Spatial audio. Live + install. In unexpected spaces.
Join us for our July 2026 residency at Light Manufacturing, 121 Cassidy Point, Portland, ME — a month of multi-channel listening, performance, and experimentation.
Aftersound is an ongoing listening and performance series focused on multi-channel / spatial audio performances and installation works presented in non-traditional performance spaces. We will be in residence at Light Manufacturing for the month of July 2026.
Light Manufacturing is a 1,500 sq. ft. space for temporary creative projects at 121 Cassidy Point in Portland, Maine. cassidypoint.com/light-manufacturing-studio
Supported in part by a Sonic Visions grant from Space Gallery. space538.org
Saturday July 11 — Cyparissus / Slow Hymn
8pm — $10
The first performance of our July residency at Cassidy Point is two of Maine’s most focused and deep explorers of sound.
Join us on Saturday July 11th to experience spatial audio immersion that will also feature sound installations from the AFTERSOUND gallery.
Kenneth Moss makes music as Cyparissus, exploring themes of identity through ambient and experimental soundscapes which often incorporate sounds from insects and the natural world. instagram.com/__cyparissus
Slow Hymn is an ambient drone musician and field recordist based in Portland, Maine. Their work focuses on the manipulation and layering of recorded sounds. instagram.com/ghoul_caller
Wednesday July 15 — John Chowning’s Stria, presented by Patrick Carey + Ron Harrity
8pm — Free / Donations Optional
John Chowning is a pioneer of computer and generative music, and also well-known as the creator of FM synthesis. We are honored to be able to present Stria in its original 4-channel version. Stria was commissioned by IRCAM and premiered at the Centre Pompidou on October 13, 1977. The piece is famous for its use of FM synthesis, the golden mean, and algorithmic composition. ccrma.stanford.edu/people/john-chowning
The program will be followed by a duo performance from AFTERSOUND organizers Patrick Carey and Ron Harrity.
Saturday July 25 — Lauren Tosswill
8pm — $10
The specifics are TBD, but we’re very excited to host multidisciplinary artist Lauren Tosswill for this evening in the Light Manufacturing space.
Tosswill is an artist working with sound, site, and movement to explore improvisation and vulnerability. She uses language and voice as a means to complicate and undermine comprehension, construct absurdity, and engage in live, relational exchange with collaborators and the audience. She has been creating original sound and performance works for over a decade.
Her recorded work has been released across labels including enmossed (US), Paralaxe Editions (ES), and Hard Return (UK), with additional releases forthcoming.
Tosswill’s sound and video work has been presented at institutions including the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Institute for Contemporary Art at VCU, the University of New England, Carnegie Mellon University, and the Portland Museum of Art. She has performed at festivals for experimental music including Savage Weekend, Ende Tymes, E Cubed, Buddy Fest, New England Underground Festival, and Hassle Fest. Her work has also been presented through livestream performances for Overtoon, Sonorium, Boston Hassle, Non-Event, Experimental Sound Studio, and The Wire.
She holds an MFA in Music/Sound from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College. witchsimulator.com
Installation Listening Hours
Tuesdays 7/7, 7/14, 7/21, 7/28 — 5–8pm Thursdays 7/9, 7/16, 7/23 — 2–6pm Or by appointment — Free / Donations Optional
We’re pleased to present gallery listening hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays throughout July. This time will feature a looping program of a broad range of multi-channel work from four artists / collaboratives:
Bryn Davis is a composer based in St. Paul, Minnesota whose works are oriented around active discovery, fluid possibility, and (not infrequently) absurdity. bryndavis.ooo
The Island Soundscape Project partners with local cultural and ecological institutions and schools to promote the idea of the soundscape as an element in the understanding, preservation and identity of the various communities of Maine’s coastal regions. islandsoundscapeproject.org
Roc Jiménez de Cisneros’ work explores both literal and metaphorical processes of deformation in music, graphics, light installations and essays. His music uses all sorts of spatial analogies in order to fold some of his favourite cultural icons. He calls it acid mereotopology. He is also a member of the Radio Web MACBA Working Group. instagram.com/rocjcb
Andrew Weathers (1988) is a composer, improviser, and intermedia artist currently based in Pueblo, Colorado after spending formative time in West Texas, the Bay Area, and North Carolina. His work is primarily concerned with place, site, duration, and repetition, explored through field recording, psychogeographic methods, and recursive resonances. andrewweathers.com
Light Manufacturing, 121 Cassidy Point, Portland, Maine.
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