Artist-in-Residence: Sabisha Friedberg

For the first performance of her 2013 residency, Sabisha Friedberg presents new a chamber piece for acoustic instruments, voice and hand-crafted subwoofers. Friedberg focuses on the concept of an experiential threshold, with notations and an arrangements of frequencies that engage the most physical states of hearing. The work draws on the extremes of perception in the lower end of the sonic spectrum - the opening of a psychoacoustic territory which deals exclusively with bass tones and their resonance.… Show more
This performance is the first of three works created for Friedberg's 2013 residency, which each examine different approaches to listening, or aurality-- specifically to sounds that are nearly imperceptible or experienced bodily, existing at extremely subtle levels. The way one perceives sound both in the auricular and physiological sense, is the foundation for this triad of pieces, presented through sonic shifts in hearing in a given psychoacoustic environment.
Born in Johannesburg South Africa, Sabisha Friedberg studied Fine Arts and completed her degree with an emphasis upon sound and installation in the New Genres Department of The San Francisco Art Institute. Her work is principally concerned with thresholds and interstitial states as expressed through electro-acoustic composition, site-specific installation, and experiential sonic constructs. She is the recipient of the New York State Council on the Arts/ Transmission Arts Grant for 2012. She exhibited the solo show Levitation: Universe-Flex-Triad in 2012/2013 at AVA (Audio Visual Arts) in New York. Sabisha is the Artist in residence at EMPAC 2014. She has performed and presented pieces widely in Western and Eastern Europe, Russia, Japan, and Northern America. She is currently based in Brooklyn, New York.

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