Ian Epps

Forgotten Lake: A Memory Map

2022-07-03 22:27:34

Forgotten Lake: A Memory Map

A composition for Forgotten Lake, a collaborative exhibition with Christy Nyboer and Ian Epps.
at NW Marine Art Works, Portland, OR.
May 2022

Forgotten Lake: A Memory Map by Ian Epps
A lost lake and marshlands filled in and forgotten.

This recording features regional singing insects that would have inhabited the trees and shoreline of Guild's Lake, Portland, Oregon.

Katydids:
Gladiator Meadow Katydid
Black-legged Meadow Katydid
Slender Meadow Katydid

Cicadas:
Neoplatypedia Constricta
Okanagana Bella
Okanagana Utahensis
Platypedia Similis

credits: released May 15, 2022
Composition by Ian Epps

Forgotten Lake

2022-07-03 21:22:49

Forgotten Lake

Christy Nyboer’s project “Forgotten Lake” is an art installation inspired by Portland’s strange history of the land where NW Marine Art Works is built. In 1905 Guild’s Lake was the site of Oregon’s Lewis & Clark Centennial Exposition, and the area we now know as “NW Industrial”. Prior to 1905, this area was once a natural, swampy wetlands occupied by Native Americans, which eventually became drained and filled to make way for the neighborhood we see today. “Forgotten Lake” is a reflective journey to find creative, physical and emotional places that have been lost over time. Searching for lost feelings of calmness and sanctuary in oneself.

Using aluminum, dirt, seeds and live plants, Christy has recreated her own reflective pool using a historic map of Guild’s Lake as her reference.

“I feel we each have our own Forgotten Lake within ourselves we’d like to reflect on and get back to. The complexity of time and busyness of life leaves us feeling depleted and our lakes drained and filled with dirt.” ~ Christy Nyboer

Sound artist, Ian Epps, has collaborated with Nyboer’s vision of “Forgotten Lake” and composed a sound piece to accompany the viewers experience. He collaged recordings of Portland region Katydids and Cicadas with wind. There are 7 parts to Epps composition and play continuous on loop.

“On the surface, my compositions have many elements of musicality, with harmonic color and multilayered arrangements, but it’s beneath the surface where my interests lie.” ~ Ian Epps

Forgotten Lake is open to the public at Building Five: May 20th - 25th, 2022.

Performances

2022-02-28 01:55:07

Performances and Live Events

2023

6 - 7 April, 2023

Milisuthando | 2023 New Directors New Films
at MoMA and Film at the Lincoln Center

Q&A with Milisuthando Bongela on April 6 and 7

In her poetic and galvanizing essay film, Johannesburg-based artist, writer, and
first-time filmmaker Milisuthando Bongela has constructed a multilayered and thought
provoking inquiry into history and identity that through five distinct chapters evokes
the experience and after-effects of growing up amidst apartheid. Born in 1985, Bongela
lived her first, inchoately remembered years with her family in the Transkei, a segregated
zone in southeastern South Africa established in the 1970s under a false sense of
cultural and geographical independence for Black people. A part of the country’s Xhosa
community, the filmmaker delves into personal memories, gradual historical change, the
legacies of racism on both Black and white citizens, and her continued search for belonging
and identity. Milisuthando is a reminder that none of us exist outside of history.

21 - 27 January, 2023

Milisuthando | 2023 Sundance Film Festival
This penetrating coming-of-age personal essay on love and what it means
to become human in the context of race explores the memories and experiences
of Milisuthando Bongela, who grew up within apartheid without knowing it was
happening until it was over.

Bongela was born to a loving middle-class Xhosa community in the Transkei —
an unrecognized state that was formulated out of the separate development
dream of the apartheid regime in South Africa. The Transkei was designed to
raise some denizens on a diet of suggestions that they did not experience the ills
of apartheid, and though it was dissolved after the fall of apartheid, it left behind
bewildered memories in those who built their lives inside the regime’s sordid
social experiment.

Milisuthando elucidates that apartheid was something that was done to all of us.
Bongela invites the audience in as she plumbs the anatomy of race as bequeathed
to us by our ancestors and explores what roles our ancestors play in how we create
our personhood.

I contributed music to this beautifully poetic film.

2022

1 - 4 December, 2022

Sonic Matter Festival
Zurich, CH

The Neck, A new long form composition of mine will debut
at the Sonic Matter Festival alongside a new work by Éliane Radigue.

Oct 21 | 8pm
Electric Entanglement II
at Synesthesia Space, Brooklyn, NY
An evening of live electronics entangling your senses with ambient visuals and
sounds. Performances by NTHNL & Sphente, Ian Epps, Eric Hoegemeyer &
Carol Montealegre (visuals), and ( ).

The gallery will open at 7:30 pm and the performance will start at 8:00 pm.

2021

Oct 2, 2021 - Mar 6, 2022
Year of Uncertainty at Queens museum, Queens, NY
part of the Guardians of Flushing Bay exhibit.
You can listen to a field recording of mine in the exhibition Year of Uncertainty,
currently on view at the Queens Museum as part of a presentation by the
Guardians of Flushing Bay, a grassroots coalition of human powered boaters,
local residents, park users and citywide partners advocating for a healthy and
equitably accessible Flushing Bay and Flushing Creek.
I contributed a living wind map of Flushing Creek’s tidal shores. Nurtured by the
Lenape, plundered by europeans and its tidal flows soon to be forever lost due
to unnecessary condo development along these wetlands.

Direct link to the recording on soundcloud
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Direct link to the project.
2020

Fri. Nov. 6 | 7 pm CT |
Woodland Pattern Book Center Milwaukee, WI
$Give What You Can

A conversation and Q&A with aCinema co-curators
Janelle VanderKelen and Takahiro Suzuki
via Zoom on Friday Nov. 6th, at 7 pm CT.
* For an immersive experience between film and Q&A,
it’s best to start watching no later than 5:30 pm CT on Fri., Nov. 6.

Nov 1 - Nov 30
Shikata Ga Nai
aCinema, Milwaukee, WI

aCinema presents a curated group program of experimental film, video and sound.
featuring works by

Alejandra Abad
Erin Espelie
Lore Loyens
Ian Epps.

The films and sound will be accessible starting at
12:00 pm CT on Sun., Nov. 1st, and will remain
available until Mon., Nov. 30th.

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April 7th
7:30 pm–9:30 pm
ART • WORK • PLACE: Emergency Session I

ART • WORK • PLACE: EMERGENCY SESSION WEBINAR
BREAKOUT SESSION #1: MUSEUM WORKERS AND ORGANIZING
BREAKOUT SESSION #2: STRIKING AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
BREAKOUT SESSION #3: WORKING WITH CHILDREN
* recordings accessible from website link.

As the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, cultural workers are experiencing mass layoffs, and it is clear the art world will never look the same. In the first hour of this emergency forum, speakers will present ten-minute reports from the field; the second hour will feature breakout Q&A sessions with the speakers as well as a labor lawyer and a children’s therapist.

Art • Work • Place was originally planned as a two-day summit on efforts to create a just and equitable workplace in the art world—union organizing at museums, protests against toxic philanthropy, challenges to institutional racism, and lawsuits against sexual harassment and gender discrimination. But the current health emergency has drastically changed our conversations and needs. This online forum will instead focus on the immediate moment, sharing concrete information and ideas: What is happening to workers at art institutions across the country? What coalition groups have been formed for solidarity and support? What are our strategies going forward?

The organizers are reallocating the budget for the planned summit and speakers are forgoing their usual honorarium so that funding can be directed to aid groups and individuals in need.

Speakers include:

Ian Epps (Art Handlers Alliance) will explain what is occurring at the city, state, and federal levels to support precarious workers, and what actions we can take.

Michelle Millar Fisher (Art + Museum Transparency) will describe the layoffs, furloughs, and pay cuts taking place at museums and galleries, and the consequences for unionization.

Camilo Godoy (artist/educator) will outline the specific challenges confronting freelance museum educators.

Landry Haarmann (Met Council on Housing) will discuss strategies for rent strikes.

Shaun Leonardo (artist) will talk about his work with young people caught up in the justice system and New York State’s recent rollback of bail reform.

Andres Puerta (International Union of Operating Engineers Local 30) will address cross-organizing and solidarity with striking workers.

Kate Zayko, LCSW, will answer questions about the new struggles parents and children are now facing.

The forum will be chaired by Nikki Columbus.

Organized by the PhD Program in Art History (CUNY Graduate Center), in collaboration with the James Gallery/Center for the Humanities (CUNY Graduate Center) and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics (The New School), where it is sponsored in part by the Helen Shapiro Lectureship.

2019
August 9th | 9pm

The Windjammer- Queens, NY
Door: $5

Ian Epps
Warren Ng
Post Moves

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June 15th

Seventh Stanine Festival at Rhizome - Washington, D.C.

ADVANCE TICKETS HERE

Jon Mueller / Jon Camp / Mariage Blanc /
The Caribbean / Chad Clark & Erin Nelson (Beauty Pill) /
Ian Epps / Kamyar Arsani / Tristan Welch /
Loudon-Cohen Duo / Mary Battiata and Little Pink /
Tone / Jeanne Vomit-Terror /
Mike Shiflet & Michael Bernstein

DJ's:

Marc Masters
Jim Thomson

$20 suggested donation (100% of proceeds go to the artists and Rhizome)

Also:

Beer by 3 Stars Brewing
The Tetrocosa Room (see seventhstanine.com for more details)

Full schedule here: https://seventhstanine.tumblr.com/lineup

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Saturday Jan. 19th, 2019 - 7pm H0L0 - Queens, NY

Sloppy Heads - Shrimper
The Caribbean - Home Tapes, Tomlab
Ian Epps

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Jan. 10th, 2019 - 7pm
* Starts early 7pm H0L0 - Queens, NY

Ian Epps
Teodora Stepančić
Glymmur
Sonic Memorial

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2018

Oct. 30th, 2018 - 8pm
H0L0 - Queens, NY

Andrew Weathers, Ian Epps, Mike Nigro & Andrew Osterhoudt
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Sept. 21st, 2018

Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY

Friday presented by Printed Matter

6pm - Lori Scacco
5pm - Ian Epps
4pm - Faten Kanaan
3pm - Sergej Vutuc

Full rundown of the festival stage

Thursday Preview presented by Blank Forms
6pm DJ Monchan
7pm Roe Enney
8pm Odwalla1221

Friday presented by Printed Matter
3pm - Sergej Vutuc
4pm - Faten Kanaan
5pm - Ian Epps
6pm - Lori Scacco

Saturday presented by Heavy Trip
3:30pm - Ka Baird
4:45pm - Evan Caminiti
6:00pm - Greg Fox (GDFX)

Sunday presented by Pioneer Works
3pm - Lea Bertucci and Amirtha Kidambi
4pm - Jaimie Branch
5pm - TYGAPAW
6pm - Miho Hatori

Sept. 12th, 2018 - 8pm
H0L0 - Queens, NY

Seal Eggs, AJNA, Ian Epps

Jul. 14th, 2018 - 8pm
H0L0 - Queens, NY

Long Distance Poison, Shedding, Josh Mason
Doors at 7:30p event | tickets

Nov. 14th, 2017 - 8pm H 0 L 0 - Queens, NY
John Porras (Barn Owl), Ian Epps, Floor Overhead
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Sept. 23rd, 2017 - 9pm Quadraphonic Series @ H 0 L 0 - Brooklyn, NY
Matthew Ostrowski
Matthew D. Gantt
Ian Epps
Robert Mayson
Dylan A. Marcheschi

Sunday June 4th, 2017 - 9 - 12pm Monthly Modular Music Series
Mario Enrique-Paoli
Ian Epps
Ars Troitski
Mike Sidnam
Live visuals by Jim Tuite

Friday March 10th, 2017 - 8pm Microscope Gallery
Ian Epps
with Plan 23 and SeeJ (music and visuals)
Gill Arno (music) and Richard Kamerman (video)

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Saturday September 3rd, 2016 - 8pm CT::SWaM Spatial Sound Summer Sessions 2016
Dafna Naphtali :: Performance, talk
Mike Amacio :: Field Manipulations, performance based on 8-ch field recordings.
Ian Epps :: Improvisations in ambisonic positive feedback and sympathetic resonance.

Fridman Gallery
287 Spring St
NY NY

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Friday December 12th, 2014 - 8pm Ian Epps
Lea Bertucci
Tom Mulligan
Front Room Gallery
Brooklyn, NY

This performance is part of a project made possible with funds from the Media Arts Assistance Fund, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, Electronic Media and Film, with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York Legislature; administered by Wave Farm.

Monday August 20th, 2012 - 8pm Matthew Brown (Zond), Ollie Olsen (Young Charlatans / Whirlywirld / Max Q), and Ian Epps
Free

Monday Night Mass

Northcote Social Club

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February 10, 2012 Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
w/Maria Papadomanolaki, Jeremy D. Slater and Gregory Reynolds

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July 7, 2010 mvmnts n a feeld fgraen
Triangulation, Brooklyn, NY
Live Radio performance

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June 10, 2010 Goodbye Blue Monday, Brooklyn, NY
w/ Slava, Axitia Mode, AntroniX

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March 7, 2009 fotofono, Brooklyn, NY
Unframed Recordings Release Party
w/Kenta Nagai, Lary 7, Richard Garet,
Brendan Murray and Tommy Birchett

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October 10, 2009 Diapason Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
10ms: Perspectives on Microsound, in honor
of the 10th Anniversary of microsound.org
w/ Bernd Schurer, Tomas Korber, Taylor Deupree,
Kenneth Kirschner, Damian Marhulets, Tamara Yadao,
Daniel Neumann, Herbert Friedl, Richard Garet

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June 11, 2009 Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
FLOW at Front Room Gallery w/ Andrea Williams, Jeremy D. Slater, Lou Rossi and
Tamara Yadao

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May 18, 2009 Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY Ian Epps with projections by Blithe Riley
w /( ) aka Parentheses and Andrew Weathers

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Wednesday March 12th, 2008 - 9pm Ian Epps, o.blaat , ( ) aka Parenthesis, and
Pacific Before Tiger
$6

Lit Lounge 93 2nd Ave. NY, NY 10003
.... Tuesday February 26th, 2008 - 7-9pm EST Live Streaming Performance and DJ Set by
Ian Epps, and DJ Set by Joerg Lohse

free103point9
Triangulation
Radio Ruido works in conjunction with free103point9:Transmission Arts to
host Triangulation: a live weekly Online Radio show at www.free103point9.org,
Tuesdays 7-9 pm EST.

The focus is to present a live forum for experimental sound cultures...genre crossing dj sets / live improv / ethnographic sound travels...an attempt to navigate the tension between the folkloric and the electronic...to remember the past while embracing the future.
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Saturday January 5th 2008 - 8pm Ian Epps, ( ) aka Parenthesis, Darsombra , and Pacific Before Tiger

Tommy's Tavern 1041 Manhattan Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11222
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January 31 - February 24, 2007 [silence]

Gigantic ArtSpace
59 Franklin Street
New York, New York 10013

Opening reception: Wednesday, January 31, 6-9 pm
Opening night performances from Mathew Burtner 7 & 8 pm.
With Ian Epps, Aaron Halley, Tom Mulligan, and Jeremy Slater.

Gigantic ArtSpace [GAS] and free103point9 are pleased to present [silence], a exhibition focused on artists' uses of and responses to silence - as manifested in sculpture, in installation, in composition, in works on paper, and in time-based practices. The works on view address the futility of the chase, the beauty of absence, and the rich potential of an empty signal. Works from: Matthew Burtner, Jeroen Diepenmaat, Michael Graeve & Christoph Dahlhausen, Pablo Helguera, Douglas Henderson, Pierre Huyghe, Tarikh Korula & Tianna Kennedy, David La Spina, LoVid, Juan Matos Capote, Lee Ranaldo, Douglas Repetto, Michelle Rosenberg, Stephen Vitiello, and James Woodfill. Curated by Dylan J. Gauthier and Galen Joseph-Hunter.

Sound program: A Call for Silence, curated by Nicolas Collins.
Courtesy Sonic Arts Network.
Saturday performance series: 4:33 pm featuring Michelle Nagai (2/10), Michael Graeve with Tianna Kennedy (2/17), and 31 Down (2/24).

ABOUT THE WORKS

By compounding the energy of the FM signal, Matthew Burtner's performance Study 1.0 (feedback) for radio transceiver revisits the artist's childhood in Alaska and his ensuing focus on open communication in unoccupied places. David La Spina will present photographs of Burtner's performance at the opening reception - a sort of residual, feedback hum of the opening night.

Juan Matos Capote combines painting, sculpture, and field recordings in Series H, a study of accumulation, absence, and the nature of that which is imagined but unpronounced.

In Jeroen Diepenmaat's pour des dents d'un blanc éclatant ! et saines. dead birds are reunited with their lost birdsong through the preservational power of phonography.

Michael Graeve and Christoph Dahlhausen create an inaudible, synaesthetic feedback loop between two divergent but thematically similar art practices with their minimalist cadavre-exquise, Dialog 1.2.

Pablo Helguera presents new work gleaned from the series Dead Languages Conservatory, last words from all-but-lost languages.

Douglas Henderson exhibits a series of sculptures involving ultra low-level sound components, water, and the visual language of sine-waves.

Pierre Huyghe's Partition de silence (Score of silence) is a transcription of Cage's silent masterwork 4'33î (1952) into a flute sonata achieved via a sound-to-MIDI converter program.

Tarikh Korula and Tianna Kennedy will create a recording stylus in an attempt to unlock the Archeoacoustic sound dormantly sealed in found and historic objects around New York City.

Hearing Red continues the collaborative LoVid's work in blurring sensory boundaries through the use of electrical signals and synaesthetic output: in this case, a pure "Red" video signal is played as "sound" through a speaker, taking its form from the frequency of the video signal.

Lee Ranaldo's 4 organs combines thematic and visual data from Robert Smithson and Steve Reich to reach a third, distended point between the suspension of their respective oeuvres.

Douglas Repetto will realize a new version of the installation, puff bang reverb, a kinetic sculpture and semi-accurate, two-dimensional hyper-zoom, which exposes the secret life of displaced air molecules.

Michelle Rosenberg will present a new series of Ornamental Headphones that reassess our collective, compulsive culture of listening.

Stephen Vitiello's Trio, employs low-frequency sine tones to force the surface of a number of speakers to pulse and vibrate in patterns visible to the eye yet inaudible to human ears.

James Woodfill's film 60hz derives its subject from the constant and pervasive flow of electricity throughout our environment to alter our perceptions of time and movement.

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December 5, 2006 : 8pm - 12am Triangulation_120506_String Theory

Jozef van Wissem + Ian Epps + Uncle Woody Sullender
with DJ Giancarlo Bracchi.

free103point9 Project Space
97 South 6th St., 2nd floor
Brooklyn, New York

Three performers with unconventional approaches to acoustic string instruments via extended techniques and/or electronic processing.

Weekly Triangulation show hosted as always by Radio Ruido .
Online radio and video stream Start as usual at 7 p.m., doors open at 8 p.m., music at 9 p.m. ....
Saturday july 1, 4 - 8pm Ian epps and Ben owen

secret project robot 210 kent Ave at Metropolitan
Williamsburg, Brooklyn. entrance on river street at the east river

Performance in conjunction with "Believe. Make" installation by Lauren Luloff.

Ian and Ben will introduce and amplify sound and light that acts as an extension of Lauren Luloff's installation entitled "Believe. Make". the installation gives the overall sense of an intimate space where the mind goes to play. throughout the space, short and long durations of sound accent and deconstruct the physical and visual materials of the installation. :: please join us for a few minutes or a few hours. ....
Tuesday 12 July Participant INC Gallery &
The Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema
presents

BECOMING I: "Spectra"
A series of interactions between live sound and image artists, tracing an arc through media technologies past and present...

Tuesday, July 12, 8pm

$5

Participant INC gallery
95 Rivington Street, NYC

Marie Losier - shadowplay
Kenny Wollesen - sound objects & percussion
Joel Schlemowitz - magic lantern & glass slides
Bradley Eros - film performance & Victrola
Tianna Kennedy - cello
Kerry Laitala - 16mm film
Gil Sanson - processed instrument & field recordings
Saul Levine - 8mm film
Kenneth Kirschner - piano sounds & treatments
Andy Graydon - live video processing
Richard Garet - field recordings & processing

Shimpei Takeda - digital video
Giles Hendrix - live video & synch sound
Chika - live video mixing
Zach Layton - electronic resonators & processing

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Thursday 14 July Participant INC Gallery &
The Roberta Beck Memorial Cinema
presents

BECOMING II: "Quanta"
Presenting unique and individual approaches to music, light, and audiovisual performance...

Thursday, July 14, 8pm

$5

Participant INC gallery
95 Rivington Street, NYC

Ian Epps - video, acoustic guitar & processing
Keiko Uenishi - sound and light installation
David Daniell - processed field recordings
Hitoshi Toyoda - slide projection
Sean Meehan - percussion
Ilan Katin - live video, sound, and objects
mpld - slide projection & sound processing

For more info go to www.participantinc.org or www.rbmc.net
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Saturday March 12, 8 p.m.-1 a.m
Tune(In))) Brooklyn
free103point9 eighth anniversary concert
@ free103point9 Gallery , Brooklyn.

free103point9's Tune(In))) is a silent concert, with performers playing into transmitters rather than amplifiers. Attendees listen to performances on radio with headphones. free103point9's Tune(In))) is a sound installation/event in designed for a virtually silent environment in which listeners hear live performances through individual radio headsets.

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SUDDEN INFANT | CJMJS | SAWAKO | IAN EPPS | NEUROTRANSMITTER | DAMIAN CATERA | BEN OWEN + ANDY GRAYDON | TIANNA KENNEDY + TYLER NOLAN, TREVOR HEALEY + PATRICK HOLMES | IMAGINARY FOLK | 31 DOWN | MATT PASS | DJ KELLY KOMBAT | MATT BUA | MATT MIKAS + DANIEL CARTER + TOM ROE + TONY FLYNN | MICHAEL SCHUMACHER | ANDREW BARKER + JESSICA PAVONE + JESSE DULMAN + CHRISTOPHER MCINYTRE + CHARLES WATERS
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Friday, october 15 2004
ian epps | mountains | koutaro fukui

dumbo arts festival
brooklyn ny
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Saturday 5.22.04 ASA K2

Jim Bell, Moira Tierney, Andy Graydon + Ben Owen, Ian Epps
@ K2, DUMBO, Brooklyn. 7:30 p.m.

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April, 2004 selections from the December 11th performance with Andy Graydon and Ben Owen ...are located here
the emmPee3 release recorded in April, as part of Seasonal's, addenda series ....is located here
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Saturday, March 13, 2004 free103point9 7th anniversary concert #1

Japanther, Parts + Labor, Aa, Watersports, People, Zaftig, DJ Matt Mikas, DJ Tom Roe, Jessica Pavone, Zeke Healey, Polygraph, DJ Rhizome, La Otracina, Radio 4x4: Ben Owen + Radio Ruido + Ian Epps

@ OfficeOps, Brooklyn. 8 p.m.
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Saturday, March 20, 2004 free103point9 7th anniversary concert #2

Accelera Deck | Satellite Grooves | Evol | sc all | psi + Alessandro Bosetti + Nate Wooley | Chuck Bettis | ENE | Radio 4x4: Ben Owen + Radio Ruido + Michelle Nagai + Andy Graydon | Seth Nehil | Nice Disc | Kenneth Kirschner | Tony Eaton | mpld

@ OfficeOps, Brooklyn. 9 p.m.

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April 1st - 24th, 2004 A.I.R. Gallery

Daria Dorosh: Plays Well with Others. Sculpture and multi-media collaborative.

Guests: Galen Brandt, Kate Brehm, Clilly Castiglia, Steve Dipaola, Carter Emmart, Ian Epps, Kevin Feeley, Mary Flanagan, Harriet Mayor Fulbright, Lizbeth Goodman, Gayil Nalls, Celia Piercie, Jeremi Sudol, Camille Utterback

Reception: Thursday, April 1, 2004, 6 - 8pm
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December 11, 2003 Seasonal presents
a live stream of sounds from ian epps , ben owen , and andy graydon. the broadcast took place from brooklyn information outreach network , ny free103point9 internet stream:. - archived clips

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September, 2003 Seasonal presents
Mike Murphy . mp3 / effects dj set, Daniel Givens with movement collaboration, Tony Eaton with sound system and projections, Camille Dieterle with Ian Epps

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June 26, 2003 Seasonal @ OfficeOps , Brooklyn, NY
with Ogorusu Norihide of Carpark records . mpld , t wegmann , and b. owen will explore still and moving projections throughout the evening.

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June 29, 2002 Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Ian Epps finds...the4yearoldchild
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""Ian Epps pulls apart the familiar sounds of a 12-string acoustic guitar, through real-time computer processing, for a nostalgic attempt to recombine them into an imagined audio identity of the4yearoldchild. the4yearoldchild investigates speech, sensation, environment, memory and its immaterial impressions upon and within one's body. "Completely regressive...almost pre-verbal!""--Richard Gess.

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May 20, 2002 Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta
Meet The Artist: Richard Zvonar and Dan Walsh collaborating with Ian Epps

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February 18, 2002 Game : Community
Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta
Improvisational game inspired by John Zorn in which 3 teams of 4 musicians each 'compete' to interpret themes surrounding the idea of "Community"

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February 6, 2002 Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
100 YEAR OLD MAN & 4 YEAR OLD CHILD, ANOMALY, FIGURE 1.1 -- Lifeform Project's Anomaly and Figure 1.1 perform live experimental/ambient music with video projections, while Dan Walsh (100 Year Old Man) and blips 'n' bleeps creator Ian Epps (4 Year Old Child) stage a play date together. Eyedrum (Sarig)

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November 14, 2001 Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Dave Gross & Liz Tonne, Ian Epps (the4yearoldchild), Dan Walsh (100yearoldman).

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October 11 - November 25, 2001 Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace
The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
Live Performance for the opening of Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace, a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, and curated by Steve Dietz.

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August 31, 2001 Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA.
Ian Epps, Jason Forrest (AKA Donna Summer), & Dan Walsh come together as the Computers.

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August 6, 2001 MJQ Concourse
Atlanta, GA.

Marumari, Richard Devine, High_Five_Bros., Ian Epps
Rhode Island's Marumari is a computer animator by day, and you can feel it in his gentle, wispy songs. His Supermogadon rains radiance, rays of new wave and new age synths showering the thin basslines and clicking freshly cut underbrush in a warm glow. It's the Moody Blues meets Mouse on Mars. It's bubbly. It's refreshing. It's pop, plain and simple. Local Warp and Schematic Records experimental electronic artist Richard Devine presents a live triple laptop threat, previewing tracks from his upcoming singles and 3-D electro-acoustic album. The High_Five_Bros. play droning improvisational space rock. Ian Epps performs on the glitch-hop, Oval-esque tip. And DJs Rasheed, Nemo and J-Stroke drop platters between the clatter. A premiere night of rare, top-shelf electronic music. MJQ Concourse (Ware)

Listed as one of the best shows of 2001 by Creative Loafing

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July 15 2001
WLUW 88.7 FM 10pm-2am*, Chicago, IL.
Collaborative Radio performance and interview with Ian Nagoski on "Something Else" hosted by Capt. Philip von Zweck.

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July 14, 2001 Transmissions Festival
6Odum (2116 W. Chicago), Chicago, IL.

Rafael Toral (Tomlab, Ecstatic Peace, Touch, Staubgold, Moikai)
Ian Nagoski
Ian Epps

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January 6th - January 27th, 2001 Panoptic Mind: Untitled
An exhibition of video from local, national and international artists featuring Robin Bernat, Alette Simmons-Jemenez, Neil Freid, Jedediah Caesar, Robert Cheatham and Chea Prince, Rhys Daunic, Ian Epps, Richard Gess, Zelijka Jovic, The Amazing Lizardos, Melissa Longenecker, Lisa Moran, Oliver Smith and Alan Sondheim. ..........................................................................................................

At the Edge of the Meander: Nightingales

2021-07-05 22:59:32

At the Edge of the Meander: Nightingales in Petite Camargue Alsacienne, Saint Louis, France | 30:56 minutes | TWIN-004
Multichannel microphone array recordings made with Schoeps Collette near field capsules.

Recorded in St. Louis, France May 2011
Mastered in Brooklyn, NY USA
Released: May 10, 2021
TWIN ⰂⰕ 004

Design: Ian Epps
Label: Twinned ⰂⰕ Air

Petite Camargue, May 10th, 2011 - Nightingales Singing at 2 AM – 30:56

The following recording was excerpted from a two week, 24 hour seamless recording project
documenting the mating habits of Nightingales.
10 years ago this week.

Location: Petite Camargue Alsacienne sanctuary in Saint Louis, France.

At the edge of a field of stinging nettles lie a creek bed, and on the other side, a tree. I placed a series
of concealed microphones just above a favored branch where a young male Nightingale perched to sing
morning and night. I was fortunate to have found such a great placement for the microphones, because
these recordings have unbelievable clarity.

Male nightingales have a remarkable set of varied song; nearly 200 different song types with repeated
and unrepeated elements. Their unique songs are what set them apart in partner selection. During
mating season they'll sing all night and day, with just a 2 hour break in the afternoon. Once they find a
mate, they stop singing at night.

As noise pollution has risen throughout society, the British nightingale population has decreased by 91%
over the last 50 years. One of the fastest declines of any other species. They remain on the endangered
species list in the UK.

Being given permission to travel inside the sanctuary was truly a beautiful experience. To enter a space
free of people, inhabited by hundreds of wild boar, swans, cuckoos and nightingales on their long
migratory travel from the Iberian Peninsula and the far reaches of West Africa - was to listen to a fuller
expression of liberation.

I owe gratitude to the assistance of the joint research teams from the University of Strasbourg and the
University of Basel, Department of Environmental Sciences.

camargue.unibas.ch/en/research/

Portions of this two week recording project were included in Vera Lutter's "One Day", 2011, a two screen
installation exhibited at Gagosian Gallery and Carré d'Art – Musée d'art Contemporain, Nîmes, France.

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This recording has also been included in the
NTS Radio Infinite Mixtapes series. Launched June 1, 2021

Cave of the Eye

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Cave of the Eye | 38:38 minutes | TWIN-003
Improvisational recordings. Brooklyn, NY
Label: Twinned Ⱅ Air

Design: Ian Epps
Font face: Volkisschrift. A Sütterlin folk script.

In Kelvin’s Distance – 09:50
Cascades, Part iii – 18:57
In Kelvin’s Distance (Air Turns to Water, Water to Air – Edit) – 09:50

                     “By dreams of marine flares
and inflatables, buoyant smoke, percolating fret,
one is weakened. Violence enters the imagination.”

-     Bitumen, from The Road In is Not the Same Road Out by Karen Solie

                              It flees the orchard and enters the sea.

documentation

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Recipient of the 2014 Media Arts Assistance Fund Grant, made possible by
the New York State Council on the Arts & Wave Farm.

Info

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Project

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Releases

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I/D/V 02

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I / D / V 02 [guitar]

7" (33 1/3 rpm) record consisting of
1-minute tracks and locked grooves.
with ian epps, kenta nagai, annette krebs,
chris forsyth, giuseppe ielasi
and koen holtkamp.
letterpress printed sleeve with dry deboss
on fabriano rosaspina.
edition: 400 numbered copies.
- released by Unframed, recordings and multiples 7" Vinyl| unf-idv2 | 2009

Reviews: The Wire, Issue #304, June, 2009, Vital Weekly, Issue #671, March 24, 2009,
The Sound Projector, April, 9, 2009, Textura, May, 2009, Just Outside, April 1, 2009

[A02] SWELLS
[A03] CLIPALONG
Ian Epps

[A04] UNTITLED
[A05] UNTITLED-K1
[A06] UNTITLED-K2
Kenta Nagai

[A07] 1
[A08] 2
[A09] 3
Annette Krebs

[B01] A BLANK CHECK FOR RICHY MIDNIGHT
[B02] LOCK 2
[B03] LOCK 3
Chris Forsyth

[B04] UNTITLED
[B05] UNTITLED
[B06] UNTITLED
Giuseppe Ielasi

[B04] THE CROWS ARE LAUGHING
[B05] 7 LOOP 3
[B06] 7 LOOP 4
Koen Holtkamp

contact

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contact

For bookings related to performances and lectures.
ian [dot] epps [[at]] gmail [dot] com

Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace

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Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace
travelling exhibition curated by Steve Dietz,
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Feb. 7, 2001 - Nov. 3, 2002

Telematic Connections: The Virtual Embrace is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, and curated by Steve Dietz. The exhibition, Web site and the accompanying CD-ROM are made possible, in part, by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The online exhibition and the CD-ROM have been produced by Carl DiSalvo for ICI. The online exhibition is co-presented by the Walker Art Center.

Lovebytes Biennial, 2000

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Lovebytes Biennial
Nomads: Audiophfile 2.0,
- Lovebytes Biennial, Sheffield, UK.
April 6- 8, 2000

with Terre Thaemlitz, Kim Cascone, Kaffe Matthews,
Smyglyssna, Team Doyobi and Scanner.

AEN, Mediatheque, Walker Art Center

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Art Entertainment Network
- Mediatheque
NOMADS; Audiophfile v.4.0 Feb. 11, 2000
an exhibition at The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
Curated by Steve Dietz

with Carsten Nicolai, Susan Philipsz Chris Brokaw,
Mark Amerika, Jenny Holzer, and Jennifer and Kevin McCoy

Audiophfile was a bimonthly sonic art exhibition
organized by NOMADS and available online.

The project was funded, in part, by the
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Audiophone

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Audiophone
Audiophone (86 tracks, 45:54)
- DeadCEO CD | dceo002 | 2001

"… by the time Audiophone has reached track 86, it has
pointed the way down numerous witty and provocative
pathways without overstaying its welcome."
-Wire Magazine, Issue 212, October 2001

The Jimmy: Short Film

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The Jimmy

Director: Gregg Conde
Writers: Gregg Conde, Jason Conde
Producers: Alice Tang, Carlos Gonzalez, Jason Conde
Director of Photography: Keith Southern
Editor: Tony Gannon
Composer: Ian Epps

think/feel Film | Director: Gregg Conde, Score: Ian Epps | 2009

Ian Epps finds... the4yearoldchild:
Courtside- vol 1

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Ian Epps finds... the4yearoldchild: Courtside- volume1
- Softl Music CD | som301 | 2003

1. Inset
2. Y E
3. Asomethingslip

5. Squishinflowers
6. Mailingclipping
7. Ifnoon
8. Symptomsofaquarterback
9. Supergbgame
10. Sympatheticnetting

12. Courtside

"The4yearoldchild is a continuing series of audio-portraits, documenting a world
through child's eyes.
Ian Epps finds the4yearoldchild Courtside, entertains the idea of an identity
of a child, constructed out of sound. Understanding that humans are complex
filtering machines, Courtside is the4yearoldchild's experience of playing a game
of lawn tennis. Developing a vocabulary of this activity, the child relies on memory,
and an understanding of physics, weather conditions and human behavior".

www.softlmusic.com

Bandcamp

. . . . "Brooklyn-based Brit Ian Epps is a multimedia artist whose “audio portrait” is meant to interpret the way a child may filter everyday interaction. Through his sound work on “Find the4yearoldchild Courtside Volume 1″ pixel-sized sounds are organically synthesized into this fully digitized sound experiment. Epps captures the echo of hollowness on the unusually off-center “mailingclipping” that’s more like a toy player piano caught while sinking under water with its innards hitting craggy rocks and other debris as it drops in slow motion. Each of the twelve tracks here has its own unique mark, some sparse, some a bit more playful and yet distant. “ifnoon” certainly qualifies as the latter, with muffled monitors and other gauge-sounding apparatus it’s what one may imagine as a joy ride on a submarine through the depths of an Icelandic lava flow. As hauntingly scenic as some of Scanner’s best work, Epps’ “symptomsofarquarterback” incorporates a similar attention to the textural effects and hyperbolic sensitivity of the final mix. Please welcome Softl Music to the table, bringing with them the ability to recognize the important impact of the influx of sound art that falls beyond traditional borders that define artistic paradigms". - TJ Norris, Igloo Magazine

.. . ..spokenslightlysoft

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spokenslightlysoft

- on;(do) mp3 | February 2005 | 24:04

1. ..+.+ spokenslightlysoft
2. twotinysips
3. halves
4. loom

.; : download

standingpresence

2012-07-08 19:25:01

standingpresence
- an Addenda Release from Seasonal
mp3 | April 2004 | 21:27

1. slitchin
2. houghtondistance
3. godblesszepittttt
4. vibraatout_ground

Memories of Sasaki san

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Memories of Sasaki san
- Powershovel Audio CD - Remix | PSA - 001 | May 2005

1. Mika 1 - Flim
2. Summer Hammer - Alejandra & Aeron
3. Untitled 1 - Bexar Bexar
4. ni-ni - Mika Sasaki
5. Celph - Chris Rosenau
6. Music box for Mika - Greg Davis
7. -vad sa du? -Ja,du horde ratt - Hans Appelqvist
8.Niku - Mika Sasaki
9. I waiting for call from you in 3pm.,July - asuna
10. Jeo nyok bab - Yoonkee
11. Mika 2 -Flim
12. iraira - Mika Sasaki
13. raindrops - Harald ”sack” Ziegler
14. Untitled - un caddie renverse dans l’herbe
15. hana - Mika Sasaki
16. shorest road to love - Patrik Torsson
17. karasu - Mika Sasaki
18.
19. Mika 3 - Flim
20. untitled 2 - Bexar Bexar
21. my sea/mice see - Steve Roden
22. walking through trees - Yuichiro Fujimoto

*album cover credit: Ian Epps

35 Mutant Seconds

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35 Mutant Seconds: based on Rafael Toral´s Creamy Burst
- A co-release between Grain of Sound and Baskaru CD - Remix | gos016 / karu:3 | August 2005

1. Creamy Burst - Rafael Toral
2. Improvisation _ 122904b - Richard Chartier
3. Sunrise Creamy Sun - Ent
4.
5. Durations - John Kannenberg
6. Wet Dream - Stapletape
7. Int.12/46 - @C
8. Silver _ Star _ Noise - Kim Cascone
9. RTR - Sawako
10. Irreconcilable Differences (restrictive freedom) - Blake Stickland
11. CB849 - Pita
12. Hundred - Allto

35 Mutant Seconds is the second installment in the Grain of Sound's Mutant series,
as well as the second co-release involving both Baskaru and Grain of Sound.

All the artists featured on this album were invited by Rafael Toral to create a work by using his
track Creamy Burst as the only sound source. Creamy Burst was composed in 1994 and
was originally released on the portuguese rock compilation "100%".

Friends/Resources

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Friends and Resources

Baskaru

Cock Rock Disco

dead ceo

Grain of Sound

Koen Holtkamp

Middlepress - Excellent Jacket and Album designer/Letterpress printer

mpld

Mountains

On;do

Power Shovel Audio

Rafael Toral

Tomlab

Shedding (Connor Bell)

Winds Measure Recordings

Andrew Weathers

Byron Westbrook

Bio

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Artist Statement

As a Sonic/Visual Artist and extended guitar musician, my work focuses on psycho-acoustics, audio phenomena and the intimacy of the listener's experience. My process is entirely improvisatory in nature and requires me to record in real time.

Using a 12-string acoustic guitar and a range of processing techniques, such as negative frequency responses, formant synthesis and multi-channel surround sound, I construct feedback systems that resonate the guitar’s strings, ringing out sympathetic tones. On the surface, my compositions have many elements of musicality, with harmonic color and multilayered arrangements, but it’s beneath the surface where my interests lie.

My fascination is with the boundaries of perception, the permeability of the body and the space between what exists and what is felt. It’s here where I start to build and shape the unseen and unheard, magnifying these concealed murmurations and indeterminable intrusions that exist below the scope of our hearing, but have real resonant affect upon the body.

So as to invite a physical and emotive experience of sound as swarms, swells and cavitating shifts that perforate the acoustic field and engulf the listener. I try to produce aural equivalents to seismic violence, akin to the calving of an ice shelf or the unnatural silence before a storm.

My work has been exhibited in museums and institutions internationally by way of temporal event or installation at venues such as the Walker Art Center, MoMA PS1, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Lovebytes Biennial (Sheffield, UK), Garage Projects (Atlanta, GA), A.I.R. Gallery (NY, NY), EYEDRUM (Atlanta, GA), free103point9 Wavefarm, SIGGRAPH (Los Angeles, CA) and Queens Museum (Queens, NY).

I've composed, recorded or played performances alongside some of the following musicians:
Ann Hamilton, Rafael Toral, Ogurusu Norihide, Kenneth Kirschner, Mountains, Koutaro Fukui, Richard Devine, EVOL, Dave Gross and Liz Tonne, Joe McPhee, Andrew Deutsch, and Pauline Oliveros. and collectively with Dan Walsh (Shy Layers), and Jason Forrest aka Donna Summer under the name "the Computers".

1977 Born in Lakenheath, UK
1999 Alfred University, BFA
Resides in Brooklyn, NY, USA

Selected Discography

2021 At the Edge of the Meander: Nightingales in Petite Camargue Alsacienne, Twinned Air, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Cave of the Eye, Twinned Air, Brooklyn, NY
2009 V/A I/D/V 02 [Guitar], Unframed, recordings and multiples, Brooklyn, NY
2005 V/A 35 Mutant Seconds: based on Rafael Toral's Creamy Burst, Grain of Sound/Baskaru, France/Portugal
2005 Rmx Memories of Sasakisan, Powershovel Audio, Japan
2003 CD Ian Epps finds... the4yearoldchild - Courtside: Volume I, SoftL music, Germany
2003 CD Pinwheels (Rmxs), Institute for Electronic Arts, USA
2001 CD Audiophone (86 micro tracks) Dead CEO, USA
2001 CD tennis|match (collaborative audio network game)

Recent Recording Collaborations

2015 One Day: Le Petite Camargue – with Vera Lutter, Gagosian Gallery, NY.
Recorded and engineered by Ian Epps.

2012 One Day: Carré d'Art – with Vera Lutter, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes, France.
Field recordings of nightingales in Le Petite Camargue, Alsace, France.
Recorded and engineered by Ian Epps.

2008 Musical, with Dara Friedman (Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, NY), commissioned by Public Art Fund.

Grants and Awards

2014 Media Arts Assistance Fund Grant, the New York State Council on the Arts & Wave Farm.

Affiliations

Art Handlers Alliance, Co-founder
Arts Union, Co-founder
Arts & Labor, Co-founder
The Electric Arts Alliance of Atlanta, Co-founder, Atlanta, GA

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At the Edge of the Meander: Nightingales in Petite Camargue Alsacienne, Saint Louis, France
included in NTS Radio's Infinite Mixtapes series. June 1, 2021

Listen to the new album. May 10, 2021
At the Edge of the Meander: Nightingales in Petite Camargue Alsacienne, Saint Louis, France
10 year anniversary release on Bandcamp

Listen to the new album. November, 2020
Cave of the Eye

Listen to a preview of the forthcoming album.
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Recipient of the 2014 Media Arts Assistance Fund Grant, made possible by
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