Testu Collective: Rising Edge of a Pulse
'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 LSD curated by Testu Collective. We’re beyond excited to have Beirut-based Jad Atoui perform “Purge”, a solo piece that reflects on his recent experimentations with modular synth, waves of galactical pads driven by distorted rhythmic bass engines and energetic noise. He’ll be coming off a week-long residency at The Stone. Chuck Bettis & Keith Fullerton Whitman will give us short attention span electronic movements via guitar, bitwig & max msp. Starting off the night, Serena & Dan of Testu will create soundscapes from the vibrations of ferromagnetic materials and circulating electromagnetic fields.
7:30pm: Doors
8pm: Performances start
$25 w/RSVP
Greenpoint, BK
Saturday, May 3rd, 8-11pm
Artist Bios
Jad Atoui, a Beirut-based sound artist and improviser, emerged from the Lebanese early rave scene, where he first explored electronic music before expanding into electro-acoustic composition, live performance, and installation art. His practice merges raw club energy with experimental techniques, shaped by his time in New York’s avant-garde scene, where he refined his improvisational approach while working at The Stone and The Guggenheim Museum.
He has performed with musicians like John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, and composed for ensembles like Yarn/Wire and Distractfold Ensemble. He is also dedicated to exploring instrument creation and material amplification, with his work featured at Cafe Oto, E-flux, Flag Foundation, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Stone, and Beirut Art Center.
Atoui has released music solo and with artists like Anthony Sahyoun, Sandy Chamoun, Jawad Nawfal, Chuck Bettis, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Kinematic Ensemble.
He has performed with musicians like John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, Pauline Oliveros, and Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, and composed for ensembles like Yarn/Wire and Distractfold Ensemble. He is also dedicated to exploring instrument creation and material amplification, with his work featured at Cafe Oto, E-flux, Flag Foundation, Sharjah Art Foundation, The Stone, and Beirut Art Center.
Atoui has released music solo and with artists like Anthony Sahyoun, Sandy Chamoun, Jawad Nawfal, Chuck Bettis, Sharif Sehnaoui, and Kinematic Ensemble.
Keith Fullerton Whitman is a composer & performer of “Live” Electronic Music based in Brooklyn. While initially concerned primarily with making records (for kranky, Planet µ, Editions Mego, PAN, Nakid, & countless others) in the interim focus has shifted to performing, with over 500 concerts under the belt; many at the world’s most prestigious festivals & houses of culture. Formative experiments in software-based micro-sequencing & generative rhythms coupled with novel digital signal processing techniques (as Hrvatski) gave way to the ongoing exploration of glacially-paced shifts in timbre & tonality (“Playthroughs”) segueing into the pairing of relatively primitive analogue-computing concepts & contemporary sound-tools to yield deceptively complex, self-sustaining musical frameworks (“Generators”, “Occlusions”, & “Redactions”). In parallel, repeat-commissions from the GRM to compose for & diffuse Electroacoustic works on the Acousmonium have brought a childhood fascination with Musique Concrète & Tape-Music full circle.
https://keithfullertonwhitman.com/
CHUCK BETTIS was raised in the fertile harDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's experimental music realms. His unique blend of electronics and throat has led him into various collaborations with great musicians from around the globe as well as residencies at The Stone (NYC), INA GRAM (Paris, France), Kurimanzutto Gallery (NYC), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden) and Harvestworks (NYC).
https://chuckbettis.com/
https://keithfullertonwhitman.com/
CHUCK BETTIS was raised in the fertile harDCore soil, nourished within Baltimore's enigmatic avant garde gatherings, and currently blossoming in New York's experimental music realms. His unique blend of electronics and throat has led him into various collaborations with great musicians from around the globe as well as residencies at The Stone (NYC), INA GRAM (Paris, France), Kurimanzutto Gallery (NYC), EMS (Stockholm, Sweden) and Harvestworks (NYC).
https://chuckbettis.com/
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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