SOUND PERFORMANCE
ASKU & FOXY DIGITALIS PRESENT: SEWARD/REEDER/ WEATHERS WITH WARREN REALRIDER + BRAD E. ROSE, AND HAYLEY NICHOLS
Tulsa Artists Fellowship x Flagship
Tuesday, May 21, 2024 | 6:30 PM - 9 PM
Spend next Tuesday night downtown at Tulsa Artist Fellowship for an evening of experimental sound works presented by musicians and artists arcing from Northeast Oklahoma through North Texas to the East Rockies.
Asku and Foxy Digitalis present Kory Reeder, Ryan Seward, and Andrew Weathers with Tulsa-based Brad Rose / Warren Realrider and Hayley Nichols on May 21 at Flagship. Doors open at 6:30 pm, followed by performances beginning at 7:00 pm.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
WARREN REALRIDER
is a Pawnee/Crow multidisciplinary sound artist based in Norman, Oklahoma. While studying painting at the University of Oklahoma, he began an exploration of sound, materials, and site as elements of his art practice. Warren created the Tick-Suck noise performance project in 2016 and has since presented his solo works and sound performance collaborations in varied Oklahoma locations as well as distant locales such as Spokane and New York City. His works, such as IIII Kitapâtu and Unassigned Data, work within the unclaimed spaces between contemporary anti-plains existence, universe engagement, and untethered sound to create hypnotic structures of human/item interface. Realrider works to play the tensions and time locations between objects, functions, and movements to create sound pieces lashed to the frameworks of noise art, improvisation, and experimental composition. Realrider is a 2024-2026 Tulsa Artist Fellowship awardee.
https://ticksuck.bandcamp.com/
BRAD ROSE
Brad Rose is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, using sound, listening, and writing to explore, understand, and break down complex themes while creating moments of shared experience. His current projects focus on changes to the sonic landscape due to climate change and human impact on the environment, the aural history of place, and using sound to build new worlds. He has released hundreds of recordings across dozens of labels over the last 30 years and continues to produce new work and perform regularly. He is the founder of the Foxy Digitalis online music magazine and events platform, acting as the primary writer and editor-in-chief since 2003.
https://foxydigitalis.zone/
KORY REEDER
Kory Reeder is an acclaimed American composer and performer known for his introspective and atmospheric music, blending influences from visual arts and political theory. With works spanning symphonic and chamber compositions, field recordings, and computer-assisted improvisations, Kory's music resonates in concert halls and unconventional venues worldwide. Recognized as "one of the most captivating composers in modern classical music" (Dallas Observer), Kory's collaborations extend across opera, theater, dance, and experimental art forms. As an artist-in-residence at esteemed institutions like Arts, Letter, and Numbers, and The Kimmel, Harding, and Nelson Center for the Arts, Kory crafts innovative compositions inspired by his surroundings. His compositions have garnered acclaim from prestigious orchestras such as the Toledo Symphony and ensembles like Apartment House. Awards include recognition from The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and ASCAP Morton Gould Award nominations. Kory's music is featured on respected labels like Edition Wandelweiser Records and Full Spectrum Records, reflecting his commitment to pushing boundaries in contemporary music. As a versatile performer skilled in bass, piano, and experimental sound, Kory frequently tours as an independent artist and collaborates with diverse ensembles, bridging traditional and improvised musical contexts. Based in Texas, Kory earned his PhD from the University of North Texas, where he also taught composition and electronic music. He holds degrees from the University of Nebraska at Kearney and Bowling Green State University. Kory continues to shape the landscape of contemporary music while fostering emerging talents through his label Sawyer Editions.
https://www.koryreeder.com/
RYAN SEWARD
Ryan Seward is a musician, composer, and artist living in Colorado Springs, Colorado. His work is situated within and across a number of forms, including composition, improvisation, installation, performance, phonography, photography, sculpture, and videography. Ryan’s work has most recently been performed by TAK ensemble, Filament, and Sam Wells and presented at CO-OPt Research + Projects (Lubbock, Texas); Blo Back Gallery (Pueblo, Colorado); Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin, Germany); Washington Street Art Center (Somerville, Massachusetts) for co-incidence festival 2020; Die Station (Neufelden, Austria); California Institute of the Arts (Valencia, California) for The Dog Star Orchestra 15; and Casper College (Casper, Wyoming) for the Second Annual New Music Day. His recordings have been released by Editions Glomar, emic rite, Marginal Frequency, and Sawyer Editions. He has previously collaborated with Gabriela Areal, Nat Baldwin, Jaap Blonk, Eugene Chadbourne, Tashi Dorji, Sandy Ewen, Douglas Farrand, Simon Labbé, Llano Estacado Monad Band, Bob Marsh, Cecyl Ruehlen, Daniel Ryan, Bret Sexton, Susan Wolf, Ben Wright, and Jack Wright, among others; and currently collaborates with Kory Reeder and Andrew Weathers. He has also commissioned and premiered the work of composers Eva-Maria Houben and Alexis Porfiriadis. Ryan holds an MA in Music from Wesleyan University, where he studied experimental music and composition with Ron Kuivila, Paula Matthusen, and Neely Bruce. He has also been mentored informally by composers Antoine Beuger, Michael Pisaro-Liu, and Emmanuelle Waeckerlé.
https://ryansewardmusic.com/
ANDREW WEATHERS
Andrew Weathers (1988) is a composer and improviser based in the Llano Estacado region of northwestern Texas. His work is equally concerned with the disjunction of duration and place, as well as improvisation’s prospect as a vessel of discovery and collective practice. His projects and performances span the idioms of field recording, prepared guitar, surrealist soundscape, and minimalist composition rooted in repetition and drone. Apart from his longtime commitment to collaboration alongside a wide swath of figures inhabiting the sonic underground, Weathers is the founder and operator of Full Spectrum Records, which has continued to release the works of sundry sound artists and experimental musicians since its inception in 2008 in his home state of North Carolina. On top of frequent credits as a mixing and mastering engineer, he has also produced various projects for Other Minds Records and Rural Situationism.
https://www.andrewweathers.com/
HAYLEY NICHOLS
Hayley Nichols is an interdisciplinary artist and designer from Tulsa, Oklahoma. She experiments with ways of performing careful attention, studying the marks, movements, and sounds created through daily rituals. Nichols is preoccupied with the unintended: traces left by unconscious social gestures, slow wear on utilitarian objects, and the ephemera of mundane habits. Through drawing, photography, printmaking, ceramics, and sound, she facilitates a subtle noticing of the world. Nichols holds a BFA from Oklahoma State University, where she studied graphic design and studio art. In 2020, she returned to her hometown after a decade of living and working in New York.
https://hayleynichols.com/
ABOUT FLAGSHIP
Tulsa Artist Fellowship inaugurated its Flagship public project space located in Tulsa’s historic downtown district. The 2,421-square-foot building was designed as an integrated and dynamic platform for arts-centered community exchange. Flagship programming includes exhibitions, literary readings, performances, sound installations, screenings, panel and roundtable discussions, artist talks and interviews, workshops, symposiums, and more.
VISITOR EXPERIENCE
Tulsa Artist Fellowship strives to provide a welcoming and accessible experience. Our exhibitions and events are free, documented, and archived.
Flagship accommodates wheelchairs and strollers. Variable seating is provided, as well as areas for distanced standing and wheelchairs. Family-scale private washrooms are available to support visitors with disabilities and caregivers who need access to increased square footage and changing tables. Street-side parking is available using the Park Mobile App. Parking is free after 5 pm and all day Saturday-Sunday.
For questions about accessibility, to request accommodation, or to share feedback, please get in touch with info@tulsaartistfellowship.org or call (539) 302-4855.
