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SONIC STORYTELLING | 2-Day Recording Studio Workshop (April 25-26, 2026)
SONIC STORYTELLING is a mentorship and workshop experience for anyone interested in how sound shapes meaning. It invites musicians, writers, filmmakers, artists, educators, corporate storytellers, and curious creatives of all backgrounds to explore the recording studio not simply as a technical space, but as a compositional instrument and narrative tool.
Participants learn how sound and music deepen emotional impact, clarify narrative intention, and create atmosphere through texture, silence, pacing, and restraint. Whether your work exists in visual art, poetry, fiction, documentary, brand storytelling, performance, or installation, this program helps expand your creative practice by integrating listening, intention, and sonic design into the heart of your storytelling. The focus is on artistic clarity, emotional resonance, purposeful creation, and refining your studio-centered creative process.
This workshop unfolds over two immersive days at Wild Mountain Studios, where participants gather as a small cohort for a retreat-style learning experience in a working production environment surrounded by inspiring natural setting, thoughtful design, and room to think, breathe, and create. The experience blends hands-on studio exploration, guided creative exercises, discussion, reflective listening, and collaborative learning.
This program is ideal for working partners, creative teams, collaborators, artists, and friends who want to deepen their practice together or reimagine how they use sound in their work. Upon completion, participants receive a Certificate of Participation, suitable for professional development records, continuing education portfolios, institutional learning credit acknowledgment, and work-study enrichment documentation.
Who It’s For:
• Filmmakers, Multimedia Creators & Aspiring Media Composers
• Artists working in narrative, conceptual, or experiential forms
• Educators, Cultural Leaders & Institutional Storytellers
• Creative Directors, Brand Teams & Corporate Storytellers
• Independent Musicians, Writers & Poets
• Anyone curious about how sound creates meaning
About the Facilitators
Mark Kuykendall is a composer, producer, experimental sound artist, and creative director whose work spans recording, performance, film scoring, and immersive sound environments. Under his solo project The New Honey Shade, Mark blends field recording, electronic texture, and narrative composition to explore sound as an emotional and spatial experience. As co-founder of Unknown Tone Records, he helped cultivate one of Tulsa’s most distinctive independent experimental music platforms, releasing work from over 60 artists across more than 30 countries. With decades of studio experience and a practice rooted in curiosity, intentionality, and craft, Mark brings technical rigor, creative sensitivity, and deep listening practice to the mentorship experience.
Anjelica Lindsey is a composer, violinist, creative collaborator, and enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation whose work centers cultural story, emotional depth, and the expressive power of sound. Her landmark composition Oklahoma Woman Quartet stands as the first known string quartet composed by a Cherokee woman, marking a historic contribution to contemporary string literature and Indigenous representation in classical composition. Her work spans concert music, ensemble writing, film and media scoring, collaborative interdisciplinary projects, and community-centered creative practice. Anjelica brings a rare combination of musical intelligence, cultural grounding, and deeply human guidance, helping artists connect intention, identity, and emotional truth within their work.
Date & Location
This 2-day workshop takes place Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26, 2026 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM at Wild Mountain Studios. Directions to the onsite location will be provided by email to the registrants prior to the workshop. Wild Mountain Studios is 10 minutes west of downtown Tulsa with easy access from Highway 244/412.
Secure your spot today - Register now!
SONIC STORYTELLING is a mentorship and workshop experience for anyone interested in how sound shapes meaning. It invites musicians, writers, filmmakers, artists, educators, corporate storytellers, and curious creatives of all backgrounds to explore the recording studio not simply as a technical space, but as a compositional instrument and narrative tool.
Participants learn how sound and music deepen emotional impact, clarify narrative intention, and create atmosphere through texture, silence, pacing, and restraint. Whether your work exists in visual art, poetry, fiction, documentary, brand storytelling, performance, or installation, this program helps expand your creative practice by integrating listening, intention, and sonic design into the heart of your storytelling. The focus is on artistic clarity, emotional resonance, purposeful creation, and refining your studio-centered creative process.
This workshop unfolds over two immersive days at Wild Mountain Studios, where participants gather as a small cohort for a retreat-style learning experience in a working production environment surrounded by inspiring natural setting, thoughtful design, and room to think, breathe, and create. The experience blends hands-on studio exploration, guided creative exercises, discussion, reflective listening, and collaborative learning.
This program is ideal for working partners, creative teams, collaborators, artists, and friends who want to deepen their practice together or reimagine how they use sound in their work. Upon completion, participants receive a Certificate of Participation, suitable for professional development records, continuing education portfolios, institutional learning credit acknowledgment, and work-study enrichment documentation.
Who It’s For:
• Filmmakers, Multimedia Creators & Aspiring Media Composers
• Artists working in narrative, conceptual, or experiential forms
• Educators, Cultural Leaders & Institutional Storytellers
• Creative Directors, Brand Teams & Corporate Storytellers
• Independent Musicians, Writers & Poets
• Anyone curious about how sound creates meaning
About the Facilitators
Mark Kuykendall is a composer, producer, experimental sound artist, and creative director whose work spans recording, performance, film scoring, and immersive sound environments. Under his solo project The New Honey Shade, Mark blends field recording, electronic texture, and narrative composition to explore sound as an emotional and spatial experience. As co-founder of Unknown Tone Records, he helped cultivate one of Tulsa’s most distinctive independent experimental music platforms, releasing work from over 60 artists across more than 30 countries. With decades of studio experience and a practice rooted in curiosity, intentionality, and craft, Mark brings technical rigor, creative sensitivity, and deep listening practice to the mentorship experience.
Anjelica Lindsey is a composer, violinist, creative collaborator, and enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation whose work centers cultural story, emotional depth, and the expressive power of sound. Her landmark composition Oklahoma Woman Quartet stands as the first known string quartet composed by a Cherokee woman, marking a historic contribution to contemporary string literature and Indigenous representation in classical composition. Her work spans concert music, ensemble writing, film and media scoring, collaborative interdisciplinary projects, and community-centered creative practice. Anjelica brings a rare combination of musical intelligence, cultural grounding, and deeply human guidance, helping artists connect intention, identity, and emotional truth within their work.
Date & Location
This 2-day workshop takes place Saturday, April 25 and Sunday, April 26, 2026 from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM at Wild Mountain Studios. Directions to the onsite location will be provided by email to the registrants prior to the workshop. Wild Mountain Studios is 10 minutes west of downtown Tulsa with easy access from Highway 244/412.
Secure your spot today - Register now!