Heft TRANSMISSION Session: Ben Heim
Details to come.
This TRANSMISSION Session is a seated event using the new ultra hi-fi listening system by Joe Doucet, Volumes, and a 32 foot projection wall. See the full schedule for more events as part of this initiative running May 15 – June 12
Ticket price helps cover costs of running this event. Soft drinks will be available.
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About the Artists
Villager
Villager is the electronic music project of producer, composer, and DJ Alex Young, known for blending emotive club music with textured electronica, ambient composition, and experimental sound design. Originally emerging as a touring DJ at age 15 alongside artists including Skrillex, Diplo, and Cashmere Cat, Villager has since evolved into a critically recognized project supported by artists such as Four Tet, Jamie xx, Floating Points, Bonobo, and Bicep. His work combines intricate rhythmic production with cinematic atmospheres and improvisational sensibilities, spanning live performance, installation, and forward-thinking electronic music releases on labels including Boys Noize Records.
Nate Mohler + Ben Heim
Nate Mohler and Ben Heim are multidisciplinary new media artists working at the intersection of sound, image, and emerging technology. Their practices span immersive installation, audiovisual performance, and generative systems, exploring how perception, memory, and environment are shaped through digital tools.
Together, their work transforms the listening experience into a spatial and visual journey—blending real-time systems, cinematic imagery, and responsive environments to create deeply atmospheric, synesthetic encounters where sound and vision move as one.
About Transmissions and Volume Speakers
Heft
NYC art gallery partnering with artists who use, and address, the ubiquitous systems of contemporary life. Partnering with a fluid roster of artists, the gallery shows a wide spectrum of work – emphasizing inventive uses of traditional materials, memorable experiences, and provocative artworks that are rapidly gaining recognition for advancing the New Systems art movement.
Heft created the TRANSMISSIONS initiative to bring together important musical experiences with a range of systems based fine artworks at their LES gallery. Running from May 15 – June 12 at Heft.
VOLUMES Listening System
Volumes Speakers are conceived as spatial instruments rather than conventional audio equipment. Each unit integrates five drivers, including front- and rear-firing elements that create a layered, multidirectional sound field. Paired with dedicated stereo subwoofers, the system produces both clarity and physical weight. Sound moves through the room rather than projecting from a fixed point, extending beyond the conventional stereo image. The result is an embodied listening experience where rhythm, frequency, and spatial information are perceived through the body as well as the ear.
Joe Doucet is a designer, entrepreneur, inventor, and creative director whose work sits at the intersection of design, innovation, and sustainability. Named by Forbes as "the living blueprint for the 21st-century designer," Doucet has received numerous awards including the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award. His work is in the permanent collections of MoMA and the Smithsonian, and he holds multiple patents shaping how design touches everyday life.
Produced by Projekt Blank & Heft Gallery