Kamari Carter & Gladstone Deluxe - Codes
Saturday December 13th
doors at 7:30pm | performance at 8:00pm
$20 general tickets | $10 student tickets with ID
This performance is part of BROILER, an Oracle Egg Residency series providing 3 to 7 day residencies to incubate ambitious new work in sound and performance. Learn more here.
Codes is a collaboration between Kamari Carter and Gladstone Deluxe that features an audio-visual durational performance using data extracted from live police scanner transmissions as material for musical exploration. Deriving from Carter’s research-oriented practice on policing, incarceration, Black aesthetics, and surveillance, and Deluxe’s haptic, Afrological and techno-inspired analog compositions, Codes works towards a synthesis and seeks to elevate the obfuscated. Given our current political climate, policing both of the body and of our country has become heightened to an unprecedented level. As artists of color, they believe it is their responsibility to address the world around them, which has been and will continue to be a driving force both in our artistic and compositional practices.
Kamari Carter
Kamari Carter is a New York-based artist working primarily with sound, video, installation, and performance. His practice circumvents materiality and familiarity through a variety of recording and amplification techniques to investigate notions such as space, systems of identity, oppression, control, and surveillance. Driven by the probative nature of perception, Carter’s work seeks to expand narrative structures through sonic stillness and found objects. Carter holds a BFA from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) and an MFA from Columbia University. Kamari Carter is represented by Microscope Gallery in New York City.
Gladstone Deluxe
Gladstone Deluxe is a New York based artist working with percussion and electronics. As a percussionist, Gladstone is interested in how conceptions and politics of time are embodied, and can bleed into the social topography of a culture through rhythmic performance. As a technologist, he develops systems for the augmentation and amplification of percussive messages. His experimental approach towards composition and interface design is a collision of the spiritual and the cybernetic.