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OUT OF PHASE at Phase Space

Out of Phase show flyer

On Saturday, May 6, we hosted our last show at Phase Space before moving out (more on that soon). I performed live ambient music for a collaborative a/v set with Andrei Jay as REALITY ORP. Our friend 식료품groceries did a set as well! As always, there were a variety of installations on view throughout the event, and we also had tarot readings.

We will miss organizing events here in Brooklyn, but our friends are taking over the space and continuing to do cool stuff there, while Andrei and I are hitting the road for a cross country tour. So this was also a bit of a going away party, and a final hurrah for Phase Space as we know it.

📺 Watch a recording of our performance as REALITY ORP: Youtube | Peertube

Brenna reading tarot Paul Feitzinger installation Jonathan Sims installation gleix installation Reality Orp performance 식료품groceries performance

MERCURALIA at Phase Space

Mercuralia show flyer

Our late summer show at Phase Space was on Saturday, August 27! I had an excellent time performing as part of REALITY ORP, a new collaborative project with Andrei Jay. I performed live with liquids for the first time, and combined that with analog video processing. Our friend Rob Feulner from Montréal also came down to show installation work and do a performance! And there were multiple glowing polyhedra, so that's always a plus.

📺 Watch a recording of our performance as REALITY ORP: Youtube | Peertube

Manipulating liquid crystals Installation view Polyhedra by GRNCH People hanging out Rob Feulner / Fuckers performance alsoknownasrox performance Reality Orp performance

Open Space Encounters at Maverick Concert Hall

Open space concert flyer

On Friday August 19, my video projections accompanied an experimental music and poetry performance by Dorota Czerner and Augustus Arnone at the Maverick Concert Hall in Woodstock, NY! This was part of a concert called Open Space Encounters: Music from the Time of Renewal.

📺 Watch a recording of the performance: Youtube | Peertube

🌐 Visit Open Space's website: the-open-space.org

Fireflies II performance

Collaborative A/V Performance w/ Matthew Ryals

Flyer for show at Littlefield

On Friday July 1, I performed a collaborative audiovisual set with Matthew Ryals. The video and sound was interactive via control voltage signals from Matthew's modular synthesizer interacting with my modified video hardware. The show was at Littlefield in Gowanus, and celebrated album releases by both Matthew Ryals and Chloe Alexandra Thompson. It also featured excellent performances from live-coder Melody Loveless, dark synthscaper Brian Wenner, and experimental electronic musician Chloe Alexandra Thompson.

In addition to our collaboration on the performance, Matthew Ryals and I also worked together recently on a music video for one of the tracks of his new album, Impromptus in Isolation.

HEXAFLORALIA at Phase Space

Flyer for HEXAFLORALIA show

Friday May 7 was our spring show at Phase Space! We hosted a delightful evening of multimedia art installations and audiovisual performances. We were really glad that the event was successful despite the sudden spell of bad weather that rolled past us that weekend. I did a live set with fellow Phase Space organizers Andrei and Irfan as NEW DELUSION, in which we performed acoustic instruments with live electronic processing, with visual oscillations on a modified Vectrex display. Cskonopka came down from Boston to play a powerful solo audiovisual set, and Insomniac Hotel played a beautiful ambient set with live visuals by ÉMU. We also had a video installation by Monica Panzarino, and a collaborative installation combining sound, glass, and light art by Valeria Divinorum and Camilla Padgitt-Coles. It was an exciting confluence of creativity and community that I was honored to be a part of.

Installations Installations by Irfan Brković and Monica Panzarino Installation by Valeria Divinorum and Camilla Padgitt-Coles Valeria and Camilla cskonopka performance Insomniac Hotel and ÉMU Visuals by ÉMU Andrei w/ New Delusion