W H I T E B O X :: A R C H I V E :: Concert-Performance Sonic TapestriesBy Jen Stock (N.Y) & Aleksei Stevens (N.Y.)

Jen Stock and Aleksei Stevens are composers, sound artists, and experimental field recorders. Their work brings together various slices of life via sounds recorded throughout New York City and elsewhere. Using custom-designed software and interfaces, the artists' team blends sounds of natural and man-made phenomena, snippets of conversations, music and electronic sounds in real time, creating particular spatial sonic tapestries.

Jen Stock is a composer living in New York City. A graduate of Yale University, Jen composes songs for laptop and various instruments. She also curates concerts that encourage a wide approach to art music. While a student at Yale, Jen directed a number of productions, including a performance of Luciano Berio's Laborintus II for the Yale College Opera Company. She also wrote and directed a one-act opera, Consolations, based on The Consolation of Philosophy by Boethius. She was the recipient of the 2001 Yale Cole Porter Fellowship for Music and Theater. She has studied poetry with John Hollander and composition with Sven-David Sandstrom and Joan La Barbara.

Aleksei Stevens is a composer, laptop musician, and creator of computer-mediated live performance works incorporating instrumental performance, found sound, real-time signal processing, and video. Recent installations include Suspended Sounds (created in collaboration with Joan La Barbara, Alvin Curran, and others), at the 2006 Ear to the Earth Festival in New York City; and 40°45' North, 73°59' West, at the Tevereterno Festival in Rome. In March 2007, his work Cirrus, for flute and electronics, was premiered at Carnegie Hall. Other recent NYC performances include The Stone, Symphony Space, and The Monkey. Aleksei received a Master of Music degree in composition from Manhattan School of Music in 2006, where he studied with Nils Vigeland and Joel Chadabe. He is currently an associate professor at Long Island University, where he teaches digital audio and new media performance.

WHITE BOX is a 501 (c) (3) not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible to the full extent of the law. Annual exhibitions are supported in part by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, with additional annual organization funds from The Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation.