MV Carbon is a Brooklyn-based musician and artist. Her work frequently involves tape machines, voice, cello, analog synthesizers, field recordings, along with hand built electronics. She has recently been developing and performing new works that utilize physical computing, and sensor controlled synthesis. Carbon is interested in spatial integration and site-specific consideration.
She has performed nationally and internationally with her solo work, as well as in collaborations at spaces including Arnolfi (UK); Issue Project Room (NYC); Lehman Maupin Gallery (NYC); Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago); Museum of Contemporary Art (Detroit); Nefertiti Jazz Club (Sweden); PS1 Contemporary Art (NYC); Roulette (NYC); The Sage (UK); The Stone (NYC); the Tate Modern (UK); and Tesla (Berlin) . Her work with the dark-wave electronic duo, Metalux, has releases out on a number of experimental and independent labels including a future one on Obsolete Units. Her solo release, The Dislodged Perihelion, (LP) is coming out sometime in the near future on Ecstatic Peace. Her paintings and installations have been exhibited at galleries including the Butcher Shop (Chicago), D'Amelio Terras (NYC), Louis V.E.S.P.(NYC), MCCaigwelles Gallery (NYC), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PGH), Salon Invisible (Chicago), Three Rives Arts Festival (PGH), and West Nile (NYC).
CrudLabs is Brooklyn-based artist Steven Litt. He creates gritty, industrial techno using an instrument he developed and built called the CrudBox— a hardware step sequencer which replaces the digitally manipulated or analog synthesized sounds usually associated with sequencers and electronic music with the raw, real time amplified sounds of whatever electromechanical devices are plugged into it, ranging from turntables to solenoids to power tools.
The Performance
For the first part of the program, Carbon utilizes the multi-channel speaker system to perform an abstract composition that is influenced by subjects relating to paranoia, dementia, epistemology, and biopsychosocial approaches. For the second part of the program, Carbon collaborates with Steven Litt, using hand built electronics, synthesizers, hand built electric stringed instruments and field recordings. They work together to expose precious, glistening pieces of rubble that lie within their rhythmic industrial soundscape.
