Testu Collective: Rising Edge of a Pulse II
'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
Rising Edge Of A Pulse: An evening of sonic explorations at Light & Sound Design curated by Testu Collective. We’re beyond excited to have LA-based sound artist Byron Westbrook give a rare NYC performance. Westbrook appears here en route to perform at Switzerland's Biennale Son, with a set of new work for FM synthesis in just intonation. The second set will be a debut performance of violinist Sabrina Salamone and modular synthesist Matthew Ryals. The duo presents an improvised set shaped by microsound, texture, and dynamic contrast. Salamone delves into the violin’s timbral extremes, from delicate extended techniques to raw noise, while Ryals sculpts electronic soundscapes that echo the complexity of natural environments. Starting off the night, Serena & Dan of Testu will create multi-channel textural soundscapes with hand-built instruments and modular synths.
7:30pm: Doors
8pm: Performances start
$25 w/RSVP
Greenpoint, BK
Saturday, Nov 1, 8-11pm
Artist Bios:
8pm: Performances start
$25 w/RSVP
Greenpoint, BK
Saturday, Nov 1, 8-11pm
Artist Bios:
Byron Westbrook, an LA-based sound artist, who first emerged from within New York’s experimental music scene over the last decade and a half, has woven intricate tapestries of sonority that bridge the worlds of sound art, installation, avant-garde electronic music and synthesis. Westbrook creates sculptural and immersive compositions, with highly acclaimed releases on imprints like Shelter Press, Important Records, Root Strata, Hands In The Dark, Umor Rex, and Ash International, presentations at the Biennale Son, Walker Art Center, ICA London, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, MaerzMusik, Akousma and Rewire Festivals, as well as residencies with Headlands Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, ISSUE Project Room, EMS Stockholm
“Byron Westbrook’s Shelter Press debut is 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
byronwestbrook.com
instagram.com/byronwestbrook
“Byron Westbrook’s Shelter Press debut is 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
byronwestbrook.com
instagram.com/byronwestbrook
Matthew Ryals is a NYC-based synthesist and composer-improviser. He has released albums on Infrequent Seams, Oxtail Recordings, 3OP, SØVN, and other experimental music labels. Matthew performs internationally and was featured on High Zero Festival 2025 and Ex Nihilo Festival 2025. He has collaborated with numerous artists including Niloufar Shiri, Fan-Qi Wu, Jonas Engel, Nat Baldwin, Madison Greenstone, Nava Dunkelman, and Stephan Haluska. Matthew received a 2025 Art Omi: Music Residency, 2025 Foundation of Contemporary Arts Grant, a 2022-23 New Music USA Award, and a 2021 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He also co-curates Artifact, a Brooklyn-based experimental music series that was awarded a 2025 Brooklyn Arts Council grant.
Sabrina Salamone is a violinist/ improviser originally from St. Louis, MO. Her studies began with classical music, ultimately moving to NYC in 2018 to further explore approaches to music and art. Her music is a process of unfolding, evolving and coagulating sounds through experimentation (carte blanche) and collaboration.
Sabrina Salamone is a violinist/ improviser originally from St. Louis, MO. Her studies began with classical music, ultimately moving to NYC in 2018 to further explore approaches to music and art. Her music is a process of unfolding, evolving and coagulating sounds through experimentation (carte blanche) and collaboration.
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.
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Chamberlain Zhang is a composer, DJ and sound artist, born in Beijing,
currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His label Cultivated Sound has been
active in the New York experimental and techno scene since 2016. Chamberlain
hosts a MFA in Electronic music and Recording Media from Mills College. He
received the Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award for outstanding
experimental music performance in 2018. He received the 4D sound institute
residency nomination in Budapest, Hungary in 2021. His debut album In the
Praise of Shadow featuring legendary bay area percussionist William Winanut is
selected by Ryuichi Sakamoto for his curated playlist- SKMT picks on Spotify.
Performed at the special program of San Francisco TapeMusic Festival 2018,
called “Cinema For Your Ears” by San Francisco Weekly, “Tape capsules” by
New York Times. His soundscore for “A TORTOISE'S YEAR OF FATE” is the
only Chinese film nominated in Locarno FIlm Festival 2023. His soundscore for
New York based design label YAYI CHEN “IT IS NOT SPRING UNTIL ALL
FLOWERS BLOSSOM” is nominated in Fashion Film Festival Milano 2023.
Chamberlain premiered his first live film scoring project (the first science-fiction
film made in China, 小太阳 (1963), as well as a cosmologically themed, silent-era
film made in Shanghai, 盘丝洞 (1927) at the New York reception for 14th
Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema curated by e-flux.
His work explores the possibilities of manipulating human perception of time and
space. Implementing architecture, light, fog, sound, improvisation, composition,
and collaboration manifest in scenarios of alternative realities and the future of
humanity. Creating an immersive environment from his imagination, he allows
each individual to experience his works by following their own paths through their
imagination and physical engagement.
currently based in Brooklyn, New York. His label Cultivated Sound has been
active in the New York experimental and techno scene since 2016. Chamberlain
hosts a MFA in Electronic music and Recording Media from Mills College. He
received the Frog Peak Collective Experimental Music Award for outstanding
experimental music performance in 2018. He received the 4D sound institute
residency nomination in Budapest, Hungary in 2021. His debut album In the
Praise of Shadow featuring legendary bay area percussionist William Winanut is
selected by Ryuichi Sakamoto for his curated playlist- SKMT picks on Spotify.
Performed at the special program of San Francisco TapeMusic Festival 2018,
called “Cinema For Your Ears” by San Francisco Weekly, “Tape capsules” by
New York Times. His soundscore for “A TORTOISE'S YEAR OF FATE” is the
only Chinese film nominated in Locarno FIlm Festival 2023. His soundscore for
New York based design label YAYI CHEN “IT IS NOT SPRING UNTIL ALL
FLOWERS BLOSSOM” is nominated in Fashion Film Festival Milano 2023.
Chamberlain premiered his first live film scoring project (the first science-fiction
film made in China, 小太阳 (1963), as well as a cosmologically themed, silent-era
film made in Shanghai, 盘丝洞 (1927) at the New York reception for 14th
Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema curated by e-flux.
His work explores the possibilities of manipulating human perception of time and
space. Implementing architecture, light, fog, sound, improvisation, composition,
and collaboration manifest in scenarios of alternative realities and the future of
humanity. Creating an immersive environment from his imagination, he allows
each individual to experience his works by following their own paths through their
imagination and physical engagement.