“Music for the Deaf / X. Panels”

“Music for the Deaf / X. Panels” is a solo music performance utilizing a MIDI-controlling “evening glove.” The glove will control sequences, samples, and effects as well as text by writer Melody Sumner. Performance at the Kitchen, March 1993; broadcast on WNYC; recording to follow.


Sonami’s sound performances, live film collaborations and sound installations focus on issues of presence and participation. She has devised new gestural controllers for performance and applies new technologies and appropriated media to achieve an expression of immediacy through sound, place and body.