Derek Hoffend (sound) holds a MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago ('04), a MA in Studio Art from New York University ('01), and a BFA in Sculpture and Photography from the State University of New York at Fredonia ('97).

A visual and audio artist who creates sound-sculpture installations and electro-acoustic music, his work examines intersections between sound, objects, body, and environment, combining electronic, acoustic, recorded, and self-generative audio processes with found and constructed objects and spaces. Live performances involve composed and improvised pieces for computer, hand-made circuits, and modified electronic and acoustic instruments. Recent work has explored immersive audio, tactile interfaces, viewer participation, resonant objects and spaces, and architecture and site as instrument.

Pieces have been performed or installed in Union Square (Somerville, MA), sQuareone Studio (Boston, MA), 90.3 WZBC (Boston, MA), Wesleyan University (Middletown, CT), Sonotheque (Chicago, IL), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago, IL), Athenaeum Theater, (Chicago, IL), Spazio Arte (Sovizzo, Italy) and Consolidated Works (Seattle, WA).