Music
“ Listening is a voluntary process that through training and experience produces culture. All cultures develop through ways of listening. Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, or one’s own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is.”
-Pauline Oliveros
A longform sound performance by Serena Stucke and Dan Tesene of Testu Collective, ÉMU and insomniac hotel of MA and Dan Gorelick at Winter Tea in Prospect Park, January 2025
About the musicians:
MA is the collaborative sound works of ÉMU +insomniac hotel
ÉMU aka Maria Takeuchi creates sonic and visual poems, merging organismic soundscapes with generative art and illuminating objects inspired by nature. Maria plays and conducts the sound objects with a delicate yet intentional focus. The subtle sound textures created by sand, dry leaves, and shells on the handmade instruments, processed for added aesthetic atmosphere.
insomniac hotel is the music of surfaces, where synthetic and organic tones gather and build micro-worlds of sound. Crafted from modular synthesizers, field recordings, and various instruments and objects, these sonic landscapes become spaces unto themselves to think, feel, and listen.
Dan Gorelick is an artist who uses classical instruments and computation to create sonic experiences that connect people to themselves, each other, and the natural world. His sound practice is informed by his 25 years of cello experience, sharing his sound in many different contexts. His work explores how music, as a time-based medium, serves as a vehicle to appreciate timescales—human, biological, geological—and to promote awareness of our relationship with nature and climate. His practice draws inspiration from deep listening approaches, exploring the meditative, healing, and connective nature of sound.
Testu Collective is an NYC-based intermedia art group founded by Dan Tesene and Serena Stucke. Testu creates intermedia performances, experimental videos, concept soundtracks, audiovisual experiences, sound art, and performance art installations. Tesene and Stucke are interested in creating environments that challenge the traditional audience experience. Testu has produced site-specific installations and curated works for Triskelion Arts (Brooklyn), Wallplay On Canal (NYC), Flux Factory (Governors Island), Sound Pedro (Los Angeles), Chashama (Brooklyn), CTM Festival(online), Ars Electronica(NYC), Ace Hotel(NYC), The Shed(NYC), Pleamar Festival(Buenos Aires), Theaterlab(NYC), Public Visuals(Tokyo).
