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Bio:
MV Carbon is a Brooklyn based musician and artist. She is recognized for her unconventional and conceptual approach to music. Her work frequently involves tape machines, voice, cello, analog synthesizers, field recordings, along with hand built electronics. She has recently been developing and peforming new works which utilize physical computing and sensor controlled synthesis. Carbon is interested in spatial integration and site-specific consideration. Each performance is carefully elaborated on and structured to tune into and propel the particular space/ environment.
She has performed nationally and internationally with her solo work as well as in collaborations with and exceptional array of fine artists and musicians. In addition, Carbon has recorded with several noteworthy avant garde and experimental musicians as well as engineering, producing and mixing released work.
She has been invited to organize shows at galleries and museums including PS1 Contemporary Art and D'Amelio Terras (NYC). She is also one of the founding members of West Nile (NYC), an alternative inhabitational space that has hosted hundreds of artists and musicians for performances, installations, lectures and screenings since 2007.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries including the Butcher Shop (Chicago), D'Amelio Terras (NYC), Louis V.E.S.P.(NYC), MCCaigwelles Gallery (NYC), Pittsburgh Center for the Arts (PGH), Salon Invisible (Chicago), Three Rives Arts Festival (PGH), and West Nile (NYC). She has performed musically in a surplus of spaces including Arnolfi (UK), Issue Project Room (NYC), Lehman Maupin Gallery (NYC), Museum of Contempory Art (Chicago), Musuem of Contemporary Art (Detroit), Nefertiti Jazz Club (Sweden), PS1 Contemporary Art (NYC), Roulette (NYC), The Sage, (UK), The Stone (NYC), the Tate Modern (UK), and Tesla (Berlin). Her work with the dark-wave electronic duo, Metalux, has releases out on a number of experimental and independent labels including a future one on Obsolete Units. Her solo release, The Dislodged Perihelion,(LP) is coming out sometime soon on Ecstatic Peace.
UPCOMING SHOWS:
*artist in residency at Issue Project Room July-October 2010.
7/15/10 Issue Project Room Floating Point Series
MV Carbon with Steven Litt
http://freemusicarchive.org/curator/ISSUE_Project_Room/
http://www.issueprojectroom.org/2010/06/01/mv-carbon/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704738404575346593650316412.html
09/17/10 Issue Project Room
MV Carbon /Aki Onda duo and Metalux
PAST SHOWS:
2010
6/05/10 at Ramiken Crucible: http://www.ramikencrucible.com/
4/01/10 at West Nile: http://www.shinkoyo.com/parislondon/
MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
Brian Chase and Stefan Tcherepnin
Chaw Mank
4/16/10 at Anarchist Book Fair: http://anarchistbookfair.net/
4/23/10 at Coco 66
Okkyung Lee + MV Carbon, Leslie Keffer, Noveller, Ceci Moss
4/28/10 at Death by Audio
MV Carbon and the Violet Raid, Pod Blotz, Zaimph, Driphouse
1/23/10 at PS1 Contemporary Art Center-NYC, Shattered Patterns featuring
MV Carbon and Metalux
http//www.ps1.org/calendar/view/109
2009
12/05/09,West Nile-NYC, MV Carbon and Aki Onda duo
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=mv+carbon+aki
11/28/09, The Stone-NYC, MV Carbon and Aki Onda duo
11/20/09, Clemente Solo Velez-NYC, MV Carbon, Aki Onda, Shelly Hirsch
10/19/09, LMAK Projects-NYC http://www.lmakprojects.com/projects?id=16
10/02/09, Nefertiti Jazz Club-Sweden http://www.nefertiti.se/program/?view=823
09/18/09, Red House Arts Center-Syracuse, NY. MV Carbon and Zach Layton duo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwgPEzu_RCc
08/10/09, Glasslands-NYC, MV Carbon and Okkyung Lee duo
07/16/09, Issue Project Room-Floating Point Series
07/11/09, PS1 Contemporary Art Center-NYC, MV Carbon and Aki Onda
07/08/09, Sound Lab-Buffalo, NY, Metalux
05/23/09, Festival of Endless Gratitude-Copenhagen, Denmark, with Loud Objects
05/27/09, Kulturbolaget, Malmo, Sweden, with Sonic Youth and Skull Defekts http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWv4S93s2-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI_YU6-5o98
05/28/09, Lades-Copenhagen, Denmark
04/26/09, Barnard College-NYC, Metalux
2008
11/20/08, Issue Project Room- NYC, MV Carbon and Aki Onda
09/08, High Zero Festival-Baltimore, MD,
11/09/08, Lehmann Maupin Gallery-NYC, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad perform for Tony Oursler book signing reception
08/05/08, Roulette-NYC
08/07/08, The Stone- NYC
07/21/08, Maritime Building- NYC, Play the Building, David Byrne's installation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZV7flE0Cg8
07/09/08, D'Amelio Terras- NYC, cello light painting
http://www.damelioterras.com/MEDIA/02309.jpg
http://www.damelioterras.com/exhibition.html?id=502
06/19/09, Warehouse 9-Copenhagen, Denmark
06/17/08, Cafe Oto- London, England
06/14/08, The Tate Modern-London, England, Tony Conrad:Unprojectable: Projection and Perspective
http://www.tate.org.uk/modern/eventseducation/musicperform/14932.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CQBe2mNW60
06/12/09, Cameleon Gallery-Nottingham, England
06/11/09, Westhall Community Center, Brighton, England
06/10/08, Head of Steam- New Castle, England, with Skullflower, Family Battlesnake and Sarah's Charity
06/03/08, Judson Church-NYC, Movement Research Festival
05/31/08, Abrons Art Center- NYC, with Alan Licht, Aki Onda and Brian Chase
05/22/08, The Stone- NYC, with White Out
05/08, No Fun Fest, NYC, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
05/02/08, Issue Project Room, NYC, Ecstatic Moment Series
03/05/08, Harvard Film Archive- Cambridge, MA, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
02/23/08, Issue Project Room-NYC, Elliot Sharp's Syndakit for Strings
01/03/08, Issue Project Room-NYC, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
2007
12/20/07, WFMU- 91.1 fm, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
12/07, Copenhagen Music Theater-Copnehagen, Denmark, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
12/07, RIXC-Latvia, Riga, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
12/07, Museum of Contemporary Art-Detroit, MI, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
12/07, Tesla- Berlin, Germany,Tony Conrad's Forty Five years on the Infinite Plain (1972-2007)
12/07 Argos/Bozar-Belgium,Brussels, Tony Conrad's Forty Five years on the Infinite Plain (1972-2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DukaZLPygcA
11/07, Sonic Circuits-Washington, DC, MV Carbon and Tony Conrad
05/07, Free Noise Tour- UK, Metalux collaboration with Evan Parker, Yellow Swans, C. Spencer Yeh, John Wiese, Paul Hession , John Edwards and Culver
Tryptych Festival
The Point- Cardiff
The Sage-Gateshead
Wardrobe-Leeds
Arnolfi-Bristol
ULU-London
05/17/07, Issue Project Room-NYC, MV Carbon, Audrey Chen and Marina Rosenfield
2006
Extrapool- Nimegen, Holland, Metalux
Worm, Rotterdam, Holland, Metalux
2005
Zedosbois-Lisbon, Portugal, Metalux
Casa des Artes, Familicao, Portugal, Metalux
No Fun Fest- NYC, Metalux
Roulette, NYC, solo composition with film
Swingset Magazine Release Party- NYC, Metalux
2004
Vedanta Gallery - Chicago, IL, Solo Show Solo Soul, curated by Chris Johanson, Metalux
2002
Museum of Contemporary Art- Chicago, IL, Media Convergence and Symposium on the future of the Digital Commons, Metalux
European Tour-Germany, France, Belguim and the Netherlands, Metalux
Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago, IL, Metalux
UCLA- CA, All Tomorrow's Parties, curated by Sonic Youth, Bride of No No
Deadtech Gallery- Chicago, IL, Metalux
Exhibitions/Screenings
Louis V.E.S.P- NYC, Poor Traits, group show-paintings
D'Amelio Terras- NYC, West Nile Style, paintings, installation
McCaigwelles Gallery- NYC, Collide, group show, paintings
Elk Gallery- NYC, 2 person painting show, MV Carbon and Edie Fake
Remembering Carlos-NYC, group show, site specific installation
Butcher Shop-Chicago, IL, Pairs, group show, paintings, installation
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts-Pgh, PA, group show, paintings
Turmoil Room- Pgh, PA, group show, paintings
Brew House Association- Pgh, PA, group show, paintings, installation
Pittsburgh 3 Rivers Arts Festival- Pgh, PA, sculpture
Art Without Walls- Akron, OH, Group show, paintings
Birmingham Lofts- Pgh, PA, group show, paintings, installation
Chicago Underground Film Festival-Chicago, IL, The Bridge, 16mm film
Chicago Underground Film Festival-Chicago, IL, Fear Implantation Vapor Theory, 16mm film
Women In the Director's Chair- Chicago, IL, The Bridge, 16mm film
Doc Films, University of Chicago- Chicago, IL, The Bridge, 16mm film
Warehouse 9-Copenhagen,Denmark, What does it mean to you?, video
Grants
Issue Project Room Artist in Residency
Center for Experimental Television- received through Issue Project Room
Department of Cultural Affairs- Chicago,IL