Varispeed showcases ambient and experimental sound artists in unique acoustic environments around the city. Inspired by the playback-altering tool, I invite you to join us for a night of durational sets that extend above and beyond the infrasonic.
Performers:
Mischa is an artist, designer, engineer and currently a PhD candidate at Columbia in evolutionary biology. Their work is interested in superstition, electromagnetic phenomena, dance music, and manifesting the extrasensory. They live in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.
Daniel Neumann is a sound artist, organizer and audio engineer. He holds a media art degree from the Academy of Visual Art Leipzig and studied electronic music composition. A main focus for him is how sound interacts with space and how space and spatial perception can be shaped by sound. He works in hybrid installation-performance formats and understands sound as an intersubjective field enabled by audio procedures. His work has been presented internationally: Zona Maco CDMX, TEA Tenerife, Sinne Helsinki, Pinacoteca Bellas Artes Manizales Colombia, Espacios Resonantes Santiago de Chile, Loop Barcelona; Sculpture Center, etc. He is represented by Fridman Gallery New York. Curatorially he runs the series [New Ear:: SPATIAL] that presents spatial sound works. As an audio engineer, he has been working for Diamanda Galás, BlankForms, Time:Spans, MoMA PS1, Meredith Monk, Kevin Beasley, Phill Niblock, Cecilia Vicuna, Torkwase Dyson, David Guetta, ACME, Alarm Will Sound and more.
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Additionally, Paramax created a special installation for Reforesters' sound system featured at the beginning of each night:
finding moving shapes within a digital rendering of straining, shuddering air
as sound is reproduced, it becomes. it is an experience and we understand it through such terms. the building blocks of sound aren’t tangible, motionless, materials but rippling particles, vibrating instruments, sociocultural meanings, and physical bodies summed together in the motion that this experience is.
when i perform, my favorite instrument are the walls. they rattle with subby waves, my quiet thunderstorm, a massage of sound. the walls make it make sense. they give the piece the shape of the space around us; the real, immutable structure is suddenly the very same frequency as us. vibrations become the space, changing it constantly, changing us, too.
finding moving shapes within a digital rendering of straining, shuddering air is how i mix, it’s how i hear, and i invite you to hear it too. made for the system at Reforesters Labs, growing and changing with each performance.
While you're in the Laboratory:
Elevate your listening experience with enlivening and delicious, adaptogenic, gluten-free, gut-friendly foods, herbal teas and Devocion coffee:
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Reforesters Laboratory is an experimental adaptogen cafe and sound clinic located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We utilize music – including spatial, sub-bass-centered, and organic instrumentation – along with breathwork, meditation, art, plant care and adaptogenic, nutritional foods + beverages to cultivate kindness—both physical and spiritual. We aim to create an environment that offers peace, space, and clarity, helping people understand the connections between themselves, their communities, and the world around them. To that end, we offer affordable "pay what you can" ticket options on all events and classes.