Codes, with Kamari Carter
Codes is a collaboration between Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe that features an audio-visual durational performance using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions as material for musical exploration. Deriving from Carter’s research-oriented practice on policing, incarceration, Black aesthetics, and surveillance, and Deluxe’s haptic, Afrological and techno-inspired analog compositions, Codes works towards a synthesis and seeks to elevate the obfuscated.
Atlas B2, CU Boulder, 2024
Rubin Foundation, 2024
Ritual Gate
// dimensional skip-level //
Materials: cymbal stands, industrial steel bar, steel sheet (spray painted layer and then screen printed marks), floor tom, industrial bucket, steel plate, transducers, custom software
This piece resides in the confluence of industry, computing, and percussion. Conceptually, the ideas spawned from a deep dive into concepts of 3rd wave techno-futurism from Alvin Toffler that were co-opted by architects of the Detroit Techno movement, mainly Juan Atkins and Rick Davis.
Through automation and activation of sculptural appendages with sound, I’m launching further investigation into what it means to express oneself with a technology that has been used for your marginalization and oppression. I’m interested in the role that spirituality ought to play in our rhythmic and mechanistic activities, especially the quotidian ones.
Passing Time
// sonic magnet //
“Passing Time” explores a temporal model of relation and opacity with polyrhythms and spatial experience. The data from the sculpture’s sonar sensors was used to detect presence and trigger temporal difference on either side.
transiential totalities I
// transience & glitch //
This piece was presented at IRCAM Forum @NYU 2022
Tides
// calm reality augmentation sphere //
Freshworks Residency
// Meditation on surveillance //
This performance/installation explored how innocent gestures among people and machines can be obstructed by overseeing bodies via surveillance. Samira Mendoza and I engaged in an exploration of the gap between the physical and digital worlds using custom software, infrared cameras, and ambisonic sound. I designed the soundscape while Samira focused on the visual portion.
Presented at the Kelly Strayhorn Theatre in 2018