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 calls for gritty realism or full-blown absurdity. My craft is in the details that make a setting feel lived-in and natural, or heightened and strange. Working collaboratively to define and realize a project’s visual identity is what I do best.

As a sound artist, my practice is rooted in free improvisation. I’m drawn to 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 toys, gadgets, small motors, and tools that lend to extended technique. Most recently, I’ve been building Eurorack modular synthesizer systems. 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, 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.