Ariana van Gelder is a Cuban-American composer and immersive artist specializing in deeply visceral sonic experiences. Her creations explore the tenuous intimacy between audience and medium with an eye toward increasing accessibility and sensory engagement. When was the last time the art touched you? 

From 2006 to today, van Gelder has built a career that centers on multimedia installations, collaborations, commissioned works, semi-improvised performances, elaborate stage shows, and recordings. These include custom sound environments and scores for interactive virtual experiences, video, sculpture, live acts, and all manner of physical spaces, both inside and out. 

As a composer with a background in theoretical physics, van Gelder has a keen interest in creating, defining, and formulating space for bodies through sound. In its most recent incarnation, van Gelder’s live practice reaches through the ether as if extending itself to envelop the listener in an embrace from within. Revolving around ever-building vocal loops created in real time, her voice glides and glistens through ten octaves, guiding the listener across a landscape that dives into rich, rumbling waves of bass and near-silent sub-bass. She also composes for and performs with multichannel systems, piano, prepared violin, bowed glockenspiel, field recordings, pressure-driven Mylar sculpture, and just about anything else that makes sound.

An active artist, van Gelder has contributed to exhibitions in and performed across North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia and at institutions ranging from museums, galleries, universities, and international biennales to traditional stages, private events, and surprise DIY/guerilla spaces.

Whilst having called home to both New York and Taiwan, van Gelder is currently scouting locations for the development of her next and most ambitious projects to date, a series of large-scale immersive experiences that promote joy, awareness, and inclusivity through passive interaction and active escapism. Presently, she is in Singapore.
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2020 

4/12 SUBLIMITY @ B1, Taipei, TW

20/10 w/ Swivelized Sound - Greater Forms 9 @ 23 Music Room, Taipei, TW

28/3 ThirdSpace Sessions, Singapore (canceled due to pandemic)

27/3 RAW Art Space - Kuala Lumpur, ML (canceled due to pandemic)

25/3 Master Class @Universiti Sains Malaysia, School Of The Arts (canceled)

12/3 Master Class @ WAAPA - Edith Cowan University, Perth AU

10/3Tura New Arts, Perth, AU

3/3 MIUC, Melbourne, AU

25/2 w/ DJ Wèi Wáng 味王 -  Greater Forms #2 @ 23 Music Room, Taipei, TW

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Pendulum is a love letter to time. The latest full-length from songwriter Charlie Phllps finds traces of memories and emotional throughlines of the artist’s life illuminated by vibrant, engulfing atmospherics.

Growing up idolizing masters like Eric Clapton, Robert Cray, and Stevie Ray Vaughan, Phllps would go on to further his craft at SUNY Purchase before finding himself gigging in small clubs in NYC. A familiar tale, but the artist would soon take the leap, quitting his job at a restaurant in Brooklyn and dedicating all of his time to the new songs he was writing.

That material comes to comprise Pendulum, the 8-song LP from Phllps out August 10th, 2018 via self-release.

Pendulum’s journey in time started in 2015, under the tin roof ceilings and white walls of Phllps’ pre-war South Park Slope walkup. There he sat at his vintage mint-green Smith Corona typewriter with his beloved Martin acoustic guitar and began working on a new batch of material. The result was musical, honest, and deeply personal; the struggle to find love, self, and grab ahold of the swinging hands of time.

On the album’s lead single, “Memory,” the artist shares, “When you’re at your lowest point in life, confused and down in a ditch, can you walk out of the fire? Can you find something worthwhile in the lows, and not just the highs. What are we really searching for besides just a memory?”

Look for more from Charlie Phllps soon and be sure to follow him on any of his social channels detailed below. 

The artist will celebrate the release of Pendulum with a performance at Rockwood Music Hall in New York, NY on August 10th.

A trans woman using music to express my moods. I believe every day of your life deserves a sound track, even if it’s just 30 seconds long.

music is code is music is art is connection is everything

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