2024: Oto Synthesis
Live vocals, visuals, and electronic music at a zine store
At Periodicals4892 Grand River Ave, Detroit, MI 48208
February 3, 2024
7pm-11pm
Live sets by Fana’ (New York, NY) and Maro Kariya (The Bunker, IT; Detroit, MI)
Audio installation by Weather Citizen (Detroit, MI)
Suggested $10-20 Donation
Fana’ is a multimedia artist, producer and DJ. She is known for her albums on labels such as Detroit’s Crisis Urbana and Kolkata’s Coping Strategies and for founding Disco Paradiso, a retro-futurist party held in Cleveland, OH. Her productions focus on ancestral longing and the reclamation of heritage through sound.
Maro Kariya (PhD, Chemistry) is an audiovisual artist and scientist who explores sensing within the natural world, reflections of its change, and presence. They approach sound and visual art as a means of interpreting the environments they encounter, embodying the idea of 'otodojo' (a sound place for learning). They have released 12 albums including records with labels such as The Bunker NY (2023), Mesma (2022), Perimeter Junk (2022), Unimatrix Zero (2022), and Acid Camp (2019). They have showcased their audiovisual works at Tokyo Tower (2022), Cranbrook Art Museum (2022), Mix Gallery in Ithaca (2023), Artists for Plants (2021), The Soil Factory (2021), and a digital community built with Ryu Goto, Otodojo Nodes (2022). They launched Microtones (microtones.info) in 2018, an electronic music event series and label in Ithaca, NY. They graduated from Cornell University with a doctoral degree in chemistry & chemical biology and discovered and characterized a series of novel sulfolipids.
Weather Citizen is an audiovisual installation artist whose work includes music composition and sound design, film scoring, in-depth perceptual and cognitive science research analysis, media design and production, editing and recording, and generative audio system design.
Periodicals is a magazine shop and concept store. They offer a range of items thoughtfully selected to help reenergize a creative mind, including skincare and beauty products, fragrances, tinctures, vitamins, candles, writing tools, and more.