Nathaniel Cohen, R. Luke DuBois, Margaret Schedel

Nathaniel Cohen • R. Luke DuBois • Margaret Schedel • FluxFringe

Sunday, November 10, 2024
169 Bowery NYC
8:00 pm

R. Luke DuBois will present an octophonic live improvisation.

Margaret Schedel, with FluxFringe, will present a live score to Han Qin “Ride the Wave.” Maxime Esformes (electric guitar), Margaret Schedel (electric cello), and August Sheehy (bass and electronics).

Nathaniel Cohen will present Dog Whistles and Live Performances for SupperCollider and Guitar. From Cohen: Dog Whistles came about as a result of growing up during the social media boom. In middle and high school, I saw many people fall down certain internet rabbit holes, slowly being radicalized into hateful and dangerous ideologies. For whatever reason, I was able to avoid these same pipelines, despite growing up on the same content. As a regular social media user, I am and have been constantly inundated with a constant stream of content that seems to push certain ideas, thinly veiled through linguistic “dog whistles”. Terms and words that seem innocuous to the general audience, but to those who know, symbolize something more. For this piece, I created new social media feeds and recorded soundbites from videos. After recording these sound bites I arranged them into quad and fed them through different feedback systems. Live Performance for SuperCollider and Guitar is a set-up I created to provide myself with an emotional form of performance. SuperCollider is a programming language geared towards live performance. However, I found that typing removed an element of personal expression, by adding sound-on-sound looping for guitar has granted me the human touch I felt missing from my Live Coding practice.

About the Artists

R. Luke DuBois is a composer, artist, and performer who explores the temporal, verbal, and visual structures of cultural and personal ephemera. He holds a doctorate in music composition from Columbia University, and teaches in the IDM program at NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering. He has been performing and recording with analog modular synthesizers since 1993, and still finds new things to do with them.

Margaret Anne Schedel is a composer and cellist specializing in the creation and performance of ferociously interactive media whose works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad. While working towards a DMA in music composition at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, her interactive multimedia opera, A King Listens, premiered at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center and was profiled by apple.com.

Nathaniel Cohen is a musician, sound engineer, and sound artist from New York City. Cohen’s work explores sonic spaces and the emergence of technology through soundscapes and live performance. He is interested in how technology affects our everyday psychology and beliefs. In 2024, Cohen graduated from Berklee College of Music. His thesis project was a multichannel audio-visual installation entitled Spaces, consisting of instruments in which viewers could interact. Each sound made would be looped throughout the day, which was paired with live video feedback blended with footage from social media feeds. Cohen also works as a film scorer, having scored a number of short films and a feature. He also plays in various noise and rock bands.