Ariana van Gelder – Creative CV
University Guest Appearances
Edith Cowan University, Master Class, “Improvisation and Close Listening as Compositional Method within Experimental Music,” Perth, Australia, March 12, 2020.
Hunter College Art Galleries, Sonic Response to Stephen Mueller: Orchidaceous, retrospective exhibition. Carrie Moyer, Sarah Watson, Agnes Gund, curators. Evan Bellantone and Sophia Ma, curatorial fellows. New York, NY, September 13, 2018.
Columbia University, Signal to Noise. Sound performance and physics Q&A. Wallach Gallery, Columbia Astronomy Public Outreach Program, and the Amateur Astronomers Society of Voorhees. Summer Ash, Emmy Catedral, and Madeline Weisberg, curators. New York, NY, April 6, 2018.
Pratt Institute, Pratt Upload, Meme, You, and Everyone We Follow. Commission for Discrete Systems, stereo mix-down for 3D video mapping installation with immersive, multi-channel sound. Giselle Zatonyl, artist. Nicholas O’Brien, curator. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, October 18, 2014.
Exhibitions, Installations, and Curation
SUBLIMITY: NOISE NOTHINGNESS RELEASE. Curation/Design/Performance. Experimental and dance music event exploring sound–body interaction in a flow from ambient soundscapes to deep tech-house. B1, Taipei, Taiwan, December 4, 2020.
Live Score for Art KB 4 8 Alien God of War Lilith, by Betty Apple, concept, director, performer. Live-streaming cinema, and ASMR sound art experience. Sponsored by C-Lab, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Experiment Center, Taipei, Taiwan, November 20, 2020.
Score for The Leaning and the Blind (2017). Sound composition for video. Sara Pathirane, video artist. Sponsorship by VISEK. Media distribution by AV-arkki. Exhibitions: Gallery Harmaa, Turku, Finland, June 2017 to July 2017; Short Waves Festival: Dances with Camera, Nomination, Poznań, Poland, March 2018; Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland, December 17, 2019 to February 16, 2020.
Live Score for Beautiful Nothingness, by Poncili Creación, puppeteering and performance duo. Mario Oliva and Manav Mehta, collaborating musicians. Oomph! Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, November 9, 2019.
Sonic Response to Paul Kerney and James Doyle’s “Seraphim,” installation. Sponsorship by Dream Community, Taipei, Taiwan, December 8, 2019.
Live Score for The death of egret’s eggs/白鷺蛋之死, by 魚龍加蛋 (Hu-Jung Jah-Dan), welding and performance art duo. Hugo Brunet, Chang Hsin Jung, artists. Bridget Bell, collaborating musician. Datong River, Xizhi District, Taipei, Taiwan. November 30, 2019.
Live Score for Poncili Creacion with Hugo Brunet, performers. AMPM Studio, Taipei, Taiwan, November 26, 2019.
A Place to Call Home. Temporal recreation of artist’s living room and performance for improvised piano, vocal loops, and self-vs-self chess game. Genevieve Fernworthy and Dylan Marcheschi, organizers. Park Church Co-op, Brooklyn, NY, November 24, 2018.
Audio/Visual Quadraphonic Performance for DistENDed Cinema. Mischa Abakumova, live generative video artist. David Linton, curator. H0L0, Queens, NY, December, 10, 2017.
Live Score for Video Jam. Eliyana Evans, Sarah Rowland Hill, Shereen Perera, curators. Sponsorship by Flux Factory. Knockdown Center, Queens, NY, July 21, 2017.
Seed. Collaborative performance with Mischa Abakumova, generative video and experiential designer. Dylan Marcheschi, organizer. Monthly Modular Series, Muchmore’s, Brooklyn, NY, April 02, 2017.
Anthem for Children of War, at the Colombo Art Biennale. Score, multi-channel, motion sensitive, immersive sound installation for The Present is a Ruin without the People, textile sculpture. Ruby Chishti, artist. Stivan Widick, programmer. JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka, Dec 2, 2016 to December 20, 2016.
5.1 Surround Sound Commission for Discrete Systems at Transfer Gallery. 3D video mapping installation solo show, Giselle Zatonyl, artist. Featured in Bushwick Open Studios. TRANSFER, Brooklyn, NY, May 31, 2014 to June 28, 2014.
Song for Virtual Space at The Wrong, New Digital Art Biennale, the world’s first virtual biennale. Score/Soundscape for Conductivity-Resistivity virtual pavilion. Giselle Zatonyl, curator. Hosted on the Internet and physically at TRANSFER Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 01, 2013 to December 31, 2013.
Silencio Cake Alien at Camp Summer Camp. Collaborative development, performance, temporal sculpture, 6 nights, PS122, New York, NY, 2008.
Through the Eye of a Rabbit Hole, Installation, performance, and video for bowed glockenspiel, improvised voice, and rabbit, Churchill’s, Miami, FL, 2007.
English Analog, Installation, composition, animation, performance for typewriter, cypher, and projection, Churchill’s, Miami, FL, 2007.
Noise. Water. Meat. Co-curation, performance, installation. Fluxus-inspired, single-night happenings, three installments, 15 musicians, approx 50 visual artists, Roxanne’s on Main, Ft. Lauderdale, FL 2006.
Special Performances and Collaborations
Collaborative Live Improvisation with Space Gambus Experiment – RIUH Benor!, Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, October 22, 2022.
Collaborative Live Improvisation, Greater Forms 9, with Swivelized Sound, improvisation partner, electronics and synths. 23 Music Room, Taipei, Taiwan, October 20, 2020.
Sponsorship, Tura New Music, Live Performance for Tura New Music Soup Nights. Perth, Australia, March 10, 2020.
Collaborative Live Improvisation, Greater Forms 2, with DJ Wèi Wáng 味王,improvisation partner, tape loops, found sound, and electronics. 23 Music Room, Taipei, Taiwan, February 25, 2020.
Quadraphonic Performance for Nothing Changes. Saint Vitus, Brooklyn, NY, September 26, 2018.
Lunary at BC Studios. Sound bath and live recording. Genevieve Fernworthy, co-musician and organizer. Martin Bisi, engineer. Brooklyn, NY July 26, 2018.
Detective Squad, “Nux One Bomb Is Not a Mother,” Live recording session with Ars Troitski and G Lucas Crane, Brooklyn, NY, April 22, 2017.
AIRPLANE Gallery, Improvised set with Ken Butler, Scott Putesky, et al. Brooklyn, NY, March 24, 2013.
Monkey Town HQ, Welcoming the New Moon with Enid Ellen, et al. Brooklyn, NY, October 28, 2008.
Churchill’s, Improvised sets and collaborations with Richard Vergez, Dan Hosker, Nandor Nevai, et al. Miami, FL, Multiple dates, 2006-2008.
Other Select Solo Performances
ThirdSpace Sessions, Singapore, December 10, 2022.
Jibber Jabber, Castlemaine, Australia, March 4, 2020.
Make It Up Club, Melbourne, Australia, March 3, 2020.
Revolver, Future Proof : 面向異日 and Customs, organizers, Taipei, Taiwan, October 24, 2019.
H0L0, Queens, NY, March 22, 2018 and September 2, 2018.
DRTY SMMR, Brookly, NY, August 24, 2018.
Ballroom Sonics Festival, presented by Orb Tapes and Open Music. Millheim, PA, June 30, 2018.
The Gateway, February 3, 2018.
The Spectrum, Ambient-Chaos, Brooklyn, NY, December 16, 2017.
Trans-Pecos, Fabrica Records Sundays, Brooklyn, NY, December 03, 2017.
100 Rochester Basement Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, October 28, 2017.
H0L0, Queens, NY, October 26, 2017.
Max Fish, Abasement 30, New York, NY, October 09, 2017.
Trans-Pecos, Fabrica Records Presents, Brooklyn, NY, August 06, 2017.
100 Rochester Basement Gallery, VERY Normal, Brooklyn, NY, August 05, 2017.
Muchmore’s, Canticum Interruptus, David Linton, organizer, Brooklyn, NY, July 12, 2017.
The Living Gallery, Rite of Fall, Alex Norelli, organizer, Brooklyn, NY, November 18, 2016.
The Gateway, Brooklyn, NY, November 6, 2016.
International Noise Conference, Silent Barn, Brooklyn, NY, July 3, 2016.
Backstage: Studies in Solitude, Sophia Ma, curator. Rockwall Studios, Brooklyn, NY May 20, 2016.
Solo Albums
Aeons. Label: Noir Age, 2018
Ellipses in Vacuum Self-release, 2011
Collaborative Albums
session one Ariana van Gelder and Ars Troitsky. Label: P.O., 2020
Kin Ships, Album + Book. C.J. Boyd. Label: Joyful Noise Recordings, 2019
NoDAPL Noise Benefit Compilation. Label: Chthonic Streams, 2016
Blue Noise Drowning the Virgin Silence, Label: Caesura, 2014
Tzool-Mah Hoor-Paar-Kraat. Label: Goat Eater Arts, 2008
In Eros Veritas Hoor-Paar-Kraat. Labels: Goat Eater Arts and KNVBI Records, 2007
Press
Material Issues. Richard Vergez/Noir Age. 46pgs issue 11/12. June 15, 2022. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf5BIQGoHYt/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
Where Industrial and Ambient Meet – And ambient takes control. Marc Weidenbaum. Disquiet, Feb 24, 2020. https://disquiet.com/2020/02/24/industrial-rears-its-gearhead/
Astronomy Outreach’s “Signal To Noise” Brings More Arts To Astro. Ross Chapman. Bwog, Columbia Student News. April 8, 2018. https://bwog.com/2018/04/astronomy-outreachs-signal-to-noise-brings-more-arts-to-astro/
Interview by Elizabeth Wakefield, Tune Up, BTR Today, Feb 17, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20180408214455/https://www.btrtoday.com/read/tuneup/217-tune-up/