dadageek and New Media Contemporary Present: BRIAN WENNER | JAMES TALAMBAS | PULSECODER

Featuring live sets by:

BRIAN WENNER [brooklyn]

JAMES TALAMBAS [dallas]

PULSECODER (live a/v) [austin]

with live visuals by HEXPARTNER

This special collaboration between dadageek and New Media Contemporary brings a new two-night event celebrating experimental electronic music and real-time visual performance. The first evening takes place in Dallas at New Media Contemporary, followed by a second night in Austin at dadaLab, creating a shared experience that carries its energy from one city to the next.

On Saturday, February 28th, at dadaLab, the evening will focus on the interplay of sound, image, and spatial audio, creating an immersive environment shaped by real-time performance and responsive visual systems.

Brian Wenner presents intricate works rooted in Musique Concrète and contemporary sampling practices, reshaping source material into dense yet highly structured electronic collages. His performances move through shifting layers of rhythm and texture, guided by both precision and unpredictability. His recent album QUADRANT, recorded live at dadaLab, reflects his ongoing interest in spatial sound.

James Talambas builds electro-acoustic pieces that engage directly with the architecture of the room, using improvisation and processing to reveal new resonances within the space. His work treats the venue itself as an instrument, creating performances that shift with each environment.

pulseCoder merges intricate synthesis and digital glitch aesthetics to create high contrast electronic music that hovers between controlled structure and chaotic fragmentation. His audio/visual performances sit at the edge of rhythm and noise, forming energetic and visually driven compositions.

February 28, 2026

Doors @ 7:30 | Performances @ 8:00

Discounted online presale and student tickets available | All ages

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dadaLab - 2008 Alexander Ave. Austin, TX.

Artists

BRIAN WENNER

📸 by Hernán Jiménez Calderón

Brian Wenner is a Brooklyn-based experimental electronic musician and sound artist. His artistic practice involves sound collage and improvisation to create dense works that feel frenetic yet structured. Bandcamp has described his sound as “sizzling experimental electronic music, alternatively dissonant and tuneful.”

Working primarily with sampled audio content, Wenner’s creative process is heavily inspired by Musique Concrète combined with modern digital processes. He often gathers sound material from a variety of sources including Internet and phone-ripped audio, natural field recordings, and his own personal sample library. Sounds are then manipulated and layered via hardware samplers and further edited and re-imagined in software. The inspiration for such a process comes from his fascination in recontextualizing found audio to create something meaningful and coherent.

Wenner has composed for dance, theater, multichannel installation, and digital album release. He most recently released an album entitled QUADRANT in March of 2025 which documents a quadraphonic sound performance recorded live in Austin, TX. The album came out on the London-based experimental record label Old Technology. Wenner also co-curates and organizes the monthly experimental music series Artifact.

He has performed across North America and has presented work with institutions such as Art Basel Miami, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival, Satellite Art Fair, and dadaLab. His work has been reviewed and featured by outlets including The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Creators Project, The FADER, VICE, FACT and Self-titled Magazine.

https://brianwenner.com/

https://www.instagram.com/b__wenner/

JAMES TALAMBAS

📸 by Aaron Wharton

Talambas is a multi-disciplinary new media artist, composer, producer, and activist who creates site-specific, multi-dimensional, multi-sensory sculptures, murals, and performances. Endeavoring to collaborate and share knowledge, guided by a passion for sound and creativity. Drawing from technology, collaboration, visceral improvisation, and the architectural space of each individual work, he creates art that is personal, emotive, and immersive. Talambas is the founder of New Media Contemporary, a gallery, studio and research space located in Dallas, TX, founded to promote interdisciplinary work, and collaborate with musicians and artists working in technology or the avant garde.

Talambas has collaborated with and helped produce the work of many other notable artists, including Ellen Fullman, Marina Rosenfeld, Christine Sun Kim, Egill Sabjörnsson, Gingger Shankar, Dallas Street Choir, Dalas Symphony Orchestra, Fort Worth Opera, Contemporary Dance Fort Worth, Half Japanese, Mandy Patinkin, Nelly Furtado, N'Dambi, Theodore Bikel, AM Ballet Folklorico.

https://talambas.io/

https://www.instagram.com/talambas.io/

PULSECODER

📸 by Aaron Wharton

pulseCoder is the electronic music project from new media artist and sound designer Kyle Evans. The project crosses deep synthesis textures and rhythms with chaotic digital glitch aesthetics. Drawing influence from IDM, house, and experimental genres like power electronics and glitch, pulseCoder dives deep into the precarious territory between music and noise. The result is a dark and moody crossover fluctuating between structure and entropy, simulating a controlled collapse into chaos. This output manifests in the form of physical & digital sonic releases (Holodeck Records, Shadowtrash Tape Group), experimental video releases, and immersive audio/visual performances.

Kyle Evans is an internationally recognized artist, sound designer, and musician. He has performed electronic music and created interactive installations throughout North America and Europe including MUTEK San Francisco, Transmediale in Berlin, the GLI.TC/H festival in Chicago, Currents New Media Festival, the International Computer Music Conference, the Dallas Video Festival, the Blanton Museum of Art, Dimanche Rouge in Paris, and the Vancouver New Music Festival.

https://pulsecodermusic.com/

https://kyleellisevans.com/

live visuals by

HEXPARTNER

📸 by Sergio Carrasco

Grace Sydney Pham is a classically trained pianist/violinist/vocalist and self-taught synthesizer/harp/theremin player who composes dungeon synth music and live visuals under the moniker “Hexpartner.”

https://www.instagram.com/hexpartner/

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dadageek is a non-profit community of immersive artists and electronic musicians. Our mission is to offer education and community to those creating at the intersection of art, interactive media, and tech. Our community is filled with talented and creative technologists with a passion for sharing their expertise with others.

dadaLab is an immersive art studio and event space working at the intersection of art, design, and technology

New Media Contemporary is an artist run gallery, studio, venue, and research space dedicated to presenting new media art and new music through innovative, multi medium exhibitions and performances. The organization fosters collaboration and community by hosting classes, screenings, immersive concerts, and group shows that connect artists across disciplines and creative practices.