📅 Date: Saturday, May 16, 2026
🕓 Time: 3 PM
📍 Governors Island, Nolan Park, Harvestworks Building 10a
Tapescape is an interactive sound installation that reimagines magnetic tape as a spatial surface for composition. Rather than treating tape as a linear medium for fixed playback, Lu records and arranges sound on tapes across flat acrylic panels, allowing composition to exist as a field of directions, densities, and gestures distributed in space.
Visitors are invited to use a custom-built playback “pen” to draw across the surface of the work. By moving the pen perpendicular to each taped composition, they activate recorded sounds through a four-channel speaker system. As different paths are traced across the acrylic panels, sounds emerge, recede, and shift through the room, making each encounter distinct. Listening becomes an active process of searching, following, and orienting: rather than receiving a predetermined sequence, the audience uncovers the composition through touch, movement, spatial and embodied attention.
The work considers how sound might be composed and encountered outside of linear time. In Tapescape, recording becomes a tactile landscape and listening becomes a means of navigation.
BIO
Qiujiang Levi Lu 卢秋江 is an experimental musician, media artist, and composer whose work centers on the body as a site of sonic transformation. Through custom-built electroacoustic instruments, feedback systems, and live performance, Lu explores how sound can become intimate, unstable, and physically charged. Their practice often extends the body through cyborg-like augmentations, including intraoral microphone-speaker systems and amplified laptop instruments, creating performances that merge ritual, noise, and embodied technology.
Drawing from Chinese lineages while engaging themes of queerness, spirituality, and body dysmorphia, Lu creates choreographed, improvisatory works that invite audiences into a deeply physical mode of listening. Their work has been presented internationally at venues and festivals including MATA Festival, Send + Receive, High Zero, IRCAM Forum, Kallelse Festival, and e-flux. Lu has received commissions from TAK Ensemble, Popebama, Luke Helker, and Ensemble Decipher, and support from the EY Emergent Futures Fellowship and NEW INC. They have been artist-in-residence at The New School, ISSUE Project Room, Harvestworks TIP, and ElektronmusikStudion Stockholm, and are a lecturer in music at the University of Pennsylvania. Lu holds degrees from the Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University and Stony Brook University.
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