After the compo entry deadline we will have a spatial audio performance in the Artisan’s Asylum gallery by Natalie Epstein-Hogue:

“Natalie Epstein-Hogue is an interdisciplinary musician, artist, and technologist. Her work engages with urbanism, domesticity, and humanism within tech. Through electronic mediums, Natalie seeks to reflect the human experience. She works with expressive control and programming bespoke digital instruments, building up a deeply personal sound-space from first principles.

Her 2024 Album Comfort Objects is a synthesis-driven work, seeking to cultivate a soundscape of comfort and healing, in spite of a tumultuous and traumatizing reality. Dealing with themes of grief, PTSD and marginalization, and squaring them with a desire to create beautiful things, to love deeply, and to cultivate peace as a radical act.

Comfort Objects explores “Hyper Consonance” as a tonal palette. Inspired by composers like Ben Johnston and Marc Sabat, Natalie uses harmonic spectra and fractional harmony to create novel textures that are resonant and resolved; the sonic equivalent of a warm blanket.”