Maria Chavez and Jordi Wheeler have been performing as a duo since 2015. Generating results from active listening with a configuration of instruments (multiple turntables, piano, guitar, electronics, field recordings) Chavez and Wheeler’s performances, recordings and installations speak to their history with improvisation, allowing the present to dictate each work. Their installation works focus on creative field recording practices in conjunction with lathe cutting techniques to further enhance their specific interests in electroacoustic sound works. They also present workshops that function as both a skill share about audio engineering and creative performance practice. Their 1st EP, The Kitchen Sessions: 1-5 was released in 2021 via the venue Cafe OTO's label Takuroku, recorded as part of an Artist Residency during the pandemic with the Kitchen, NYC in the fall of 2020.

Their duo work has been presented by Cruces Espacio de Arte in Madrid, Spain, as part of the Abasement Series at Max Fish, NYC, Bemis Center- Omaha, Instants Chavires in Paris among other venues. Their latest interactive installation, a listening station containing video and sound from the duo's various performances alongside Maria's white Carrara Marble sculpture, was on view at Columbia University's Wallach Gallery from June 20, 2023 through Sept. 17, 2023. They will be Artist in Residence with the University of Virginia in October, 2023 and will perform at Cafe Oto for the Thames Submarine Radio show in Nov. 2023.

TheThamesSubmarine is an online platform featuring work and artists that use sound as a key or evocative element, exploring practice, performance and the personal through curated events and interviews.