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SIGNAL SF: An evening of sonic & visual explorations

SIGNAL SF is an evening of audiovisual performances by boundary-pushing artists from Japan, Argentina, New York, and San Francisco. This show, curated by NYC-based intermedia art group Testu Collective, will explore new sonic realms and visual worlds through cinematic narratives and hybrid technologies. Each artist will delve into concepts such as generative code guided by natural systems, psychoacoustics, optical phenomena in sculpture, and tactility of sound.

SIGNAL SF

Friday, October 25, 2024

Doors: 7PM
Performance: 8PM

All Ages

Seated

Strobe Warning

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About the Artist

Testu Collective

Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke. Testu creates intermedia performances, experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, sound art, and performance art installations. Tesene and Stucke are interested in creating environments that challenge the traditional audience experience. Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), Wallplay On Canal (NYC), Flux Factory (Governors Island), Sound Pedro (Los Angeles), Chashama (Brooklyn), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica(NYC), Ace Hotel(NYC), The Shed(NYC), Pleamar Festival(Buenos Aires), Theaterlab(NYC), Public Visuals(Tokyo).

Amma Ateria

Amma Ateria, derived from 'flammable material’, is a philosophy held through her work, — to give strength to disintegration and fragility, to rebuild from aftermath of destruction, of dust. An electroacoustic composer / sound artist, her work focuses on psychoacoustics in binaural beats, brainwave entrainment, and equal-loudness contour. With immediacy of tension / release, she navigates between oppositions in search of transcending moments, transforming deafening noise into self hypnosis and metamorphosis. Compositions developed during her concussion recovery, utilizes brainwave entrainment, time shifts, and changes of neurological responses to DELTA, THETA, ALPHA, BETA, GAMMA waves as materials and focal point. With memories of condensed cities, she gravitates to frequencies of close-ranged airplanes, polyrhythmic occurrences, out-of-body experiences, sustained harmonics intersected with musique concrète, and lost speech. Born in Hong Kong, working in San Francisco and New York City, since her studies at Mills College in music composition with specialization in electronic music, audio engineering, and media technology, her work has been presented at Pioneer Works, Meakusma, Digital in Berlin : Kiezsalon, Blaues Rauschen, SoART Austria, Elektronmusikstudion, Titanik Gallery, The Stone, BAMPFA, Exploratorium, Marfa Sounding, CCRMA Stanford University, Cinematheque YBCA, Minnesota Street Project, Other Minds, Recombinant 'Clouds of Confoundment’, Cone Shape Top: Cicada Series, MAK Center / Schindler House, Fort Mason Arts & Culture, Gray Area, San Francisco Electronic Music Festival, Elsewhere Hall, GAIDA Festival, Kadist, The Music Gallery, FIMAV, Basilica Hudson.

Fernando Molina

The origin of Fernando Molina's visual practice is based on the exercise of his profession as an Architect, taking from that discipline various concepts of composition and representation techniques. He also spent several years designing television sets and working as an art director in advertising films. He graduated from the Master's Degree in Expanded Music from the National University of San Martín. He currently directs the Audiovisual Curatorship of the Pleamar Festival and is the Creator and Content Director of the Ne:RD Festival of the Ministry of Culture of the city of Rosario. Enthusiast of optical devices, whether photo cameras, super8, video or microscopes, all offering an aesthetic look and then be digitally intervened. As an artist, he researches and develops audiovisual projects of a performative nature and audio-reactive nature whose plural and even diametrically opposed edges all pass through a common sieve in their visualization, design and morphology through the use of machines, digital media and computers both generative form or directly oriented to a particular design. His work has been exhibited and performed in Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Rome and New York, and at the Mutek, Public Visuals, ArteBA, Radion, Pleamar and Live Performers Meeting Festivals.

Toru Izumida

Toru Izumida is an audio & visual artist based in Tokyo, Japan. His live A/V sets feature programmed visuals with multiple layers that react to live sounds. He has presented his live A/V sets at //Dreamlands\\ presented by Testu Collective x Ideal Glass Studios (New York), Dommune (Tokyo), and the Gwangju Media Art Festival 2022 (Korea). In addition, he is an organizer of 0 // 2024 Public Visuals, a live A/V event and exhibition group. His visual artworks have been exhibited at Connectivity Construction in Korea (2024), World Art Dubai (2015), ISEA in Vancouver (2015), and in solo and group exhibitions in New York, Mexico City, Korea, and Tokyo.

MA

MA is the collaborative sound works of ÉMU + insomniac hotel. ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature. Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created by sand, dry leaves, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed for added aesthetic atmosphere. insomniac hotel is the music of surfaces, where synthetic and organic tones gather and build micro-worlds of sound. Crafted from modular synthesizers, field recordings, and various instruments and objects, these sonic landscapes become spaces unto themselves to think, feel, and listen.

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