Acra, NY—Wave Farm announced today the artists and projects selected for the 2022 Wave
Farm Residency Program. This year the program will focus on new transmission artworks createdby collaborating duos. The 2022 program received proposals from over 330 artists, originatingfrom 16 countries and 26 U.S. states. Each selected duo will live and work on-site at the Wave
Farm Study Center for ten days during the residency season, which spans June through October.
In 2022, Wave Farm welcomes Desiree Mwalimu-Banks (Harlem, New York) + Grant Cutler(Brooklyn, New York); Rashid Zakat (Philadelphia, PA) + Oluwafemi (Philadelphia, PA); Wetware
Instruments (Abhishek Narula (Ypsilanti, MI) + Lorelei d’Andriole Jones (Lansing, MI)); Aaron
Dilloway (Oberlin, OH) + Victoria Shen (San Francisco, CA); Glass Salt (Johann Diedrick(Brooklyn, NY) + Caylie Staples (Toronto, ON)); Kamari Carter (New York City, NY) + Julian Day(New York City, NY); Rami George (Philadelphia, PA) + J. Midden (Portland, OR); and Florencia
Curci (Buenos Aires, Argentina) + Agustín Genoud (Baradero, Argentina)

Wave Farm Executive Director Galen Joseph-Hunter said, “This year the program is thematicallyfocused on artists working as duos. We believe something very special happens when two
collaborating artists are given dedicated time, space, and resources to work together with
uninterrupted focus, and Wave Farm looks forward to a dedicated season supporting this theme,
especially on the heels of the isolation imposed by the pandemic.”
WAVE FARM RESIDENCY PROGRAM SELECTED ARTISTS AND PROJECTS(in chronological order)
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks (Harlem, New York) + Grant Cutler (Brooklyn, New York)—Honeybees& EMF Radiation: Intraspecific Transmissions Beyond The Hive
June 3 - 12, 2022
Inspired by data that links radiation emissions from cell towers and 5G technology to thespectrum of biological and behavioral side effects experienced by honeybees, Honeybees &EMF Radiation is informed by processes of converting EMF radiation into sound waves. At Wave
Farm, Mwalimu-Banks and Cutler will capture radiation waves from local bee hives using a
number of electronic measurement devices and transmute these libraries of sound into
broadcast material for collaborative sound installations. The work seeks to create opportunities
for education on the impact of EMF radiation within the Upper Hudson Valley landscape, whilereflecting on how the bodies and complex communication systems of honeybees mirror ourown. Through a series of daily field recordings, Mwalimu-Banks and Cutler will explore practicesof deep listening, to both the activity of honeybees inside the hive, and the reverberation ofsound transmissions within the ecology of their field of resonance. Listening to the fluctuations invibroacoustics caused by EMF radiation, may offer insight into the consequences of living in an
increasingly 5G-centered world. By generating this archive of materials, Mwalimu-Banks andCutler aim to create psychic maps for interactive dialogue with honeybees and theirtransmissions on sovereignty, accountability, community, and sustainability.
Desiree Mwalimu-Banks is a Zambian-born, East-Coast raised, artist, writer, curator, educator,
diviner, and mother, whose work explores somatic relationships between indigenous identity,water ecologies, apiary culture, and the ecstatic, within the framework of the sacred feminine
and the African diaspora. Mwalimu-Banks pursues the electrical synapses that link human cosmic
origins to constellations of blackness, by excavating cultural memory as artifact. She createssound and video installations which reimagine the frequencies and landscapes of the archetypal
feminine and its relationship to self-actualization. Mwalimu-Banks has partnered with individuals
and communities in re-visioning embodied collaborations with the natural world including
Movement Research, Naropa University, CUNY, the Manhattanville Purchase College InterfaithStudies Department, and The Caribbean Cultural Center. Her works can be seen in digital andprint-based publications, including Heart & Soul, Sensheant, and teenvogue.com. Her article:“Nectar of the Divine Feminine: The Ancient Bee Mothers of the Anahata Chakra” was includedin Olivia Whiteman's recent anthology publication, Harmony In Chakras.
Composer and sound-artist Grant Cutler works toward the creation of an erotics-of-listening
through an interdisciplinary exploration of acoustic phenomenon. Based in Brooklyn, New York
Cutler creates music and sound for a variety of installations, films, and performances. His work
has been featured by the Guggenheim’s CPA commission series, the Baryshnikov Art Center, The
Walker Art Center, NPR, Pitchfork, BBC, and many others. His award-winning scores have been

exhibited at film festivals world-wide including Tribeca, Ashland Independent, and ParisInternational. Cutler’s interest in the phenomenology of sound continues to drive his creative
pursuits while his field-recording practice feeds a profoundly personal relationship to listening.

Rashid Zakat (Philadelphia, PA) + Oluwafemi (Philadelphia, PA)—Revival!
June 20 - 27, 2022
Part virtual dance party and part live performance, Revival! is a celebration of visual and sonictransmissions that are contained within Black spiritual and ecstatic experience. The title itself
references the religious practices and histories of African Americans who have used spirituals in
the form of song, dance, and performance as modes of connection, transcendence, andpleasure outside of the systemic violences pressing on our lives. Zakat and Oluwafemi use
turntables to deejay both visual and aural content sourced from an archive of found footage
from the internet, documentaries, live performances, and interviews. At Wave Farm Revival! will
manifest both as a radio broadcast and a live event at Avalon Lounge in Catskill, NY.
Rashid Zakat is a filmmaker and artist based in Philadelphia. He uses video, photography,
design, audio, and the web to encourage people to find as much beauty, joy, and wonder as
possible. Professionally Zakat has a 15-year long career as a director and cinematographer for
non-fiction, experimental films, and music videos. He has done work for India.Arie, Carmelo
Anthony, Black Thought, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, BlackStar Film Festival, Soul Train,
Topic, WHYY, Philadelphia Contemporary, Mural Arts, & BET to name a few. His personal work
includes short documentary, iPhone and traditional portrait projects, visual mixtapes, digitalpublications, video installations, open mics and dance parties that experiment with visuals.
Oluwafemi is a deejay, music producer and visual artist based in Philadelphia, by way of Central
New Jersey, by way of Lagos, Nigeria. Oluwafemi is inspired by drums and patterns, therhythmic evolution of repetition. For over a decade, he has enjoyed mixing songs of drum
influenced genres - the family of funk, hip-hop, soul, reggae, dancehall, house music, and theirinnumerable offshoots. These diasporic sounds have traveled with Oluwafemi to various cities on
the east coast, California and Costa Rica. His style is simultaneously groovy and soulful, often
drawing from a wide range of cultural influence and history.

Wetware Instruments (Abhishek Narula (Ypsilanti, MI) + Lorelei d’Andriole Jones (Lansing,MI))—When the World Screamed
July 1 - 10, 2022
When the World Screamed is a sound installation and performance that speculates on thepossibilities of co-creating with non-human entities and processes through sound synthesis andmodulation. Consisting of large-scale string instruments constructed by stringing piano wires
across tree trunks, this outdoor installation will generate sounds through a series of strumming
mechanisms. Amplified by electric guitar pickups, the sound will be further modulated throughsonic filters triggered by moisture, ambient radiation, and temperature sensors plugged into theground. By allowing this data to distort, alter, and modulate the sound, the installation is acollaboration between human and non-human systems. Additionally, Narula and Jones will

interact with the installation by moving and altering the locations of ground sensors to create a
30-minute sound performance piece that further highlights the collaboration between the artists’bodies and the earth. The residency will culminate with a radio event in which Narula and Jones
will play recordings from the installation and performance, present transmission related readings,
including Arthur Conan Doyle’s short story, “When the World Screamed,” along with a discussion
about how intersectional identities inform ideas of art, technology, and culture.
Abhishek Narula is an artist and educator working at the intersection of art, science, andtechnology. His installations, performances and interventions are thought experiments tochallenge fundamental assumptions underlying digital systems, technology, culture and society.
Using computer code and electronics as aesthetic tools, Abhishek also seeks to develop
alternative imaginaries and possibilities of the synthetic and artificial. Abhishek is a hardware
junkie, an avid DIY’er and an open-source advocate. Born in New Delhi, India, Abhishek has
exhibited and presented his work at national and international festivals, conferences, venues,
galleries and publications such as the Science Gallery Detroit, Speculum Artium Media Festival
Slovenia, New Media Caucus (NMC), Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, The Boulder Public
Library, The Boulder Creative Collective Warehouse, The Hyde Park Art Center, and Sector 2337
Art Gallery & Printing Press, Tangible Embedded Interaction (TEI), International Symposium ofElectronic Arts (ISEA) and Infosys Pathfinders Institute. He earned his MFA from the University ofMichigan Stamps School of Art and Design, and he holds his MS and BS in Electrical Engineeringfrom the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Electronic Art
and Intermedia at Michigan State University.
Lorelei d’Andriole Jones is an intermedia artist, educator, and writer whose work is at theintersections of transgender and sound studies. Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Jones toured
across the country in punk bands and played hundreds of shows in venues ranging from houseshows to amphitheaters while earning her BFA in New Media from the University of Central
Oklahoma (Magna Cum Laude) in 2018. She went on to earn her MA and MFA with honors fromthe University of Iowa’s Intermedia program, where she received the Len Everett Award for
Excellence and the Stanley Fellowship for International Research. She has shown work nationallyat universities, galleries, and festivals including University of Arkansas’s sUgAR Gallery, theUniversity of Nevada Las Vegas, and Public Space One’s Open-Air Media Festival in Iowa City,
IA. As production director at KRUI 89.7 FM from 2018-2021, Jones hosted an experimental radio
art program where she did weekly broadcasts for three years. Jones is currently a visual arts
fellow at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art in New York City and an Assistant Professor inElectronic Art and Intermedia at Michigan State University.

Aaron Dilloway (Oberlin, OH) + Victoria Shen (San Francisco, CA)—Inhaled Yowls Machine
July 17 - 26, 2022
Inhaled Yowls Machine is the name of a project and novel tape instrument which will be used forcomposing, recording, and broadcasting during the Wave Farm Residency by the artist duo
Victoria Shen and Aaron Dilloway. The instrument will consist of hacked 8-track tape players thatwill function like a motorized Mellotron. This novel approach to tape manipulation presents theopportunity for multichannel sound collage and a unique sounding instrument. Dilloway/Shenwill use recorded samples from the local radio as the chief material for the tape compositions.

These compositions will be broadcast over local radio during the course of the residency andculminate in a live performance with a quadraphonic sound configuration.
Aaron Dilloway is an improviser and performer who works with 1/4" tape loops in 8-track
cartridges as well as other obsolete electronic equipment. In his performance-based practice, hemanipulates magnetic tape in real-time by feeding the loops sounds from his body, everyday
objects, electronic sources, prepared tapes, as well as the occasional actual instrument. Since
1994 he has run Hanson Records, a record label, mail-order service, and brick and mortar record
store. In 1998 with instrument builder Nate Young he co-founded the industrial noise group Wolf
Eyes, recording and touring extensively with them until leaving the band in 2005. Since thenDilloway has performed all over the world as a solo artist including gigs and residencies
including Wave Farm in NY, Museion in Bolzano, INA-GRM in Paris, Istituto Svizzero in Rome,
Station Museum in Houston, New Museum in NY, and countless others. Dilloway is an avid
collaborator working alongside many artists and musicians including Genesis P-Orridge, Lucrecia
Dalt, Victoria Shen, C. Lavender, Kim Gordon and Bill Nace.
Victoria Shen is a sound artist, experimental music performer, and instrument-maker based in
San Francisco. Shen's sound practice is concerned with the spatiality/physicality of sound and its
relationship to the human body. Her music features analog modular synthesizers, vinyl/resin
records, and self-built electronics. Eschewing conventions in harmony and rhythm in favor of
extreme textures and gestural tones, Shen uses what she calls "chaotic sound" to oppose signal
and information, eluding traditionally embedded meaning. Her DIY approach to deconstructing
the concepts of “materiality, value and mass production” both integrate and re-contextualize theformats of the readymade and assemblage techniques. For example, the album art for her debut
LP, “Hair Birth,” utilizes copper to transform the cover into a loudspeaker through which therecord can be played. For recent performances, she pioneered the use of Needle Nails, acrylic
nails with embedded turntable styluses, which allow her to play up to 5 tracks of a record at
once. Shen has performed solo across North America, Japan, Mexico, and Europe as Evicshen
and as half of the duo TRIM in North America and the UK. Some notable venues in which she
has performed include Boston City Hall, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ISSUE ProjectRoom NY, DOMMUNE Tokyo, and Petreon Sculpture Park Cyprus. Shen has also been an artist in
residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS Stockholm SE, WORM Rotterdam NL, Kurimanzutto New
York US, the Sound Laboratory of The Royal Danish Academy Copenhagen DK, and AUDIUM
San Francisco.

Glass Salt (Johann Diedrick (Brooklyn, NY) + Caylie Staples (Toronto, ON))—Celeste
July 29 - August 7, 2022
Celeste is a new sonic performance by Glass Salt, an experimental music duo composed of
Caylie Stapes and Johann Diedrick, in collaboration with the radio transmission frequencies
floating in the sky, the celestial sphere, and deep space. On the theme of “the duo,” Glass Salt
engages with two opposing ends of the electromagnetic frequency spectrum: the very low
frequencies in the atmosphere between 3 and 30khz, and the cosmic gamma radiation emitted
from stellar radio sources at frequencies above 30 exahertz. This combination of a musical duo
engaging with a duo of extreme frequency bands allows for the creation of adventurous new
sonic performance that brings the unhearable into the range of human listening andperformance. Celeste will occur during the annual Perseid meteor shower, which brings over 100

shooting stars per hour to the night sky and will set the stage for a celestial backdrop for Glass
Salt’s atmospheric engagement with the sky above.
Glass Salt is an experimental music and sound duo consisting of singer, producer and improviser
Caylie Staples and artist, engineer, and musician Johann Diedrick. Staples and Diedrick
improvise with voice, electronics, custom software, homemade hardware and percussion. Glass
Salt creates with values of presence, tactility, transparency, friendship, collaboration, learning,skill-building and playfulness. They released their debut album “Greetings on Whatever’s Clever
Club'' in July 2020 and a follow-up album “Mer on Cherche Encore” in December 2020.
Caylie Staples is a Canadian-based innovative singer, songwriter, producer and improviser. She isinternationally recognized for her unique skill of creating on-the-spot, free form lyrics andvocals. Current projects include her self-titled art-pop electronica project, improvisational duo
Glass Salt with Johann Diedrick focused on voice and custom electronics, co-leading improvising
avant-rock ensemble Anthems of the Void with NYC-based experimental luthier Bradford Reed,and co-writing electronica with Morgan Doctor for Aporia Records. Staples has a B.F.A. Honors
in Music from York University, Toronto, Canada.
Johann Diedrick is an artist, engineer, and musician that makes installations, performances, andsculptures for encountering the world through our ears. He surfaces vibratory histories of pastinteractions inscribed in material and embedded in space, peeling back sonic layers to reveal
hidden memories and untold stories. He shares his tools and techniques through listening tours,
workshops, and open-source hardware/software. He is the founder of A Quiet Life, a sonicengineering and research studio that designs and builds audio-related software and hardware
products for revealing possibilities off the grid through sonic encounter. He is a 2021 Mozilla
Creative Media Award recipient, a member of NEW INC, and an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP
program. His work has been featured in Wire Magazine, Musicworks Magazine, and presented
internationally at MoMA PS1, Ars Electronica, and the Somerset House, among others.

Kamari Carter (New York City, NY) + Julian Day (New York City, NY)—Can & String
August 12 - 21, 2022
Can & String uses the medium of radio to play with authorized and unauthorized use of ambient
audio data. It comprises a darkly satirical radio program featuring live feeds of police andemergency data from across New York State. Two fictional radio hosts deploy the affect ofdifferent styles of commercial and public broadcasting, throwing to curated feeds of frontline
operations and interviewing special guests. The results will draw together a collision of different
emergency streams, drawing to attention the discrepancy between degrees of official
information and their access to public ears. The 60-minute pre-recorded radio feature will becomplemented by an in-person Q&A on-site. Can & String brings together sound artists Kamari
Carter and Julian Day for their third collaboration. Blissville (2020) used custom LED signage andvideo to explore hidden complexities of gentrification in Queens, New York City, focusing on avulnerable triangle of land near Long Island City. (I Want) To Be Held (2021) featured a roomsized installation of LED lightboxes by Day and a live sonic intervention by Carter, responding to
the previous year’s complex and inchoate public messaging circulating from combined protest,
pandemic, and political turmoil. This new project unites two of their shared interests: the politics
of eavesdropping and the conscious moderation of broadcast structures.

Kamari Carter is a producer, performer, sound designer, and installation artist primarily working
with sound and found objects. Carter's practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through avariety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systemsof identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception
and the concept of conversation and social science, he seeks to expand narrative structures
through sonic stillness. Carter’s work has been exhibited at such venues as Automata Arts,
MoMA, Mana Contemporary, RISD Museum, Flux Factory, Lenfest Center for the Arts, WaveHill
and has been featured in a range of major publications including ArtNet, Precog Magazine,
LevelGround and WhiteWall. Carter holds a BFA in Music Technology from California Institute of
the Arts and an MFA in Sound Art from Columbia University.
Julian Day is a writer, composer, and artist. Their creative work has featured at Tate Modern,Whitechapel Gallery, MASS MoCA, Fridman Gallery, Wallach Art Gallery, Museum ofContemporary Art Australia, California-Pacific Triennial, and Asia Pacific Triennia, Bang On A Can
Marathon, MATA, Spitalfields Music Festival, and Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival.
Day has studied at the University of Oxford and Columbia University, given presentations at
Harvard, NYU, and UCLA, and published in Tempo, Contemporary Music Review, and Leonardo
Music Journal. They have worked extensively in broadcasting, interviewing Elliott Carter, Pauline
Oliveros, Steve Reich, Laurie Anderson, George Crumb, and Janet Cardiff among others.

Rami George (Philadelphia, PA) + J. Midden (Portland, OR)—Virtues Vol. 2
September 23 - October 3, 2022
Virtues Vol. 2 is the second volume in a three-part series of EPs sonically interpreting a group of
esoteric line drawings produced by the Samaritan Foundation—a new age spiritual cult Rami’sfamily was involved with in the early 1990s. Primarily working with found and manipulated audio
sources, Rami & J. will use their time at Wave Farm to explore the possibilities of incorporating
broadcast—a technology the Samaritan Foundation was deeply distrustful of—into this project.
Among other strategies, they plan to collect field recordings from around the farm, re-recording
them via broadcast at different frequencies and distances. They will also work towards a twohour radio broadcast that incorporates elements of Virtues Vol. 1, as well as remixes from aforthcoming project (Virtues Vol. 1—Remixed & Reinterpreted), primary source recordings fromthe community, work in progress, and audio from video essays created exploring this group andthe lasting impact on Rami’s family. This will mark the duo’s first time collaborating in person,
previously only working remotely.
Rami George is an interdisciplinary artist currently based on Lenape land in what is now called
Philadelphia. They have exhibited and screened broadly and remain motivated by politicalstruggles and fractured narratives.
J. Midden is a musician and sound artist. His work explores questions about identity, uncertainty,
and forgiveness. It has been described by The Quietus as “all-consuming” as well as “a banquetof the bizarre and beautiful” by the UK Press Association. He is currently based on unceded
lands of the Clakamas, Cowlitz, and Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde in what is now
called Portland, Oregon.

Florencia Curci (Buenos Aires, Argentina) + Agustín Genoud (Baradero, Argentina)—INSECTA
October 7 - 16, 2022
INSECTA is an ephemeral radio installation and vocal performance in collaboration with theinsects that inhabit Wave Farm. Luminescent balloon membranes become microphones to
explore experimental passages between sounding beings (insects, air, voices) as a way to
traverse a relationship with otherness, non-normative knowledge, and sustainable sociality. Curciand Genoud aim to contribute with the practice of collective voices (including other species inthat collectiveness) capable of telling new stories, imagining and producing shared and livable
futures.
Florencia Curci works as a sound and radio artist, performer and curator. Since 2017 she is
Director of CASo (Sound Art Center), an institution dependent on the Ministry of Culture ofArgentina promoting artistic research on sound, experimental music and social acoustics. Cocurator of RUIDO Festival. Her installations, radio pieces and performances explore collective
sounding and listening strategies and were commissioned by KunstRadio, AMEE, CA2M
(Madrid), Centro Cultural Kirchner (Arg) and presented internationally at Festival Aural (MX),MediaLab Prado (Madrid), Tsonami Festival (Chile), among others.
Agustin Genoud works as a performer, musician and scholar in the fields of contemporary voice,post-humanism and new media. He creates expanded voice techniques that disrupt andinterfere with the humanly assigned sounds to the vocal tract and tries to expand thosecapacities through machinic and animalistic behaviors. As a scholar and lecturer Genoud’s work
centers around post-humanism, new materialisms, expanded voice performances andbiopolitics. Genoud teaches and conducts research in Buenos Aires at the Universidad Nacionalde las Artes (New Media Department) and Tres de Febrero University.