Artists Space

Axine M: Sold Licker Glass

Concert
September 12, 2024, 8pm

ISSUE presents Sold Licker Glass, the second commission from 2024 ISSUE Artist-In-Residence Axine M. As a composer and technologist, her residency continues to explore the user experience and the effects of capitalism on our identities and relationships. This event will take place at Artists Space in downtown NYC, and recognizes a longtime collaboration between two like-minded organizations that are committed to supporting the work of underrepresented artists while sharing resources.

Color photograph of a figure standing in a field of wheats. Their face is obscured as they look downwards, and by wheats in front of the camera.
Axine M by Jeremiah M. Carter. [Color photograph of a figure standing in a field of wheats. Their face is obscured as they look downwards, and by wheats in front of the camera.]

Realized by an ensemble featuring Leila Bordreuil (cello), Bridget Ferrill (harp), Cal Fish (flute), Áslaug Magnúsdóttir (clarinet), Kwami Winfield (trumpet), voice, fretless guitar, and computer processing, Sold Licker Glass is a melodic expansion of a song cycle that is stretched taut to reveal its innermost musical tendons. By way of instrumental characters that embody the primary states of matter, it reckons with the construction of our interpersonal realities. Through sound, the melodic actors explore states of being as a means of reweaving themselves into physicality; an interpersonal net cast upon experience.

View of 5 musicians on stage performing under blue tinted lights with the audience in the foreground. From left to right the instruments played are the cello, clarinet, horn, flute, guitar, and vocals.
Axine M: Sold Licker Glass, 2024, Artists Space. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photography by Cameron Kelly McLeod. [View of 5 musicians on stage performing under blue tinted lights with the audience in the foreground. From left to right the instruments played are the cello, clarinet, horn, flute, guitar, and vocals.]
Portrait of a seated musician holding a microphone and a guitar.
Axine M: Sold Licker Glass, 2024, Artists Space. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photography by Cameron Kelly McLeod. [Portrait of a seated musician holding a microphone and a guitar.]
Portrait of a musician playing the cello with a bow.
Axine M: Sold Licker Glass, 2024, Artists Space. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photography by Cameron Kelly McLeod. [Portrait of a musician playing the cello with a bow.]
Two seated musicians are pictured with a mic stand in between them. One is playing a horn and one is playing a flute.
Axine M: Sold Licker Glass, 2024, Artists Space. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photography by Cameron Kelly McLeod. [Two seated musicians are pictured with a mic stand in between them. One is playing a horn and one is playing a flute.]
Wide view of 5 musicians on stage performing under blue tinted lights with the audience on the left. From left to right the instruments played are the cello, clarinet, horn, flute, guitar, and vocals.
Axine M: Sold Licker Glass, 2024, Artists Space. Courtesy of ISSUE Project Room. Photography by Cameron Kelly McLeod. [Wide view of 5 musicians on stage performing under blue tinted lights with the audience on the left. From left to right the instruments played are the cello, clarinet, horn, flute, guitar, and vocals.]

Axine M is the moniker of Maxine de las Pozas, a music artist residing in Brooklyn, NY. The Ancient Greek Axenos, or "inhospitable place," is a name for the Black Sea before nautical technology was advanced enough to safely traverse the water. Axine M is a vessel for musical inquiries and creative impulses across multiple genres and sentiments, carving out a space for itself against the grain of the dystopian imaginary. A recent self-released tape, USUSUSESESERERER (pronounced "user"), is a songwriterly exploration of interpersonal relationships under late-capitalism. Axine has published tapes with Summer Isle and Embalming Lately, a label she co-founded. As a DJ, Axine has mixed for c-, BIZAARBAZAAR, DUST, Hong Kong Community Radio, and The Lot Radio, among others. Maxine holds a master's degree in Music Technology from NYU Steinhardt, where she focused on the design of novel music controllers for live performance. Versions of her thesis were published in the proceedings of New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2020) and International Computer Music Conference (ICMC 2021). Maxine is a collective member and sound engineer for Chaos Computer. She works as an Audiovisual Technician.