Dylan Hester is a sound artist & sound writer working with field recordings, textural sounds, and long-form audio storytelling.

Live Performance — October 25, 2025
Diane Oxide. Closing reception of Thrust Bearing exhibition by E.C. Comstock at This n That, 2731 E. 25th Street, Minneapolis. With Graham Baldwin. 6-8pm, $10-20.

Podcast — October 14, 2025
Can I Walk With You? by Thoraya Maronesy. Season 1, episode 14. Thoraya asked me to walk and talk with her. We discuss sobriety, relationships, trauma, and art. I also talk about my record, Honey, I Mischanneled the Oracle.

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Sound Design — September 2025
más y more by José A. Luis. Designed, composed, selected, and arranged 5.1-channel audio for a two-person, sixty-minute dance choreography.

"Who are you to the other image of yourself? Are you the reflection you see in the window? This could sound like internal conflict, but in this work it's more like the self as a prism, with facets that beam into multiple desires. Sometimes we want different things at the same time, cells dividing and multiplying. The self that is dancing in the club in flashing lights, the self that is straining to carry the load, the self that looks up to see a doorway–all are present and working in ensemble."

— Emily Gastineau, Work, Rest, Love: The Incommensurate in más y more by José A. Luis for Sixty Inches from Center

Exhibition — July 2025
I can hear these sounds just as closely as you can. An environmental audio installation and non-linear tone poem comprised of eight sound-image-text stations installed at after/time collective gallery in Portland, Oregon.

This work features eight stereo channels of unique, longform, looping audio which may never be the same twice. The audio channels interact with each other, moving in different directions throughout the room. This audio is accompanied by 32 prints (19 images, 13 texts), to create a single sound-image-text poem.

Take a one-minute audio walkthrough of the show.
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ASW—001
HONEY, I MISCHANNELED THE ORACLE
by WILD DYL & A SHARPENED WHISPER

This record contains themes of naive spirituality, sexual mysticism, & delusional thinking. It's about the hilarious, humiliating indifference of the natural world.

This is a formalist work set in four interlocking triptychs & two asymmetrical halves, totaling 12 tracks in 37 minutes.

Available on CD & digital formats at sharpwhisper.bandcamp.com.