Byron Westbrook
Byron Westbrook * is a composer/sound artist living in Brooklyn, NY. He
performs solo under the name CORRIDORS using a system of multiple amplifiers
and video projections to create a dynamic space within a space using sound
and light. He has performed with Sawako, Tony Conrad, Lichens, Anette
Krebs, Soft Circle among others. He has also collaborated with Rhys Chatham
in the drone metal group Essentialist (Table of the Elements), as well as
performed in the ensembles of Phill Niblock, Chatham, Glenn Branca, and
Jonathan Kane.
This performance will premiere a multi-channel sound piece called *68
Footsteps (x8)*, which explores the use of an acoustic guitar to unify
dissimilar location recordings broadcast within a space.