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C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez)
Sound: Artist, Healing Practitioner, Educator |
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Biography
C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is an interdisciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator. Her work spans through live performance, recording, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She creates immersive aural landscapes for listeners; experiences which are intensely physical, emotional, and ultimately cathartic. She is the author of the book Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Anthology Editions), which delves into how listening can be a powerful source of inspiration. C. Lavender has performed, lectured, and hosted workshops at MoMA, The Whitney, The Guggenheim, Hirshhorn Museum, The Rubin Museum, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Museum of the Moving Image, Fridman Gallery, Cafe Oto, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute among other venues. She has albums and recordings featured on the labels Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! and RVNG Intl. C. Lavender has been artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Harvestworks, A+E Lab (UK), and Wave Farm.
Selected Exhibitions, Works, and Performances
2023
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Meditative Performance + Mixtape for the "Invisible Thread" exhibit | Auburn, AL
2022
A+E Lab "Oneness for Wave Field Synthesis" Spatial Audio Work for 192 speaker Wave Field Synthesis System | This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant | Chatham, UK
Cafe Oto Performance for Electronics & Small Percussion | London, UK
Rockaway Film Fest Live score for "Pond & Waterfall" by filmmaker Barbara Hammer | NYC
Fridman Gallery "Peripheral Listening" 10-person Collective Group Improvisation curated by Daniel Neumann | NYC
Center for Art, Research & Alliances (CARA) Discussion about listening & meditative sound bath | NYC
The Bunker - Going in Duo with Matthew Regula | Virtual
Radiophrenia "Circadian Rhythm Radio" | Glasgow, SCT/Virtual
Franklin Furance Performance Dedicated to performance artist Linda Mary Montano | NYC/Virtual
2021
John Cage Trust "Rozart Mix" performer, realization by Aaron Dilloway | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
National Sawdust Performance via City Artist Corps Grant | NYC
Bemis Center Performance | Omaha, NE
Send + Receive Fest Multichannel Audio Installation | Winnipeg, Canada
Museum of Moving Image "A Day in Jackson Heights" Audio Installation | Queens, NY
Currents.FM "Editions Mego Presents" | Virtual
2020
The Whitney Museum "Sound Bath" Virtual Performance | New York, NY
Fridman Gallery “The Impulse Chamber” Virtual A/V Performance | New York, NY
Everyseeker Festival "Sound Bath" Virtual Performance | Virtual/Canada
De Appel Audio Installation, Listening Session | Amsterdam, NL
Screenslate "New Age Sound & Vision" Film Curation, Short Film Presentation, Discussion w/Robert Beatty | Virtual
2019
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum “Organ Within” Performance | New York, NY
Hirshorn Museum “Sonic Meditation: Pulse Index” Performance in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Pulse” Installation | Washington, DC
Lincoln Park Conservatory Experimental Sound Studio Commission | "Terraforming a Sanctuary" Multichannel Audio Installation
| Chicago, IL
Public Records Performance | New York, NY
Ende Tymes Festival Performance | New York, NY
Park Place Gallery ARTSCIENCE “Macrophagic Notturno” Audio Installation w/Sculpture | New York, NY
2018
The Rubin Museum The World is Sound “Meditating with Sound” Lecture, Performance | New York, NY
Issue Project Room “Transmutation Helix” Multichannel A/V performance | New York, NY
Gas Take Care, “Sagittal Plane Interference” Meditative Audio Installation | Los Angeles, CA
2016 Basilica Soundscape Festival Performance | Hudson, NY
2015 MoMA PS 1 Psychoacoustics Vol 1 Lecture, Performance | New York, NY
2014 Roulette Mixology Festival Performance | New York, NY
Residencies
2021 Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence | New York, NY
2020 Harvestworks Max/MSP Technology Immersion Program Scholar | New York, NY
2020 Pioneer Works Musician-in-Residence | New York, NY
2019 Kurimanzutto Gallery Composing & Performing With Tarek Atoui’s “Organ Within” Expanded Instrument | New York, NY
2016 Wave Farm “Circadian Rhythm Radio” Radio Program ft Field Recordings to Correspond with the Sleep/Wake Cycle | Acra, NY
Workshops & Lectures
2022
Museum of Moving Image "Indie Game Makers" One Week Course for Pre-Teens About Video Game Design | Queens, NY
Smith College "Embodiment of Sound" Lecture, Graduate Dance Dept | Northampton, MA/Virtual
Immersed Soundspace Explorations Panelist | Virtual
Saffron 7 Days of Sound x Subpac "Feeling Sound: The Embodiment of Listening" Workshop | Virtual
Philosophical Research Society Sound Healing Lecture & Workshop | Los Angeles, CA/Virtual
UCLA Sound Design Lecture | Los Angeles, CA/Virtual
2021
Museum of Moving Image "The Frequency of Fear: The Power and the Glory of the Motion Picture Soundtrack" with Dean Hurley | Curator, Moderator | Queens, NY
Museum of Moving Image "Field Recording" Outdoor Public Field Recording Workshop for Children & Adults | Queens, NY
Museum of Moving Image Sound Design Lectures, Workshops, for the Edu Dept of MoMI, Public School Teachers & Teens | Queens, NY
Pioneer Works "Lavender Suarez & Brandon Stosuy: On Creativity" | New York, NY
Parsons School of Design “Listening for Revolution” Artist Presentation & Lecture | New York, NY
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts "Sound + Vision" Artist Presentation & Lecture | New York, NY
University of Buffalo "Sound & Field" Artist Presentation & Lecture | Buffalo, NY
2020
Brooklyn Public Library "Meditation for Teens" Workshop Series | New York, NY
Pioneer Works “Meditation for Creative Expression” Workshop Series Exploring Sound Healing, Meditation & Art Therapy | New York, NY
2019
Museum of Modern Art “Found Sound: Field Recording Workshop” Lecture, Performance and Workshop Teaching Field Recording | NYC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “Deep Listening & The Physical Properties of Sound” Lecture and workshop | Troy, NY
2016
Brooklyn Botanic Garden “Listening in The Leaves” Lecture and workshop | New York, NY
Kites Nest “All Ears” Ten Week/50-Hour Class About The Scientific & Creative Aspects of Sound for Pre-Teens | Hudson, NY
Publications
Hii Magazine "Pervasive Hiss: Domestic Noise Pollution PSA" Writer/Sound Collage
Stay Inspired Contributor, by Brandon Stosuy | Abrams Books (2021)
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives | Anthology Editions (2020)
Make Time for Creativity Contributor, by Brandon Stosuy | Abrams Books (2020)
Scoring
TRIPP VR App Meditative Musical Score for #1 Rated VR Meditation App
Selected Recordings
Gogoratu/To Remember Commissioned by Send+Receive Festival, Canada | 2022
Transient Seclusion Longform Editions | 2021
Myth of Equilibrium Editions Mego | 2020
Vanishing Light Hot Releases | 2017
Serpentine Fever Dream Primitive Languages | 2017
Peaceful Protest LGBTQ+ Benefit Compilation RVNG Intl | 2017
Fortitude in Wintarmanoth Ecstatic Peace! | 2013
Ladyz in Noyz Compilation Spleencoffin Records | 2008
C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is an interdisciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator. Her work spans through live performance, recording, installations, compositions, videos and workshops. She creates immersive aural landscapes for listeners; experiences which are intensely physical, emotional, and ultimately cathartic. She is the author of the book Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives (Anthology Editions), which delves into how listening can be a powerful source of inspiration. C. Lavender has performed, lectured, and hosted workshops at MoMA, The Whitney, The Guggenheim, Hirshhorn Museum, The Rubin Museum, The Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Museum of the Moving Image, Fridman Gallery, Cafe Oto, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute among other venues. She has albums and recordings featured on the labels Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! and RVNG Intl. C. Lavender has been artist-in-residence at Pioneer Works, Harvestworks, A+E Lab (UK), and Wave Farm.
Selected Exhibitions, Works, and Performances
2023
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art Meditative Performance + Mixtape for the "Invisible Thread" exhibit | Auburn, AL
2022
A+E Lab "Oneness for Wave Field Synthesis" Spatial Audio Work for 192 speaker Wave Field Synthesis System | This project was supported, in part, by a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant | Chatham, UK
Cafe Oto Performance for Electronics & Small Percussion | London, UK
Rockaway Film Fest Live score for "Pond & Waterfall" by filmmaker Barbara Hammer | NYC
Fridman Gallery "Peripheral Listening" 10-person Collective Group Improvisation curated by Daniel Neumann | NYC
Center for Art, Research & Alliances (CARA) Discussion about listening & meditative sound bath | NYC
The Bunker - Going in Duo with Matthew Regula | Virtual
Radiophrenia "Circadian Rhythm Radio" | Glasgow, SCT/Virtual
Franklin Furance Performance Dedicated to performance artist Linda Mary Montano | NYC/Virtual
2021
John Cage Trust "Rozart Mix" performer, realization by Aaron Dilloway | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
National Sawdust Performance via City Artist Corps Grant | NYC
Bemis Center Performance | Omaha, NE
Send + Receive Fest Multichannel Audio Installation | Winnipeg, Canada
Museum of Moving Image "A Day in Jackson Heights" Audio Installation | Queens, NY
Currents.FM "Editions Mego Presents" | Virtual
2020
The Whitney Museum "Sound Bath" Virtual Performance | New York, NY
Fridman Gallery “The Impulse Chamber” Virtual A/V Performance | New York, NY
Everyseeker Festival "Sound Bath" Virtual Performance | Virtual/Canada
De Appel Audio Installation, Listening Session | Amsterdam, NL
Screenslate "New Age Sound & Vision" Film Curation, Short Film Presentation, Discussion w/Robert Beatty | Virtual
2019
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum “Organ Within” Performance | New York, NY
Hirshorn Museum “Sonic Meditation: Pulse Index” Performance in Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s “Pulse” Installation | Washington, DC
Lincoln Park Conservatory Experimental Sound Studio Commission | "Terraforming a Sanctuary" Multichannel Audio Installation
| Chicago, IL
Public Records Performance | New York, NY
Ende Tymes Festival Performance | New York, NY
Park Place Gallery ARTSCIENCE “Macrophagic Notturno” Audio Installation w/Sculpture | New York, NY
2018
The Rubin Museum The World is Sound “Meditating with Sound” Lecture, Performance | New York, NY
Issue Project Room “Transmutation Helix” Multichannel A/V performance | New York, NY
Gas Take Care, “Sagittal Plane Interference” Meditative Audio Installation | Los Angeles, CA
2016 Basilica Soundscape Festival Performance | Hudson, NY
2015 MoMA PS 1 Psychoacoustics Vol 1 Lecture, Performance | New York, NY
2014 Roulette Mixology Festival Performance | New York, NY
Residencies
2021 Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence | New York, NY
2020 Harvestworks Max/MSP Technology Immersion Program Scholar | New York, NY
2020 Pioneer Works Musician-in-Residence | New York, NY
2019 Kurimanzutto Gallery Composing & Performing With Tarek Atoui’s “Organ Within” Expanded Instrument | New York, NY
2016 Wave Farm “Circadian Rhythm Radio” Radio Program ft Field Recordings to Correspond with the Sleep/Wake Cycle | Acra, NY
Workshops & Lectures
2022
Museum of Moving Image "Indie Game Makers" One Week Course for Pre-Teens About Video Game Design | Queens, NY
Smith College "Embodiment of Sound" Lecture, Graduate Dance Dept | Northampton, MA/Virtual
Immersed Soundspace Explorations Panelist | Virtual
Saffron 7 Days of Sound x Subpac "Feeling Sound: The Embodiment of Listening" Workshop | Virtual
Philosophical Research Society Sound Healing Lecture & Workshop | Los Angeles, CA/Virtual
UCLA Sound Design Lecture | Los Angeles, CA/Virtual
2021
Museum of Moving Image "The Frequency of Fear: The Power and the Glory of the Motion Picture Soundtrack" with Dean Hurley | Curator, Moderator | Queens, NY
Museum of Moving Image "Field Recording" Outdoor Public Field Recording Workshop for Children & Adults | Queens, NY
Museum of Moving Image Sound Design Lectures, Workshops, for the Edu Dept of MoMI, Public School Teachers & Teens | Queens, NY
Pioneer Works "Lavender Suarez & Brandon Stosuy: On Creativity" | New York, NY
Parsons School of Design “Listening for Revolution” Artist Presentation & Lecture | New York, NY
Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts "Sound + Vision" Artist Presentation & Lecture | New York, NY
University of Buffalo "Sound & Field" Artist Presentation & Lecture | Buffalo, NY
2020
Brooklyn Public Library "Meditation for Teens" Workshop Series | New York, NY
Pioneer Works “Meditation for Creative Expression” Workshop Series Exploring Sound Healing, Meditation & Art Therapy | New York, NY
2019
Museum of Modern Art “Found Sound: Field Recording Workshop” Lecture, Performance and Workshop Teaching Field Recording | NYC
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute “Deep Listening & The Physical Properties of Sound” Lecture and workshop | Troy, NY
2016
Brooklyn Botanic Garden “Listening in The Leaves” Lecture and workshop | New York, NY
Kites Nest “All Ears” Ten Week/50-Hour Class About The Scientific & Creative Aspects of Sound for Pre-Teens | Hudson, NY
Publications
Hii Magazine "Pervasive Hiss: Domestic Noise Pollution PSA" Writer/Sound Collage
Stay Inspired Contributor, by Brandon Stosuy | Abrams Books (2021)
Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives | Anthology Editions (2020)
Make Time for Creativity Contributor, by Brandon Stosuy | Abrams Books (2020)
Scoring
TRIPP VR App Meditative Musical Score for #1 Rated VR Meditation App
Selected Recordings
Gogoratu/To Remember Commissioned by Send+Receive Festival, Canada | 2022
Transient Seclusion Longform Editions | 2021
Myth of Equilibrium Editions Mego | 2020
Vanishing Light Hot Releases | 2017
Serpentine Fever Dream Primitive Languages | 2017
Peaceful Protest LGBTQ+ Benefit Compilation RVNG Intl | 2017
Fortitude in Wintarmanoth Ecstatic Peace! | 2013
Ladyz in Noyz Compilation Spleencoffin Records | 2008
Press
2022
"Sound Mavens" Human Shift Magazine
"Gogoratu/To Remember by C. Lavender" Dusted Magazine
2021
"Longform Editions Curates A Digital Gallery for Listening" Bandcamp
"Notes on Muxture" Transom
"Positive Vibrations" Departures Magazine
"Where Can Sound Take Us? Innovators in Electronic Music" Henry Ford Magazine (pgs 54-57)
"C. Lavender, "Transient Seclusion" Foxy Digitalis
"Transcendent Waves Book Review: Sound Healer Lavender Suarez Guides Us on an Infinite Sonic Journey" Redefine Magazine
"Gamelan-Inspired Electronics, 100 MPH Noise, Toddler Synthpop, & More" Bandcamp
"Books Every Traveler Should Read" (for "Transcendent Waves") Here Magazine
"Aquarium Drunkard Book Club Part 2" (for "Transcendent Waves") Aquarium Drunkard
"Top 10 - Music Books" Random Rave Project
"How We Listen: A Group Discussion on Our Myriad Interactions With Sound" Varyer
"Portrait of An Artist: Lavender Suarez" The Harvard Crimson
2020
"The Best Experimental Albums of 2020" (for "Myth of Equilibrium") Bandcamp
"The Acid Tests Best Albums of 2020" (for "Myth of Equilibrium") Bandcamp
"On 'Myth of Equilibrium' C. Lavender Finds Her Calling: Sound Healing" Bandcamp
"To Listen is To Heal" Flaunt Magazine
"Transcendent Waves, a book by Lavender Suarez" Flash Art Magazine
"9 Books You Should Be Reading This December" Inside Hook
"Lavender Suarez" Women in Sound Zine
"Lavender Suarez" NY Yoga + Life Magazine
"Lend Your Ears to The Boston Pops or A Sound Bath" The New York Times
"Myth of Equilibrium" Album Review Wire Magazine Issue 435
"How To Boost Your Creativity Through Sound Healing" Art Zealous
"Woman of Interest: Sound Healer Lavender Suarez Rides Transcendent Waves" Audiofemme
"30 Albums We Played Like Mad in 2020" Dissonant Magazine
'On The Power of Intention - Musician and sound healer Lavender Suarez on the power of intention, understanding how sounds affect the mind and body, and the value of opening up your senses in order to take in everything." The Creative Independent
"C. Lavender, brainwave weaving patterns in sonic healing and creative processes" Clot Magazine
"C. Lavender Makes Us A Chill Out Mix" Self Titled Magazine
"Hanson Records Cassettes" (for "Secret Destroyed Instantly" with Aaron Dilloway) Half Speed Detail
2019
"What To See in Art Galleries Right Now" The New York Times
"A Social Body: Tarek Atoui’s Organ Within" Title Magazine
Music: "Organ Within" An Infinite Window Art Times Journal
Earlier
"take care," Artforum 2018
"Fluorescent Tubes And Psychedelic Bass Mark This Year's Mixology Festival The Creators Project 2014
"A Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation" Hyperallergic 2014
"Highlights from Ende Tymes Festival" Village Voice 2014
"Sound Mavens" Human Shift Magazine
"Gogoratu/To Remember by C. Lavender" Dusted Magazine
2021
"Longform Editions Curates A Digital Gallery for Listening" Bandcamp
"Notes on Muxture" Transom
"Positive Vibrations" Departures Magazine
"Where Can Sound Take Us? Innovators in Electronic Music" Henry Ford Magazine (pgs 54-57)
"C. Lavender, "Transient Seclusion" Foxy Digitalis
"Transcendent Waves Book Review: Sound Healer Lavender Suarez Guides Us on an Infinite Sonic Journey" Redefine Magazine
"Gamelan-Inspired Electronics, 100 MPH Noise, Toddler Synthpop, & More" Bandcamp
"Books Every Traveler Should Read" (for "Transcendent Waves") Here Magazine
"Aquarium Drunkard Book Club Part 2" (for "Transcendent Waves") Aquarium Drunkard
"Top 10 - Music Books" Random Rave Project
"How We Listen: A Group Discussion on Our Myriad Interactions With Sound" Varyer
"Portrait of An Artist: Lavender Suarez" The Harvard Crimson
2020
"The Best Experimental Albums of 2020" (for "Myth of Equilibrium") Bandcamp
"The Acid Tests Best Albums of 2020" (for "Myth of Equilibrium") Bandcamp
"On 'Myth of Equilibrium' C. Lavender Finds Her Calling: Sound Healing" Bandcamp
"To Listen is To Heal" Flaunt Magazine
"Transcendent Waves, a book by Lavender Suarez" Flash Art Magazine
"9 Books You Should Be Reading This December" Inside Hook
"Lavender Suarez" Women in Sound Zine
"Lavender Suarez" NY Yoga + Life Magazine
"Lend Your Ears to The Boston Pops or A Sound Bath" The New York Times
"Myth of Equilibrium" Album Review Wire Magazine Issue 435
"How To Boost Your Creativity Through Sound Healing" Art Zealous
"Woman of Interest: Sound Healer Lavender Suarez Rides Transcendent Waves" Audiofemme
"30 Albums We Played Like Mad in 2020" Dissonant Magazine
'On The Power of Intention - Musician and sound healer Lavender Suarez on the power of intention, understanding how sounds affect the mind and body, and the value of opening up your senses in order to take in everything." The Creative Independent
"C. Lavender, brainwave weaving patterns in sonic healing and creative processes" Clot Magazine
"C. Lavender Makes Us A Chill Out Mix" Self Titled Magazine
"Hanson Records Cassettes" (for "Secret Destroyed Instantly" with Aaron Dilloway) Half Speed Detail
2019
"What To See in Art Galleries Right Now" The New York Times
"A Social Body: Tarek Atoui’s Organ Within" Title Magazine
Music: "Organ Within" An Infinite Window Art Times Journal
Earlier
"take care," Artforum 2018
"Fluorescent Tubes And Psychedelic Bass Mark This Year's Mixology Festival The Creators Project 2014
"A Festival of Noise and Experimental Liberation" Hyperallergic 2014
"Highlights from Ende Tymes Festival" Village Voice 2014
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