formalist Quartet, an ensemble dedicated to adventurous new repertoire by both established and emerging composers, and has been a member of the contemporary music ensemble Wild Up since its formation. In addition to his work as a “classical musician,” Tholl maintains a second musical life writing and performing pop, punk, noise, ambient, and improvisational music. Working across disciplines, he challenges traditional formats, creating intersections between music, art, and performance. His most recent project, The River Above, The River Below, is an album of electronic ambient work released on Populist Records, which he co-owns and operates. He currently teaches at UCSB and Ventura College. He lives in Los Angeles, where he continues to be involved with music for concert halls, art galleries, films, puppet shows, bars, garages, bedrooms, and coat closets.