Lesley Flanigan is an artist and vocalist living in New York City. A majority of her work deals with the physicality of sound and amplification as a source of sound in and of itself, focusing on relationships between noise, speakers, and voice. Flanigan builds her own speaker feedback instruments. Her performances with these instruments reveal a sculptural process as she shapes the varying tones and rhythms of feedback and blends them with the tones and rhythms of her own singing voice to build beautifully rich and physical music.
For Floating Points, Lesley Flanigan performs with Issue Project Room's unique speaker system, turning each individual speaker into a voice of its own, orchestrating them to perform as a hanging choir above her. The room resonates with sounds of her voice in multiple spaces, as she builds a choral arrangement that simultaneously produces and feeds off of itself. She is joined by Luke DuBois on laptop.
Lesley Flanigan has performed at numerous clubs, venues, and art spaces including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Issue Project Room, Saint Patrick's Old Cathedral, Art Omi Field's Sculpture Park, The Stone, Monkey Town, The Tank, and The Weisman Art Museum; her work has also been shown internationally at the ISEA, NIME, and ICMC conferences. Flanigan's work with speaker feedback was recently discussed in Nicolas Collins' book "Hardware Hacking: The Art of Handmade Electronic Music;" she is also a member of Bioluminescence, a collaboration with Luke DuBois that explores the materiality of voice. She loves tea and feedback loops.
