liveFEED: Keith Fullerton Whitman (Brooklyn), Alexander Wu (Bay Area) and Hamish Robb (Baltimore)

Keith Fullerton Whitman is a performer of “Live” Electronic Music based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn; his work is governed by the outcome of ongoing experiments with Generative & Algorithmic frameworks in both the Analog & Digital Domains, blurring the lines between improvisation & composition while openly embracing an agnostic & (often) contrarian approach to genre & setting.

Through this, he has been invited to perform in excess of 1,000 times at many of the world’s most prestigious festivals (such as Algorithmic Art Assembly, CTM / Transmediale, Documenta 14, Elevate, FAQ, Frequency, Geometry of Now, The Labyrinth, The Long Now, Meakusma, Novas Frequências

, OUT.FEST, Performa Biennial, Présences Electroniques, Semibreve, Send + Receive, Sonic Acts, Terraforma, & Unsound) & houses of culture (including L’Auditori, Berghain, Boston City Hall, Centquatre-Paris, Fylkingen, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Kurimanzutto, Maison de la Radio et de la Musique, Mass MoCA, Morden Tower, MoMA PS1, Paradiso, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, REDCAT, Sydney Opera House, Völksbuhne, & ZKM) while maintaining a foothold in the ad hoc experimental & improvised music communities in NYC (via appearances at Artists Space, Cassette, e-flux & Bar Laika, Lava Club, Light & Sound Design, Market Hotel, Pianos, Pioneer Works, (Le) Poisson Rouge, Public Records, Roulette, Sleepwalk, Sunview Acropolis, TV Eye, & Union Pool).

An extensive discography includes album-length suites of Real-Time Guitar- & Software-Based Minimalism, Musique Concrète & Machine Music, Generative & Iterative Modular Synthesis, & Home-Studio Experiments w/ Sampling & Rhythm Programming for kranky, Planet-µ, Nakid, Editions Mego, PAN, & Carpark (which have been met with accolades from The New Yorker, NPR, Pitchfork, The Wire, etc.) He is the recipient of a 2020 grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts & is currently a resident on The Lot while simultaneously co-hosting a sporadic program for Montez Press. Over the past 15 years he has been in frequent dialogue with the Groupe De Recherches Musicales (GRM) in Paris, through whom several commissions for multichannel tape-music works have been realized & diffused on the Acousmonium, fulfilling a childhood dream.

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Alexander Wu is a composer, improviser, pianist, and programmer based in the Bay Area. He is interested in far-fetched logic, misplaced memories, profaned tools, and sometimes-disappointing sounds. He likes the tension of a body refusing to be mechanized, and a machine refusing to become a body.