MV Carbon’s work investigates sound as a material and relational system shaped by technological infrastructures, communication systems, and embodied interaction. Her practice is concerned with how vibration, feedback, and resonance structure perception, and how sound operates across both physical and technological systems to produce spatial and collective forms of experience.

Working across bronze casting, experimental instrument design, and sound installation, Carbon builds sculptural instruments and responsive systems using metal, wood, clay, found objects, custom electronics, and sound synthesis. These works generate sound through interaction, where gesture and material response produce evolving sonic structures. Her process draws on speculative synthesis, analog recording techniques, and real-time frequency manipulation, treating sound as a temporal system shaped by repetition, decay, and feedback.

In performance and installation contexts, she brings together electric cello, synthesis, reel-to-reel tape machines, vintage microphones, and analog telephones in live setups that combine acoustic and electronic systems. These configurations operate as open environments rather than fixed compositions, where communication, interference, and perception unfold through interaction. Across installations and performances, her work explores how human and non-human systems co-produce experience through sound and 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!