This is a special seated show in our front lounge room, presented in quadrophonic sound. This event is co-presented with Megalith. First emerging from within New York’s experimental music scene over the last decade and a half and now based in LA, Byron Westbrook has woven intricate tapestries of sonority that bridge the worlds of sound art, installation, avant-garde electronic music and synthesis. Westbrook creates sculptural and immersive compositions, with highly acclaimed releases on imprints like Shelter Press, Important Records, Root Strata, Hands In The Dark, Umor Rex, and Ash International, presentations at the Walker Art Center, ICA London, MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, MaerzMusik, Akousma and Rewire Festivals, as well as residencies with Headlands Center, Civitella Ranieri Foundation, ISSUE Project Room, EMS Stockholm. For this evening at Holocene, Westbrook presents his work Translucents (Shelter Press, 2024), in an expanded, multi-channel audio configuration. Inspired by viewing the color panels of abstract painter Blinky Palermo, Translucents explores the concept of "audio after-image". The piece presents a series of immersive 'audio images', where each consecutive scene is influenced by the residue of the previous one, in a perceptual play with memory, presence, and time. Marcus Fischer is an interdisciplinary artist and musician based in Portland, Or. A first-generation American artist who creates, collects, and transforms sound into immersive, layered compositions that accompany performances and exhibitions. Site-specific assemblages of exposed speakers, tape loops, and objects are characteristic of his installations, paired with melodies of restraint and tension. He has released numerous recordings—both solo and collaborative —on 12k, a label that has decisively defined and developed its own concept of minimalism in the realms of experimental and ambient music. Fischer contributed two sound works and two performances to the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been selected for residencies at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Rauschenberg Residency, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art and MacDowell. In 2024 he was awarded The Ford Family Foundation’s Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts  as well as the International Music & Composition Fellowship from the Montalvo Arts Center’s Sally & Don Lucas Artists Program. Sanae Yamada is musician and composer currently based in Portland, OR. Since 2009 she has recorded & toured as half of the band Moon Duo (with Ripley Johnson) and solo under the name Vive la Void. She has also created a score and soundscape in collaboration with the theater company Half-Straddle for the play Is This A Room, which premiered at The Kitchen in 2019 and ran on Broadway in 2021. Her ambient work can be heard as part of the Longform Editions library & on the art podcast Line Time. Her work explores trance states, organic forms, & the nature of consciousness.