Studio Five Beekman and Diapason Sound Art were two galleries devoted to the presentation of multi-channel sound installations, long-duration performances and intermedia artworks. Founded, directed and curated by composer Michael J. Schumacher in collaboration with Ursula Scherrer and Liz Gerring and made possible by the generosity of Mr. and Mrs.… Continue reading
The room has an 8-channel sound system and a FrR-interface (a.k.a. fFlower). Everyone is welcomed to come and play with the interface and explore its possibilities. • DATES AND TIMES: June 14 – August 8. Open to the public on weekends – Saturday and Sunday 11am to 5pm•… Continue reading
A feminist activist project, Women’s Labor repurposes domestic tools to become new musical instruments. Using embedded technologies, these domestic-tools-turned instruments are explored in interactive installations, commissioned compositions, and performances. Traditionally relegated to the private sphere, we interrogate domesticity through public engagement and performative spectacle. The new instruments are based on… Continue reading
Apparatus is a site-specific installation consisting of a set of tuned metal plates and motors. Apparatus is a self-generating, participant-modulated sound installation which allows a space to generate some of its own musical potential, as well as allowing participants the opportunity to hear and modify the standing waveforms of a… Continue reading
Periodicity Piece #10 (Island Time) is a new mixed-media, multi-channel sound installation. Informed by early minimalism, acoustic ecology, deep listening and ambient music, Periodicity Piece #10 combines a diverse collection of sounds into a slowly changing sonic ecosystem. Drawing on the unique Governor’s Island setting, the work offers a unique, site-specific listening experience… Continue reading
Influenced by the cultural shifts that technology creates, this series of fiber installations—The Masquerades of the Soft Machines— imagines a future dystopia warped by technology. The surreptitious collection of personal data has led to humanity controlled by the machine. Luciferins is one project in this series. Luciferins is inspired by… Continue reading
…but in thingsis an immersive, interactive sound installation combining live transducer-activated resonant instruments and found objects with binaural bone-conducting headphone listening. (Covid restrictions will apply). …but in things is part of an ongoing series of compositional installations and performance works using transducers that explore the nature of space, materiality, and… Continue reading
Ephemerospheres is an installation of electroacoustic audio works for wave field synthesis speaker array. The system’s creator, Mike Bullock, is a composer and intermedia artist whose work centers on listening to the unique qualities of particular spaces, both while recording natural environments and while creating virtual ones with loudspeakers. Bullock designed… Continue reading
AUDIO CHANDELIER: POLYÉLAIOS, is a new multi-channel audio speaker sculpture by Dafna Naphtali [sound artist] in collaboration with metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali. Individual “grains” of sound are dispersed via the speaker sculpture in an immersive sonic experience– undulating audio “pixels” illuminate and refract moments in time, eliciting reminiscent soundscapes, environmental / electronic… Continue reading
Created by vocalist and composer Charlotte Mundy, ‘Light as a Feather’ is a ghost opera inspired by the parlor room of 10a Nolan Park. In a room covered in sighing pink tissue paper, invisible voices beckon, whisper, growl and swirl around listeners, lights glow and change color, and floral scents waft… Continue reading
