theo bleckmann + joseph branciforte / album release for LP1
kenneth kirschner
greg davis
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for its label launch event, greyfade partners with CT::SWaM and fridman gallery to present an evening of spatialized works in various performative contexts: an 8-channel installation from vermont-based sound artist greg davis, a fixed work for multichannel digital choir from composer kenneth kirschner, and a live improvised performance from grammy-nominated vocalist theo bleckmann and electronic musician/composer joseph branciforte with live spatialization by daniel neumann.
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the label will be celebrating its inaugural release, LP1, a duo recording from bleckmann & branciforte, due out the same day in vinyl and high-resolution digital editions.
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fridman gallery upstairs
169 bowery, ny ny
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friday 6/21, 8p
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tickets:
https://bit.ly/2JbpJD
$12 advance / $15 door
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pre-order LP1:
http://www.greyfade.com/prereleases/lp1
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From Mon 6/17 – Thur 6/20 CT::SWaM ExChange is hosting the late concerts for this years ICMC (International Computer Music Conference) + NYCEMF (New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival).
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Daily at 10:30pm
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Fridman Gallery Media Room
169 Bowery, NY NY
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$10
Please RSVP (ticket link) since seats are limited.
Free for CT::SWaM members and with festival pass.
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CT::SWaM ExChange 005 will feature two approaches to spatial sound outside of the surround sound composition standards::
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PING SHENG WU – Sound-Path
DANIEL NEUMANN – Non-representational Spatial Sound Composition
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May 14 2019, 8pm
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Fridman Gallery Media Room
169 Bowery, NY NY
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$7
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S e n s i n g S p a c e::
a night of multichannel audio works by sound and interdisciplinary artists
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VIV CORRINGHAM
C. LAVENDER
VICTORIA KEDDIE
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Tue, Apr 16 2019
8pm
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Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery,
New York, NY 10002
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Curated by WISE//Hosted by CT::SWaM
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$7
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Program::
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:::Shattered Song, Shadow City by Viv Corringham
A multi channel work with live voice.
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Shattered Song, Shadow City is a work for solo vocalist performing live with a six channel setup. The singing voice interweaves through fragmented stories and soundscapes from five countries. It uses words of displaced people and aims to create a sense of dislocation in the audience too. Phrases and words from different people, sometimes in their own language, and field recordings from various places move through the six speakers. Recordings used in this installation were made over the course of a year on walks with inhabitants of many European cities and their accounts of what these places meant to them. Their stories spoke of home, disruption, escape, community and often hope. In 2018 the work was presented in Hong Kong, Taipei, Shantou, Bangalore, Delhi and Kolkata, at festivals, universities and cultural centres. Originally commissioned by Harvestworks Media Arts, NY.
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:::Reflections of Asterion by C. Lavender
Multichannel sound composition.
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:::Vates (Chamber-Hengittaa-Metsaa), 2018 by Victoria Keddie
Multichannel composition for sound and video.
Composition explores “presence” through vocal arrangement, feedback loops, pattern repetition, and electronic synthesis.
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CT::SWaM ExChange is a monthly meet-up at the Fridman Gallery Media Room focussed on multi-channel works and spatial sound. These meetings provide a platform for exchanging ideas, for listening to contemporary and historical pieces, hosting presentations, demos, talks and workshops, and for developing an ongoing discourse around spatial sound.
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WISE is a curatorial platform supporting & showcasing women-identified and non-binary artists working in sonic media & experiential arts; expanding configurations of context, technology, time and space.
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ARTIST BIOS:
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Viv Corringham

Viv Corringham is a British vocalist and sound artist, active since the late 1970s. Her work includes concerts, soundwalks, radio works and multi-channel installations. She is interested in exploring people’s sense of place and the link with personal history
and memory. She studied and worked with Pauline Oliveros for many years and holds a Certificate to teach Deep Listening. She facilitates workshops in listening and sounding, most recently in Hong Kong, London, Bangalore, New York, Kolkata and Manila. She received two Composer Fellowships from McKnight Foundation, through American Composers Forum. Her work has received international recognition and been presented in twenty five countries on five continents. Recent work has been presented at Issue Project Room New York Electronic Art Festival, Hong Kong Arts Centre Multichannel Festival, Universities in Bangalore,
Calcutta and Delhi, Ftarri Tokyo, Cafe Oto London, Ohrenhoch Sound Gallery Berlin, Taipei University Taiwan, Shantou University China, Onassis Centre Athens Borderline Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art London Soundworks Festival, Brussels Tempo al
Tempo Festival, London Discovery Festival, Echoes from Invisible Landscapes Festival Alp-Adriatic Region and Superbudda Torino.
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C. Lavender
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C. Lavender is a Hudson Valley, New York-based sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator whose work spans through live performance, recording, installations, videos, compositions, and workshops. She seeks to create an immersive aural landscape for the listener, an experience which is intensely physical, emotional and ultimately cathartic as noted in a performance review from the Village Voice; “downright iconic, charged with meaning and transgression.”
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C. Lavender has performed, lectured and hosted workshops at Hirshhorn Museum, Issue Project Room, The Rubin Museum of Art, MoMA PS1, The Stone, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Fridman Gallery, The New School, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute among other venues. In 2016 she taught a ten-week class for children about the scientific and artistic aspects of sound. C. Lavender has albums and recordings featured on the labels Ecstatic Peace!, RVNG Intl, Primitive Languages, and Hot Releases.
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Website: http://www.clavender.net
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Victoria Keddie
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Victoria Keddie is an artist working within cross disciplines.
Keddie holds an MA degree from New York University and a BFA from University of the Arts in Philadelphia with a Mobility Fellowship at the California College of Arts in San Francisco, CA. Keddie is the Co-Director of E.S.P. TV, a nomadic TV studio that hybridizes technologies to realize synthetic environments and deconstruct the televisual for live performance. She teaches Advanced Televisual Broadcast at Marymount Manhattan College in New York City, and has lectured at: Columbia University with the Sound Arts MFA program; Arts at Carnegie Mellon University; Cranbrook Academy of Art; School of Film and Video at Pratt University; University of Colorado, Boulder; Dept of Media Studies / Intermediate Sound at PNCA; University of Oregon,Eugene; and Hunter College in New York City; Bennington College. She has been an invited resident artist at the Storefront for Art and Architecture; Recess Gallery; AZ Wagon Station Encampment; Signal Culture; Pioneer Works ; WaveFarm; and Yaddo Artist Residency; Saari Fellow with the The Kone Foundation in Mynämäki,Finland (September 1-November 1, 2018), and is current resident artist at The Drawing Center in New York City (April 2018-April 2020).
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Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally at venues and festivals such as, The Barbican, Fridman Gallery, The Swiss Institute, Pioneer Works,The Kitchen, Museum of Moving Image, The Museum of Art and Design, Queens Museum of Art, Microscope Gallery, and Anthology Film Archives (NYC), Human Resources (Los Angeles), Lightcone, (Paris), Syros International Film Festival (Syros, Greece), Studio XX (Montreal), LOOP Festival (Barcelona), Pallas Projects (Dublin), Reykjavik Arts Festival (Reykjavik), General Public (Berlin), Axis Art Centre (Crew), The Independent Film Festival (Naples), Liste Art Fair (Basel), Seeing Sound Festival (Bath), and Daimon (Gatineau).
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Tue 3/19/2019
8pm
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Fridman Gallery
169 Bowery,
New York, NY 10002
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Tickets/RSVP::
(Members don’t need tickets. Become a member HERE:: )
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CT::SWaM is inviting you to ExChange 003 with multi-channel presentations by::
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LEE GILBOA (In[n/ H]er Head, fixed media, 8-ch)
BEN MANLEY (experiment with field recording)
EVAN ZIERK (Four Turntables, 2018)
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CT::SWaM ExChange is a monthly meet-up at the Fridman Gallery Media Room focussed on multi-channel works and spatial sound. These meetings provide a platform for exchanging ideas, for listening to contemporary and historical pieces, hosting presentations, demos, talks and workshops, and for developing an ongoing discourse around spatial sound.
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LEE GILBOA

In[n/ H]er Head is a multichannel composition that uses dialogue and recitation to explore self perception and definition. The inspiration behind In[n/ H]er Head lays in one of it’s biggest components- C.P Cavafy’s poem Walls. The poem discusses the feeling of being shuttered out of the world, trapped in a room without a clear understanding of who trapped you there to begin with. My reading of the poem interpreted the unheard builders (those who trapped you) to be the trapped person him/herself. Being inspired by this poem I started asking myself many questions about these things that happen without anyone noticing; How much of what we think defines us is our doing? What do we deny ourselves of unknowingly? Who are the builders we did not hear and why did we not hear them? What are our limits? What are themes that even in the back of our minds are not to be touched or talked about?

Born in Tel Aviv, Israel, Lee Gilboa has found her love for composition and Jazz music at a young age. While at Berklee College of Music where she was mentored by Neil Leonard, Dr. Richard Boulanger and Dr. Jeff Baust, Gilboa got to perform and collaborate with a wide variety of musicians, artists and technologists such as Dr. Rui Penha, Robert Rich, Amnon Wolman and Terence Blanchard among others. Her work deals with memory and identity through the use of speech and audio spatialization, and has won awards for innovative use of multimedia in music technology. Nowadays Lee is living in Brooklyn, NY and attends Columbia University’s MFA Sound Art program. Lee presented work in venues and platforms such as Berklee Performance Center, Fridman Gallery, Project Q Gallery, Resonance FM Radio, The Cube in Virginia Tech and Montez Press Artist Residency among others. In the fall of 2019 she will join Brown University’s Music and Multimedia Composition PhD program.
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BEN MANLEY

Manley will play back field recordings made with widely spaced omnidirectional microphones. The recordings were made recently at a dry lake bed in SoCal and a narrow valley in New York State. In its re-broadcasting the resulting collapsed outdoor space gets distorted and becomes a new and artificial aural space.

Ben Manley is a sound engineer and sound experimenter. He has engineered or recorded thousands of concert events at venues including the Whitney Museum, Dia Art Foundation, Roulette, Jack Tilton Gallery, The Guggenheim, Symphony Space, DiMenna Center, and The Stone for artists as diverse as La Monte Young, Alvin Lucier, Sarah Weaver, Daniel Goode, and Connie Crothers, and many others. As a solo performer, he presents abstract soundscapes in concerts and installations across the country and overseas.
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EVAN ZIERK
Four Turntables (2018) 25’

Four Turntables, originally written to be performed at the Debussy Biennial Festival at Spectrum, considers Clair de Lune, the third movement of Debussy’s Suite Bergamasque, originally published in 1905, as a ubiquitous unit of culture that has been exponentially transmitted and expanded throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. The piece, now thoroughly removed from its composer and original context, has propagated itself and grown into new, interrelated forms. It exists as a palette for musicians and composers to pull from, as they arrange, rearrange, sample, and perform its parts; as a utility, when featured on Youtube playlists like “Classical Music for Reading, Studying and Relaxation”; and as a signifier, when, for example, played briefly toward the end of the 2001 heist classic Oceans 11 to convey the protagonists’ success and enduring friendship. Within these interrelated functions lies the question: Why is Claire de Lune so ubiquitous? Where in the piece exist the threads that bind all of these iterations, tying them back to their origin?

Evan Zierk is a composer and sound engineer with interests in stochasticism in algorithmic music, as well as modes of listening and utilitarian music, particularly music for sleeping. His work has varied from chamber music to fixed media, installation, and performance. His first published release Drifting/Bending was released in 2017 by the Washington DC label Atlantic Rhythms.

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It’s been quiet.
Since this summer.
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What can we do?
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We decided to meet on the coldest night.

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Exchange:: Gather:: Listen::
Monday, Jan 21 2019
8pm
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Fridman Gallery Media Room (Basement)
169 Bowery, NYC
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This is the first iteration of a new series of informal gatherings focussed on multi-channel works and spatial sound. We’ll be listening to some past CT::SWaM works over an 8-channel system and discuss ideas for moving forward:: ▶︎
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This could become a regular platform for exchanging ideas, for listening to contemporary and historical pieces, hosting presentations, demos, talks and workshops, and for developing an ongoing discourse around spatial sound.
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The basement at Fridman is conceived as a media space, and will allow for regular sessions without much setup effort. And that’s as far as the idea goes, so far. This first session is thought as an opening, a sensing of interest, a call for participation, an act of vulnerability, rather than the launch of a finished product, ready for consumption.
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CT::SWaM & SPATIALIZED presented::

SPATIAL SOUND SUMMER SESSIONS 2018
August 7 – August 27 2018
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Presentations: Experiments: Studies: Concerts: Workshops: and: Exchange: 
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For this year’s Spatial Sound Summer Session, CT::SWaM was teaming up with Dave & Gabe from SPATIALIZED in Brooklyn! We were hosting two concerts to present six pieces that were developed during the workshop.

EVENT A:: SPATIALIZED 02:: Sunday, Aug 26, 4pm

S a m . H a a r

H e l l y n . T e n g

M i k e . B u l l o c k

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EVENT B:: SPATIALIZED 03:: Monday, Aug 27, 8pm

J u l i a . S a n t o l i

K y l e . C o m b s

C l a r a . W a r n a a r

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Throughout August composers and sound artists have participated in various sessions, working directly with Daniel Neumann and Dave & Gabe to further develop techniques and compositions for the 40-channel spatial audio system.
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Upstairs @ Future Space
350 Meserole St., Bldg A
Brooklyn, NY 11206
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RSVP to A

RSVP to B

CT::SWaM presented Hans Tammen & Dark Circuits Orchestra’s work Crossing The Lagrangian Point in collaboration with Knockdown Center on Thursday, November 30th 2017.

Hans Tammen & Dark Circuits Orchestra : CROSSING THE LAGRANGIAN POINT
NHLK (Lucas Truninger & Nicola Hein) : MEMBRANES
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CT::SWaM and Pioneer Works collaborated to offer an temporary spatial sound studio on the 3rd floor studio to artists that want to develop 8-channel sound works.To close out its studio residency, CT::SWaM presented a program of spatial sound pieces at Pioneer Works on December 10th, 2017.

CT::SWaM Spatial Sound Summer Sessions is an annual program that presents performances and workshop sessions focused on the evolving field of multi­-channel sound.  The featured pieces had been developed during the Spatial Sound Studio Sessions, October – December 2017. The work ran on rotation from 4 PM – 10 PM in the 3rd floor studio of Pioneer Works during their Second Sundays event. 

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Kenneth Kirschner : November 19, 2017
Mike Lala : Infinite Odyssey
Julia Santoli : Fluid Transmission
Christian Schröder : gaps in the void
Connor Whiriskey : Torres de Satélite

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