Rhapsody Tentacular: Arm 7

Exquisite Corpse Composition

Participants will be arranged in two groups of five people, and one group of six people. Each group will collaboratively create an “exquisite corpse” composition by adding on to the piece when it is their turn. They then send their audio contribution to the curator who adds it to the gallery. Visitors will be able to hear the progress as the piece grows each week. The order of participation will be determined at the “table read” on February 24.

Musicians/Composers/Sound Artists

Alice Cohen has been performing and releasing music since the late 1970s in a variety of genres and projects, using vocals, synthesizers, guitars and drum machines on homemade recordings. She also makes stop motion animations using collage and other elements.

Anthony Sertel Dean is a sound artist, educator, and technologist focused on telling stories of community and self. Anthony is the Technical Director of the New York Neo-Futurists, and his work can be heard in theater (Kennedy Center, New Victory, Public), film (Film at Lincoln Center, Busan International Film Festival), gallery installations (Fridman Gallery, Half Gallery, Swiss Institute), and radio (WNYC).

Andy Demczuk is a musician, writer, and visual artist residing in Cincinnati. He studied guitar performance at the Musician’s Institute – Hollywood and went on to receive a Masters in English from East Tennessee State University. His thesis, titled Operatic Mysticisms: Mountains, Deserts, and Waterscapes, explores soundscapes and visualization theory in literature and art. He currently holds a position as an adjunct English professor and is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts at the University of Cincinnati. 

Chanteclair/Katie Kotler - Currently based in New York, Chanteclair (née Katie Kotler) works in animations, installation, print and music.  Kotler’s work has been featured on the CBC, Hyperallergic, Rhizome and Canadian Art. She is the recipient of grants from the Toronto Arts Council and the Canada Council of the Arts. Selected prints and tapes are sold at Toutoune Gallery in Toronto and Possible Worlds in Ottawa. Recent works can be seen at Ortega Y Gasset Projects, Flourish Festival, Long Winter and Ignite Gallery.

Nat Evans is an interdisciplinary artist whose works range from site-specific events and installations to chamber music, scores for dance and film, conceptual works based in ecology and social practice, to meditations on everyday life. His work is regularly presented across the United States as well as internationally. Works and events by Evans have been featured on WNYC's New Sounds and BBC3, as well as in LA Weekly, WIRED, The New York Times, VICE, Tiny Mix Tapes, The Believer and numerous other publications. His work has appeared at galleries such as Interstitial, SOIL, The Frye Art Museum, Greg Kucera, as well as Mediate Art Soundwave Biennial, Aqua Art Miami, NEPO 5k, and other festivals. Evans has received numerous commissions including The Henry, San Francisco MOMA, Seattle Art Museum, The City of Tomorrow, Portland Cello Project, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art, among others. 
 

Now That’s What I Call Girl Talk

Are You Ready to Have All Your mundane Thoughts and Concerns Unchanged not even Dampened by this group’s New Seat-Gripping Hits?  

Now That’s What I Call Girl Talk is Arthur Sillers’ and Lyle Daniel’s most recent project. Their first collaborative mix is now forthcoming in the next issue of Soap Ear (soapear.org).

Born in Germany (1973), Zachary Keeting lives and works in Connecticut. He received his BFA from Alfred University in 1995, and his MFA from Boston University in 1998. He has shown his paintings nationally and internationally, and has participated in numerous residency programs including Yaddo, The Millay Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Santa Fe Art Institute. In 2010 he co-founded Gorky’s Granddaughter (an ongoing documentary project) with Christopher Joy.  He frequently records music and has collaborated with many gifted musicians.  He teaches painting at the Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven.

New York-based trumpeter Joe Moffett approaches his work with a keen interest in unconventional sounds and forms, collective composition/improvisation, and the boundary between action and stillness. He is a cofounder of the trio Earth Tongues, with percussionist Carlo Costa and tubist Dan Peck, who release their fourth album Anemone on February 25, 2024 on Neither/Nor Records. Other ensembles include his duo Windscour with Zach Rowden and a trumpet-synth duo with Cecilia Lopez. In addition to these, Joe also performs regularly as a solo artist.

Kate Mohanty is an avant-garde saxophonist based in Brooklyn. A longtime member of Brooklyn's DIY scene, including performances for Issue Project Room & Radio City Music Hall, Kate has released two solo albums: Disappear Here & The Double Image.  

Impose Magazine wrote of The Double Image:

"…the record is an exercise in a sort of controlled chaos, an eventful and unpredictable machination of a singular, skillful vision."

NTHNL

Mike Santiago (b. 1987, Newark, NJ) is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He holds a business (not art) degree from James Madison University. These days, he’s a photographer first, but he’s also an audio engineer, a painter, and a music producer under the moniker Ghost Paradise. His musical works have been featured on national television shows in the United States and Australia.

Frank Schellace is an experimental sound artist, science educator, and beekeeper. His sound work processes memory through sensory performance, matching frequencies to experience. Out of built instruments like the nail violin, bowed arrow, and 3 person 2x4, come sounds that can process memories, tell jokes, or dissociate completely. He is the founder of Traveling Hive, a 501c3 project that seeks to provide diversity in nature-education through art and connection.

Ronen Shai holds a D.M.A. and an M.M. in Classical Composition from the Manhattan School of Music, New York, NY, and a B.M. in Classical Composition from the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Jerusalem, Israel. Shai received the Israel Ministry of Culture Prize for best performance in 2012, the America Israel Foundation scholarship in 2008, and the Manhattan School Of Music Scholarship in 2007 and 2008. The Tirloer Ensemble fur Neue Music selected and performed Shai's composition "Homage to Edvard Munch" for Oboe, Clarinet, Bassoon, horn, and string trio. Other commissions include Flux Projects in Atlanta, GA; Glass Farm Ensemble in New York, NY; and flutist Conor Nelson. His music was performed in venues across the United States, Europe, and Israel, in venues such as Lincoln Center, New York, NY; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel; Baryshnikov Arts Center in New York, NY; and B.A.M. in Brooklyn, NY. Israel's classical music radio station broadcasted his music live. Ronen Shai is a certified Alexander Technique instructor. He teaches piano and lives in Brooklyn, NY, with his family.

Kate Sherman is a painter and printmaker living and working in Brooklyn. She plays the flute and enjoys experimenting across different media and collaborations with other artists.

Joel St. Julien is a Haitian-American composer and sound artist based in San Francisco. He is a firm believer in experimentation/fusion with acoustic and electronic elements in sound oscillating through escapism and the mysticism of the present tense.

Bob Szantyr (b. 1987, New Haven, CT) is a visual artist and musician based in New York. He holds a BFA from New York University and an MFA from Brooklyn College. He has recorded and performed in Oscillator/Modulator, Ascend//Ascension, and in collaboration with numerous artists and filmmakers worldwide. He has exhibited work in the United States and internationally, including shows with Auxiliary Projects, Galerie Jan Dhaese, Project Art Distribution (P.A.D.), Field Projects, Trestle Gallery, Underdonk, 601Artspace, and The Sphinx Northeast.