07.16.09 - 8:00pm

MV Carbon + Okkyung Lee

MV Carbon is a Brooklyn based sound artist and composer.  She collects field recordings and builds samples to create moody soundscapes. Her cello is manipulated and processed through reel-to-reel tape machines and numerous electronic devices, including an accelerometer on the cello bow programmed to effect pitch. Her orchestrations are designed to form visualizations as the woven sounds swell, stutter, contort and resolve.  She is interested in discovering the place in music that flutters between the serene and the overwhelming.  Carbon has collaborated  sonically with many artists including  Aki Onda ,  Evan Parker, John Wiese, Tony Conrad, and C. Spencer Yeh.   She has releases out with Metalux and Bride of No No on labels (5RC, Atavistic, Hanson, Load, Nihilist, No Fun, Troubleman Unlimited, Veglia…).  Her first solo LP, The Dislodged Perihelion, is to be released on Ecstatic Peace this fall. 

Her performance at Issue Project Room in July will use the multi –speaker system to portray concepts of time passage in moments of stillness. She is gathering field recordings in open-air industrial and urban environments and shaping these sounds into percussive form.   Her instruments for this performance will be the cello, samplers, tape machines, and oscillators.