:: Sun Apr 28 2024 5pm / 4pm doors Fridman Gallery Listening Room 169 Bowery :: Event Link Ticket Link ::: : Join us on site at the Fridman Gallery Listening Room for a presentation of quadrophonic audio created by Willie Mae’s first Creative Fellow Carys Dixon. Carys will debut a new work composed over the course of her fellowship combining her unique style with multichannel mixing techniques. All are welcome! : Carys “Cabø” Dixon is Willie Mae Rock Camps inaugural Creative Fellow and alum from one Willie Mae’s longest standing in-school partnerships based in the Bronx. : :: Carys is an emerging artist fueled by the tapestry of auditory experiences that envelop her in her Norwood community. Since 2017, Cabø has embarked on a sonic journey, crafting a unique blend of R&B, Alternative, Rock, and Hip-Hop influences. On April 28th, attendees of her performance at the Fridman Gallery will be transported into a world, where she will unveil compositions born from her exploration of quadrophonic and spatial audio techniques. :: About Willie Mae Rock Camp:: Willie Mae Rock Camp is a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering girls and gender-expansive youth through transdisciplinary music education. :::: :
Please join us for the official launch of New Ear Inc.!
CT::SWaM is merging with New Ear Inc. and becoming New Ear:: Spatial. New Ear Inc. is a nonprofit organization fostering experimentation in time-based media and interdisciplinary collaboration in New York City and beyond.
In celebration, we will host a performance by Jen Kutler in the main space of 169 Bowery, and an audio program by Claudia Robles-Angel in the 8-channel listening room.
Jen Kutler will present Jen Cathode Ray Gun Point, an audio-visual performance piece in which Kutler relates internal dialogues by the light of a single match while wearing physiological sensors reminiscent of a lie detection circuit. Video of Kutler reciting the text is manipulated by an RGB raster manipulation unit or “wobbulator” (made popular by Nam Jun Paik) made from a vintage cathode ray tube projector and hand wound coils. The “wobbulator’s” manipulations of the video are controlled by Kutler’s physiological signals. The stories told are accompanied by sample driven sounds generated from these signals which return to the air via speakers to manipulate the match’s flame. The piece explores cognitive bias, subjectivity and the neurological underpinnings of emotion, mental illness, memory and choice.
Jen Kutler is a multidisciplinary artist and performer. She modifies found objects that are cultural signifiers of power, gender, queerness and intimacy to create atypical instruments and sculptures. Her performances feature many of her instruments incorporated with immersive field recordings to explore common and discrepant experiences of familiar social tones in immersive sound and media environments.
Claudia Robles-Angel will present her installation-composition Là-Bas in our octophonic listening room. Born in Bogotá (Colombia), living in Cologne (Germany). Composer, sound and new media artist, her work covers different aspects of visual and sound art, extending from acousmatic and audio-visual compositions to interactive performances/installations using biomedical signals and Artificial Intelligence.
Là-bas (There…)
Là-bas… is an invitation to the audience to immerse themselves in a space that gradually fades into silence and quietness. The entire sound materials are derived from the recording of the poem that gives the name to the piece. The composition is a journey from the pure human voice spatialised to its transformation into noise. This is the concert version of an original composition for an installation of the same name. The poem that opens both the acousmatic piece and the installation was also written by the author. The original piece (installation) works with a phosphorescent structure in a completely dark space, creating an immersive atmosphere which introduces visitors into a contemplative situation.
Claudia Robles-Angel has been Artist-in-residence in several outstanding institutions around the globe. In 2022 was awarded with an honorary mention by the GIGA Hertz award at ZKM Center in Germany.
Her work has been performed and exhibited worldwide e.g. at ZKM Karlsruhe, ISEA Manizales, Durban and Gwangju; KIBLA Centre Maribor, CAMP Festival – 55 Venice Biennale Salon Suisse, ICMC Copenhagen and Utrecht; New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival; NIME Oslo; STEIM Amsterdam; Harvestworks Digital Arts Center NYC, Heroines of Sound Berlin; SIGGRAPH Yokohama, Audio Art Festival Cracow; MADATAC Madrid; Athens Digital Art Festival ADAF, CMMAS Morelia; Beast FEaST Birmingham; ICST ZHdK Zurich; RE:SOUND Aalborg; Electric Spring Festival Huddersfield; AI Biennal Essen; and more recently at the Centre for International Light Art Unna.
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 