MV Carbon

Clip from June 18, 2022 performance
The Lab, San Francisco
MV Carbon is a multi-disciplinary artist encompassing live performance, sound, film, sculpture, painting, and multimedia installation. Her work focuses on sonic feedback, sound spatialization, sound morphology, and the transformative and deconstructive interrelationship between sound, image, space, and place. Carbon interprets sonic space as a living organism which fluctuates physically, and perceptively. Her work touches on themes such as regeneration, interchangeability, and transmogrification of matter and mind, while exploring the capacity of sound through music, performance, and immersive space. Carbon forms soundtracks with amplified vessels, handmade electronics, voice, cello, magnetic tape, oscillators, keyboards, and electronic synthesis.
Carbon has exhibited multimedia environments, and films, including solo exhibitions at Tomato Mouse Gallery (NYC), IDIO Gallery (NYC), and Heliopolis (NYC), amongst a variety of group exhibitions and screenings including Cafe Oto (UK), D'Amelio Gallery (NY), Essex Flowers (NY), Knockdown Center (NY), Fridman Gallery (NY), and Louis V.E.S.P. (NY).
Carbon has solo and collaborative projects released on record labels including 5RC, Atavistic Records, Dia’s Artist’s Playlist Program, Discombobulate, Ecstatic Peace, Chaikin Records, Hanson, Load Records, No Fun Productions, Various Artists, and Veglia. She has composed soundtracks for The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, as well as composing and producing soundtracks for a variety of independent films.
Carbon has performed at spaces including Casa Des Artes (PT), Detroit Symphony Orchestra (MI), Dia Art Center (NY), Harvard Film Archive (MA), Harvestworks (NY), National Sawdust (NY), Nefertiti Jazz Club (SE), Performa (NY), Pioneer Works (NY), PS1-MoMA (NY), RIXC (LV), Roulette (NY), Socrates Sculpture Park (NY), The Copenhagen Music Theater (DK), The Guggenheim BMW Lab (NY), The Kitchen (NY), The Knockdown Center (NY), The Metropolitan Museum of Art (NY), The Museum of Contemporary Art (MI), The Sage (UK), The Stone (NY), The Swiss Institute (NY), The Tate Modern (UK), ULU (UK), Unsound Festival (AU), Worm (NL). Her work has been exhibited at galleries including D’Amelio Gallery (NY), Fridman Gallery (NYC), Knockdown Center (NY), Lucien Terras Gallery (NY), Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery (NY), Q02 (BE), Roulette, (NY).
She has been awarded residencies and commissions at Clocktower Gallery (NY), EMS Elektronmusikstudion (SE), Issue Project Room (NY), Koncertkirken (DK), Pioneer Works (NY), Q02 (BE) Roulette (NY), The String Orchestra of Brooklyn and (NY) Zebulon (CA)
Carbon has been in bands including HEVM, Metalux, Bad Faces, Body Types, and Bride of No No., and has collaborated with a multitude of artists including Aki Onda, Brian Chase, C. Spencer Yeh, Bradley Eros, Charlemagne Palestine, Evan Parker, Jenny Gräf Sheppard, Ka Baird, Lary 7, Okkyung Lee, Shelley Hirsch, Tony Conrad, Twig Harper, and Wolf Eyes.