pent + Dovetail
Fri., Nov. 8, 2024
Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
more info + 🎟 at indexical.org
pent is an electronic music composer & sound synthesist based in new york city. Her work examines the phenomena of synthetic sound, dissecting and reconstructing how the concept of the “unnatural” replicates the organic world and vice versa. pent’s cultural framework pulls from computer music, noise, dance music tropes, and 20th century classical to create fluxing immersive sound sculptures that defy realities & transverse stream of consciousness narratives. Her exercises as a sound synthesist are largely in the area of additive synthesis & pulsar synthesis, blending each fields techniques into a model of acoustical simulation that draws environmental sounds into physically impossible territories. Through these techniques she creates a sonic world that floats between stasis, burst, confusion, distraction, and cohesiveness.
Dovetail are Raub Roy and Dianne Lynn. The duo cultivate improvisational soundscapes through a process of compromise, negotiation, and deep listening. The music draws from a shared love of quasi-repetitive, iterative, and drifting lines/phrases. Raub is best known for his electroacoustic performances as horaflora, surrounding audiences in a cornucopia of aleatoric and semi-autonomous sound producing objects. He also records as Scy1e, attempting to transmute rhythmic electronic music to fringe variants of perceivable patterns and phrases. Dianne performs as Nurse Betty. This project takes inspiration from the interrelated systems of the body, interpreting them through capacitive electronics, voice, and field recordings. She also is part of Foot SOS, a trio dedicated to improvisational noise performance.