Micah Silver works with an expanded idea of composition. Composing means organizing attention—negotiations of a life through space, energy, and time. These are musical acts as much as sonic events themselves are considered musical: the composition of events as a conscious or transcendent act relating the interaction of things, regardless of conscious intention to do so. Composition is fundamentally relationship, not emotional realism on the part of an author or autonomy of object and space.

Laura Splan’s “Movements” features an ethereal octophonic soundscape accompanied by hypnotic projections from her immersive planetarium show “A Guided Sublimation”. This hypnotic journey from the perspective of molecular entities evokes the interconnectedness of realms defined by permeable boundaries. Part of an expansive art practice combining 3D animations with spatial sound, Splan’s work creates arresting explorations of micro and macro worlds through the lens of epigenetic science. Texts from scientific research serve as a foundation for prompts for AI-generated imagery in the animations. Molecular processes associated with environmental influences on gene expression serve as aural and visual materiality to create a space for reflection on past and present.

Ivy Fu: Tether is a performance with ambisonic soundscapes, body movements, and e-textile installation consisting of 12 individual strings crocheted with conductive yarns. Fragile and visceral materialistic, the yarns starve the electrical current moving through the circuit that outputs 12 individual wavering drones in 12 channels. As the artist and audience interact and change the tension and shape of the yarn, the intimate, ephemeral shape of the installation creates a constant morphing spatial sonic image that illustrates the relational nature of the movement, sound, and space. The bodies struggle in negotiating its relationship to the yarn, currents thin and waver, the analogue signals stutter or flow, turning simple sawtooth and square waves into expressions of emotionality and hesitation.