Byron Westbrook
Translucents
First emerging from within New York’s experimental music scene nearly two decades ago and now based in Los Angeles, Byron Westbrook weaves intricate tapestries of sonority bridging the worlds of sound art, installation, avant-garde electronic music and synthesis. He works between immersive installation formats and music performance, utilizing a wide array of sound design, synthesis techniques and field recordings. Westbrook’s practice approaches sound in a structural way, where the architecture of a listening space becomes a key collaborator in his concerts. His work has been presented internationally at major institutions and festivals. Inspired by optical phenomena occurring while viewing the color panels of abstract painter Blinky Palermo, Translucents explores the concept of “audio after-image”. The work presents a series of audio scenes, with the intention of imprinting on the listener’s mind in order to influence the way each consecutive scene appears. It is a play with memory, presence, and with time, experimenting with dynamics between perceiving presence in the space where one is listening vs the perception of an external space or place. For this concert, Translucents is presented in an expanded immersive form that differs from its published release. “…his most mesmerizing album to date – a set of electroacoustic pieces that advances the rough blueprints laid out by legends like Maryanne Amacher, Bernard Parmegiani and Luc Ferrari…if you’re at all interested in electroacoustic music, ‘Translucents’ is just about as good as it gets.” – Boomkat
Maria Thrän and Afroditi Psarra
Live signals, live bodies (in conversation)
Through different embodied antenna systems — a swinging wire tuned to the electromagnetic field, and diy/handheld/wearable antennas — we receive and process transmissions at the Hertzian spectrum in real time. Our performance is a practice of co-tuning, interference, and spatial resonance; an improvisation with invisible fields — received through software-defined radios, and processed through live electronics and SuperCollider. Architecture, bodies, machines, and noise converge in a listening practice that resists control and invites uncertainty.
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