Testu Collective Presents: Sublime Frequencies 3
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
A curated evening of intricate quadraphonic sounds within an intimate environment.The third edition of Sublime is dedicated to artists that we fell in love with during Covid times. Kamran Sadeghi creates cinematic soundscapes that play with our sense of time and space. Completely blown away by C. Lavender's performance at Drone Fest 2023, we are excited for the LSD audience to be taken on a meditational journey. Maria Takeuchi, a sound and visual artist, who frequently collaborates with Testu, creates lush, microscopic sound worlds. She will be collaborating with Serena Stucke on a sound piece "breathing landscapes" focusing on sonic textures. Dan Tesene will create custom visuals for Maria/Serena's set via macro-video of manipulated plastics through polarizing filters. With each event, Testu Collective aims to reimagine the space of LSD. This time, they'll project video onto staggered vellum screens in the loft. In between live performances of the evening, one of our favorite NTS radio DJs, Nick Malkin aka Post-Geography, will feature ambient and atmospheric selections. Locally-made tea & herbal tinctures by Drew Demi of Sacred Software.
7pm: Doors
8pm: Performances start
$25 w/RSVP
Greenpoint, BK
Saturday, March 8th, 7-11pm
Artist Bios
Kamran Sadeghi’s work is unbound by place or convention. His multifaceted practice spans scoring for film and choreography, live performance, electronic music, and sound art. He emerged in the early 2000s electro-acoustic and computer music scene, sharing bills with Fennesz, Tim Hecker, and Vladislav Delay. He has worked for legendary composer Morton Subotnick and Diapason, one of the first galleries dedicated to multi-channel sound art. His album Disappearing Music (for Nam June Paik) was recorded using the Paik/Abe “Wobbulator,” while Loss Less—recorded in a defunct nuclear cooling tower—premiered at the Louvre and HKW. His soundtrack Approximation was featured in Broken Music Vol. 2 at Hamburger Bahnhof. His collaborative album 42.41 is with installation artist Zimoun. Other contributions include composing for and performing with Patti Smith, Nan Goldin, and Sasha Waltz, bridging electronic music, contemporary art, and performance.
C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is an interdisciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator based in New York City. Bandcamp asserted that "C. Lavender makes music with curative powers, but it's also confrontational, primed to change you whether or not you want it to." She is the author of the insightful book "Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives." C. Lavender has albums and recordings featured on Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace!, and RVNG Intl. Her latest album "Rupture in the Eternal Realm," (iDEAL Recordings) explores her varied meditative practices through the use of Buchla synthesizer, gongs and field recordings.
Website: www.clavender.net https://clavender.bandcamp.com/
Latest Album: https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/rupture-in-the-eternal-realm
Socials: @clavendr (IG, X, Bluesky)
Website: www.clavender.net https://clavender.bandcamp.com/
Latest Album: https://idealrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/rupture-in-the-eternal-realm
Socials: @clavendr (IG, X, Bluesky)
Maria Takeuchi/Serena Stucke (sound) Dan Tesene (visuals)
ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi is a composer and audiovisual artist who creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature.
Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created by water, dry leaves, and shells on the handmade primitive instruments, processed with modular synthesizers for added aesthetic atmosphere.
Testu Collective is the intermedia art group founded by Serena Stucke & Dan Tesene. They create experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, sound art, and performance art installations.Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Gray Area (SF), 2220 Arts and Archives (LA), Artists Space (NYC), Public Visuals (Tokyo), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica (NYC), Ace Hotel (NYC), The Shed (NYC), Pleamar Festival (Buenos Aires). Most recently Testu created a multichannel sound installation for Dan Flavin's light sculptures at Mana Contemporary.
ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi is a composer and audiovisual artist who creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature.
Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created by water, dry leaves, and shells on the handmade primitive instruments, processed with modular synthesizers for added aesthetic atmosphere.
Testu Collective is the intermedia art group founded by Serena Stucke & Dan Tesene. They create experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, sound art, and performance art installations.Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Gray Area (SF), 2220 Arts and Archives (LA), Artists Space (NYC), Public Visuals (Tokyo), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica (NYC), Ace Hotel (NYC), The Shed (NYC), Pleamar Festival (Buenos Aires). Most recently Testu created a multichannel sound installation for Dan Flavin's light sculptures at Mana Contemporary.
Post-Geography (Nick Malkin) is an artist and musician based in Los Angeles, California. His practice focuses primarily on the interplay between found sound, field recordings and electronic Instrumentation. Over the past ten years, Malkin has released numerous recordings that occupy a unique space between several musical traditions: musique concrète, electronic ambient, jazz and modern compositional. He currently hosts Post-Geography, a long-running radio show on NTS and operates a small imprint of the same name with a focus on idiosyncratic electronic music. He has released albums on Geographic North, Ilian Tape, Soda Gong and Mondoj among others.
Drew Demi, founder of Sacred Software, builds a conscientious practice that fosters the
relationship between land and body through plant and mushroom based elixirs. Her playful
approach to holistic practices reference ancient medicines to craft tea, extracts, herbal tonics,
and cocktails. Sacred Software explores dynamic and synergistic herbal offerings of
nourishment, empowers us to reclaim and remember earth-based wisdom, forging deeper
connections with the earth and its allies.
Drew Demi, founder of Sacred Software, builds a conscientious practice that fosters the
relationship between land and body through plant and mushroom based elixirs. Her playful
approach to holistic practices reference ancient medicines to craft tea, extracts, herbal tonics,
and cocktails. Sacred Software explores dynamic and synergistic herbal offerings of
nourishment, empowers us to reclaim and remember earth-based wisdom, forging deeper
connections with the earth and its allies.