Spring Tea 2021 is part of the Nature Tea 2021 series. Our Nature Tea 2021 is sponsored, in part, by the Greater New York Arts Development Fund of the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, administered by Brooklyn Arts Council (BAC).
@ Testu Collective
About Testu Collective
Testu Collective are an NYC-based art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke in 2017. They create performances to shift the audience’s perspectives through the use of concepts from expanded cinema and intermedia. Their work reimagines visual systems and sonic environments through a combination of custom-made videos, experimental soundworlds, architectural elements, and sculptural movement. Testu Collective’s approach to creating performances is to challenge the traditional hierarchical relationship between the audience and performer/stage. Specifically during Covid, they foster community and connect visual and sonic artists from around the globe through their curations and live streamed performances.
@ Insomniac Hotel
About Insomniac Hotel
Insomniac Hotel is the music of surfaces. The swirls of synthetic-organic tone-spaces and refracted microphony evoke fractal geometries; each detail a world in itself. Working alone, Alec Fellman extrudes this geography from a pool of sound-objects: modular synthesizers, meditation bowls, contact microphones. The work is of-and-beyond sound; reaching into meditative practice, they produce rooms to think and be in, while never effacing the body and its capacity to listen.
@ Maria Takeuchi
About Maria Takeuchi
ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature. Using piezo microphones attached to wood bark wound with guitar strings and porcelain bowls carefully tuned with water measurements, Maria plays and conducts the sound-objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created solely with touches by hand, stones, branches, sandpaper, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed for added aesthetic atmosphere.