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Artifact - An Experimental Music Series

Sleepwalk251 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn, NY, 11211 · Map

This night happened — Sun 18 Jan

Artifact Sound Series

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Who was billed4 artists

In the order the promoter listed them.

Set times were not published.

None of these artists had shared a bill before that night.

Who they are

  • Chantal Michelle

    New York City · 4 bookings since Jan 2026

    “Her work and collaborations have been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including The Museum of Modern Art (US), the Royal Academy of Arts (UK), WeSA Seoul (KR), MUTEK (MX), Fridman Gallery (US), and Café OTO (UK).”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Her work and collaborations have been presented internationally at institutions and festivals including The Museum of Modern Art (US), the Royal Academy of Arts (UK), WeSA Seoul (KR), MUTEK (MX), Fridman Gallery (US), and Café OTO (UK). Her discography includes releases on Shelter Press (FR), Dinzu Artefacts (US), Superpang (IT), and Somewhere Press (UK).
    Their RA profile lists Shelter Press, Quiet Time, Injazero Records, Paralaxe Editions and 4 more.

    often with William Basinski, MORENXXX, K Wata, none of them here that night

  • Brian Wenner

    New York City · 10 bookings since Dec 2023

    “Brian Wenner is a Brooklyn-based experimental electronic musician and sound artist.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Brian Wenner is a Brooklyn-based experimental electronic musician and sound artist. His artistic practice involves sound collage and improvisation to create dense works that feel frenetic yet structured. Bandcamp has described his sound as “sizzling experimental electronic music, alternatively dissonant and tuneful.” Working primarily with sampled audio content, Wenner’s creative process is heavily inspired by Musique Concrète combined with modern digital processes. He often gathers sound material from a variety of sources including Internet and phone-ripped audio, natural field recordings, and his own personal sample library. Sounds are then manipulated and layered via hardware samplers and further edited and re-imagined in software. The inspiration for such a process comes from his fascination in recontextualizing found audio to create something meaningful and coherent. Wenner has composed for dance, theater, multichannel installation, and digital album release. He most recently released an album entitled QUADRANT in March of 2025 which documents a quadraphonic sound performance recorded live in Austin, TX. The album came out on the London-based experimental record label Old Technology. Wenner also co-curates and organizes the monthly experimental music series Artifact. He has performed across North America and has presented work with institutions such as Art Basel Miami, CURRENTS Art & Technology Festival, Satellite Art Fair, and dadaLab. His work has been reviewed and featured by outlets including The New York Times, Time Out New York, The Creators Project, The FADER, VICE, FACT and Self-titled Magazine. “a glitchy musique électrique that feels like walking through numerous corridors, command centres and cockpits of a lost-in-space galaxy explorer.” - Mutant Zones “ [Musical] Layers are added, taken away, elongated, and repeated, to create aspects of unpredictability, of suspense, though it’s all texturally pleasing as all hell.” - Ears to Feed “When it comes to experimentation, the Brooklyn-based producer knows no limitations” - DMY

    Recently at Reforesters Laboratory, Sleepwalk, Littlefield · often with Rose Kourts, Dreams, Julia Govor, none of them here that night

  • Matthew Ryals

    Arkansas · 12 bookings since Feb 2024

    “Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving.”

    their own biography

    the whole biography
    Primarily working with a modular synthesizer, his music encompasses improvisation, generative composition, chance, cybernetics, unfixed forms, and experiments in manifold archiving. Tiny Mix Tapes has described his music as “filter[ing] the emotion of the human experience through the cold circuitry of electronics”. Recent accolades include a '22-'23 New Music USA Award and a '21 IEA Electronic Media Residency. He has released on Oxtail Recordings (Sydney), SØVN (Turino), sound as language (Carolinas), dingn/dents (Seoul), Post Season Franchise Records (NYC), Low Hanging Fruit (Cologne), and Behind Glass (NYC) & other labels. He’s the co-curator of the Brooklyn-based experimental music series, Artifact.
    Their RA profile lists sound as language and Oxtail Recordings.

    Recently at Silence Please, Threes Brewing, Cutelab · often with Sabrina Salamone, Public Speaking, Drew Wesely, none of them here that night

names these artists often play with — not that night
  • Russell E.L. Butler1 with Brian Wenner and 1 with Chantal Michelle
  • Michael Foster2 with Matthew Ryals
  • Public Speaking2 with Matthew Ryals
  • Sabrina Salamone2 with Matthew Ryals
  • William Basinski2 with Chantal Michelle
  • 3G1 with Brian Wenner
  • Abby Echiverri1 with Chantal Michelle
  • Acid Horizon1 with Chantal Michelle

The room

Sleepwalk — 87 events and 265 distinct artists since Aug 2023.

Holds about 72.

Who put it on

Artifact Sound Series — 12 events and 46 artists since Feb 2024.

Artist photos: Resident Advisor, event 2337221.

Venue and promoter records and co-billing history: adrift’s record of New York City events.

Quoted passages are the promoter’s or the artist’s own words, unedited.