SPATIAL 017 :: Irene Tanuwidjaja | Andrew Neumann

Sunday, May 17, 2026
169 Bowery NYC
DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p


Irene Tanuwidjaja
This piece constructs an immersive multichannel sound environment of a reimagined office building from a first-person perspective. It develops as a spatial experience in which the listener moves through shifting acoustic conditions shaped by systems of work, observation, and control. The composition treats space as an active and unstable field. What appears as a coherent spatial environment is in fact a system that responds to, absorbs, and reshapes human presence. Through this framing, the work reflects on contemporary conditions of labor and perception, where environments are increasingly mediated by invisible systems of measurement, feedback, and control. 

Andrew Neumann
“False Electronic Alert”
This piece, originally designed as a system for solo improvisation on a small Eurorack Synth with quad audio via a voltage controlled panning system has now morphed into a multi channel work, currently realized from a laptop. As an improvisor, my work relies on spontaneity, chance, correction, discretion. The jump from analog to digital opens up a new direction, especially for sound placement. Aging, both mine and some critical modules have also led to this new direction. The sonic sources are varied: everything from a Buchla Synth, Eurorack Modular, and acoustic instruments have been placed in the digital environment. The tactile pleasures of the analog system, for the moment are replaced with a series of faders and buttons. “You can always go back”…… perhaps I will, sure I will……
My work reflects issues concerning the uses of technology, language, and transmission of power in both its various corporeal and elusive modes. I am interested in technology and its use as a representational model. With this work he is attempting to develop a specific iconography that reflects upon the recent evolution of technology while at the same time pulling it out of context and questioning its main function as a reflection of the authoritative and corporate powers that it is most clearly aligned and supported by. By deconstructing these technologies, I am questioning the value of the objects, disregarding any protocol (which is at the heart of any system) and exploring the relationship between technology and the world it is meant to serve. Another main interest of mine, as a practitioner of avant-garde film methods and ideologies, has
involved the observation, manipulation, and dissection of the “cinematic apparatus”; the film camera and projector. In electronic media, the connection is not as cleanly defined or direct; although the camera and monitor/projector are the basic mediators of the image, a great deal of electronic manipulation can occur with ease and immediacy..My work is about developing a new schema by presenting and integrating a variety of contradictory set of signs, visual references, and textual notions in an attempt at hybridization that will hopefully provoke in viewers a new relationship to mechanistic visualization.

About the Artists

Irene Tanuwidjaja is an Indonesian composer graduated from masters of music degree in Electronic Composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln with Michael Beil and was awarded DAAD scholarship for her studies. Prior to this, she has completed her bachelor’s degree at UPH Conservatory of Music, Indonesia with Antonius Priyanto and Renardi Effendi. Irene’s work often begins with small gestural moments, or fleeting visual moments, drawn from subtle details of visuals or sound found in everyday life or from the cultural and political environments that have shaped her experience. These gestures transform into materials through which these sensation unfolds, uncovering the inner textures of sonic and visual materials. She’s also an artistic director for Radarsuara, an Indonesian composer collective that focuses on sonic experimentation through creative practice and research based on local Indonesian landscape. Her works have been performed at numerious festivals and ensembles such as Pekan Komponis Indonesia 2019 held by Jakarta Arts Council, virtual concert Either/Or Spring’s Festival: Streamworks Volume II held by Either/Or ensemble, Young Composers Meeting 2022 organized by orkest de ereprijs, Soundwalk Schokland organized by Museum Schokland and Ensemble Black Pencil, IntAct Festival organized by Thailand Music and Arts Organization and Tacet(i) Ensemble, Ensemble Mosaik, ZKM and among others.

Andrew Neumann is an American artist who works in a variety of media, including sculpture, film, video installation, and electronic/interactive music. His work is concerned with developing hybrid systems that integrate sound, image and text into performative and installation situations. The development of a computer controlled video switcher system had been integral to much of his video work. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, LEF Foundation and Harvestworks New Work grant among others. He has had one-person shows at bitforms Gallery in Seoul, Korea,The DeCordova Museum, bitforms Gallery, NYC, and the Boston Cyberarts Festival. He was included in the project, “Rock’s Role (After Ryoanji)” at Artist Space.
His music is now available through Bandcamp. His single channel videos have been shown on PBS, The Worldwide Video Festival, Artist Space, Microscope Gallery, and elsewhere. He has been awarded residencies at STEIM, Djerassi, The MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ucross Foundation, AIR Krems, Austria, and elsewhere. He has had solo music/video performances at numerous venues, including Experimental Intermedia, Issue Project Room, Roulette, and The LIST Visual Arts Center at MIT.