QUADRANT v6.0

QUADRANT v6.0

a dadageek quadraphonic spectacular

Featuring live quadraphonic music by:

Graham Reynolds

Matthew Ryals (nyc)

pulseCoder (a/v set)

Join us in an evening of auditory exploration as we present the sixth iteration of QUADRANT – a quadraphonic electronic music experience that explores spatial sound performance and realtime video art. Quadraphonic sound, or sound that emanates from 4 speakers surrounding the listener, greatly expands the possibilities for immersive electronic music performances beyond the ordinary. For QUADRANT v6.0, each artist has crafted a performance that utilizes dadaLab's 4-channel spatial audio system, creating a uniquely immersive sonic experience. Prepare for an experience that challenges convention, transcends stereo, and envelops your senses.

February 15, 2025

Doors @ 7:30 | Performances @ 8:00

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dadaLab - 2008 Alexander Ave. Austin, TX.

PLEASE NOTE: We are limiting the available tickets for each performance. This is designed to ensure an optimal listening experience for all attendees. 

Artists

Graham Reynolds

Called “the quintessential modern composer” by the London Independent, Austin, Texas based composer-bandleader-improviser Graham Reynolds records and performs music for film, theater, dance, television, rock clubs, and concert halls with collaborators across a multitude of disciplines. He recently scored Richard Linklater’s Hit Man (Netflix) with Glen Powell and Adria Arjona, Happy Jail (Netflix), Stop Hitting Yourself (Lincoln Center Theater), Out of Her Mind (BBC), POE / A Tale of Madness (Ballet Austin), and a multi-year commission from Ballroom Marfa, The Marfa Triptych, culminating in his Creative Capital Award winning project Pancho Villa from a Safe Distance, a bilingual cross-border opera created with librettists Lagartijas Tiradas al Sol (Mexico City) and director Shawn Sides (Rude Mechs) and staged in over a dozen cities in North America.

As Artistic Director of the non-profit Golden Hornet, Graham spearheads efforts which draw on both the collaborative spirit of rock bands and the composer-led nature of classical music, with a focus on commissioning new music, fostering young and emerging composers, and presenting adventurous works in non-traditional settings. These endeavors include the The Sound of Science alongside Kronos Quartet's longtime cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, Insectum with Zeigler and drummer/percussionist Susie Ibarra, and MXTX: A Cross-Border Exchange; a multi-faceted project comprised of a live performance, album, remixes, and open-source audio sample library involving more than 40 artists from Texas and Mexico.

Reynolds leads the jazz-based but far reaching Golden Arm Trio, is a company member with the internationally acclaimed Rude Mechs theater collective, and resident composer with Salvage Vanguard Theater and Forklift Danceworks. His accolades include a Creative Capital Award, an Independent Music Award, two Frederick R. Loewe Music Theatre Awards, ten Austin Critics Table Awards, the John Bustin Award, multiple Austin Chronicle ‘Best Composer’ wins, and a B. Iden Payne Award. MARFA: A Country & Western Big Band Suite (Fall 2019) broke into the top 100 on the NACC radio charts along with a track premiere in Billboard. In 2020, Graham signed with London-based record label Fire Records and released his original score for Alfred Hitchcock’s silent classic, The Lodger. His most recent release with Fire, Music for Prophet (Parts 1-4), dropped earlier this year, offering a glimpse into a forthcoming full-length solo album slated for release in 2025.

https://www.grahamreynolds.com...

Matthew Ryals (NYC)

Matthew Ryals (he, him) is an award-winning synthesist + composer-improviser based in New York, NY.

Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving. Tiny Mix Tapes has described his music as “filter[ing] the emotion of the human experience through the cold circuitry of electronics”.

Recent accolades include a '22-'23 New Music USA Award and a '21 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He has released on Oxtail Recordings (Sydney), SØVN (Turino), sound as language (Carolinas), dingn/dents (Seoul), Post Season Franchise Records (NYC), Low Hanging Fruit (Cologne), Behind Glass (NYC), and other labels. He’s the co-curator of the Brooklyn-based experimental music series, Artifact.

https://www.matthewryals.com/

pulseCoder (a/v set)

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://www.pulsecodermusic.co...

live visuals by

blend.mode

blend.mode is the mind-altering a/v project of generative alchemists panoptikon.party and devrasplexi. This duo specializes in creating immersive artworks that explore the interaction of mesmerizing visual design and pulsating electronic music. These multi-sensory experiences invite audiences on a journey through the ever-changing digital cosmos.

https://www.instagram.com/blen...

https://www.instagram.com/pano...

https://www.instagram.com/devr...

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