2020 Artist Residency
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Hans Tammen
Hans Tammen creates sounds that have been described as an alien world of bizarre textures and a journey through the land of unending sonic operations. He produces rapid-fire juxtapositions of radically contrastive and fascinating noises, with micropolyphonic timbres and textures, aggressive sonic eruptions, but also quiet pulses and barely audible sounds. Signal To Noise called […]
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Chuck Bettis
Chuck Bettis is a sound scientist and audio activist who utilizes both electronics and voice in his sonic protest research. Bettis was raised in the fertile HarDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore’s enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York’s downtown musical tribe. He has performed with John Zorn, Fred Frith, Jamie Saft, and […]
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Muyassar Kurdi
Brain Works is an interdisciplinary piece which includes large scale paintings, sound (voice and viola), and dance. In recent times the project has been stripped down to a more minimal approach–one which demands urgency with the body even more. Brain Works is centered on memory, visual rhythm, subtlety, and gravity while honoring the futuristic and […]
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Aimee Norwich
Aimee Norwich is a musician, inventor, filmmaker, instrument builder, and visual artist. Her education is in jazz and classical electric bass, audio production, room acoustics, and electronics. She plays a Hybrid Bass, Bass Kit (both her inventions), Fretless Bass, Piccolo Bass, Baritone Ukulele, and Electric Bass, along with various FX pedals. She also builds and […]
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Miguel Frasconi
Miguel Frasconi is a composer and improviser whose instrumentarium includes glass objects, electronics, and instruments of his own design. His array of activities includes collaborations with the Balinese composer Dewa Berata on music for a large-scale shadowplay, with operatic tenor John Duykers on unique music/theater events, with the Tibetan songwriter Techung, with whom he has […]
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Katherine Behar
Katherine Behar is an interdisciplinary artist and critical theorist of new media whose works exploring gender and labor in contemporary digital culture have appeared throughout North America and Europe. She is known for projects that mix low and high technologies to create hybrid forms that are by turns humorous and sensuous. Behar has edited and […]
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Michael Foster
Michael Foster is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist working in the fields of free improvisation, noise, free jazz, graphic & video notation, performance art, and other forms of “weird” music. Foster utilizes extensive instrumental preparations, augmenting his saxophone with amplification, objects, balloons, drum heads, vibrators, tapes, and samples as a method of queering the instrument’s history […]