Lesley Flanigan is a New York-based sound sculptor, composer, vocalist,
and performer. Inspired by the physical materiality of sound, she focuses on
amplification itself as the subject of her work, which weaves sounds from voice with
hand-built electronics. Her current project Amplifications features six of her
custom speaker feedback instruments and her own singing voice. As a sculptural
installation, performance and album of musical compositions, she has toured
Amplifications internationally with over 30 solo performances in both the United
States and Europe, sharing bills with such eclectic artists as Tristan Perich, Lucky
Dragons, Blevin Blectum, Phil Niblock, Connie Beckley and NOW Ensemble. In addition
to her solo work, she also collaborates with R. Luke DuBois in Bioluminescence, an
improvised music performance that explores the modality of human voice through
projected, live interactive video. She has also wielded a soldering iron as both a
guest performer and workshop instructor for the circuit constructing noise group,
the Loud Objects. Her work has been presented in numerous venues, festivals, and art
spaces internationally including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Sonar
(‘10 Barcelona), Transitio_MX (‘09, Mexico City), NIME (‘08 Genoa; ‘09 Pittsburgh),
ICMC (‘07, Copenhagen), Bent (‘08 Los Angeles; ‘09 New York), Issue Project Room
(Brooklyn), Gray Area Foundation for the Arts (San Francisco), Monster Truck Gallery
(Dublin) and NBI (Berlin). Her art has been exhibited at the ISEA conference in
Singapore, Busan International Design Festival in South Korea, RCAD’s Selby Gallery
and MCLA’s Gallery 51. She has spoken about her work and hosted numerous workshops
internationally at universities, art foundations and hacker spaces including
Harvestworks (New York), Dorkbot NYC (New York), the School of the Art Institute of
Chicago (Chicago), Wellesley College, the Copenhagen School of Architecture
(Copenhagen) and Metalab (Vienna), and has been a resident artist at
arts/electronics organizations LEMUR (Brooklyn, NY) and WORM (Rotterdam). She
studied sculpture at the Ringling College of Art and Design and received her masters
in media technology from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New
York University. www.lesleyflanigan.com
