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.
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.
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.
Our intimate salon series is back in its new home: The Fridman Gallery Listening Room, an 8-channel cube that we installed for the Plasticity Office Summer action.
For this inauguration and continuation we welcome Austrian Velak Collective with sets by agar agar and Nava Hemyari + Frederic Stritter
agar agar agar agar is an audiovisual performance by Martina Moro and Fabian Lanzmaier. Combining analog and digital tools they create an immersive space of abstract sound and visuals. Setting up an instrument in which the visual and auditory parts influence each other, they generate a system with its own dynamics and dependencies, resulting in a synesthetic experi- ence. agar agar is a performative instrument, a miniature stage, that under many spotlights, reveals an ecstatic choreogra- phy of patterns interacting with each other.
Nava Hemyar Nava Hemyar studied electroacoustic composition at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna from 2013 until 2020 with Wolfgang Suppan and Kalrheinz Essl. Quite early in the studies I started experimenting with compositional forms and realized that I enjoy working with a few chosen fragments, which develop in time. Parallel to these, since 2015, with some early-age expe-rience in singing, I start- ed experimenting with my voice – rather a high soprano – wrote some pieces for it and performed them, and also sang in several performances of works of my colleges‘ and of other composers.
Frederic Stritter Frederic Stritter is based in Vienna as a composer and sound artist. His works range from electroacoustic and live-electronic to real world music and installations. He is dedicated to exploring a particular sounding element or a certain location. Often his performances implement soundscape and field recordings exploring the Pankroama, the acoustic horizon. He studied electroacoustic music, composition and sound art at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (Mdw/ELAK) and theater, film and media studies at the University of Vienna.
CT::SWaM and Velak Collective present:
For the upcoming event CT::SWaM is hosting members of the Austrian Velak Collective – an artist collective organizing concerts and performances with the focus on electronic, experimental and improvised music, consistently and regularly for almost 20 years. The concert series focuses on hosting local and international acts has a nomadic form of organization playing in different settings and spaces around Vienna, but also has collaborated with other organizers from abroad to play velak-export events in Tokyo, Berlin, Paris and Brussels and was engaged to run a radio stream around the world over the last years.
Oct 25 2023 8pm Fridman Gallery Main Room 169 Bowery $15 (members free)
Performances by:: Stella Kyan Paul Gründorfer Eduardo Triviño-Cely
Stella Kyan Stella Kyan is a greek multidisciplinary artist working with analogue and digital media, experimenting through different disciplines with a focus on photography and sound. Her musical practice is based on improvisational experimentations, playing with virtual instruments, synthesizers, percussion, e-bass, field and voice recordings, machine learning algorithms, children’s music toys and more. Her current sonic interest is investigating the boundaries between intuitive playing and structured patterns in sound compositions.
Paul Gründorfer Artistic practice in the scope of conceptual and process art, site specific intervention, sound sculpture and performance. Paul Gründorfer develops process-related systems and explores variable or unstable conditions within the occurrence of sound when exposed to amplification, feedback and plural signal streams. His works focus on processes that evolve in a social space, where sound is considered a found object and event, that directly relates to, influences and reflects the environment. They deal with the instability of systems, questioning the role of control and reaction, and researching mechanisms of hidden signals.
Eduardo Triviño-Cely (1990, Bogota) artistic practice involving sound, sculpture, multimedia, and performance. Their work is characterized by interventions in spe-cific spaces, the use of sound objects and installations. Through self-taught research, this explores the relationship between the limits of the body and different territorial spaces, encompassing cultural practices, political issues, and exercises in reflection on our environment.
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.
: WORKSHOP signup SEED 02:: Live Diffusion and Thresholds of Decentering : 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. :
Multi-channel sound works by :: Sari Carel Mike Bullock Claudia Robles-Angel : $15 Tickets HERE : Wednesday, April 19 8pm (7:30 doors) 411 Kent Ave., Brooklyn NY 11249 : : *Masks required* to protect the vulnerable : 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
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.
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”.
: 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. : 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. : 10 years went by : :: :: :: :: :: : DANI DOBKIN / MATT SARGENT GIDEON CREVOSHAY / DEVIN GREENWOOD
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