Muyassar Kurdi is a New York City–based interdisciplinary artist. Her work encompasses sound art, extended vocal technique, performance art, movement, analog photography and film.

MV Carbon’s work encompasses live performance, sound art, film, multimedia installation, and music. Her work amplifies the level of ritual, rhythm, and momentum in sound and movement.

Speaker Music (DeForrest Brown Jr.) presents Her Velocity; like a foreign (after)image, renders her opaque, a composition of granular and rhythmic production across the iPad, hotwired into further romantic abstractions via Ableton. Speaker Music intends to decontextualize digital audio in real-time, extending sonic narratives previously innovated by electronic and jazz musicians such as Les McCann, Urban Tribe and James Stinson. Attuning to a vibrational ontology through an empathic “touching of frequencies” in collaboration with visual designer Ting Ding (Hecha / 做), Speaker Music employs a “rhythmanalytic expression” of a love for another, extrapolated into a love for and physical engagement with a shared world. Speaker Music describes the piece as “towards a gestural recognition of the literary ideation of the muse as a point which draws out latent potential — as opposed to being a point onto which one impresses, and eventually oppresses.” He continues, “Her Velocity is figured as “a coda for a forthcoming LP entitled of desire, longing, exposing and teasing out a dimensional crease, a desirous affect as tensions unfold through successive fugal processions of a personal unspooling of flows of Eros.” [text via Issue Project Room]

DeForrest Brown Jr. is a New York-based rhythmanalyst, media theorist and curator. His work is concerned with speculative futures in performative contexts and programmatic intersections of technology and thought. He produces digital audio and extended media as Speaker Music. In 2017 he was the inaugural Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow at ISSUE Project Room. He co-produced Ebbing Sounds Symposium with Swiss publication zweikommasieben and curator Marcella Faustini in May 2018 at Gray Area Art + Technology, with support from Swissnex San Francisco. He has presented work at XXII Triennale di Milano, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art, New Museum, MoMAPS1, Artists Space, 92nd Street Y, Abrons Art Center, Signal Gallery, Cafe Oto, E-Flux’s Bar Laika, Raven Row Gallery, and WORM Rotterdam. He is also one half of Elevator to Mezzanine with artist and musician Steven Warwick, and most recently released the black comedy mixtape The Wages of Being Black is Death (PTP) with sound artist Kepla, ahead of their research and performance praxis Substantia Nigra.

Ting Ding is a Chinese-Canadian statistical analyst, photographer, and visual designer. Ding has provided visual work in collaboration with composer Kepla and DeForrest Brown, Jr. for their mixtape “The Wages of Being Black is Death” and their performance at the XXII Triennale di Milano