Cryptwarbler, Sadnoise, Barbie.ai
Luke Mayhew and Dan Deluca
Providence/Mass-based noise artists will hit us with three solo performances involving circuit bent Casios, DIY and Ciat Lonbarde instruments, and improved techno from a cage!
Sadnoise:
Femi is an architect and sound artist from New York who works with various synthesis techniques and live coding languages to discuss the organic within electronics and technology through sound art and composition. His work explores the intersections of sound and space though spatial audio and architectural design as an experimental practice. He’s most interested in generative systems, chance, texture within sonic soundscapes. Femi’s architectural work explores indigenous ritual practice as a vessel for conversation between sound, space and interactions of the body. Femi has been performing as a solo experimental electronic improvisation artist since 2018 as sadnoise. Musical and Festival performances include Ende Tymes (2022, New York), Creative Code Festival (2020, New York), Waterworks Festival (2024), Slabfest (2024), amongst others.
Barbie[dot]AI:
The US “criminal legal system… hold(s) nearly 2 million people in 1,566 state prisons, 98 federal prisons, 3,116 local jails, 1,277 juvenile correctional facilities, 133 immigration detention facilities, and 80 Indian country jails, as well as in military prisons, civil commitment centers, state psychiatric hospitals, and prisons in the U.S. territories — at a system-wide cost of at least $182 billion each year.
Another 44,000 people are civilly detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) not for any crime, but simply because they are facing deportation. People detained by ICE are physically confined in federally-run or privately-run immigration detention facilities, or in local jails under contract with ICE. ICE has also very rapidly expanded its overall surveillance and control over the non-criminal migrant population by growing its electronic monitoring-based “alternatives to detention” program.
An additional 4,000 unaccompanied children are held in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), awaiting placement with parents, family members, or friends. While these children are not held for any criminal or delinquent offense, most are held in shelters or even juvenile placement facilities under detention-like conditions.”
– PrisonPolicyInitiative (.org)
Cryptwarbler:
Cryptwarbler is a music and electronics project that pushes a circuit-bent Casio MT-240 to its limits. Using a system of homemade controllers, the warbling sounds of corrupted data are exposed and woven into a bizarre digital tapestry. Glitched sounds, distorted textures, and strange synthesis, each with intrigues and constraints, create an unusual dynamic between performer and instrument- one of navigation, curation, and teetering chance. Alex, the artist/tinkerer behind Cryptwarbler, has been exploring the MT-240 since 2019: experimenting, building, improvising. They are currently based in Worcester MA, where they run a recurring circuit-bending workshop, and can often be found performing in the Northeast. Recent notable performances include the Non-Event Waterworks Festival (Boston, 2024), Ende Tymes (NYC, 2024), and the ICMC (Boston, 2025).
Local duo Mayhew and Deluca will involve improvisation with modular synthesizers and lots of objects, probably vegetables and upcycled metal and glass and who-knows-what-else!
More details to come!
