Eternities is an intuitive collaboration between bass clarinetist Katie Porter and sound artist Bob Bellerue. Their work is inspired by deep presence, resonant feedback, melodic drone, and overtone magic, in the fluid realm between intention and indeterminacy. For this special event, Katie and Bob present solo works followed by a collaborative performance to close out the evening. 

Katie Porter is a clarinetist, performer/composer, writer, and artist. Her work is rooted in decades of experimental and community performance practices, where she explores how music can exist almost like landscapes or relationships, slowly altering our ability to perceive change, time, and space. Devoted to collaboration, Katie performs as Phase to Phase (with Lucio Capece), Eternities (with Bob Bellerue), MUD (with Anne Penders), MOONS (with Christine Tavolacci, Laura Cetilia, and Judith Berkson), and premiered works by many living composers including Phill Niblock, Sarah Hennies, Tristan Perich, Christian Wolff, Michael Pisaro, Eva-Maria Houben, and Teodora Stepancic. Katie's writings are published in Sound American, and her recent creative work can be heard in Brooklyn’s ISSUE Project Room archive, where she was 2024 Artist-in-Residence. 

Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, curator, audio engineer and technical director based in Ridgewood NY. Since 1987 he has been involved in a wide range of sonic activities – experimental music, sound art, noise, junk metal percussion ensembles, hippie punk bands, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, and sound / video installations. Bob’s electronic sound work is focused on resonant feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, and spaces, in combination with electronics, field recordings, and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language. Bob's music has been presented by The Kitchen, Issue Project Room, MOMA/PS1, Pioneer Works, and he has released dozens of albums since 2002. Bob has curated and produced hundreds of concerts since the 1980s, and since 2011 he has been running the annual Ende Tymes Festival of Noise and Sonic Liberation.