All That Is Seen and Unseen is an interdisciplinary, installation opera which investigates the multifarious effects of technology on our collective human consciousness. The work confronts the dangerous erosion of truth and trust in our society, which is rapidly intensifying due to advancing A.I., computational propaganda, deepfakes, and other tools… Continue reading
Rheostat Rotary Rack is the second instrument of Women’s Labor, a feminist-activist project that repurposes domestic tools to become new musical instruments, to interrogate gender inequality in housework division. Itis based on a mid-20th century umbrella-style rotary dryer embedded with a rotary encoder and potentiometers, performed by hanging clothing on… Continue reading
The audience enters a pitch-black room with tens of thousands of invisible organisms in a bulb-like aquarium. They’re invited to speak, and if they do their voice excites the bioluminescent dinoflagellates into illuminating. The microbes create a blue glow of bubbles shaped from the pitch and volume of the voice… Continue reading
LocaleS3 is sound as kinetic plastic sculptural material to be formed with the dynamic properties of location, size, direction, motion, movement. In a dark room, the artists animate & orchestrate interactive virtual sound objects with vocalizations & sound compositions, distributed in space. Visitors become involved accomplices playing the room as… Continue reading
Tending Ostreidae: Serenades for Settling (Version 1) is a multimedia installation focused on the listening body of the heroic oyster. A water filter, sea level mitigator and food source, the oyster is a vital member of our ecosystem that senses safe settlement habitats through sound. Using field recordings, generative data,… Continue reading
Rhythmic music software is usually based on the Euclidean plane; as in Western music notation, there is a single grid in which time flows from left to right and there is only one metronome/clock that works as a “conductor”. On the other hand, the “brain” of this robotic sculpture is… Continue reading
Duo Mezzo (Inversion) is a site-specific installation and virtual music performance constructed for Building 10a on Governors Island. Sullender created a digital replica of the space with the game software Unreal Engine. He presents this replica as a video projection within the space, mirroring the physical room. In addition, Sullender doubles… Continue reading
Solstice Sunset Cross-River Bell Ringing (Event #10,570): The dailybell project is an aspirational project based on the premise that the rotation of the Earth is an inarguable fact, something we can all agree on. Brenda Hutchinson and dailybell joins Make Music NY to celebrate the Summer Solstice this year on the 8:17 PM East… Continue reading
Custom HTML Plant Tags are a digital image series accessible through an Augmented Realityexperience by scanning the bark of trees, reading their structure as “natural” QR code. Visitors,with their cellphone and AR app in hand, take a stroll around the island to treasure hunt digitalfiles “embedded” within natural trees. DATES AND… Continue reading
Cathedral-64 is an immersive audio installation and instrument exploring the use of a very large number of spatialized sound sources. 64 individually controlled speakers driven by a custom electronic audio system are mounted to the walls and ceiling of the space, surrounding the listener in 3-dimensional sound. The piece explores… Continue reading
