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

+ Todd Fink (vox for The Faint)
+ (THE FAINT DJ)
+ Live Band: THE FAINT https://soundcloud.com/thefaint
+ Band: CLOSENESS (on haitus)
Booking: dtamaroff@wmeentertainment

Lucked In are @KwameWrite + @Leila-Adu + @AlejandroVZE.
Debut EP forthcoming autumn 2019 on @XVI-records.

Valley Girl Voice and a Haunted Drum Machine 
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～(へ-_-)へ

❀✿❀ upcoming shows ❀✿❀ 

❀✿❀ past shows ❀✿❀
Jan 31 ❀ Goodfoot ❀ Portland 
Jan 27 ✿ Kelly’s Olympian ✿ Portland (with Jennifer Vanilla) 
Sept 27th ❀ Holocene ❀ Portland
August 19 ✿ Bombs Away ✿ Corvallis
July 29 ❀ Troll Fest ❀  Under a Portland Bridge
June 26 ✿ The Fixin' To ✿ Portland

2023
Dec 28 ❀ The Camel ❀ Richmond (With Destructo Disc) 

2022
May 9 ✿ Universe Denver ✿ Denver
March 19 ❀ Black Iris ❀ Richmond 

2021
Nov 21 ✿ The Broadway ✿ Brooklyn

2020
Jan 16 ❀ Berlin ❀ Manhattan

2019 
Dec 10 ✿ Alphaville ✿ Brooklyn 
Nov 19 ❀ Living Gallery ❀ Brooklyn
Oct 6 ✿ Gold Sounds ✿ Brooklyn
Sept 20 ❀ Fuzzy Cactus ❀ Richmond
Sept 4 ✿ Alphaville ✿ Bushwick 
Aug 9th ❀ PaperboyPrince Fest ❀ Jones Beach
April 15 ❀ Secret Project Robot ❀ Brooklyn 
April 10 ✿ Crayola House ✿ Harrisonburg
April 8 ❀ Best Friends Bar ❀ Lexington (With Jovontaes) 
April 6 ✿ TAV ✿ Manitou Springs (With The Space Lady)
April 5 ❀ Thought/Forms Gallery ❀ Denver
April 4 ✿ Copeka Coffee ✿ Grand Junction 
March 28 ❀ Junior High Gallery ❀ LA
Feb 27 ✿ Quilcene Historical Theatre ✿ Quilcene
Feb 26 ❀ Track House ❀ Olympia
Feb 24 ✿ No Fun Bar ✿ Portland
Feb 23 ❀ Bat Cave (R.I.P.) ❀ Arcata 
Feb 21 ✿ The Hole ✿ Oakland 
Feb 19 ❀ Blue Lagoon ❀ Santa Cruz
Feb 15 ✿ A Satellite of Love ✿ San Luis Obispo 
Feb 6 ❀ Gold-Diggers ❀ LA
Jan 14 ✿ Coaxial ✿ LA 
Jan 10 ❀ Big Surf ❀ Phoenix
Jan 10 ✿ REBIRTHDAY ✿ Flagstaff
Jan 9 ❀ Bound 4 Glory Books ❀ Tulsa, OK
Jan 7 ✿  Backspace ✿ Fayetteville, AK 
Jan 5 ❀  DRKMTTR ❀  Nashville 
Jan 3 ✿  Fleetwood's ✿  Asheville
Jan 2 ❀  Message 4 Address ❀  Charlotte
2018
Dec 31 ✿ Gallery 5 ✿ Richmond VA
Dec 5 ❀ Union Pool ❀ Brooklyn (With Barrie) 
Oct 25 ✿ Our Wicked Lady ✿ Brooklyn 
Oct 4 ❀  Baby's All Right ❀  Brooklyn (With Petra Glynt)
Sept 17 ✿ Secret Project Robot ✿ Brooklyn
Sept 2 ❀ Trans Pecos ❀ Brooklyn
Aug 30 ✿ Crystal Palace ✿ Richmond
Aug 11 ❀ Gallery 5 ❀ Richmond
July 29 ✿ literally just a laundromat ✿ Brooklyn
April 27 ❀ Brooklyn Bazaar ❀ Brooklyn
May 4 ✿ H0L0 ✿ Brooklyn
May 25 ❀ Alphaville ❀ Brooklyn 
April 7 ✿ MacRock ✿ Harrisonburg 
March 30 ❀ Trans Pecos ❀ Brooklyn
March 23 ✿ Gold Sounds ✿ Brooklyn 
March 2 ❀ H0l0 ❀ Brooklyn (With Sporting Life) 
Feb 17 ✿ Message 4 Address ✿ Tucson 
Feb 15 ❀ Trans Am ❀ Phoenix 
Jan 27 ✿ Scully's Den ✿ Brooklyn
Jan 6 ❀ H0l0 ❀ Brooklyn 
Jan 3 ✿ Silent Barn ✿ Brooklyn

2017
Dec 29 ❀ Ruby Deluxe ❀ Raleigh
Dec 27 ✿ Message 4 Address ✿ Charlotte
Dec 19 ❀ Strange Matter ❀ Richmond
Nov 19 ✿ Berlin ✿ Manhattan
Nov 1 ✿ Rebeccas ✿ Brooklyn
Oct 27 ❀ Message 4 Address ❀ Manhattan
Oct 15 ✿ The Gateway ✿ Brooklyn 
Oct 6 ❀ The Glove ❀ Brooklyn 
Sept 8 ✿ Trans Pecos ✿ Brooklyn 
Aug 16 ✿ Silent Barn ✿ Brooklyn
Aug 11 ❀ On Pop of the World ❀ Greensboro
Aug 10 ✿ Static Age Records ✿ Asheville 
Aug 9 ✿ 641 RPM ✿ Boone
Aug 7 ❀ Lon Lon Ranch ❀ Harrisonburg
Aug 5 ❀ Gallery Five ❀ Richmond 
July 31 ✿ Secret Project Robot ✿ Brooklyn (With FUPU and Macy Rodman) 
July 2 ❀ Apartment 603 ❀ Brooklyn
June 30 ✿ Knitting Factory ✿ Brooklyn 
June 13 ❀ Nu Blu ❀ Manhattan 
May 19 ✿ Trans Pecos ✿ Brooklyn
May 18 ❀ Secret Project Robot ❀ Brooklyn
May 15 ✿ Silent Barn ✿ Brooklyn
May 13 ❀ Rebeccas ❀ Brooklyn
May 6 ✿ 24 Hour Show @ Apt 603 ✿  Brooklyn
April 27 ❀ Flowers for All Occasions ❀ Brooklyn
April 14 ✿ The Woods Collective ✿ Ridgewood 
March 11 ❀ Strange Matter ❀ Richmond (With Negative Gemini) 
Feb 12 ✿ The Glove ✿ Brooklyn

2016
Oct ? ❀ 641 ❀ Boone 
Sep 2 ✿ 3 Moons ✿ Richmond
July 26 ❀ Elena's House ❀ Richmond
July 23 ✿ Slice o' Heaven ✿ Richmond
June 18 ❀ 25 Watt ❀ Richmond

Be well! Drink some water!

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