Axine M: Adriana

Wednesday, February 21st at 8pm, ISSUE is pleased to present 2024 Artist-In-Residence Axine M’s first commission Adriana, a multichannel piece for voice, sampled corpus, and machine. This Winter, between phases of renovation, ISSUE returns to our 22 Boerum Pl. theater for a series of limited capacity Artist-In-Residence and Fellowship events.

Notes from Axine M on Adriana:

Feminized labor 

Vocal beauty standards

Envelopment in timbral idiosyncrasies 

Contended IP 

Uncanny elements of control

Work changes the body and the body changes work 

Exploitation, body horror

https://axine.net/adriana/

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.