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Auricle New Music Series welcomes Dani Dobkin and Matt Sargent
The New York duo began in 2020 as a weekly Zoom call between the two artists at the height of the global pandemic. In 2021, they gave their first in-person show in Brooklyn and have since continued a musical conversation across many concerts and tours.
Beginning with a phrase from Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons, "Act so that there is no use in a center," the improvising duo delights in the exploration of their contrasting sensibilities. Their music has been described as “strangely emotional, gossamer-like tapestry of sounds, from barely audible phrases to saturating swells of noise. It all sounds almost like an American primitive guitar record retrieved from far in the future.” (Antonio Poscic, Future Music)
Dani Dobkin is a New York City based artist, composer and educator currently working with sound, ceramics and modular synthesis. Recently their work has engaged with ideas of grief, decay and ephemerality.
Past and recent collaborators include Yarn/Wire, International Contemporary Ensemble, CT::SWaM, Qubit and Women in Sound.
As an artist and composer, their work has been showcased at a variety of venues and galleries including ISSUE Project Room (NYC), Dimenna Center for the Arts (NYC), The Clay Studio (Philadelphia), Spectrum (NYC), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Mom’s Gallery (NYC), The Wallach Gallery (NYC), The Rubin Museum (NYC), Public Records (NYC), Chronos Art Center (Shanghai), NextSunday (Tokyo) and Little Berlin (Philadelphia).
Dobkin received a BFA from Bard College, both an MFA in Sound Art and a DMA in Music Composition from Columbia University. They are currently serving as an early career fellow at Columbia University and teaching electronic music at Bard College.
Matt Sargent is a composer, guitarist, and recording engineer based in upstate New York. His music has been described as “bringing a sharpened sense of the transcendental into the 21st century.” (Paul Muller, Sequenza21) Writing about his 2018 album Ghost Music, Bill Meyer states, “this music isn’t about following in anyone’s footsteps; it uses bare resources to establish a bounded and essential place.” (The Wire Magazine)
His albums include Illuminations (Sawyer Editions, 2024), Bend (Waveform Alphabet, 2023), Between Time and After (Chen Li Music, 2023), Tide (A Wave Press, 2020), Separation Songs (Cold Blue Music, 2019), Tide (for ten basses) (Marginal Frequency, 2019), and Ghost Music (Weighter Recordings, 2018). Matt is an assistant professor of music at Bard College.
*Free admission, donations encouraged.*
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