“Leaving Los Angeles” is a seven-and-a-half minute stereo sound collage of field recordings taken from the Mojave Desert near the Tehachapi Pass wind turbine farm. It presents the desert not as an empty natural space but as a landscape in flux, changed by technology and infrastructure that is sometimes easier to hear than see.

Daniel Tovar is an artist based in Los Angeles. He is Liberal Arts faculty at SCI-Arc and previously taught at School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He holds a PhD from Northwestern and a BA from UC Berkeley, both in philosophy. Most recently he exhibited at Wonzimer gallery in Los Angeles. Prior to that, Tovar's sonic works have been performed live at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Comfort Station in Chicago, and Coaxial Arts Foundation in Los Angeles; his recorded audio pieces have been broadcast and exhibited by Materials & Applications and Space Saloon's Climate Crisis Hotline; and his writing has been published by CAA Reviews and Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie.