New Ear:: Spatial / formerly CT::SWaM

Join us on May 31 for an amazing performance by Tak Ensemble (@takensemble ) SPATIAL 018 :: Tak Ensemble Date: Sunday, May 31, 2026 Location: 169 Bowery NYC Time: DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p Tak will perform two works: when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean by Weston Olencki & IN A FOREST is a rare vocal work by Rome Prize winner, Michelle Lou Regarded as “one of the most prominent ensembles in the United States practicing truly experimental music” (I Care If You Listen), TAK delivers energetic performances “that combine crystalline clarity with the disorienting turbulence of a sonic vortex” (The WIRE), and “impresses with the organicity of their sound, their dynamism and virtuosity” (New Sounds, WQXR).  TAK is a mixed-quintet committed to musical exploration and experimentation and dedicated to commissioning new works and direct collaboration with composers and other artists. They have premiered hundreds of works to date since its founding in 2013. Recent highlighted collaborations include large-scale works by Eric Wubbels, Jessie Cox, Qiujiang Levi Lu, Michelle Lou, Tyshawn Sorey, and Weston Olencki. The group has performed internationally at IntACT Festival (Thailand), Music Current Festival (Ireland), Cluster Festival (Canada), Harpa Concert Hall (Iceland), and the Delian Academy (Greece), among many others, with upcoming performances in Switzerland, The Netherlands, Germany, and Latvia. Laura Cocks (@_aura_ocks ), flute Madison Greenstone (@mads_green_stone ), clarinet Charlotte Mundy (@charl_ttemundy ), voice Marina Kifferstein (@sourkiff ), violin Ellery Trafford (@traffordcastle ), percussion

SPATIAL Presents :: Irene Tanuwidjaja (@irenetanuwidjaja ) | Andrew Neumann (@neumann58 ) Sunday, May 17, 2026 169 Bowery NYC DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p Irene Tanuwidjaja The piece by Irene constructs an immersive multichannel sound environment of a reimagined office building from a first-person perspective. It develops as a spatial experience in which the listener moves through shifting acoustic conditions shaped by systems of work, observation, and control. Andrew Neumann “False Electronic Alert” This piece, originally designed as a system for solo improvisation on a small Eurorack Synth with quad audio via a voltage controlled panning system has now morphed into a multi channel work, currently realized from a laptop. As an improvisor, my work relies on spontaneity, chance, correction, discretion. The jump from analog to digital opens up a new direction, especially for sound placement.  With both of these performances in dialogue through the multi-channeled system, it will be a night of true mastery of each of their craft and an exploration through action. ∞ Tickets in Bio ∞

SPATIAL Presents :: MIXTAPE A Performances by: Ian Condry (@ian.condry ) | Eli Purdy Flacks (@eli.purdyflacks ) | Edvina Fahlqvist (@edifahlqvist ) | Daria Baiocchi (@dariabaiocchi ) | Vilbørg Broch Saturday, May 16, 2026 169 Bowery NYC DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p ∞ Tickets in Bio ∞ You won’t want to miss this 🛋️

For this year’s Earth Day Reforesters (@reforesters.io ) is teaming up with New Ear:: SPATIAL to present a program of sound works that listen closely to and with the living world. The festival brings together artists exploring various ways of interconnectivity, field recordings, open systems and eco-logical thinking. Across the program, voices emerge in dialogue with local ecologies, revealing both their expressive vulnerability and the fragility of the ecosystems they inhabit. Works delve into altered environments, from the shifting ecologies of a vast coastal lagoon to compositions shaped directly by climate-change data. Listeners are invited into attentive encounters with place: an exploration of presence within the soundscape of the Cairngorms, grounded practices of field recording and aural mapping, and speculative reconstructions of the lost vocal worlds of extinct birds. EarthFest offers a space to hear, reflect, and reimagine our relationship to the planet—through sound, memory, and the fragile act of listening. —— Performers Include: Scott Sherk (@thethirdbarn_3d ) Roachtobin (@johnroachart & @jay__tobin ) Tim Feeney (@theothertimfeeney ) Mason Youngblood (@masyoungblood ) Steve Ashby (@ashbysounds ) Merve Ünsal Foliage Domenico De Simone Mike Bullock Jeesoo Hong (@hongjeesoo ) Sara Bouchard (@seventh_sara ) —— For tickets and more information on EARTHFEST please check the link in our bio. 🌏

SPATIAL Presents :: Andrea Parkins (@andreaparkins ), Sound Whimsy consisting of Teya Weir x ADVIKA (@advika.music ) x Ophelia (@oakophelia ), and Diane Barbe on Sunday, March 29, 2026. Location :: 169 Bowery NYC Time :: Doors open 7:30p | Show 8:00p About Andrea Parkins :: The Stray, Variation 3 (for 8 channels)  is an electroacoustic composition through which Parkins highlights and implicates correspondences (or ruptures) that take place between gesture, sound and space; and embodied tensions between attempt and fluency. Teya Weir x ADVIKA x Ophelia :: Imprints, Eternal sees the listener as a spectator – taken through vignettes of a House that’s been long abandoned. However, affects of its storied past poke through a dense soundscape of creaking wood and rotting foundation. Each movement of the piece serves as a different room where keen listeners can hear the story of the House as a revenant – a place once full of humanity, levity, anger, and grief. Diane Barbe (She/They) :: The piece Signe Singe, composed in the autumn of 2025, develops from a very old question: how do we know that a thunderstorm is a thunderstorm, an owl an owl, and a flute a flute? Between the forms emerging from the analog circuits of 1960s and 70s synthesizers and the voices hidden in the breath of wind instruments made by the composer, Signe Singe asks whether these sounds, too, “came from the earth.” ∞ RSVP in the link ∞

SPATIAL Presents :: Annie Goh @annie_g0h on Monday, March 9, 2026 ‼️ 169 Bowery NYC DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p GendyTrouble:Cyber*Feminist Computer Music This presentation introduces the theoretical underpinnings of the work GenDyTrouble: Cyber*Feminist Computer Music, part of a larger ongoing project entitled GenDyTrouble (2015–). The project began as a thought experiment which enacted a symbolic collision between composer Iannis Xenakis’ technique of sound generation, “Génération Dynamique Stochastique” (often shortened to GenDyn or sometimes GenDy) and Judith Butler’s foundational work of queer theory, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (1990). As such, the project asks what fusing the mathematical-generative power of computation with an emancipatory gender-politics could achieve. The project perches critically on the shoulders of previous cyberfeminists to both create and listen to what a sonic cyberfeminism could sound like. Tix available via the site in our bio ☣️

SPATIAL 015 :: trbgt | AC Diamond @ac____dmnd 💎 Sunday, March 1, 2026 DOORS 7:30p | SHOW 8:00p :: AC Diamond :: For the April 8, 2024 solar eclipse, I stationed myself at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge in upstate New York, just at the edge of the Path of Totality—where the Moon crosses the Sun and darkness settles over the Earth for a few brief minutes. Having observed coyotes howling at the moon at the moment of Totality during the 2017 eclipse in Eastern Oregon, I knew to expect heightened wildlife activity—and was hoping for coyotes—so I planned to record this rare event. :: In his live performances trbgt works with real-time audio synthesis utilizing digital/analog physical modelling techniques and feedback networks to explore aspects of texture and structure of sound as well as its presence within space through spatial sound. He is experimenting with perception and ideas of natural / artificial sounds, fluid and ambiguous environments and follows an interested in the possibilities and surprises that emerge when working with systems and situations that involve chance and unpredictability. trbgt’s performance is presented with support from the austrian cultural forum nyc. : Tickets avail via our website (in bio)!

This Sunday, join 𝐒𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐢𝐧𝐡𝐚 and 𝐃𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐥 𝐍𝐞𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 for a listening session of 𝑪𝒐-𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆, a sound installation featured in 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚.  This hour-long event will feature a shared listening experience and conversation with the artists about insights, concepts, and collaborative process on Samita’s new work. 𝑪𝒐-𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 is an 8-channel audio installation where two distinct voices, like two rivers, emerge simultaneously, born of each other and born together. One sings the micro-fluctuations and dimensions of a single vibration; the other sings the eight verses of 𝘚𝘩𝘪𝘬𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘴𝘩𝘵𝘢𝘬𝘢𝘮, a 16th-century chant of liberation and devotion from the Vaishnava tradition. 𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐒 𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓 𝐈𝐒 𝐅𝐑𝐄𝐄 + 𝐎𝐏𝐄𝐍 𝐓𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐏𝐔𝐁𝐋𝐈𝐂 • 𝐑𝐒𝐕𝐏 𝐈𝐍 𝐎𝐔𝐑 𝐁𝐈𝐎 #SamitaSinha @neumann.fragments @newearspatial @newearinc ————————— 𝑺𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒓𝒚, a group exhibition featuring 16 artists from diverse backgrounds exploring the complexities of our time. The exhibition title references “sanctuary cities,” such as New York, as well as the broader idea of sanctuary as a physical and emotional safe space. ————————— Image of Samita Sinha, courtesy of the artist.

❄️ ::SPATIAL 014 :: is on 2/8 at 8p! w/ Sam Long | @laurawolfmusic x @chloealxandra | @zamymaa | Hector Bravo Benard SPATIAL 014 :: will be a Covid-safer event with air purifiers from A.I.R. NYC and masks required. To protect the vulnerable and make this event more accessible. Sam Long :: “Respiration” is a fixed media piece composed on the pipe organ. In September 2022, I contracted a particularly nasty case of COVID with a multitude of complications that affected both my heart and lungs. For a period, I was undergoing a frankly disconcerting number of tests and procedures, and couldn’t help but draw a comparison between this and my work of tuning and repairing pipe organs. :: Laura Wolf x Chloe Alexandra Thompson :: What is the sound of one body listening to another? Music and sound elicit empirical changes to psychological response depending on tempo, timbre, key, and pitch. Using live biofeedback from a small group of participants, “Listening Bodies” explores how these physiological responses manifest as sound, and furthermore, how these sounds evolve and respond to each other. :: Zamy Maa :: Carry Me Home is an immersive spatial sound performance that explores longing, return, and the body’s memory of safety. Built from voice, bass, subtle harmonic layers, and environmental textures, the piece unfolds slowly, allowing sound to move around and through the listener rather than toward them. :: Hector Bravo Benard (Remote) will present :: “Nowhere” Composed during the pandemic isolation, Nowhere uses sound sources from common household objects, layered with processed vocal samples and signals generated by chaotic systems; “Interlude”, A contemplative break in a series of denser, noise-driven works, Interlude features slowly evolving textures and pulsating microrhythms; and “In the Fog”, This work uses chaotic synthesis and feedback-based signal processing to create dense, slowly shifting sonic textures. Link in bio! See you there 🤞

Next show LONG FORM 005 :: OWEN MORAN on 1/07 at 8:00p ‼️ For our FIRST show of the new year, @_owenmoran_ presents…Heavy Snow Stood on the Blackened Wall Program Notes :: This composition, primarily made of voice, bagpipes, field recordings, and contact microphone feedback invites listeners to find their bearings in an imaginary landscape. This audio collage was made with episodic prose and mythic tales in mind, dense with soaring skyward cries and drones as well as downward-pulling, jagged, and corrosive sonic textures. “Heavy Snow Stood on the Blackened Wall” was woven together from the physicality and tactility of performances on acoustic instruments such as the bagpipes and voice in addition to experimentation with sculptural contact microphone instruments. I am especially interested in all of these instrument’s capacity for drone, duration, and microtonal shifting because of the way these features challenge the space and attention of the listener.

🔈SPATIAL :: 013 is on 12/14 at 8pm with @yovinyl @axine.m @zarasara.duo 🔈 Yo Vinyl Richie :: “I Love my Job – Busy Restaurant” is a 40-minute turntable performance that immerses the audience in the sonic atmosphere of a high-end New York City restaurant during peak dinner hours. Set within a curated section of a bustling, upscale dining space, this octophonic audio experience reimagines the environment through a turntablist’s lens. Using turntables and specially pressed vinyl records, the performance transforms everyday restaurant sounds into a living soundscape—blending ambient noise, fragmented conversations, and curated musical interludes into a layered narrative. Axine M :: Adriana Caselotti is the initially uncredited yet ubiquitous voice of Snow White, whose life was forever changed by her involvement in the watershed, first-ever feature-length animated film. Axine M’s Adriana’s Distribution is a sound poem about exploitation, feminized labor, infantilization, and the devaluation of intellectual property. Zarasara :: Samsara / Ensō is a meditative, immersive performance that explores the cyclical nature of existence through sound and visual ritual. Drawing inspiration from two interrelated cultural and spiritual concepts — Samsara, the Hindu and Buddhist belief in the eternal cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, and Ensō (円相), the Zen Buddhist symbol of the circle representing wholeness, imperfection, and enlightenment — the work becomes both a spiritual reflection and a sonic journey. 🔈Link is available via our website 🔈

New event alert ‼️ Sunday, December 07 ::SPATIAL 012 :: Micah Silver | Laura Splan | Ivy Fu at 8:00pm. @micahsilver_ :: “The questions animating this work trace how inner life is shaped by the mind’s entrainment with the senses through time.” @laurasplan :: “Movements” features an ethereal octophonic soundscape accompanied by hypnotic projections from her immersive planetarium show “A Guided Sublimation”. @fuzzyivyfu :: “Tether is a performance with ambisonic soundscapes, body movements, and e-textile installation consisting of 8 individual strings crocheted with conductive yarns.“ Tix via our website in bio ☣️