Uploaded July 2023 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Burkhard Beins (D) – Percussion
Mazen Kerbage (LB) – Trumpet
Michael Vorfeld. (D) – Percussion
Since its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Sawt Out has played numerous concerts throughout Europe, Asia and beyond. This current tour is their first live appearance in the US.
WEBSITE:
mazenkerbaj.com/sawtout
Burkhard Beins (D) – Percussion
Mazen Kerbage (LB) – Trumpet
Michael Vorfeld. (D) – Percussion
Since its foundation in 2015 the Berlin-based trio Sawt Out has shaped and refined its profile as a prominent improvisational unit. With their unusual acoustic instrumentation of trumpet and two sets of percussion these three gentlemen create bewildering sound worlds rich in detail and of tight musical interaction. Sawt Out has played numerous concerts throughout Europe, Asia and beyond. This current tour is their first live appearance in the US.
WEBSITE:
mazenkerbaj.com/sawtout
![[ALIEN] STARDUST SIGNAL TO NOISE
GUIDED MEDITATION JOURNEY BY VICTORIA VESNA
Beyond Festival: Artists For the Future
https://www.beyond-festival.com/en/symposium/artists-for-future/
We are created from stardust by nuclear fusion, like our myriad siblings – animals, plants, insects, plankton, bacteria, and viruses, and we all function together in vibratory fields – bottom up just as nature and nanotechnology works. [Alien] Star Dust rains on us every day and this piece brings these particles to our attention and reminds us of our interconnected heritage in the larger cosmos.
Premiering with the support of Harvestworks, this work is meant to be experienced as a guided meditation bringing to life the sensations of meteorites and micro-meteorites falling on all continents and mixing with the anthropogenic dust falling on our planet from many dimensions. Layers of sounds from inner and outer space with animations of dust and data driven by corona deaths are presented with the intent of honoring those who left their bodies without preparation and all who are suffering.
Victoria Vesna (lead artist)
Rhiannon Catalyst (VOICE)
Paul Geluso (drone, flute)
Clinton van Arnam (audio mix)
Ivana Dama (video mix)
John Brumley (programming)
Carol Parkinson (Harvestworks director)
Debra Isaac (3D animation)
Eli Joteva (3D animation) [ALIEN] STARDUST SIGNAL TO NOISE](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/q6ZZvtM9_CA/mqdefault.jpg)


![Harvestworks Work Samples 2025 with subtitles
Work Sample No. 3 – Harvestworks Work Samples 2025
Artists: Various Artists-in-Residence (2024): Tansy Xiao, Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner, Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler, Victoria Vesna
Title of Work: Harvestworks Work Samples 2025
Date Created: 2025
Timecodes and Artists:
00:00 Tansy Xiao – LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
01:11 Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner – Star Catcher
02:22 Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler – Tears for Lost Frequencies
04:13 Victoria Vesna – [SUN] Flower Plasma
All works were created at the Harvestworks studio and presented in the Harvestworks Art and Technology Program on Governors Island during the summer of 2024.
- Tansy Xiao’s LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor) is a non-linear virtual environment that adopts a non-anthropocentric approach. Streaming real-time biometric data from performers movements, brain activity, and bioprocess data from living microbiomes such as slime mold and yeast into the virtual ecosystem, LUCA explores the collective agency and interconnectivity among diverse living entities.
- Adelle Lin and Matt Pinner’s Star Catcher is an immersive installation that encourages participants to engage with their environment in a playful and imaginative manner. Using projection and magical objects, the installation creates a simulated night sky, brimming with an ethereal constellation of stars that participants can catch. Blurring the line between audience and performer, participants become symbolically connected to the power of imagination and the wonder of the universe.
- Monica Duncan and Senem Pirler’s Tears for Lost Frequencies is a performative installation that explores our complex relationship with plastic through the act of improvisation. The artists aim to highlight plastic as a material that cannot be separated from the “natural”: a substance that is everywhere and is becoming both our “nature” and our “uninvited” collaborator. In Tears for Lost Frequencies, microplastics found in tears become material witnesses to the experience of hearing loss and a speculative space for plastic healing.
- Victoria Vesna’s [SUN] Flower Waves explores the harmonious interaction between sunflowers and Alfvén waves, demonstrating how art and science converge to reveal deeper understandings. Sunflowers, with their heliotropic movement, symbolize growth and energy, while Alfvén waves in plasma transport energy along magnetic field lines—crucial for understanding space weather and solar phenomena. Harvestworks Work Samples 2025 with subtitles](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qQ5Q14XbHvc/mqdefault.jpg)






