Author: danielneumann

A program of works conceived for the octophonic cube in the Listening Room::

Juan Carlos Vasquez – A Chinese Triptych
Jaehoon Choi – Brushing Improvisation – N°2
Bradford Blackburn – Canticum Avium
Yao Hsiao – Consort Yu
Sean Bailey – downcycled 9
Eric Lyon – Margaret, Dancing
João Pedro Oliveira – N’vi’ah
Tsering Tan – shan bei shan nan
Trevor Van de Velde – I Eat Electric Sheep
Matthew Yohn – Tod’s March

SEAMUS [The Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States] National Conference, 40th Anniversary presents “A Constellation of Regional Hosts”. This year, the conference will consist of a constellation of regional events hosted by SEAMUS members and affiliated institutions around the country. We’re one of those.

https://seamusonline.org/

Feb 4 2024
4pm (music starts at 5pm)
Fridman Gallery Listening Room
169 Bowery
$10 (masks required) ticket link

Album release event in a special 8-channel listening environment.

⎤⎤⎤ is an experimental noise project formed by Chantal Michelle and Grace Villamil. Working across performance and installation, they examine processes of sound obliteration through synthesis, electronics, found sounds, and vocalization. Distortion is stripped revealing uninhabited, organic, and intuitive patterns. Through the conscious layering of complex textures, they seek to guide the listener into a state of catharsis — one that functions as both antidote and mirror to society. 

https://uplus23a4.bandcamp.com/album/-
https://chantalmichelle.me/
http://gracevillamil.com/

Access info::

Masks will be required for this event, and the performance space will have two (quiet) air filters. Extra masks will be available.

Fridman Gallery is a first floor building with no stairs, with an accessible bathroom.

Le Son 7 presents Beatriz Ferreyra, KMRU, Caroline Devine, Stephen Vitiello and Bernie Krause

Jan 7 2024
7:30pm
Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery
TICKETS

In the Listening Room:: 

Le Son 7 – a sound art gallery based in France – on the eve of its first exhibition in New York (from 9 – 14 January, 570 Broome Street, 10013 NY) presents a one-hour guided listening session of multi-channel and stereo pieces. The gallery only works with audio, there is nothing to see.

On the program are two stereo pieces, a compelling study of climate change in California by Bernie Krause and a sonification of the oscillations of stars by Caroline Devine, a four-channel deep-listening contemplation of different cities by KMRU and two eight channel works: a supernatural evocation of the ancient symbols by Beatriz Ferreyra and a tribute to a departed friend from Stephen Vitiello.

Festival Page

Also that evening::

HxH, a duo consisting of Chris Williams and Lester St. Louis.
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Nepenthae (Zach Layton, Henry Fraser, Greg Fox)

Part of Interior Resonances – Fridman Gallery’s 10th Anniversary Exhibition Curated by Regine Basha July 13 – August 25, 2023

For the detailed program please visit our EVENT PAGE. Click on specific events for more info.

The CT::SWaM Plasticity Office was a sound installation and temporary spatial sound studio inside Fridman Gallery’s office/showroom, designed by sound engineer/artist Daniel Neumann. The installation-system will feature a rotation of performers who are activating it as a space for events, presentations, workshops, experiments, talks, discussions etc. The recordings of these activations will get integrated into the regular, daytime installation as growing content, which accumulates and changes over the run of the show.

Participating artists: Juan Betancurth, Kayla Cashetta, Seth Cluett, Erik DeLuca, Johann Diedrick, Matt Evans, Richard Garet, Lee Gilboa, Maxi Glenn, Barbara Held, Kenneth Kirschner, C Lavender, Lester St. Louis, Tommy Martinez, Joshue Ott, Bruno Palazzo, Crystal Peñalosa, Anna Roberts-Gevalt, DMR, Rachel Devorah, Michael J. Schumacher, Lauren Tosswill and more.

Continue reading “CT::SWaM Plasticity Office”

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WORKSHOP signup
SEED 02:: Live Diffusion and Thresholds of Decentering
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CT::SWaM is inviting you to participate in this 1-day workshop on Apr 20 2023, during which we want to explore live diffusion as a sound spatialization technique and a wider theme. There will be an idiosyncratic multi-channel (probably 8, possibly more) speaker system spread out through the space. The mixing board will be our main instrument. Daniel Neumann will introduce various techniques and invite participants to explore their own, with their own materials.
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Continue reading “Seed 02:: Live Diffusion and Thresholds of Decentering”

Multi-channel sound works by
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Sari Carel
Mike Bullock
Claudia Robles-Angel
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$15
Tickets HERE
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Wednesday, April 19
8pm (7:30 doors)
411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn NY 11249
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*Masks required*
to protect the vulnerable
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Accessibility:: SHIFT is a first-floor space and is accessible by wheelchair. Seating (chairs + pillows) will be provided. The performers request that all audience members wear masks. If you have any access-related questions or request, please contact contact@ctswam.org

CONCERT DETAILS::

Continue reading “Shift 70 :: Carel, Bullock, Robles-Angel”

CT::SWaM presented “#VRstilllistening” – a first ever venture into Virtual Reality for us, a space for spatial sound works, featuring Merche Blasco, Richard Garet, Lee Gilboa, Neil Leonard, Cecilia Lopez, Daniel Neumman, DM R, Michael J. Schumacher, Bora Yoon and Yifeat Ziv.

The CT::SWaM #VRstilllistening quadrant was part of pavilion 58 in the large Wrong Biennial which describes itself as “a collaborative effort harnessing the potential of the internet, shaped as a decentralized global art biennale & tv channel”. Thank you Matthew D. Gantt, George Vitale, Jeffrey Grunthaner and Synthesis Gallery for inviting us to join. 

Please note:: Our pavilion no. 58 was officially open Nov 2021 – Mar 2022.

#VRstilllistening was also shown at MEET Digital Culture Center in Milan Sep – Oct 2022.

Greenstone / Kuester / C. Lavender / Lee / Long / Meehan / Neumann / Roberts-Gevalt / Thorpe / Zierk
A collective work on peripheral listening

Wednesday, August 31, 8 PM

Event link // FB

Fridman Gallery, 169 Bowery | NYC

For SEED 01 CT::SWaM was hosting a collective, process-based, durational, spatial-sound group improvisation activating the entire space of the gallery. Through different strategies of sonic exchange, a variety of instrumentations and a networked system we were exploring the concept of “peripheral listening”.

Continue reading “Seed 01:: Peripheral Listening”

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The first event presented under the CT::SWaM umbrella was in April 2012 at Eyebeam in Chelsea. The series evolved to hosting many concert events, workshops, a radio show, a monthly salon. and a virtual reality exhibit.
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Now 2022, all too disruptive to comfortably call this event a celebration. Yet, we want to offer  t i m e  – to focus on listening, on sensing over longer duration, on dialog;  t i m e  for two duos, collaborations, in 8-channel space.
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10 years went by
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DANI DOBKIN / MATT SARGENT
GIDEON CREVOSHAY / DEVIN GREENWOOD

Continue reading “10 years went by“

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CT::SWaM Broadband Echos is an online radio show connected to CT::SWaM [Contemporary Temporary:: Sound Works and Music] – an artist-run series focusing on spatial sound works, based in New York City. Episodes feature a combination of works from the CT::SWaM archive, new performance formats, discussions and artist interviews. Theories and approaches to spatial sound composition are explored, while also addressing the complexity and subjectivity of translating spatial works to the radio format and reflecting on the ways in which our relationship and interaction has changed by the enclosed social reality of the current day.

Broadband Echoes was originally commissioned by CKweb, Bogota and available in English and Spanish.

Listen HERE

Production:: Daniel Neumann, Lee Gilboa / Traducción: Nicolás Quintero