MIMIXOMI (Fall)
MIMIXOMI, a project by duo Madison Benton and Omar Jemili, puts a twist on the deconstructed club genre. Using techniques like granular synthesis, they gut club classics into their smallest, most hypnotic parts. MIMIXOMI's irony-soaked approach to music explores the uncanny valley of queer dance genres like house and ballroom in order to comment on the hedonism of club culture at large.
Thadeus Frazier-Reed (Winter)
Thadeus Frazier-Reed is a composer, instrument designer, and creative technologist exploring the effects of movement, dynamic and stochastic processes, error, and instrument form on sound creation. He is interested in the ways in which the time, place, and audience change the context and content of a composition and uses these variables to explore emergent behavior of complex systems with simple rules. He views each new instrument design as an opportunity to discover the unique voice of that instrument.
Abram Stern with Dorothy Santos (Winter)
Abram Stern's (they/he) art and research practice seeks out ways that institutionally situated media tells on itself. Much of this work draws from collections of government media and metadata. They look closely at technical systems and make projects that operate within the gaps of intelligibility. Rather than seeing these gaps as problems to be solved through technical solutionism, Stern makes work that functions in a poetic capacity to surface rhymes and dissonances among institutions, infrastructures, formats, and techniques of sense-making.
Rip Florence (Spring)
Rip Florence is a musician, educator, and artist working at the intersection of sound and social practice. He has recorded and released music from marginalized local artists through grassroots DIY initiatives and compilations, and is known for his outsider-folk, art-punk songwriting, and experimental lo-fi recordings. Rip’s work seeks to connect outsider ethos with social narratives, shaping curious, playful, reflective, and critical approaches to art-making.