FETA and Edge Zones
present
Soundweaving
Kerrtih Livengood (Illionois) and Richard Garet (Miami)
Experimental Electronic Music Encounters
Saturday, August 31, 2024
8PM
Edge Zones Center for Contemporary Art. 3317 NW 7th Ave. Miami, FL 33127.
Free admission/Donation. Reserve a spot here.
In this hour of experimental electronic sound, we are featuring two artists in solo sets and joint improvisation, exploring the contemporary music practices.
Soundweaving techno-wizard Kerrith Livengood will present several shimmering chains of sounds to delight and tantalize you. Her musical language evokes the classic sounds of analog synths, the vastness of the echoing cosmos, and the glitter of ‘90s anime magical girls. “punish me with love” from her 2024 album In The Name of the MOON summons the spirit of Sailor Venus, represented by AM distortion and erratic noise injected into a shifting field of white noise. Following that, she will make a whole lot of blips and bloops and some fluting with live processing, and you will be astounded at her musical inventiveness and humorous versatility.
Richard Garet’s approach to working with sound focuses on interacting with materials’ sonic properties as both source and instrument. Such materials are amplified EMF emissions, modified audiocassettes, dysfunctional tape players, circuit boards, sonification of light, and computer processing, among other explorations and with no particular hierarchy. Over the years, his work has evolved from laptop playing to a more active hands-on approach by embracing tactile malleability and establishing durational concrete methods and less digital playback.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Kerrith Livengood’s music features complex grooves, lyricism, noise, and humor. She has composed works for the JACK Quartet, Third Angle Ensemble, Duo Cortona, Altered Sound Duo, Albatross Duo, soprano Amy Petrongelli, and the h2 Quartet. She is also a flutist, drummer, technologist, and improviser, who has performed many collaborative and experimental works with many different groups. Kerrith is interested in creating music with live processing and interactive scores. She received her doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh, and previously taught at the University of Illinois. Kerrith is also Assistant Director of the New Music On The Point Festival (NMOP). http://kerrithlivengood.com
Richard Garet is a contemporary multimedia artist born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1972. He holds an MFA from Bard College, NY. Garet has lived and worked in the United States since 1996. Richard Garet’s work has been awarded nationally and internationally by institutions such as South Florida Cultural Consortium, FL; Prix Ars Electronica, Linz; Ministry of Education and Culture of Uruguay; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program, FL; The Clocktower, NYC; Foundation of Contemporary Arts, NYC; Issue Project Room, NYC; New York State Council of the Arts, NYC; and Taliesin West, The Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture, Scottsdale, Arizona.
Recent projects include Perpetual Motion, Curated by Barbara London, PAMMTV, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; South Florida Cultural Consortium, Hollywood Art Center, Hollywood, FL; Media Under Dystopia Wisper Edition: A Public XR Metaverse, MUD Foundation, FL; PORTALS, Solo Exhibition, Alex Slato Gallery, Miami, FL; Transhemisférico, Gurvich Museum of Art, Montevideo, Uruguay; Beyond the Sounds of Silence, Lowe Art Museum of The University of Miami, Miami, FL; Revealing, Piero Atchugarry Gallery, Miami, FL; Plural Domains, Selected Works From CIFO Collection, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL; Interstitial Spaces, CTM 2020, KQB Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany; Apocalypse at Nicola Pedana Gallery, Caserta, Italy; Four Horsemen, MAKER Fair, Rome, Italy; Primitivo, Casa Hoffman, Bogota, Colombia; The Festival of the Image, Manizales, Colombia; CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition 2017, Florida, USA; RED-Splice, Fridman Gallery, NYC; SOUND ONE, Cindy Rucker, NYC; Periscope, Zipper Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Screen Memory, Galerie Burster, Berlin; Midnight Moment, site specific work created for the electronic billboards of Times Square, NY; Alusiones, Carmen Araujo Arte, Hacienda de la Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela; Meta-residue: Input Material, Space, Studio 10, NY; Theorem: You Simply Destroy the Image I Always Had of Myself, Maná Contemporary, NJ; Adrenalina, Red Bull Station, Sau Paulo, Brazil; International Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cartagena de Indias, Cartagena, Colombia; Bioderivas, Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre, Tenerife, Spain; Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York; Soundings: a Contemporary Score, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Extraneous to the Message, Julian Navarro Projects, NY; The Spacious Now and the Scale of the Instantaneous, Studio 10, NY; 5×5 Real Unreal, Museum of Art Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela; EAC: Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Fine Arts Museum of Montreal; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain; Art Museum of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico; and El Museo del Barrio, NYC. His sound works have been published through sound art labels such as 23five, And-Oar, Non Visual Objects, Winds Measure Recordings, Unframed Recordings, Con-V, Leerraum, White_Line Editions, OBS, Line Imprint, and Contour Editions. http://www.richardgaret.com
With the support of FETA, Edge Zones and Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and the Cultural Affairs Council, the Miami-Dade County Mayor and Board of County Commissioners.