Artist-in-Residence
Spring semester 2025 artist-in-residence
Retribution Body
In residence April 2025, Matthew Azevedo (b. 1977) is a Providence, RI based composer, mastering engineer, and acoustician. Their work as Retribution Body uses custom subwoofers and modular synthesizers to auralize the architecture of performance spaces through dense fields of standing waves, crafting work that is simultaneously minimalist and overwhelming.
During this residency, Retribution Body will host an interactive artist workshop, exploring the technical and conceptual elements of their work, as well as give an infra-sonic, sub-woofer, modular synth performance with guest artist Asha Tamirisa in Holden Chapel. Both events are free and open to the public.
more info:
Retribution Body: Artist-in-Residence Workshop – April 11, 2025 at 1:00 pm
Retribution Body: Artist-in-Residence Performance – April 11, 2025 at 8:00 pm
Upcoming Artist Residencies
- Alexy Seliverstov (grayskiesforever), in residence September 2025
- Artist talk, class visits, and interactive sound installation built around field recordings and utilizing an array of sound media formats
- TJ Borden, Madison Greenstone, Michael Matusuno, and Charlotte Mundy, in residence April 2026
- Interactive workshops on spatial sound design and live electronics, performer discussions on performing electro-acoustic works, and a concert performance of fragments by Venetian composer Luigi Nono
The Shelemay Sound Lab artist-in-residency program is dedicated to supporting and spotlighting emerging artists exploring niche and personal areas of sound studies and sound-based performance art.
Through these residencies, the Sound Lab hopes to foster creativity in sound-based practices, and share innovative sound-based work with the Harvard and wider Boston community.
If you are interested in an artist residency at the Sound Lab, please don’t hesitate to contact us and share your work.