This workshop will explore creative and expanded approaches to sound in virtual contexts, from real-time simulations to video game environments. Taking conceptual and technical inspiration from canonical approaches found in experimental electronic music, participants will learn the fundamentals of working with real-time audio and spatial sound in the Unreal 5… Continue reading
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: May 16 – August 23, 2026🥂 Opening Reception: May 16, 2026, 2:30–4 PM🌀 Performance by Qiujiang Levi Lu: May 16, 2 PM🕕 Exhibition Hours: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM (Saturdays and Sundays)📍 Location: Governors Island, Nolan Park, Harvestworks Building 10a Outside Linear Time, an art and tech… Continue reading
Harvestworks and Roulette are pleased to co-present Maya Man’s performance-lecture StarQuest. The program will include an introduction by Harvestworks Interim Director Ivana Dama, followed by a conversation with Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art. The performance is supported by Harvestworks’ 2026 Special Project Award. … Continue reading
Join saxophonist, composer, and instrument builder Zack Hann in this interactive workshop on getting started with MaxMSP. The session will offer an overview of Max’s capabilities across a wide range of media, with examples drawn from composition, visual art, sound design, instrument building, installation art, and more. Participants will patch… Continue reading
In this hands-on demonstration, participants will learn about the Demon Box, a device created by the Eternal Research group, and explore how it can be used to detect electromagnetic signals and transform them into sound. The session will cover how to control DMX lighting, MIDI, and CV for integrating sound… Continue reading
A Special Invitation HARVESTWORKS INVITES YOU TO JOIN THE HARVESTWORKS SUSTAINING CIRCLE IN CELEBRATION OF CAROL PARKINSON’S 37 YEARS OF EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP AS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Our special guest, Henry Threadgill, a celebrated composer and saxophonist widely recognized for his groundbreaking contributions to avant-garde jazz and contemporary music, will perform an intimate… Continue reading
In this work-in-progress presentation, Annie Goh will introduce two intersecting projects: Sonic Cyberfeminisms and GenDyTrouble: CyberFeminist Computer Music*. Sonic Cyberfeminisms is an ongoing collaborative, multi-modal research project initiated in 2015. Its most recent formation is a forthcoming co-authored monograph with Marie Thompson (Goldsmiths Press, 2027). The project asks: What might cyberfeminism — with its… Continue reading
Harvestworks is excited to announce the 2026 AIR and TIP recipients. These artists have been commissioned to develop innovative projects in the Harvestworks TEAM (Technology, Engineering, Art, and Music) Lab. This year’s selections were made by a jury including Salome Asega (Director of NEW INC), Elliott Sharp (composer, performer, and… Continue reading
Public Intimacy is a motion- and site-specific sonic experience that reimagines the relationship between sound, space, and human presence through spatial audio techniques. By capturing and manipulating live environmental sounds, bodily movements, and architectural acoustics, the project examines how sonic hierarchies dictate spatial and social interactions based on the politics… Continue reading
Artists linked by a common interest in spontaneous expression come together for a night of performance engaging improvisation, new techniques, and inventive soundscapes. Solomon Kim (cello), Yo Vinyl Richie (turntable), and Kevin Ramsay (daxophone) will perform a set of freely improvised music. Sam Boston and Emma Mistele will perform table… Continue reading
