M.V. Carbon (Violet Raid) is a painter, composer, “soundscaper and scraper”. Her recent paintings explore concepts of territory, impact and atmosphere. She is interested in defragmentation that occurs within landscape, rhythm, physiology and narrative perception. She is a co-founder of Paris London West Nile.
Cat Chow is an artist, designer, educator and performer. Her labor-intensive work, minimal in form, suggests paradoxical tensions between seduction/repulsion, beauty/desire, control/restraint and fetishism/power.
Tony Conrad is a composer, filmmaker, video artist, media activist and writer. While occasionally exhibiting and teaching, he continues to produce, perform and record at West Nile. He presents basic theoretical and practical aspects of the harmonic perception of sound.
Chris Duffy “had a hot sweaty love affair with glass blowing that lasted about four years, now they are just good friends.” His recent works incorporate electrified mixed media sculptures, drawings, machines and social chartings.
Nicholas Emmet states, “every piece of metal can be an antenna or a fork, and I want to find out which is more essential.” Through sculpture and performance, composting all the experiential remnants he can, Nicholas hopes to “nurture the neurons in our exquisitely damp and frenetic lives.”
Brooke Hamre Gillespie is an experimental artist and musical-innovator-inventor-performer-visionary. Brooke employs modern alchemy in creating new sounds through voice, various instruments and electronics that take on old forms.
Jay King is an artist, director, videographer and performer. He plays in the ensemble SYMBOL and Forrest Gillespie’s Dome Theater. He has presented solo and collaborative work at venues including Glasslands Gallery, The Juilliard School, Peabody Conservatory (Baltimore), “a goth speakeasy in Greenpoint”, the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid) and PS1.
Zeljko McMullen studied orchestral and electronic composition and sound art/installation and is currently pursuing an MFA in Music/Sound at Bard College. He creates immersive environments with walls of acoustic and electronic sound as imaginary architecture. He is an active experimenter with both binaural perceptive beating and spatial recordings. He co-founded both Shinkoyo art + music collective and Paris London West Nile.
Doron Sadja is a sound/visual artist who studied in London, Berlin, at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and is now pursuing an MFA at Bard College. Doron creates dark, psychological collages. Visually, he uses dense splashes of color, texture and action. Sonically, he employs electronic and acoustic feedback, mutated instruments, multiple speaker arrangements and extreme frequencies. Doron co-founded both Shinkoyo art + music collective and Paris London West Nile.
