amplifies it, doubles, and trebles it
amplifies it, doubles, and trebles it is a multimedia, site-specific performance series featuring QTBIOC transgenre, experimental sound artists. program founder & curator kelechi agwuncha envisions and constructs a new framework for restaging sound artists through public activations—drawing on experimental spatial approaches found in genres like experimental music, disco, punk, and Jamaican dub, all of which sought to create unified air spaces (as explored in Figures in Air: Essays Towards a Philosophy of Audio by Micah Silver). The performances integrate video installations, poetry, sound, and lighting to communicate a language of possibility that connects with nature and open air spaces1. This work redefines how we imagine the act of listening by generating new spatial conditions.
role: founder & producerdate: September, 7, 2024Location: Ragle Park Racquetball Courts, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Featuring performances: Alene Marie, mallika singh, Ryan Denninson, Colloboh (Collins Oboh), Marshall Tramall, kelechi agwuncha
references:
01 Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon Interview, 1991, Courtesy PBS special with Bill Moyers
02 Shiraz-Persepolis Arts Festival, Iran, 1967-1977
03 Street sound system during Notting Hill Carnival, London. 1989, Photograph © Adrian Boot. Courtesy the British Library
04 Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore 1999, Mark Leckey
05 Setting up Channel One sound system at Notting Hill carnival, 2019, Photograph © Eddie Otchere, Courtesy Museum of London
performers:
Ryan Dennison is a transdisciplinary Diné Artist and Musician from Tohatchi, NM. Dennison’s influence in performance art and music composition has been present since 2008, their work reflects queer brown boy love, dreams, intimacy and entanglement while negotiating space in land poems and queer body constellations of intimacy.mallika singh is a poet, farmer, and cook who makes work about ecosystems and intimacies. their chapbook, Retrieval (Wendy's Subway, 2020) is a poetic investigation into a NSA data collection facility in Lower Manhattan, and explores the question: what does surveillance sound like? they also facilitate a study and writing group called Rivering Towards: Desert-Water Poetics and Politics. mallika lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico and grows food with their coworkers at Ashokra Farm.Alene Marie, based in Albuquerque, has been a steward of the United Statesunderground music community for over a decade, humbly developing a spectrum of synthesizer-based recordings and performances utilizing analog and digital synthesizers, often built herself. Under various aliases,Marie’s work has been highlighted internationally by labels PL, Jacktone, Mélodies Souterraines, Hot Releases, Schmerf, and more.
Raised in Hawaii, Marshall Trammell is a multi-aesthetic percussionist and interdisciplinary cultural producer devoted to social issues. His unique training includes apprenticeships with improvising and folkloric masters, 20-plus years as a creative-music professional in the Bay Area, and MFA studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Integrated Electronic Arts. Currently, Trammell sits on the Executive Committee of the Merced County Arts Council in California’s San Joaquin Valley and spearheads an independent music festival.
Colloboh, a Nigerian-born, LA based experimental producer, composer, & former educator, has garnered attention for genrespanning modular wizardry. Selftaught,Colloboh's DIY recording diaries gained online acclaim, leading Leaving Records founder Matthew David to feature him at the Listen to Music Outside In The Daylight Under a Tree showcase.Permanently relocating to LA in 2021, Colloboh has become a fixture in the city's experimental scene. His debut EP Entity Relation (2021) explored club beats, while Saana Sahel (2023) reveals broader compositional ambitions.