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Michael J. Schumacher is a composer, performer and installation artist based in New York City. Working predominantly with electronic and digital media, he creates sound environments that evolve over long time periods. He imbues these generative, algorithmic structures with an abundance of sonic material, resulting in forms that flow through a wide range of moods, timbral combinations and textural densities.
Schumacher’s sound installations have been heard at Art in General, Apex Art,
PS 1, The Kitchen and Sculpture Center in New York City, CCNOA in Brussels, Singuhr Gallery and Tesla in Berlin, the Museum for Applied Arts in Frankfurt , the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, Triskel Arts Center in Cork, Ireland, Transmissions Festival and ESS in Chicago, Tone Deaf Festival in Kingston, Ontario, The Sound Art Museum in Rome, )toon Festival in Haarlem, RADAR in Mexico City and others. www.michaeljschumacher.com |

director
Michael J. Schumacher |
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Kamran Sadeghi (aka Son of Rose) is an artist and composer who builds sonic and visual environments at the intersections of sound, light, acoustics, and technology. He has performed live using prepared piano, live electronics and sound reactive video for festivals, gallery exhibitions and contemporary dance. Sadeghi's recordings and performances have received critical acclaim in US and European publications such as The WIRE and Signal To Noise.
Sadeghi’s commissions include using the inside of a defunct nuclear cooling tower as a resonant chamber, reshaping his sounds for use in the final composition. His ongoing work with contemporary dance has made use of spacialization of sound by arranging and playing through up to 12 speakers in theaters such as DTW in New York and ICA in Boston. http://kamransadeghi.com
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curatorial assistant
Kamran Sadeghi |
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Jordan Topiel Paul (b. 1985) is a musician and sound artist living in Queens, NY. Since his first forays into contemporary music as an improvising percussionist, he has branched out from performance-based work to focus mainly on sound installation. His installations, often assembled from a small supply of austere field recordings, create abstract and non-repetitive sound environments in the spaces they inhabit.
His practice explores electronic sound's potential for extreme musical time scales, improvisation, and collaborative composition. Paul's performance and installation work has been heard and seen in New York City and in other locations around North America. http://jordantpaul.blogspot.com |

curatorial assistant
Jordan Paul
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Daniel Neumann is a sound artist and audio engineer based in Brooklyn. He moved there from Leipzig, Germany in 2008, where he got his degree in media art. In his works, he is using acoustic conditions of specific spaces to develop different aural perspectives. Spatiality, its perception and experience and how an individual locates and orientates itself within an aural environment are a main theme in his studies, performances and compositions.
In Leipzig Neumann co-organized the platform for sound art and electroacoustic music ALULATONSERIEN, which featured concerts, workshops, sound walks, CD releases and a radio show. NYC credits include sound design and music for ATOMIC (2009), directed by Jimena Duca and A-1 sound for the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival, NYCEMF
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curatorial assistant
Daniel Neumann |
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Nisi Jacobs earned a BFA in Painting from The Cooper Union and creates multichannel video performances and installations. She collaborates with composer/sound artist, Michael J. Schumacher as DRAW (www.drawnyc.com); other collaborations have been with poet Bruce Andrews, violinist Tom Chiu, sound artist David Gailbraith and percussionist James Gailbraith (Padtech), sound artist Andre Goncalves, and percussionist Tim Keiper.
Previous curation efforts include 5.1 programs for SYNCH Electronic Festival, The Phatory Gallery, and HOWL Film Festival. Jacobs has exhibited in festivals at the Jeu De Paume Museum in Paris, Tribeca Film Festival, Hong Kong Film Festival, Circulo de Bellas Artes of Madrid, Maya Stendhal Gallery, SONAR festival at the Caracas Contemporary Art Museum, CalArts Film/Video Cinematheque, Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, The Alejandro Otero Museum, National Cinématheque of Spain, Manchester Metropolitan University of England, River-to-River film festival, Ear to the Earth Festival; a CD release entitled 'Weaves' distributed by En’tract includes two videos by Nisi Jacobs with six sound tracks by Michael J. Schumacher, released 2009. The soundtrack for DISHING was listed as KQED radio's on-line choice of the month for EARSHOT: LISTEN TO A FILM WITHOUT PICTURES, ‘02. Past performances include live video at Bowery Ballroom, Pianos, Living Room, Mercury Lounge, Williamsburg Music Hall; recent DRAW performances include Optosonic Tea with Philip White and Suzanne Thorpe, VCW Performance, and Brooklyn Arts Council with Stuart Popejoy and Sarah Bernstein.
Jacobs teaches video editing at NYU’s Center for Advanced Digital Applications, NYU’s Department of Film, Video and Broadcasting, The Art Institute of New York City, Apple Authorized Training Center Soho Editors NYC, and has been editor for (and sometimes collaborator) with filmmaker Ken Jacobs since 2001. http://www.drawtoy.com
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Nisi Jacobs |
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Philip White’s performances center on a non-linear feedback system, which consists of a mixer and several homemade circuits. In addition to his work with analog and digital electronics, White has written extensively for chamber ensembles and created a large body of intermedia pieces that explore meaning in information transmission.
He currently performs with Suzanne Thorpe (thenumber46) and Chuck Johnson (with chuck johnson with philip white). Recent and upcoming performances/exhibitions include Diapason (NYC), The Frying Pan (NYC), The Stone (NYC), Sonic Circuits (DC), Redux New Media Festival (Charleston, SC), Galerie Neurotitan (Berlin), Youngblood Gallery (Atlanta), the Red Room (Baltimore), Toy Room Gallery (Sacramento), 701CCA Gallery (Columbia, SC), Stu-stu-studio(Richmond, VA), Princeton University, Bent Festival 2010, NYCEMF 2010 and a featured spot on free103.9.org. thenumber46’s debut Bleach and Ammonia was recently released in cassette format on Tape Drift Records. Philip also writes about music, contributing to the Wire magazine, SEAMUS Journal, and Notes.
In 2008, Philip received his MFA in Electronic and Recorded Media from Mills College where he worked with Chris Brown, Hilda Parades, Helmut Lachenmann, Roscoe Mitchell and James Fei. While there he taught both Sound Art and Electronic Arts.www.prwhite.net
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curatorial assistant
Philip White |
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Bryan Eubanks (b. 1977, WA.) is focused on collaborative improvisation, solo musical projects, and sound installations, and has performed his work in live settings across the US, Europe, Japan, and Korea. Originally a saxophonist, his work has expanded to include computer music and instruments of his own design that incorporate open-circuits, samplers, and other electronics. He became musically active in the late 90's in Portland, Oregon as a performer and organizer and moved to New York in 2005.
In 2002 he founded a small music concern, Rasbliutto, and has organized various concerts and series, most recently Sigogglin at the Knitting Factory, Seven Concerts at the The Tank, and the quarterly festival Three Days. www.rasbliutto.net
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curatorial assistant
Bryan Eubanks |
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