Monday August 9 – Thursday August 12, 11pm PT
Live Sound: Jenn Grossman / Gryphon Rue
In person and live-streamed
Microscope is very pleased to present a live in-person evening of sound with New York-based artists Jenn Grossman and Gryphon Rue. The event will be both performed live in the space and live-streamed at the same time, for those unable to attend on-site.
Grossman will perform “subconscious streams,” an experimental set for sound and video projection that combines “recent compositions with live improvised semi-modular sounds, field recordings, electronic drones, voice, layered into an evolving ambient soundscape/collage.”
The set will be followed by a performance by Gryphon Rue in a new solo configuration marking the premiere of We seem to listen with each other’s ears, an electro-acoustic work for harmonium, singing saw, and synthesizer, composed “while under the influence of Ioan Petru Culianu’s perspective on phantasms in his classic text Eros and Magic in the Renaissance.”
General Admission: $10
Member Admission: $8
General Admission In-person: $12
Members Admission In-person: $10
Please note: The event has a limited capacity of 30 on-site, with proof of vaccination for Covid-19 and masks required.
Online tickets and the link to watch the livestream will go live at 7pm ET on the day of the show on this page.
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Jenn Grossman is a sound/experiential media artist based in Brooklyn. She’s concerned with the psycho-spatial potentials of sensory media, exploring displaced/superimposed realities, staged synchronicity, cyclical time, multiplicity, memory, loss, disorientation, embodiment, perceptual affect & subconscious/transcendent states. Her work has taken the form of sound sculpture, audiovisual installation/experimental performance, sound collage, sounding found objects, video/light projections, photography, light/video events, public interventions, ambient music, and spatial audio works. She’s held residencies at I-Park Foundation, Harvestworks, presented at festivals, museums and conferences such as Black Mountain College Museum, the Museum of the Moving Image and the New York Transit Museum, the Megapolis Audio Festival, the Global Composition Conference in Dieburg, Germany, the Ende Tymes Festival, the Women In/Women on Sound Symposium at Lancaster University, UK, the International Human Rights Festival, along with unconventional public locations like the Central & Prospect Park arches for Make Music New York and in a cell at Fort Jay for the Governor’s Island Art Fair.
Gryphon Rue is an artist, composer, and curator working across disciplines. Rue performs in duo with Merche Blasco, the light and sound project Rue Bainbridge, and Vertical Foliage. Rue organizes exhibitions and events at D R O N E, a para-site arts space in Tribeca. Films are distributed by The Film-Makers’ Cooperative. Hosts Earmark on Montez Press Radio, exploring the lives and works of emerging and established sound artists. Editor of Strange Attractor, examining the uncertainties and poetics of networks, environmental events, technology, and sound (pub. Inventory Press & Ballroom Marfa). Rue is currently recording with Mustafa Khaliq Ahmed. Recent projects: North Of The Future (cassette & digital album) with Merche Blasco, Astral Editions; The Location of Serenity, a group exhibition at D R O N E; Clayton Patterson: Beauty Mark, a series of photomontages exploring the complexity, eccentricity, and diversity of NYC’s Lower East Side, Printed Matter/St Marks; Rue Bainbridge: Wintering, a film and performance commissioned by de Young Museum.
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Microscope’s Event Series 2021 is sponsored by Re:Voir, a home video label for classic and contemporary experimental film in Paris, France.
