A Sound Forest / Between Worlds Program
32 Sounds
$10 | RSVP required
4 Apr. 2025 | 6pm
32 Sounds (2023)
A film by Sam Green
With music by JD Samson and sound design by Mark Mangini
Immerse yourself in the world of sound with 32 Sounds, a profound sensory experience from Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground, A Thousand Thoughts). This documentary explores the elemental power of sound to shape our perceptions, bend time, and transcend boundaries. Featuring original music by JD Samson (Le Tigre, MEN), 32 Sounds weaves together 32 distinct sonic explorations into a cinematic meditation.
Film will be introduced by Composer Annea Lockwood
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governer, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Artists in Residence
Open Studios with Dylan Everett and Khari Johnson-Ricks
5 Apr. 2025 | 12-4pm | Free
Join us for open studios with our Artists in Residence: Dylan Everett and Khari Johnson-Ricks. Peek into their studios and chat with them about their practices.
Dylan Everett (b. 1994) is an artist/photographer working with still life and photo collage. He currently lives and works in New York, NY. He received an MFA in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2019, and a BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2016. In 2022, his work was exhibited at the Silver Eye in Pittsburgh, PA, among other group exhibitions. In 2021, his work was shown in a solo exhibition at the Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA) and in a virtual solo exhibition at Shelter in Place Gallery (Boston, MA). In 2020 he was a recipient of the West Collection LIFTS Grant and Acquisition Award; he was previously awarded the Digital Silver Imaging Portfolio Prize in 2018, was named second place for the 2019 Lenscratch Student Prize, and was shortlisted for the 2022 Silver Eye Center for Photography Fellowship.
Khari Johnson-Ricks (b. 1994) is a multimedia artist whose practice includes works on paper, murals, independent publishing and black vernacular dance. In addition to Night Gallery, his work has been included in group at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; Center for Art Research and Alliances New York; and SCADMOA, Savannah, among others. He has created public murals for the city of Newark as part of Mayor Ras Baraka’s Model Neighborhood Initiative and Gateways to Newark Projects. His zines are featured in the library collections of the MET Library, the Whitney Library, and The MOMA Library. He lives and works in New Jersey.
Artist Talk and Gallery Walkthrough
Reuven Israel
Free | RSVP Recommended
5 Apr. 2025 | 4pm
Join us for an artist talk and gallery walkthrough of Reuven Israel: U.F.O. (Untitled Folding Object) 1329. Artist Reuven Israel’s presentation will provide an in depth look at his modular sculptural practice and drawing series inspired by architecture and sacred spaces.
Light Refreshments provided.
Reuven Israel (b. 1978, Jerusalem, Israel) lives and works in NYC. Israel received his MFA and BFA from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem. He has had solo exhibitions at the Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Tel Aviv; Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Sevil Dolmachi, Istanbul; Fridman Gallery, New York; Museo Civico Floriano Bodini, Gemonio; among others. Selected group exhibitions include, Objects Of Affection at Wasserman Projects, Detroit; Metamorphosis and Metaphors at Ark Kultur, Istanbul: Crossing Lines at Kunsthalle Osnabrück, Osnabrück; Diplomacy at St. John’s University, New York; Twist at Fused - Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco; Same Same But Different, Works from Haaretz collection at Minus1 Gallery, Tel Aviv; The Museum Imagined at Danese Corey, New York; The Museum PresentsItself 2 at Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Domestic Ideals at Lesley Heller Workspace, New York; The Readymade Centennial at Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa; Re: Visiting Rockefeller at the Rockefeller Archaeological Museum, Jerusalem; Senses of the Mediterranean at Hangar Bicocca, Milan. Israel has works in many private and public collections including those of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv; Ashdod Museum of Art, Ashdod; Haaretz collection, Tel Aviv; Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan: Hapoalim Bank, Israel: The Geny and Hanina Brandes Collection, Tel Aviv; and others. The artist has a permanent public installation at Setter Square, Tel Aviv.
Artis supports contemporary artists from Israel whose work addresses aesthetic, social, and political questions that inspire reflection and debate. Artis is a nonprofit organization based in New York.
A Sound Forest / Between Worlds Program
Music Performance
Between Worlds
Lin Esser
Annea Lockwood
Bruce Odland
Steve White
6 Apr. 2025 | 3pm
$20 | RSVP required
From the four corners of the Sound Forest / Between Worlds installation, four musicians will create spatial music in response to the installation. Human voices join the voices of nature in a call and response. Lin Esser (cello), Annea Lockwood (prepared piano), and Steve White (percussion) will join Bruce Odland with a series of quartets, duets, solos that entwine with and comment on the ongoing voices of the sound installation.
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governer, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
A Sound Forest / Between Worlds Program
Eno.
$20 | RSVP required
9 May 2025 | 6pm
Eno. (2024)
A film by Gary Hustwit
Brian Eno known for his influential work producing iconic artists like David Bowie, U2, Coldplay, and Talking Heads, as well as pioneering the ambient music genre and releasing over 40 solo and collaborative albums, Eno opens his creative process in this innovative film with 52 quintillion possible iterations, so that no viewing is the same twice. The film utilizes Brain One software (an anagram of Brian Eno), designed by Brendan Dawes, to dynamically select and edit footage from 30 hours of interviews with Eno and 500 hours of archival material. This generative technology ensures that no two viewings are ever the same. For live screenings, Teenage Engineering developed B-1, a hardware version of the generative software, further enhancing the unique cinematic experience.
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governer, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Moderated Artist Talk and Panel Discussion
Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland
Free | RSVP Recommended
10 May 2025 | 4pm
Join us for a deep dive into the world of Soli Pierce and Bruce Odland as we discuss their immersive installation Sound Forest / Between Worlds consisting of interactive wooden sound sculptures and a meticulously orchestrated audio environment.
Moderated by KinoSaito Gallery Director Megan Meadowlark.
Light Refreshments provided.
Soli Pierce’s first one-woman painting show in NYC was at Beaux Arts in 1983. A New York State Council of the Arts Grant in 1984 allowed her the freedom to pursue cutting edge work in video, technology, photography and assemblage. The grant led to an Off-Broadway theatre piece, a multi-screen installment called SUBWAYOUT, and spoke to the alienation and fast pace of modern life.
Lizanne Merrill and Soli Pierce formed an artistic duo called Merrill & Pierce and their digitized video images in the mid- to late-eighties received recognition from the New York Times and The Village Voice and traveled internationally, with stipend to exhibits in Kohn, Berlin, and Munich, Germany. In response to this work, Pierce was offered, and accepted, an adjunct professorship in photography at New York University in 1989.
When the economics of her life demanded a different kind of creativity, she founded Sherwood Forest Design in 1991, a successful three-decade decorative arts line of heirloom bowls and tableware. Her art bowls are on tables around the world, and they’ve had numerous partnerships with international fine art institutions including the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
All through that time, she continued to explore with encaustics, and transformed found natural objects. Her recent Portal and Ghost Forest encaustic series have been exhibited in Venice and London.
In 2021, nature guided her once again. The isolation of Covid-19 nurtured her deeply and offered her time to plant new creative seeds. A new series in collaboration with Bruce Odland entitled The Sound Forest—a fusion of her past and present via portals made with wood, encaustics, beeswax, moss, and sound—calls upon all the senses and simultaneously sounds the alarm, expressing a last, desperate hope, and a call for action.
Bruce Odland thinks with his ears. His work provokes one to reconsider the predominantly visual culture. His first public sound installation commenced in 1977 with Sun Song. Clouds of reverberant sound spread over a public festival in Denver, channeled from the Clock Tower. Since then, he continues working to remind our culture of the importance of sonic resonance and harmonic beauty in public space. He often draws upon the fractal music of nature and has transformed vast industrial soundscapes of cities into harmonic music.
Odland is founder of The TANK Center for Sonic Arts in Rangely, Colorado. He offers separate lectures and workshops for universities where participants are expected to stretch underused auditory muscles, expand their reach and potential, and think with their ears.
Odland collaborates with teams in film, dance, museum installation and theater. His work includes The Wooster Group, Peter Sellars, JoAnne Akalaitis, Wallace Shawn, Andre Gregory, Peter Erskine, Tony Oursler, Dan Graham, Robert Woodruff, Bill Morrison, Stacey Steers, Ron Miles, and many more talents that may be named here.
Recently he co-directed a permanent outdoor sound installation with Laurie Anderson for the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland.
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governer, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Sam Auinger and Bruce Odland making Four Ears recording in NYC ca. 2011
A Sound Forest / Between Worlds Program
The World We Hear
A Journey Through Sound
$20 | RSVP required
16 May 2025 | 7:30pm
Sonic Alchemists Bruce Odland and Sam Auinger (O+A) have been making extraordinary hyper-real recordings of environments for over 20 years as part of their Hearing Perspective of the world. These rare Four Ears recordings will be shared with the KinoSaito Audience through a special sound system in a relaxed evening listening session. A Rainstorm in the ruins of a Brazilian Cathedral, Evensong on the shores of the Hudson, a pedestrian street stroll through the old city of Seoul Korea, construction of the Hudson Yards — all provide different and interesting examples of what we can learn about the world if we Think with Our Ears.
This project is made possible with funds from Arts Alive, a regrant program of ArtsWestchester with support from the Office of the Governer, the New York State Legislature, and the New York State Council on the Arts.