Thursday, September 12th at 8pm, ISSUE presents Sold Licker Glass, the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Axine M. As a composer and technologist, her residency continues to explore the user experience and the effects of capitalism on our identities and relationships. This event will take place at Artists Space in downtown NYC, and recognizes a longtime collaboration between two like-minded organizations that are committed to supporting the work of underrepresented artists while sharing resources.
Broken surface
Spit in
Corrupt a reflection
Let the silhouetted figures ripple
They’ve got designs for you
Peering peeling layers from you
Spilling oil into you
Realized by an ensemble featuring Leila Bordreuil (cello), Bridget Ferrill (harp), Cal Fish (flute), Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (clarinet), Kwami Winfield (trumpet), voice, fretless guitar, and computer processing, Sold Licker Glass is a melodic expansion of a song cycle that is stretched taut to reveal its innermost musical tendons. By way of instrumental characters that embody the primary states of matter, it reckons with the construction of our interpersonal realities. Through sound, the melodic actors explore states of being as a means of reweaving themselves into physicality; an interpersonal net cast upon experience.
Axine M is the moniker of Maxine de las Pozas, a music artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. The Ancient Greek Axenos, or "inhospitable place," is a name for the Black Sea before nautical technology was advanced enough to safely traverse the water. Axine M is a vessel for musical inquiries and creative impulses across multiple genres and sentiments, carving out a space for itself against the grain of the dystopian imaginary. A recent self-released tape, USUSUSESESERERER (pronounced "user"), is a songwriterly exploration of interpersonal relationships under late-capitalism. Axine has published tapes with Summer Isle and Embalming Lately, a label she co-founded. As a DJ, Axine has mixed for c-, BIZAARBAZAAR, DUST, Hong Kong Community Radio, and The Lot Radio, among others. Maxine holds a master's degree in Music Technology from NYU Steinhardt, where she focused on the design of novel music controllers for live performance. Versions of her thesis were published in the proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) and International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2021). Maxine is a collective member and sound engineer for Chaos Computer. She works as an Audiovisual Technician.
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