Parallel Voices, founded by multi-media composer Yuwan Zhang, is a space where composers and sound artists share their creative journeys. Through thoughtful conversations, the series traces the intersections of music, identity, and imagination, offering a glimpse into the parallel realities each artist carries within their work. We all have our own unique worlds, existing in parallel to one another, while also intersecting and sparking new resonances along the way.
Everyone carries their own story. Let me share yours, and let the world hear you.
The first series was launched in June 2025.
平行之声 是一个邀请新生代作曲家与声音艺术家，分享创作旅程与内心世界的空间。通过深度对话，本系列交织音乐创作、身份探索与想象力，呈现每位创作者在作品中构筑的平行世界，让这些承载着独特现实与情感的艺术旅程被看见与听见。
我们每个人都有属于自己的世界，在平行中各自存在，也在交汇中激起共鸣与灵感的火花。让世界听见你的声音吧。
首个系列已于 2025 年 6 月正式推出。
Echoes Beyond: Queer Creators, Hidden Voices, and Global Resonance
Echoes Beyond is a Pride Month panel event gathering LGBTQ+ professionals from the film and music industries to explore how queerness, race, and artistic identity intersect throughout their creative lives. Through candid conversations, the event aims to increase visibility, amplify marginalized voices, and provide meaningful resources for emerging queer creators.
June 28th, 2025, 3~4 PM
Los Feliz 90027
Address sent with RSVP through this link: https://www.thenighttemple.com/event-details/echoes-beyond-queer-creators-hidden-voices-and-global-resonance
Panelists
Larryjean Powell, Actor, Director
Larryjean Powell is an infini-hyphenate auteur who plays well with others. They’re a writer and actor on the 3× Emmy-nominated TV sitcom The Ms. Pat Show. For acting, they are a two-time Ovation Award nominee, three-time NAACP Theatre Award nominee, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Award nominee, and two-time LA Drama Critics Circle Award winner. A multiple Audelco and Audie Award nominee and winner, they directed the 2023 Audie-winning audio drama Pipeline. Their series The Gaze earned 2021 Daytime Emmy nominations, a Webby Honor, and a Micheaux Award. They won again in 2023 for Strong Friend, Let Go. Their debut feature Mother’s Milk earned SIFF’s 2021 Special Jury Prize.
Freya Berkhout, Composer
Freya Berkhout is a Sydney-born multi-award winning composer and creative technologist based in Los Angeles. She began her professional music career as half of experimental pop duo kyü, releasing two records to critical acclaim and winning a slew of awards.
Since then, Freya has been scoring films, television, podcasts and interactive media, notably The Greenhouse (Netflix) and Pillow Talk (Audible). Her scores have been heard at festivals around the globe, including Cannes, Warsaw, Tribeca and BFI London Film Festivals. She is a graduate of Sydney University, the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and has a Masters in Computational Art from Goldsmiths, University of London. Freya returned to the world of music in 2023, releasing her debut solo album Fruit. She is a 2024 Women in Film Music Fellow and a 2025 recipient of the Reel Change Grant from New Music USA. Most recently, she scored queer feature Ride or Die, which premiered in competition at Tribeca in June.
Freya’s passion is to manifest profound, emotional, thought-provoking experiences, creating sonic worlds that span the dark and enigmatic to the delicate, exquisite and transcendental. She revels in bold, celebratory intersectional feminist and queer narratives and perspectives.
Oscar Pan, Composer, Writer, Director
Born in Guangzhou, China in 1997, Oscar Pan is an LA-based composer and film creative. He is drawn to cross-cultural collaborations, new sounds, and current topics that speak to our living world.
His recent works include the score for Sonnet Crown for NYC, a poetic documentary about anti-Asian hate during COVID, commissioned by and screened at The Shed in New York City; the score for Motherland, a Chinese LGBTQ short nominated for Best Short Live Action Score at the Hollywood Music in Media Awards; and the score for I Am Illegal, a Moroccan LGBTQ documentary short that premiered at the 2023 Outfest LA Film Festival.
Oscar is currently working on his directorial debut—a personal documentary about himself and his mother. As an artist, he finds documentaries uniquely compelling for their ability to convey authentic human experiences and amplify voices that might otherwise go unheard. His mission as a composer and filmmaker is rooted in this belief: to educate, illuminate societal values, and elevate stories that deserve recognition.
ABOUT PRESENTERS
Yuwan Zhang is a multimedia composer and an active supporter of the LGBTQ+ community, and the founder of the interview project “Parallel Voices,” which aims to bring visibility to underrepresented creatives by sharing their stories, perspectives, and artistic journeys across disciplines.
The Night Temple is an event and media production company based in Los Angeles that produces music and film events, films, a podcast, and the annual Music in Visual Media Conference.
Erv Jeffries is a multimedia composer and photographer/videographer, who is proud to be a part of the LGBTQ+ Community and an advocate for the rights of LGBTQ+ individuals.