Stock market data from the 2008 financial collapse — Dow Jones, Nikkei, Nasdaq, and S&P 500 — is translated into a musical score. An electronic female voice, processed through vocoder, follows the score with precision. The voice is feminine, like the voices designed to assist us, to serve, to comply. When algorithms are built to help, they are so often given women's voices. The system speaks through the voice it expects obedience from. A human voice enters, not in obedience but in lament. It responds to the data, departs from it, grieves what the numbers cannot feel. It exists within the system while refusing to be ruled by it. The video displays symbols from the Phaistos Disc, an undeciphered Minoan script possibly from a matriarchal Bronze Age society, now scrolling in the format of a stock ticker: ancient mystery conscripted into capitalism's visual language. Beneath the voices, a sustained drone sounds: the ison of Byzantine chant tradition, a single fixed pitch that served as tonal anchor for sacred music. Here it becomes the cost basis, the entry point, the fixed reference against which all market movement is measured, the illusion of stable ground in a system without foundation. Matriarchal symbols forced into patriarchal economic display. Female robot voice obeying the algorithmic score. Human female voice refusing, responding, lamenting. The drone continues beneath it all, as cost basis always does, indifferent to what rises or falls above it. At the close, the human voice fades; the machine inherits its tremor. Nothing holds still. Avásimo: without basis. The ground was never there.

exhibition, musicHannahJanuary 22, 20262026

Flore Laurentienne

Each performance is a chance to step into a world where music and nature intertwine—a rare and intimate experience.

Flore Laurentienne is an open window to the technicolor soundscapes of Mathieu David Gagnon – the Canadian composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist who shapes vast orchestral sound to interpret the rugged wilderness and waters of his native Québec. The namesake of an inventory documenting St. Lawrence Valley flora, Flore Laurentienne illumes the science and spirit of his surrounds through expansive string orchestrations melded with the textures and experimentation of early analogue synths.

music, performance, special projectGuest UserMarch 16, 20252025

Hatis Noit

“Words cannot describe everything we feel. How can one accurately verbalise the sensation we feel when we’re a newborn and our mother holds us in her arms, and we feel her skin on our cheek. We clearly feel her warmth and humidity, some feeling of love from her, but it’s tough to verbalise it perfectly. Music is a language that can translate that sensation, feeling, the memory of love.” — Hatis Noit

music, performance, special projectJulie XiaoApril 16, 20242024

Princess: Out There

Tube Factory’s Listen Hear space hosted the Indiana premiere of Out There, a concept video album and live performance by the band Princess that explores the roles men play and those they ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning with misogyny.

exhibition, performance, music, visual artShauta MarshSeptember 6, 2019Tube Factory Artspaceexhibitions, 2019

Ballet Austin's “Cult of Color: Call to Color”

In conjunction with Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Cloud Divination, the Main Gallery video room screened Ballet Austin’s “Cult of Color: Call to Color.” The work was selected by Woolfalk and Tube Factory curator Shauta Marsh as part of a series of artists that have influenced Woolfalk’s work.

performance, visual art, musicShauta MarshSeptember 6, 2019Tube Factory Artspaceexhibitions

Prince Rama

Prince Rama is the musical duo of sisters Taraka and Nimai Larson. They have lived in ashrams, worked for utopian architects, written manifestos, delivered lectures from pools of fake blood, conducted group exorcisms disguised as VHS workouts, installed art installations at The Whitney, Art Basel, and various galleries across the U.S.

exhibition, performance, musicShauta MarshApril 9, 2017Listen Hearexhibitions

Calvin Johnson

Drawing largely from a stack of 45 rpm phonograph records, Selector Dub Narcotic is known to mix the genres dancehall, soul, punk, garage, R&B, rock steady, bubblegum and rockabilly with assorted curiosities of the current underground music scene.

exhibition, performance, musicShauta MarshMarch 3, 2017Tube Factory Artspaceexhibitions