Wednesday September 23 * 7pm * $15 * TICKETS
Hunter Brown is a Berlin-based musician and sound artist whose experimental practice investigates the outer limits of synthetic sound production and the act of listening. His work examines how digital representations of sound, the materiality of audio technologies, and computational abstraction shape auditory experience. This practice is often realized through unconventional methods of synthesis and analysis, machine learning, spatial audio techniques, and approaches that engage auditory perception.
Improvisation is central to Hunter’s performance practice. He regularly performs with his Improvisation Instrument, a custom system developed in SuperCollider, both as a soloist and in collaborative projects including Technical Reserve and Other Plastics.
Hunter’s work has been presented internationally at festivals, conferences, universities, and venues such as Ars Electronica (Linz), Big Ears (Knoxville), Cafe OTO (London), Conference on AI Music Creativity (Graz), Darmstädter Ferienkurse (Darmstadt), Experimental Sound Studio (Chicago), Festival Nueva Ópera (Buenos Aires), Hundred Years Gallery (London), International Computer Music Conference (Daegu), International Workshop on Multilayer Music Representation and Processing (Milan), IRCAM Manifeste (Paris), Lobe 4DSOUND (Vancouver), and KM28 (Berlin).
In addition to his artistic practice, Hunter works as a freelance audio engineer, serves as technical director for Ensemble Dal Niente, and is a co-founder of the record label Party Perfect. He has taught electronic music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, and the University of Chicago.
Alma Laprida is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist whose creative pursuits encompass composition, improvisation, performance, installation, instrument building and radiophonic pieces. She’s known for her work with the tromba marina, a rare string instrument mostly used between the Middle Ages and the Baroque eras in Europa.
Lustre Chantant is musician, artist and instrument maker Max Hamel and photographer and DIY evangelist Christopher Griffiths. Together they utilize battery-powered amplifiers, discarded shrapnel and obsolete electronics in a sort of séance for the kitchen junk drawer.