Hello! I am Elaine Carey (Haswell), a Los Angeles-based, DIY-informed production designer and experimental musician.

I found my way into the art department through a college internship at The Onion and comedy has remained central to my work ever since. I’m a member of the Art Directors Guild and my production design credits include three seasons of Emmy-winning Netflix sketch series I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson, Adult Swim’s surreal Infomercials, and projects spanning commercials, TV specials, music videos, and independent films. I love creating highly specific worlds, whether a story is served by realism or surrealism. My craft is in the details that make a setting feel lived-in and natural, or heightened and absurd. Working collaboratively to imagine and then realize project’s visual identity is what I’m here for.

As a sound artist, my practice is rooted in free improvisation. My recent focus has been on synthesizers, particularly Eurorack modular systems. I’ve long gravitated toward analog electronics and unconventional instruments, and I’ve played an electrified, effects-processed musical saw for nearly half my life. I also work with guitar and bass, vintage tape machines, and a collection of gadgets and tools that lend to extended technique. In 2013, I co-founded electroacoustic noise duo Telecaves with Grammy-winning engineer Juliette Amoroso and have since collaborated with musicians and artists including Paul McCarthy, members of the LAFMS, Xiu Xiu, Carla Bozulich, Adele Bertei, Tara Jane O’Neil, Lydia Lunch, and Carlos Giffoni (as Rogue Squares, since 2017). A debut solo LP is forthcoming.

My sound, installation, and performance work has been presented at community spaces and institutions alike, including Ochiai Soup (Tokyo), Coaxial Arts, The Elysian Theater, and Human Resources, as well as Hauser & Wirth, MOCA, and the Hammer Museum.

I’m a proud member of the worldwide LGBTQ+ community, a vegetarian, and companion to a 13-year-old Dutch rabbit.