MSHR (USA) / Babak Ahteshamipour (GR/IR) x Jessie Onze (FR)
A live sound installation by MSHR and an electronic sound set by Babak Ahteshamipour accompanied by Jessie Onze in live visuals. Before and after the sets, the music is selected by DJ JAB (John Also Bennett).
MSHR is the art collective of Brenna Murphy and Birch Cooper, established in 2011 in Portland, Oregon. We collaboratively build and explore sculptural electronic systems that take form as audiovisual compositions, performances and installations. Our performances revolve around analog synthesizers and computer music systems played in feedback with lights and movement. Our installations involve generative and interactive electronic systems embedded in immersive sculptural arrays. We explore intuitive and technical gradients between sonic and sculptural forms, using analog circuitry and open-source software to sculpt mutually resonant hyperobjects. We conceive of our practice in terms of cybernetics- as a system with many inputs and outputs that are patched back into each other. The emergent form serves as an ever-morphing navigational guide. Constructing and exploring our own synthetic systems is a way of tracing the interwoven biological, ecological and technological structures that frame our experience as embodied humans today. The name MSHR is a modular acronym designed to hold varied ideas over time.
Babak Ahteshamipour is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and musician based in Athens, Greece. His practice is based on the collision of the virtual vs the actual, exploring topics from cyberspace to ecology and politics to identity. His work has been presented and featured at venues, festivals and spaces such as Centre Pompidou, New Art City, The Wrong, Sala Equis, Biquini Wax ESP, Experimental Sound Studio, Milan Machinima Festival, Ametric Festival, CTM Festival’s magazine, KIBLIND, [ANTI]MATERIA, und. Athens, ATTN: Magazine and elsewhere. He has released music on the labels Industrial Coast and Jollies, has shared the stage with artists such as HELM, Zoviet France, Iku Sakan and Gaël Segalen and has created video clips for artists such as Fire-Toolz, Digifae and B. Michaael.
Jessie Onze will accompany Babak’s set with live visuals based on Babak’s own 3D animated work. Jessie Onze will distort, manipulate and redefine the 3D animated footage, aiming to extract new visuals to match Babak’s ever-changing music.
Artwork by MSHR.