Media

Drag performance artist and musician Reagan Holiday performs high femme harsh noise for the apocalypse. Full on, full drag, full volume.

Max Hamel, known for their prolific output as Head Separating From Body, presents new work where the inputs and outputs of their modular synth are switchable, nonbinary, and fluid. Further, the sound is activated by touch, so the artist’s body completes the circuit.

The Daxophone Consort presents a new collaboration with NYC experimental vocalist and composer Judith Berkson.

The Daxophone Consort presents HARD WOOD, a new commission by the esteemed experimental composer Alvin Lucier (performed as a quartet with Trevor Saint)

The Daxophone Consort presents John Cage's "Ryoanji" in collaboration with Alvin Lucier.

Kara-Lis Coverdale performs new solo work exclusively on the pipe organ at First Unitarian Congregational Society, a Hutchings organ registered with the New York City branch of the American Guild of Organists. Driven by a patient devotion to space, Coverdale’s compositions exist between erudite computer music and acoustic melancholy, seen in her hybrid organ and piano works mediated by electronics and digital interfaces.

Philadelphia-based producer LXV performs a long-form grouping that expands upon his recent interests in varying forms of rhythmic texture and sculpting fields of sound out of processed human voice and sampled and synthesized media.

Josh Sinton presents krasa, a series of investigations exploring the amplification and sound magnification of the contrabass clarinet

For her inaugural residency performance, 2019 Artist-In-Residence Charmaine Lee premieres “Laminals,” the first of three movements of a new long-form piece for solo voice. Using the organic instrument as a vehicle for synthetic creation, this movement investigates the possibilities of both the grotesque and beautiful qualities that emerge from a mechanical treatment of the human voice.

Charmaine Lee presents an improvised trio performance featuring id m theft able (voice, objects) and Andrea Pensado (voice, electronics). Together, the trio demonstrates the dynamic nature of the voice, celebrating the human spirit in all its wonder and absurdity.

Dominique Deryris performs Christine Groult's "A chaque fois qu’une étoile explose…" (2018), "Mi ritrovai per una selva oscura" (2018), and "La condition captive" (2003) for the first time in the United States.

Philadelphia-based duo Metasplice presents new work, showcasing a shifting sonic space existing between electronic free improvisation and live post-production techniques.

Lucie Vítková presents "Experimental Folklore Piece," an extraction of elements of Czech and Slovak folklore, represented by accessories such as a carved wooden ax, an overtone flute made out of plastic pipe, dance, and singing. Vítková combines these elements and accompanies them with feedback which sonifies the artist's movement.

Suzanne Langille stages a new performance focusing on the human voice as an instrument, and conversely on the instrument as an expression of the essence of the human voice. The performance includes emotive singing and speaking, contrasted with throat singing and overtones (Neel Murgai), interlaid with improvisational guitar (Loren Connors) and saxophone (Daniel Carter) -- all masters of their respective instruments.