WSH|NYC|2026
Artists:
“We’ve each been etching our own paths in sound for a long time
though when we get together we’re more likely talking about what we’ll eat next. The music tends to sort itself..”
Prior to electricity being harnessed in any significant way, physicists measured the frequency of sound (quite accurately) by viewing the ways it oscillated the flicker of a flame. This is the starting place for the music made by Barry Weisblat, who uses photovoltaic sensors, homemade synthesizers, wild voltage, haunted radios. shimmering metal, and stretched skins to shape the elements into organized sound.
Talice Lee is violinist and singer originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Based in New York since 2009, she is equally at home in song-based, composed and improvised music contexts. She is a member of the 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band and has lent her violin playing and singing abilities to the songwriting projects of Sue Garner and poet Morgan Vo, experimental pieces by Cody Boyce and Che Chen, and improvised settings with veteran NYC free improvisers Daniel Carter and Todd Capp.
Che Chen is a creative musician and multi-instrumentalist interested in the overlapping fields of intuitive music, improvisation and tuning theory. In addition to the solo and collaborative projects here, he also plays guitar in the band 75 Dollar Bill, which he founded with percussionist Rick Brown in 2012. He is also a member of True Primes, and runs a small label called Black Pollen Press.
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work weaves through elusive genres with dub and left-field influences, saturating abstract musical forms with tender observations. She has released projects under Scorpio Red, Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more. As a performer, she weaves electromagnetic signals into live improvisation, having performed most notably at Cafe OTO and Park Avenue Armory.
Ted Gordon is a musician and musicologist who connects historical understandings of electronic and experimental music with critical approaches to the social study of science and technology. His first book, The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America, was published by the University of California Press in 2025. He is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College & The Graduate Center, City University of New York. As a musician, he improvises with the Buchla Music Easel and other objects of historical study as a means towards producing a critical, embodied understanding of musical technologies.
Marcia Bassett is a musician and artist based in NYC, known for her innovative, unconventional approach to music. Her work explores sound collage, improvisation, and audiovisual environments. Working with electronics, guitar, and voice, Bassett creates otherworldly narratives that are equal parts trance and critique. She is the founder of Yew Recordings and is also known for her solo work as Zaïmph, a project she initiated in 2005. She first made an impact with the Philadelphia outfit Un in the 1990s, releasing on Siltbreeze Records, before forming the experimental drone group Double Leopards.
Bryce Hackford is a local artist working between syntactical and architectural structures as relates to auditory experience, sound and communication systems. Observation of phenomena, perception, causation, the shared.
Kevin Ramsay is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound engineer, and
musician on several critically acclaimed international albums. Brooklyn born and based,
Ramsay’s work focuses primarily on theoretical, practical aspects of sound recording/
reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback, on
multichannel sound systems. In addition to serving as the Lead Sound Engineer at
Harvestworks Digital Media, he continues to collaborate with a variety of international artists committed to using sound as their main creative medium.
Henry Birdsey is a composer and musician from Vermont. His music is often drone-based, slow-forming and usually involves altered tunings. He plays the bagpipes, harmonicas, and pedal/lap steel.
Taylor Long is a percussionist, sound artist, and educator. He has appeared at the Darmstadt Courses (Germany), New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), Transplanted Roots Symposium (Portugal), American University of Sharjah Engage Arts Series (United Arab Emirates), The Space Between (Canada), Frequency Series (Chicago), Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Indianapolis), Oh My Ears New Music Festival (Phoenix) and at venues including Carnegie Hall, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy), Pioneerworks (Brooklyn), Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Rhizome (Washington DC), Harvestworks (Manhattan), and Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis). Taylor is a member of Ensemble Decipher, a technologically oriented composer/performer collective and low pass, a percussion/sound art duo with Rob Cosgrove which foregrounds interests in electronics, repurposed objects, noise, and improvisation. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Percussion and Audio Production at Valley City State University
Ben Bennett is an American improvising percussionist and composer-performer of acoustic experimental music. His focus is on discovering idiosyncratic emergent sound structures using objects that function as idiophones and membranophones. His recent solo work, documented on Music for Idiophones and Rubbing Music, deals with dynamic stick-slip behaviour of commonplace planar materials such as steel, glass, plywood, cardboard, rubber, and polystyrene. In addition to music, the reduction of sonic material to nothing led to the durational YouTube series Sitting and Smiling (2014-ongoing), and the application of iterative process to ordinary language led to Walking and Talking (2017-ongoing). He has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe and performed in international festivals as a soloist and in various ensembles. His recent collaborators include Pascal Battus, Kieran Daly, Axel Dörner, Philipp Eden, Jonas Engel, Bryan Eubanks, Sandy Ewen, Carlos Hidalgo, Beat Keller, Greg Kelley, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Carina Khorkhordina, Alexander Markvart, Karen Ng, Chris Pitsiokos, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guillherme Rodrigues, Asger Thomsen, Ute Wasserman, Jacob Wick, Nate Wooley, and Jack Wright.
( ), aka Jeremy D. Slater is an intermedia artist and performer creating compositions consisting of environmental sound, ambient noise, sequencing, drones, guitar, and ambient/reactive video. ( ) creates single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. ( ) is a member of Plan 23, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, and tū. ( ) has performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan.
Qasim Naqvi is a percussionist, composer, and synthesist. In addition to being the drummer of the lauded cult minimalist trio Dawn of Midi, Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist whose passion for multidisciplinary work has led him into the worlds of film, dance, installation art, and orchestral and chamber music. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by London Contemporary Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Jennifer Koh, Stargaze, Cello Octet Amsterdam, Helsinki Chamber Choir, among others. Other collaborations include original music for Academy Award–winning documentarian Laura Poitras and Turner Prize–nominated filmmaker and installation artist Naeem Mohaiemen. Qasim has released music as a bandleader on the labels Erased Tapes Records, New Amsterdam Records, Red Hook Records, and NNA Tapes.
Crystal Peñalosa is an electronic musician and interdisciplinary designer exploring self-compassion, authenticity, and personal safety. She has released music independently and through Soap Library, Topos Press, and has presented solo and collaborative works at The New School, MoMA PS1, Roulette, among others. With co-host Sodomahigomorra, she hosts Hole Vision, a monthly show on the Lot Radio that dissolves borders through the sonic expressions and experiences of trans artists in NYC and beyond.
She currently serves as a Product Designer with the New Jersey Innovation Authority, teaches Physical Computing at the School of Visual Arts, and volunteers with Voluminous Arts, a transgender liberation project in Queens, New York.
Wes Marcarelli is a musician, electronics engineer, and educator exploring sound as a medium for spiritual inquiry and environmental research. Through his current project ‘nguento he uses modular synthesizers, traditional instruments, field recordings, and custom-built circuits to create immersive sonic environments. Over the past 20 years he has performed across the United States and Europe and has released several albums both independently and through Tiger Asylum Records. Wes extends his practice through workshops, approaching electronics design as an esoteric process that bridges technical systems with deeper, experiential understandings of the world. In 2017 he began STEM Modular through which he has created a line of synthesizer modules as well as educational material and electronics classes.
Tommy Martinez is a composer and artist working through sound, research and code. He creates musical systems for guitar, web-browsers, and multichannel speaker arrays. His work has been presented at Pioneer Works, Roulette Intermedium, Rhizome, CultureHub, and Harvestworks.
EHMN is the electronic avant garde project from Donnie Martin, an improviser, performer, composer, synthesist, and educator from Boston, Massachusetts. He teaches electronic music synthesis fundamentals and advanced modular synthesis courses in the Music Technology Program at New York University Steinhardt. Pronounced like a subtle clearing of the throat, EHMN utilizes raw, fundamental sonic dimensions expressively controlled within a eurorack modular synthesizer using elements of east and west coast aesthetics. Donnie’s research concentrates on spatial movement and manipulation via in-air sound synthesis by controlling the three-dimensional interaction of sound waves projected in multi-channel systems. In 2023, he co-published a paper with Paul Geluso and Lars Graugaard for the AES International Spatial and Immersive Conference titled “Creating In-air 3D sound objects for immersive sound applications and electroacoustic music.” Additionally, Donnie’s work focuses on improvisation, dimensions of electronic music composition and performance, and solutions for adapting synthesizers for the visually impaired as he has lectured on these topics at New England Synthfest 2024 and 2026.
Yo Vinyl Richie, born in the Bronx and currently living in New York City, is a composer and turntablist whose passion for the turntable began at an early age. Inspired by DJ competitions and parties as a child, he honed turntablism techniques and embraced the turntable as his primary instrument, both solo and in collaboration with others. Richie has showcased his artistry at esteemed venues such as Roulette, The Kitchen, Princeton University, and Queens Town Hall.
The Secret Cult of Infinite Kitten is an A/V performance comprised of N8TRONICK and RGB VALUES. They collect and archive sound and video from daily life. They combine and process it into an immersive collage of light, color and sound.
Sebastián Rojas is a Mexican sound artist and musician whose work explores sound as a territory of transition between genres, emotional states, and vital moments. His practice approaches noise, memory, and song as malleable materials, understanding music as a space where the intimate and the allegorical overlap.
His musical trajectory begins in languages associated with pop and bolero, traditions tied to nostalgia and the sentimental song, which are progressively strained and displaced toward unclassifiable territories. This movement does not stem from rupture, but from a process of erosion, transformation, and drift, where form and sound acquire a physical and emotional weight.
Sebastián Rojas es un artista sonoro y músico mexicano cuyo trabajo explora el sonido como un territorio de transición — entre géneros, estados emocionales y momentos vitales. Su práctica aborda el ruido, la memoria y la canción como materiales maleables, entendiendo la música como un espacio donde lo íntimo y lo alegórico se superponen.
Su trayectoria musical comienza en lenguajes asociados al pop y al bolero, tradiciones ligadas a la nostalgia y a la canción sentimental, que progresivamente son desplazadas hacia territorios inclasificables. Este movimiento no surge de la ruptura, sino de un proceso de erosión, transformación y deriva, donde la forma y el sonido adquieren un peso físico y emocional.
Shahzad Ismaily is a Pakistani-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Known primarily for his sensitive and genre-fluid collaborations, he has appeared on nearly 400 albums since arriving in New York in 2000. Though often working in the background, his sonic fingerprints can be found on records by artists as diverse as Feist, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Moses Sumney, Cass McCombs, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy. A longtime member of Marc Ribot’s trio Ceramic Dog, Ismaily is also a core member of the acclaimed project Love in Exile alongside Arooj Aftab and Vijay Iyer — their 2023 debut was nominated for a Grammy. Other notable collaborations include Laraaji and Merz (Dreams of Sleep and Wakes of Sound), Jolie Holland (The Living and the Dead), and appearances in Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors and Bob Dylan’s concert film Shadow Kingdom. His Brooklyn recording space, Figure 8, has become a vital hub for experimental artists and home to his boutique label of the same name.
Dafna Naphtali is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electroacoustic music, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music and using her custom Max/MSP programming. She’s performed in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East, with current projects including: “Audio Chandelier” multi-channel audio works presented in US, Berlin, and Montreal, in 2020 at Harvestworks New Works residencyGovernors Island in collaboration with metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali, and in July 2023 at APO-33 in Nantes, France.
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation and the creation of sound devices and systems. Lopez holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and an MA from Wesleyan University in composition (2016). Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), MATA Festival 2012, Experimental Intermedia, Fridman Gallery (NY), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway) and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others. She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow in 2015 and has participated in various international residency programs.In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems coproduced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Collaborators include Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, Zeena Parkins, John Driscoll and Carrie Schneider among others.
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations enact cybernetic audiovisual environments as living compositions.
Joan Jordi Oliver is a saxophonist, composer, producer, and artistic director based in Zurich, Switzerland. His artistic practice brings together traditional instruments, analogue devices, and digital electronic transformations to explore sound beyond stylistic boundaries. His work spans albums, concert pieces, and audiovisual projects, seeking a distinctive voice at the intersection of ambient music, minimalism, free improvisation, contemporary music, and experimental electronics. He has performed across Europe, North and South America and Asia, and has contributed to numerous recording projects across contemporary and experimental music. an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations enact cybernetic audiovisual environments as living compositions.
Ivana Dama is an artist and researcher holding an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture with a degree in Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Her multidisciplinary work spans audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, with a focus on the nonverbal expression of traumatic experiences through sound studies and sonic memories. Ivana’s practice explores the relationship between sound and vibrations at various scales, from the microscopic to the architectural and satellite. Her work has been featured in over 30 group shows, and she has had solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles. She is a recipient of a 2025–2026 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program residency. In addition to her artistic practice, she serves as Interim Director of the nonprofit arts organization Harvestworks.
Vortex is a project created by Shoko Nagai (piano, accordion, analog synthesizers, electronics) and Satoshi Takeishi (playing a unique “hybrid set” consisting of both western and eastern tradition percussions) with a mission to integrate cultural, technological and musical elements that surround us in everyday life into a coherent musical structure expanding the possibility of sonic palette for the use in contemporary jazz composition and improvisation. Several of their scored works can be heard in a full feature film and documentary films
( HBO, PBS, NHK Japan TV, Toronto, Mexico, India, Peru, Romania, Italy film festivals winner of Best original song, Best original sound track award
2025 in Greece, Vancouver International film festival received Impact award 2016 and DOC NYC) Their use of a variety of acoustic instruments and electronic processing have successfully created sonic world of such vividness that their music has been described as “Treat every moment as an opportunity for deep synchronicity”, “almost visible to the listener”- New York Times by Giovanni Russonello.
Hugo Quezada is a musician, producer, sound engineer and founder of Progreso Nacional Studio in Mexico City. For more than a decade he has been a central figure of the local independent scene, developing an idiosyncratic sonic identity along side different generations of artist’s whose musical productions mark the pulse of the country. His work is a mix of intuition, discipline and a profound connection to the city, making his studio a hub for creative freedom and artistic rigor.
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Hugo Quezada es músico, productor e ingeniero de sonido, fundador del estudio Progreso Nacional en la Ciudad de México. Desde hace más de una década ha sido una figura central en la escena independiente, desarrollando una identidad sonora propia y acompañando a distintas generaciones de artistas en la construcción de discos que hoy marcan el pulso del país. Su trabajo se distingue por una mezcla de intuición, disciplina y una profunda conexión con la ciudad, convirtiendo su estudio en un espacio de libertad creativa y rigor artístico.
Ximena Bedoya is an interdisciplinary artist and improviser from Perú, currently based in New York.
She uses a variety of tools and preparations to activate spaces while exploring concepts of chance, impermanence, control and release. Her current practice focuses on the interconnections between sound, video, performance and sculptural objects.
She co-founded Lobby Art Editions a record label that highlights and releases works by artists exploring boundaries of genre and media.
Rhiannon Catalyst is an interdisciplinary artist producing both intimate and large-scale immersive experiences driven by the goal of creating visceral connection and change. Her practice often celebrates the signature acoustics and history of ships, caves, and spaces of cultural exchange where sound and memory converge. Catalyst has created works for and with The Rubin Museum of Art, Museum of the Moving Image, the New York Hall of Science, NASA, Harvestworks, and Not Impossible Labs along with decades of legacy in underground electronic music and mobile soundsystem culture. Premiering new work in progress featuring field recordings she began capturing as a child and custom convolution reverb from cavernous water cisterns across the globe.
Geoff Gersh is a guitarist, composer and improviser based in the NYC area.
He explores the sonic boundaries of the electric guitar with and without the aid of electronic devices and found objects to produce sounds one would normally not associate with the guitar. His music moves between the worlds of ambient, drone, improvisation and experimental music. Using textured and smooth pieces of metal, he bows the guitar while layering the sound through delays, reverbs, and looping devices, creating immersive drones and fluid melodic lines that resemble an otherworldly string ensemble. As a soloist and with the trio Order of the Illusive, he creates live scores for silent and non-silent films and has performed at venues including Nitehawk Cinema, Rockaway Film Festival, PS21 and in Astana & Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a New York Theatre & Dance Award (Bessie). Geoff is a recipient of a 2026–2027 Fulbright Study/Research Award to Kazakhstan where he will spend 10 months starting this fall studying the dombra.
Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida who currently resides between New York City and Durham, NC. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental, and electronic music that explores experimental technology, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. His music has been released on New Focus Recordings, People Places Records, cmntx, [walnut+locust], Belts and Whistles Records, Infrequent Seams, and more. He is a performing member of the electric guitar/clarinet/electronic experimental music duo Shutterspeed Duo with Ford Fourqurean and is an active soloist on the oud, electric guitar, and mandolin.
VR. Luke DuBois creates music, art, software, and circuits, not necessarily in that order.
His artwork explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera, using data-driven techniques to investigate time, memory, identity, and the meaning of portraiture in the United States in the 21st Century.
Exhibitions of his work include: the Insitut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain; Haus der elektronischen Künste, Switzerland; 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art; Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; the Sydney Film Festival; SITE Santa Fe; Orange County Museum of Art; the Beall Center for Art & Technology; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the National Portrait Gallery; the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; PROSPECT.2 New Orleans; the 2018 London Design Biennale; and the Aspen Institute. DuBois’ work and writing has appeared in print and online in the New York Times, National Geographic, and Esquire Magazine, and he was an invited speaker at the 2016 TED Conference. A major survey of his work, NOW, received its premiere at the Ringling Museum of Art in 2014, with a catalogue published by Scala Art & Heritage Publishers.
Karol Konstancia is an electro acoustic musician and composer who uses feedback, voice, improvisation and concrete compositional practices to create narratively dense retellings of Polish Highlander folk music.
Keiko Uenishi is a sound art-i-vist and socio-environmental composer whose work explores aural memory, perception, and the social dynamics of listening. Through installations, performances, and participatory situations, she investigates relationships, spatial awareness, and psychological boundaries shaped by sound. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Dia Beacon, Lincoln Center, Tate Britain, and ICA London. Uenishi currently serves as Program Administrator for NYU Music Technology.
4-PoL (aka Paul Geluso) is a New York–based sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist who frequently collaborates with artists working with sound as a creative medium. He performs and composes electroacoustic music, and designs immersive and 3D sound systems for his own work as well as for other artists internationally. He is also a core organizer of WoodstockhausenEast and has performed there for the past three years.
WSH|NYC|2026
Artists:
“We’ve each been etching our own paths in sound for a long time
though when we get together we’re more likely talking about what we’ll eat next. The music tends to sort itself..”
Prior to electricity being harnessed in any significant way, physicists measured the frequency of sound (quite accurately) by viewing the ways it oscillated the flicker of a flame. This is the starting place for the music made by Barry Weisblat, who uses photovoltaic sensors, homemade synthesizers, wild voltage, haunted radios. shimmering metal, and stretched skins to shape the elements into organized sound.
Talice Lee is violinist and singer originally from Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Based in New York since 2009, she is equally at home in song-based, composed and improvised music contexts. She is a member of the 75 Dollar Bill Little Big Band and has lent her violin playing and singing abilities to the songwriting projects of Sue Garner and poet Morgan Vo, experimental pieces by Cody Boyce and Che Chen, and improvised settings with veteran NYC free improvisers Daniel Carter and Todd Capp.
Che Chen is a creative musician and multi-instrumentalist interested in the overlapping fields of intuitive music, improvisation and tuning theory. In addition to the solo and collaborative projects here, he also plays guitar in the band 75 Dollar Bill, which he founded with percussionist Rick Brown in 2012. He is also a member of True Primes, and runs a small label called Black Pollen Press.
Laenz is a producer based in Brooklyn, NY, working within radiophonic textures and caliginous dance music. Her work weaves through elusive genres with dub and left-field influences, saturating abstract musical forms with tender observations. She has released projects under Scorpio Red, Woozy, Early Reflex, Dance Data, and more. As a performer, she weaves electromagnetic signals into live improvisation, having performed most notably at Cafe OTO and Park Avenue Armory.
Ted Gordon is a musician and musicologist who connects historical understandings of electronic and experimental music with critical approaches to the social study of science and technology. His first book, The Composer’s Black Box: Making Music in Cybernetic America, was published by the University of California Press in 2025. He is Assistant Professor of Music at Baruch College & The Graduate Center, City University of New York. As a musician, he improvises with the Buchla Music Easel and other objects of historical study as a means towards producing a critical, embodied understanding of musical technologies.
Marcia Bassett is a musician and artist based in NYC, known for her innovative, unconventional approach to music. Her work explores sound collage, improvisation, and audiovisual environments. Working with electronics, guitar, and voice, Bassett creates otherworldly narratives that are equal parts trance and critique. She is the founder of Yew Recordings and is also known for her solo work as Zaïmph, a project she initiated in 2005. She first made an impact with the Philadelphia outfit Un in the 1990s, releasing on Siltbreeze Records, before forming the experimental drone group Double Leopards.
Bryce Hackford is a local artist working between syntactical and architectural structures as relates to auditory experience, sound and communication systems. Observation of phenomena, perception, causation, the shared.
Kevin Ramsay is a composer, producer, recording/mixing/mastering/sound engineer, and
musician on several critically acclaimed international albums. Brooklyn born and based,
Ramsay’s work focuses primarily on theoretical, practical aspects of sound recording/
reproduction with unpredictable pairings of acoustic and electronic instruments. Kevin’s current works explore new ways to capture, mix, and process immersive audio for playback, on
multichannel sound systems. In addition to serving as the Lead Sound Engineer at
Harvestworks Digital Media, he continues to collaborate with a variety of international artists committed to using sound as their main creative medium.
Henry Birdsey is a composer and musician from Vermont. His music is often drone-based, slow-forming and usually involves altered tunings. He plays the bagpipes, harmonicas, and pedal/lap steel.
Taylor Long is a percussionist, sound artist, and educator. He has appeared at the Darmstadt Courses (Germany), New Music for Strings Festival (Denmark), Transplanted Roots Symposium (Portugal), American University of Sharjah Engage Arts Series (United Arab Emirates), The Space Between (Canada), Frequency Series (Chicago), Percussive Arts Society International Convention (Indianapolis), Oh My Ears New Music Festival (Phoenix) and at venues including Carnegie Hall, Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (Troy), Pioneerworks (Brooklyn), Roulette Intermedium (Brooklyn), Rhizome (Washington DC), Harvestworks (Manhattan), and Pulitzer Arts Foundation (St. Louis). Taylor is a member of Ensemble Decipher, a technologically oriented composer/performer collective and low pass, a percussion/sound art duo with Rob Cosgrove which foregrounds interests in electronics, repurposed objects, noise, and improvisation. Taylor is Assistant Professor of Percussion and Audio Production at Valley City State University
Ben Bennett is an American improvising percussionist and composer-performer of acoustic experimental music. His focus is on discovering idiosyncratic emergent sound structures using objects that function as idiophones and membranophones. His recent solo work, documented on Music for Idiophones and Rubbing Music, deals with dynamic stick-slip behaviour of commonplace planar materials such as steel, glass, plywood, cardboard, rubber, and polystyrene. In addition to music, the reduction of sonic material to nothing led to the durational YouTube series Sitting and Smiling (2014-ongoing), and the application of iterative process to ordinary language led to Walking and Talking (2017-ongoing). He has toured extensively throughout the Americas and Europe and performed in international festivals as a soloist and in various ensembles. His recent collaborators include Pascal Battus, Kieran Daly, Axel Dörner, Philipp Eden, Jonas Engel, Bryan Eubanks, Sandy Ewen, Carlos Hidalgo, Beat Keller, Greg Kelley, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Carina Khorkhordina, Alexander Markvart, Karen Ng, Chris Pitsiokos, Ernesto Rodrigues, Guillherme Rodrigues, Asger Thomsen, Ute Wasserman, Jacob Wick, Nate Wooley, and Jack Wright.
( ), aka Jeremy D. Slater is an intermedia artist and performer creating compositions consisting of environmental sound, ambient noise, sequencing, drones, guitar, and ambient/reactive video. ( ) creates single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. ( ) is a member of Plan 23, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, and tū. ( ) has performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan.
Qasim Naqvi is a percussionist, composer, and synthesist. In addition to being the drummer of the lauded cult minimalist trio Dawn of Midi, Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist whose passion for multidisciplinary work has led him into the worlds of film, dance, installation art, and orchestral and chamber music. His concert music has been commissioned and performed by London Contemporary Orchestra, BBC Concert Orchestra, Crash Ensemble, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Jennifer Koh, Stargaze, Cello Octet Amsterdam, Helsinki Chamber Choir, among others. Other collaborations include original music for Academy Award–winning documentarian Laura Poitras and Turner Prize–nominated filmmaker and installation artist Naeem Mohaiemen. Qasim has released music as a bandleader on the labels Erased Tapes Records, New Amsterdam Records, Red Hook Records, and NNA Tapes.
Crystal Peñalosa is an electronic musician and interdisciplinary designer exploring self-compassion, authenticity, and personal safety. She has released music independently and through Soap Library, Topos Press, and has presented solo and collaborative works at The New School, MoMA PS1, Roulette, among others. With co-host Sodomahigomorra, she hosts Hole Vision, a monthly show on the Lot Radio that dissolves borders through the sonic expressions and experiences of trans artists in NYC and beyond.
She currently serves as a Product Designer with the New Jersey Innovation Authority, teaches Physical Computing at the School of Visual Arts, and volunteers with Voluminous Arts, a transgender liberation project in Queens, New York.
Wes Marcarelli is a musician, electronics engineer, and educator exploring sound as a medium for spiritual inquiry and environmental research. Through his current project ‘nguento he uses modular synthesizers, traditional instruments, field recordings, and custom-built circuits to create immersive sonic environments. Over the past 20 years he has performed across the United States and Europe and has released several albums both independently and through Tiger Asylum Records. Wes extends his practice through workshops, approaching electronics design as an esoteric process that bridges technical systems with deeper, experiential understandings of the world. In 2017 he began STEM Modular through which he has created a line of synthesizer modules as well as educational material and electronics classes.
Tommy Martinez is a composer and artist working through sound, research and code. He creates musical systems for guitar, web-browsers, and multichannel speaker arrays. His work has been presented at Pioneer Works, Roulette Intermedium, Rhizome, CultureHub, and Harvestworks.
EHMN is the electronic avant garde project from Donnie Martin, an improviser, performer, composer, synthesist, and educator from Boston, Massachusetts. He teaches electronic music synthesis fundamentals and advanced modular synthesis courses in the Music Technology Program at New York University Steinhardt. Pronounced like a subtle clearing of the throat, EHMN utilizes raw, fundamental sonic dimensions expressively controlled within a eurorack modular synthesizer using elements of east and west coast aesthetics. Donnie’s research concentrates on spatial movement and manipulation via in-air sound synthesis by controlling the three-dimensional interaction of sound waves projected in multi-channel systems. In 2023, he co-published a paper with Paul Geluso and Lars Graugaard for the AES International Spatial and Immersive Conference titled “Creating In-air 3D sound objects for immersive sound applications and electroacoustic music.” Additionally, Donnie’s work focuses on improvisation, dimensions of electronic music composition and performance, and solutions for adapting synthesizers for the visually impaired as he has lectured on these topics at New England Synthfest 2024 and 2026.
Yo Vinyl Richie, born in the Bronx and currently living in New York City, is a composer and turntablist whose passion for the turntable began at an early age. Inspired by DJ competitions and parties as a child, he honed turntablism techniques and embraced the turntable as his primary instrument, both solo and in collaboration with others. Richie has showcased his artistry at esteemed venues such as Roulette, The Kitchen, Princeton University, and Queens Town Hall.
The Secret Cult of Infinite Kitten is an A/V performance comprised of N8TRONICK and RGB VALUES. They collect and archive sound and video from daily life. They combine and process it into an immersive collage of light, color and sound.
Sebastián Rojas is a Mexican sound artist and musician whose work explores sound as a territory of transition between genres, emotional states, and vital moments. His practice approaches noise, memory, and song as malleable materials, understanding music as a space where the intimate and the allegorical overlap.
His musical trajectory begins in languages associated with pop and bolero, traditions tied to nostalgia and the sentimental song, which are progressively strained and displaced toward unclassifiable territories. This movement does not stem from rupture, but from a process of erosion, transformation, and drift, where form and sound acquire a physical and emotional weight.
Sebastián Rojas es un artista sonoro y músico mexicano cuyo trabajo explora el sonido como un territorio de transición — entre géneros, estados emocionales y momentos vitales. Su práctica aborda el ruido, la memoria y la canción como materiales maleables, entendiendo la música como un espacio donde lo íntimo y lo alegórico se superponen.
Su trayectoria musical comienza en lenguajes asociados al pop y al bolero, tradiciones ligadas a la nostalgia y a la canción sentimental, que progresivamente son desplazadas hacia territorios inclasificables. Este movimiento no surge de la ruptura, sino de un proceso de erosión, transformación y deriva, donde la forma y el sonido adquieren un peso físico y emocional.
Shahzad Ismaily is a Pakistani-American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn, NY. Known primarily for his sensitive and genre-fluid collaborations, he has appeared on nearly 400 albums since arriving in New York in 2000. Though often working in the background, his sonic fingerprints can be found on records by artists as diverse as Feist, Yoko Ono, Laurie Anderson, Moses Sumney, Cass McCombs, and Bonnie “Prince” Billy. A longtime member of Marc Ribot’s trio Ceramic Dog, Ismaily is also a core member of the acclaimed project Love in Exile alongside Arooj Aftab and Vijay Iyer — their 2023 debut was nominated for a Grammy. Other notable collaborations include Laraaji and Merz (Dreams of Sleep and Wakes of Sound), Jolie Holland (The Living and the Dead), and appearances in Ragnar Kjartansson’s The Visitors and Bob Dylan’s concert film Shadow Kingdom. His Brooklyn recording space, Figure 8, has become a vital hub for experimental artists and home to his boutique label of the same name.
Dafna Naphtali is a singer/instrumentalist/electronic-musician who composes/performs experimental, interactive electroacoustic music, drawing on a wide-ranging musical background in jazz, classical, rock and near-eastern music and using her custom Max/MSP programming. She’s performed in the US, Canada, Europe, India, Russia and the Middle East, with current projects including: “Audio Chandelier” multi-channel audio works presented in US, Berlin, and Montreal, in 2020 at Harvestworks New Works residencyGovernors Island in collaboration with metalsmith/designer Ayala Naphtali, and in July 2023 at APO-33 in Nantes, France.
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
Cecilia Lopez is a composer, musician and multimedia artist from Buenos Aires, Argentina currently based in New York. She works across the media of performance, sound, installation and the creation of sound devices and systems. Lopez holds an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College and an MA from Wesleyan University in composition (2016). Her work has been performed and exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (AR), Center for Contemporary Arts (Vilnius, Lithuania), Roulette Intermedium, Issue Project Room, Ostrava Days Festival 2011 (Ostrava, Czech Republic), MATA Festival 2012, Experimental Intermedia, Fridman Gallery (NY), Kunstnernes Hus (Oslo, Norway) and the XIV Cuenca Biennial, among others. She was a Civitella Ranieri fellow in 2015 and has participated in various international residency programs.In 2019, Lopez curated the intermedia festival Folly Systems coproduced by Roulette Intermedium and Outpost Artists Resources that featured 11 international artists. Collaborators include Carmen Baliero, Aki Onda, Zeena Parkins, John Driscoll and Carrie Schneider among others.
MSHR is an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations enact cybernetic audiovisual environments as living compositions.
Joan Jordi Oliver is a saxophonist, composer, producer, and artistic director based in Zurich, Switzerland. His artistic practice brings together traditional instruments, analogue devices, and digital electronic transformations to explore sound beyond stylistic boundaries. His work spans albums, concert pieces, and audiovisual projects, seeking a distinctive voice at the intersection of ambient music, minimalism, free improvisation, contemporary music, and experimental electronics. He has performed across Europe, North and South America and Asia, and has contributed to numerous recording projects across contemporary and experimental music. an art collective that collaboratively builds and explores sculptural electronic systems. Their performances and installations enact cybernetic audiovisual environments as living compositions.
Ivana Dama is an artist and researcher holding an MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. She previously graduated from UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture with a degree in Media Arts and Digital Humanities. Her multidisciplinary work spans audio-video installations, robotics, web projects, and music performances, with a focus on the nonverbal expression of traumatic experiences through sound studies and sonic memories. Ivana’s practice explores the relationship between sound and vibrations at various scales, from the microscopic to the architectural and satellite. Her work has been featured in over 30 group shows, and she has had solo exhibitions in Portland and Los Angeles. She is a recipient of a 2025–2026 Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program residency. In addition to her artistic practice, she serves as Interim Director of the nonprofit arts organization Harvestworks.
Vortex is a project created by Shoko Nagai (piano, accordion, analog synthesizers, electronics) and Satoshi Takeishi (playing a unique “hybrid set” consisting of both western and eastern tradition percussions) with a mission to integrate cultural, technological and musical elements that surround us in everyday life into a coherent musical structure expanding the possibility of sonic palette for the use in contemporary jazz composition and improvisation. Several of their scored works can be heard in a full feature film and documentary films
( HBO, PBS, NHK Japan TV, Toronto, Mexico, India, Peru, Romania, Italy film festivals winner of Best original song, Best original sound track award
2025 in Greece, Vancouver International film festival received Impact award 2016 and DOC NYC) Their use of a variety of acoustic instruments and electronic processing have successfully created sonic world of such vividness that their music has been described as “Treat every moment as an opportunity for deep synchronicity”, “almost visible to the listener”- New York Times by Giovanni Russonello.
Hugo Quezada is a musician, producer, sound engineer and founder of Progreso Nacional Studio in Mexico City. For more than a decade he has been a central figure of the local independent scene, developing an idiosyncratic sonic identity along side different generations of artist’s whose musical productions mark the pulse of the country. His work is a mix of intuition, discipline and a profound connection to the city, making his studio a hub for creative freedom and artistic rigor.
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Hugo Quezada es músico, productor e ingeniero de sonido, fundador del estudio Progreso Nacional en la Ciudad de México. Desde hace más de una década ha sido una figura central en la escena independiente, desarrollando una identidad sonora propia y acompañando a distintas generaciones de artistas en la construcción de discos que hoy marcan el pulso del país. Su trabajo se distingue por una mezcla de intuición, disciplina y una profunda conexión con la ciudad, convirtiendo su estudio en un espacio de libertad creativa y rigor artístico.
Ximena Bedoya is an interdisciplinary artist and improviser from Perú, currently based in New York.
She uses a variety of tools and preparations to activate spaces while exploring concepts of chance, impermanence, control and release. Her current practice focuses on the interconnections between sound, video, performance and sculptural objects.
She co-founded Lobby Art Editions a record label that highlights and releases works by artists exploring boundaries of genre and media.
Rhiannon Catalyst is an interdisciplinary artist producing both intimate and large-scale immersive experiences driven by the goal of creating visceral connection and change. Her practice often celebrates the signature acoustics and history of ships, caves, and spaces of cultural exchange where sound and memory converge. Catalyst has created works for and with The Rubin Museum of Art, Museum of the Moving Image, the New York Hall of Science, NASA, Harvestworks, and Not Impossible Labs along with decades of legacy in underground electronic music and mobile soundsystem culture. Premiering new work in progress featuring field recordings she began capturing as a child and custom convolution reverb from cavernous water cisterns across the globe.
Geoff Gersh is a guitarist, composer and improviser based in the NYC area.
He explores the sonic boundaries of the electric guitar with and without the aid of electronic devices and found objects to produce sounds one would normally not associate with the guitar. His music moves between the worlds of ambient, drone, improvisation and experimental music. Using textured and smooth pieces of metal, he bows the guitar while layering the sound through delays, reverbs, and looping devices, creating immersive drones and fluid melodic lines that resemble an otherworldly string ensemble. As a soloist and with the trio Order of the Illusive, he creates live scores for silent and non-silent films and has performed at venues including Nitehawk Cinema, Rockaway Film Festival, PS21 and in Astana & Almaty, Kazakhstan. He has received grants from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Meet the Composer, American Music Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and a New York Theatre & Dance Award (Bessie). Geoff is a recipient of a 2026–2027 Fulbright Study/Research Award to Kazakhstan where he will spend 10 months starting this fall studying the dombra.
Erich Barganier is a composer and multi-instrumentalist hailing from St. Petersburg, Florida who currently resides between New York City and Durham, NC. He writes chamber, orchestral, film, solo instrumental, and electronic music that explores experimental technology, improvisation, generative processes, and new forms of notation. His music has been released on New Focus Recordings, People Places Records, cmntx, [walnut+locust], Belts and Whistles Records, Infrequent Seams, and more. He is a performing member of the electric guitar/clarinet/electronic experimental music duo Shutterspeed Duo with Ford Fourqurean and is an active soloist on the oud, electric guitar, and mandolin.
VR. Luke DuBois creates music, art, software, and circuits, not necessarily in that order.
His artwork explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera, using data-driven techniques to investigate time, memory, identity, and the meaning of portraiture in the United States in the 21st Century.
Exhibitions of his work include: the Insitut Valencià d’Art Modern, Spain; Haus der elektronischen Künste, Switzerland; 2008 Democratic National Convention, Denver; Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; San Jose Museum of Art; National Constitution Center, Philadelphia; Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art; Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul; the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; 2007 Sundance Film Festival; the Sydney Film Festival; SITE Santa Fe; Orange County Museum of Art; the Beall Center for Art & Technology; the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art; the Smithsonian American Art Museum; the National Portrait Gallery; the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; PROSPECT.2 New Orleans; the 2018 London Design Biennale; and the Aspen Institute. DuBois’ work and writing has appeared in print and online in the New York Times, National Geographic, and Esquire Magazine, and he was an invited speaker at the 2016 TED Conference. A major survey of his work, NOW, received its premiere at the Ringling Museum of Art in 2014, with a catalogue published by Scala Art & Heritage Publishers.
Karol Konstancia is an electro acoustic musician and composer who uses feedback, voice, improvisation and concrete compositional practices to create narratively dense retellings of Polish Highlander folk music.
Keiko Uenishi is a sound art-i-vist and socio-environmental composer whose work explores aural memory, perception, and the social dynamics of listening. Through installations, performances, and participatory situations, she investigates relationships, spatial awareness, and psychological boundaries shaped by sound. Her work has been presented internationally at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, MoMA PS1, Dia Beacon, Lincoln Center, Tate Britain, and ICA London. Uenishi currently serves as Program Administrator for NYU Music Technology.
4-PoL (aka Paul Geluso) is a New York–based sound engineer and multi-instrumentalist who frequently collaborates with artists working with sound as a creative medium. He performs and composes electroacoustic music, and designs immersive and 3D sound systems for his own work as well as for other artists internationally. He is also a core organizer of WoodstockhausenEast and has performed there for the past three years.