ISSUE’s 2012 Artists-in-Residence: Sergei Tcherepnin

“During my residency at IPR I will be working on a few related projects. The first is to continue an ongoing investigation of difference tones, which are pitches that occur in the ear and brain as a result of two or more pure tones. I hope to develop a tuning program on the computer that will aid in a research period of listening to specific intervals and frequency ranges, while noting how the resultant ear tones appear to sound different from each other. As part of this project I will perform on a difference tone keyboard which I will begin to develop at IPR. In conjunction with this project I will continue to work with transducers, exciting various metals, paper, and cardboard, while delving into the materiality of sound. This project, combined with the difference tone project, will manifest as an installation in which materials in the room sing and dance with ear tones. As part of this project I will also work with human resonators, doing a series of one-on-one massage performances.”

Sergei Tcherepnin is a Brooklyn-based artist who uses performance, composition, and installation to explore the materiality of sound and its physical and psychological effects on the listener. He has performed throughout NYC as an improviser with piano and modular synthesizer at venues such as the Stone, Roulette, Abrons Art Center, the Whitney Museum, the Tank, Douglas Street Music Collective, Paris London West Nile, and i-Beam Brooklyn. His compositions have been performed by ensembles such as Transit, Da Capo Chamber Players, St Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, American Wind Symphony Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, at spaces such as Merkin Hall, Cami Hall, Dia:Beacon, Chelsea Art Museum, Diapason Gallery, Louis Kahn’s “Point Counterpoint II,” National Youth Olympic Stadium (Tokyo), Moscow Composers Union Concert Hall, St. Petersburg Composers Union Concert Hall, and the Fisher Center for Performing Arts at Bard College. His multi-channel performances and installations have been mounted at Audio Visual Arts, Societé (Berlin), Casey Kaplan Gallery, 47 Canal, and Recess Art.

Established in 2006, ISSUE’s AIR program provides emerging artists with a 3-month residency including rehearsal space, production, curatorial, and pr/marketing support to create new works, to reach the next stage in their artistic development, and gain exposure to a broad public audience. ISSUE’s Artist-in-Residence program is made possible, in part, through generous support from the Jerome Foundation, the Suzanne Fiol Memorial Fund, and with public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts, celebrating 50 years of building strong, creative communities in New York’s 62 counties.