FULL LIST OF WORKS
LIVE WORKSHOPS & PERFORMANCE BELOW!
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9/29 TUES 5pm
10/01 THURSDAY 6pm
Somatic Resonance is a collaborative project combining group reiki facilitated by Nanse Kawashima with music by Bryce Hackford.
All materials have their resonant frequencies. Bryce Hackford intuitively tunes to the resonant frequencies of human body in meditated performance and observation. These tones generally center lower thresholds of human hearing and can be psychoactive. A viscous music, not unlike cuddling up to a giant cat; you are the glass of water on the dashboard.
As a Reiki practitioner, Nanse Kawashima works with universal life force energy while engaging with clients, employing a gentle, light touch of the hands on various energy centers throughout the body. This therapeutic practice is considered beneficial for various imbalances and discomforts in body, mind and spirit.
Kawashima and Hackford view their respective practices as complementary, synergistically blending sound and energy vibrations. When the two resonances merge, they foster a unique sensorial experience, allowing people to drift into relaxation or deepen their bodily awareness.
By suggested donation* & Please bring your own yoga mat, blanket, etc for your comfort while lying on the floor for the duration of this event.
SYDNEY SPANN:
INTRO TO SYNTHESIS YOUTH WORKSHOP
10/03 SATURDAY 2-4PM
suggested donation
Artist and musician Sydney Spann leads a hands-on session exploring the synthesizer as a tool for listening, experimentation, and play. Young participants will patch, shape, and manipulate sounds, building small sonic worlds together and discovering how simple gestures can become rhythm, texture, and music. The workshop invites us to listen closely to the instrument, to the room, and to one another.
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Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a musician based in New York. They work with synthesis, household electronics, amateur acoustic instrumentation and voice to make studio compositions and live performances. Lately their work sublimates the latent aggressions of feminized labor into anxious and beautiful music. They are one half of Iris Our with Kiera Mulhern and they collaborate with Theodore Cale Schafer, Madeline Stepien, and Michelle Luong. Previous releases include full length albums for Recital and Reading Group.
10/04 SUNDAY 11AM
Beth Meyers brings her expansive practice as a violist, vocalist, improviser, and composer to iASpace with a special drone decompression session developed from her ongoing explorations in sound, listening, and collaboration. Inspired in part by the work of Laurie Anderson, and through her close collaborative relationship with experimental violist and composer Martha Mooke, Beth is continually exploring new ways of creating immersive, sustained sound.
Committed to new sounds and pushing the boundaries of contemporary music, Beth has worked under the baton of Pierre Boulez with the Lucerne Festival Academy and performed with Garth Knox, former violist of the Arditti String Quartet and Ensemble InterContemporain. Her practice moves fluidly between new music and free improvisation, informed by her studies at the School for Improvisational Music with Ralph Alessi and Peter Epstein.
For iASpace, Beth offers an immersive encounter with drone ~ an invitation to slow down, listen deeply, and allow sound to become a space for decompression. The session draws from her works in progress and her ongoing investigations into the expressive possibilities of viola, voice, and sustained sound.
Interaural Space
What happens when listening is treated as a public resource?
*Interaural Space draws from the work of composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009). These words describe the internal, 3-dimensional space created by the listener's own ears; the perceptual space that emerges through sound.
iASpace welcomes works! Please submit by Sept 23
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