About

MV Carbon (NY) is an interdisciplinary artist working at the intersection of sound, sculpture, and experimental instrument design. Her practice explores how sound, technology, and material form shape spatial experience, and collective listening. Her process draws on speculative synthesis, analog recording techniques, and real-time frequency manipulation. Through repetition, decay, and feedback, she investigates sound as a temporal and spatial phenomenon, revealing shifting relationships between presence, memory, and emergence.

Working across performance, experimental instrument design, and sound installation, Carbon creates playable sculptural systems using metal, wood, clay, found objects, and electronics. Integrating circuits, sensors, voice, and amplification, her works produce unexpected sonic logics through interaction and saturation, treating space as a responsive field shaped by sound, movement, and technological mediation.

In performance, she often brings together electric cello, reel-to-reel tape machines, vintage microphones, and analog telephones in live setups that combine acoustic and electronic systems. These open configurations unfold through performance, exploring how sound emerges through material exchange.

Carbon has been awarded residencies at Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Clocktower Gallery (NY), EMS Elektronmusikstudion (SE), Issue Project Room (NY), Koncertkirken (DK), Pioneer Works (NY), Q02 (BE)  Roulette (NY), and (NY) Zebulon (CA); 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 Otto (UK), D’Amelio Gallery (NY), Essex Flowers (NY), Knockdown Center (NY), Fridman Gallery (NY), Louis V.E.S.P. (NY), Microscope Gallery (NY), Paul W. Zuccaire Gallery (NY), and Snow Gallery (NY); has solo/ and or collaborative projects released on record labels including Kill Rock Stars-5RC, Atavistic Records, Discombobulate, Ecstatic Peace, Chaikin Records, Hanson, Load Records, No Fun Productions, Various Artists, and Veglia; has composed soundtracks for The String Orchestra of Brooklyn, as well as composing and producing soundtracks for a variety of independent films; has formed bands HEVM, Metalux, Bad Faces, Body Types, and Bride of No No, and has collaborated with a multitude of amazing artists!

 

photo by Soleil Garneau