Artists Space

Truffles is a multi-generational music collective in the spirit of the pre-digital 20th century, loosely arranged from musicians, poets, visual artists and professors aimlessly exploring the great questions of our time—such as whether Luddites can wear eyeglasses pancakes are like basset hounds—as they search for the elusive Mother Mary Synagogue in Cleveland that will let them in.

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Dennis Tyfus: Vocal improvisation pushed into a few piano keys. Head of the Ultra Eczema label. Visual artist. Mainly plays in the improv trio Jeugdbrand, played with cary loren, camerron jamie, vom grill, mette rasmussen, joe mcphee, chris corsano, ghédalia tazartès etc

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Dorit Chrysler has been dubbed a superior wizard of the theremin. An Austrian-born, New York based composer, producer and singer, Chrysler is the co-founder of the NY Theremin Society and founder of the first school for theremin, Kid Cool Theremin School. As much as the theremin is a tool in Chrysler's electronic instrument arsenal, she's also one the most visible thereminists spreading the gospel of this mysterious sounding instrument, which is basically played by massaging thin air. Her music has been described by Ann Magnuson in Paper Magazine: "Imagine if Marianne Faithfull and Nikola Tesla had a love child, with Jane Birkin as the nanny and Bjork as the wayward Girl Scout Leader!" Arte TV calls Dorit "Theremin Goddess". Wall Street Journal "A Futuristic Lotte Lenya." Making her professional vocal debut at Austria's Opera House Graz at the age of seven, Dorit went on to form her first new wave band at age thirteen and began working towards her Master's Degree in Musicolog at eighteen in Vienna. Moving to New York, she was fronting a number of notable bands, including New York's experimental quartet Halcion before she embarked on her solo career in 2000. Ever since she has been performing her compositions worldwide, most recently in Australia, Japan, South Korea, Europe and Brazil. She has performed with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra on several occasions and her music is featured on the HBO documentary "Going Clear". Dorit is the founder of "Dame Electric"—a Festival dedicated to female analog pioneers in electric music—Editions have taken place in New York and Paris. Her music has been commissioned by MoMA in NY, Venice Biennale, TV & Film, including for Lars von Trier and the soundtrack for the part series of M - A City Hunts A Murderer by David Schalko. 2020, the Nestroy Prize has been received for "3Episodes" a theatre play that Dorit starred in and co-wrote the music for. In 2020 Dorit premiered new works for theremin written for her by Laurie Spiegel. Dorit has performed and toured with Anders Trentemoller, who produced and released her record "Avalanche" on his label "InMyRoom"—other collaborations include CERN, Tocotronic, Elliot Sharp, Cluster, Adult., ChicksonSpeed, TheThe, OhLand, Lene Lovich, UltraVivid Scene, Gordon Raphael (The Strokes), Foetus, Gibby Haynes, Sasha Waltz, Philippe Quesne & Jesper Just. She has shared live bills with acts as diverse as Marilyn Mansion, Carsten Nicoai, Amon Tobin and Philipp Glass. She has performed worldwide from CBGB to Lincoln Center, Coachella to Roskilde Festival, Berlin, Venice & Liverpool Biennale, at the St. Petersburg Hermitage, the Louisiana Museum, Karlskirche Vienna, London Royal Art Academy, MoMA, etc. She produced a ten piece theremin Orchestra performance for the LA Disney Hall. Dorit received a music residency at Pioneerworks NY and a Knightsbridge Grant—at Pioneerworks she founded Kid Cool Theremin School, America's first school of Theremin for Children and Adults—Dorit also established Lécolé Thérémine during a 3 year long residency at the Gaite Lyrique Museum in Paris. As the artistic director of the NY Theremin Society Dorit helped produce and release Theremin100, a Compilation featuring 50 thereminists from 18 countries. To mark the centennial of the Theremin, she conceived a film together with Marie Losier that was filmed at CERN in mid march of 2020, introducing the new Claravox Theremin Instrument. Dorit produces, records and performs all music on her solo records—numerous recordings have been released on Bandcamp, InMyRoomRecords (DE), The Prurience Factory (US), Monika Enterprise (DE), PlagDichNicht (AU), PlasticTray Records (US) and Mute (in collaboration with Detroit's Adult.)

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Composer-performer, Judith Berkson cites influences ranging from cantorial chant to jazz standards, lieder from composers such as Schubert and Schumann, and underground movements in electronic music and noise. Her music offers a contemplative, spare space for the reworking of traditional structures within contemporary sonic modes and techniques. Her research centers around tuning and microtonality as they relate to memory and perception, exploring the small spaces between similarity and difference. She has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and on NPR. She has collaborated with the Kronos Quartet, City Opera, Laurie Anderson and has worked with ensembles including Mivos Quartet, Wet Ink, Yarn/Wire, Experiments in Opera, and the Boston Microtonal Society. She has recorded for ECM Records, has written two operas. She is currently based in Los Angeles.

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Lilly-Sparks: Native New Yorkers downtown long time.

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Richard Sylvarnes is a New York based visual artist and music maker. He has exhibited and performed at a multitude of spaces, festivals, venues, clubs and galleries in North America, Asia, and Europe. He has made several feature films; his first, “The Cloud Of Unknowing”, premiered in the International Dramatic Feature Competition at the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival in 2002. “Here Comes Everybody”, his second feature, comprised entirely of still photographs, also premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in the NYNY Narrative Competition in 2006. His third feature, “The Last Words of Dutch Schultz", is a found-footage film that featured a live music accompaniment premiering at the Anthology Film Archives. In 2009 he received a Creative Capital Grant to work with the four-time Bessie Award winning choreographer David Neumann on a work titled “Big Eater” which premiered at the Kitchen in 2010. Also, in 2008, he was nominated for a Rockefeller Renew Media Fellowship. Richard has released music through the Skrymir Label and 3D Media under various monikers and bands including Zero Times Everything, the Underworld Oscillator Corporation, Sylvarluxe, The Heavenly Escape Beauty Corporation, and the Berlin based ensembles KaiSaR and Palace Chop House. He is currently working with Bradley Eros as Vampÿrates as they prepare to release their first album “undead, undead”. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology and has studied film making at New York University, music at Berklee College of Music, guitar with Robert Fripp, and art at the School of Visual Arts. He has been a guest Lecturer at Harvard University and served as Vice President on the Board of Directors for the Film-Makers’ Cooperative.

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Bradley Eros, as always, (since the very beginning of Abasement (.001), 81+ months, or sessions, ago) will project their "hand-made" analog slides, and/or film ~ all night long! *** "eau de cinema", 'musique plastique', "philosophical jaywalker", "Eros C'est L'amour!"

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Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015. This month Abasement celebrates ten years of events.