Kabir Carter leads a survey of historical and aesthetic overlaps between New York City's downtown arts and underground dance music scenes.
 
In the early nineteen seventies, sound-in-space became a focal concern for artists, composers, DJs, and underground dance clubs, leading to a radical transformation of listening environments and modes of auditing. During this time, artists including Maryanne Amacher, Bernhard Leitner, Max Neuhaus, Vito Acconci, and others expanded how we understand the physical and perceptual acts of listening in space. Concurrently, early underground dance club DJs David Mancuso and Larry Levan, sound engineers Alex Rosner and Richard Long, and disc jockeys turned music remixers Tom Moulton and Walter Gibbons, as well as innumerable other groove based music makers and listeners all sought ways to push the limits of how sound projects into space, transforms architecture, and with it, how we listen to feel, and kinetically react and respond to acoustic energies. With this shared history in mind, Carter will consider how sound has operated — as a social conduit, spatial energy, and aesthetic material — within both communities.
 
Within this framework, Carter looks at "live" as a quality that can be enacted through a variety of conditions, that mostly lead to a particular set of acoustic treatments that involve tuning the various external and internal listening spaces and systems. Finally, he will play listening examples from selected artists' sound works, as well as a brief survey of proto disco tracks and early extended remixes from the mid to late nineteen seventies.
 
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