MV Carbon is a Brooklyn-based sound artist and composer. She collects field recordings and builds samples to create moody soundscapes. Her cello is manipulated and processed through reel-to-reel tape machines and numerous electronic devices, including an accelerometer on the cello bow programmed to effect pitch. Her orchestrations are designed to form visualizations as the woven sounds swell, stutter, contort and resolve. She is interested in discovering the place in music that flutters between the serene and the overwhelming. Carbon has collaborated sonically with many artists including Aki Onda, Evan Parker, John Wiese, Tony Conrad, and C. Spencer Yeh. She has released as Metalux and Bride of No No on 5RC, Atavistic, Hanson, Load, Nihilist, No Fun, Troubleman Unlimited, Veglia and others. Her first solo LP, The Dislodged Perihelion, is to be released on Ecstatic Peace this fall.
Her performance at ISSUE Project Room in July uses the multi–speaker system to portray concepts of time passage in moments of stillness. She gathers field recordings in open-air industrial and urban environments and shapes these sounds into percussive form. Her instruments for this performance are cello, samplers, tape machines, and oscillators.
