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MISSIVES TO THE ETHER: Colin Self (Audio)

Aug 09, 2026

Colin Self is an artist, composer, and puppeteer based between Brooklyn, New York and Berlin, Germany. They create music, performances, and new systems for interfacing with the human spirit, across a spectrum between the living and deceased. As many of their practices revolve around the temporary assembly of communities, their work envelops collaborative and dialogical experiments into play. Self has been running XOIR since 2013, an alternative modality of group singing, and co-founded TIAPS, a performance school in Lincolnville, Maine in 2023, with their collaborator Monica Mirabile. Their most recent commissions include Where The Souls Go (2024), a play commissioned by the New Theater Hollywood, Kompass (2023), a trilogy composed for the Hannover State Opera, and Tip the Ivy (2022), an opera that premiered at Performance Space NY in 2022. Last year, they were a resident artist at Callie’s Berlin and will be an artistic fellow at La Becque in Autumn 2024. Their third LP, respite ∞ levity for the nameless ghost in crisis came out in February 2025 on RVNG Intl. 


Interdisciplinary writer/artist Cat Tyc reads tarot for guests on air and plays whatever she wants.

Cat Tyc is an interdisciplinary writer/artist who has three chapbooks: An Architectural Seance (dancing girl press & studio), CONSUMES ME (Belladonna* Collaborative), and I AM BECAUSE MY LITTLE DOG KNOWS ME (Blush Lit). Her most recent writing has been published in Maggot Brain, The Recluse, FENCE, and The American Museum of Paramusicology. She has presented and performed at the Microscope Gallery, Anthology Film Archives, Brooklyn Museum, Hauser & Wirth, Kassel Fest, and the Synthesis Gallery in Berlin. She has directed music videos that have been added to the rotation on LOGO’s NewNowNext and MTVu. Her first solo exhibition, SIGNIFICANT OTHERNESS, was presented at Tanja Grunert Gallery in 2022. She has been granted residencies and fellowships at Signal Culture, The Flaherty Seminar, and Mass MOCA and has received support from the Foundation of Contemporary Arts. She lives in Hudson, NY.

Playlist:
  • respite for the tulpamancer / Colin Self
  • Upsurge / Patrick Belaga