Lesley flanigan
Lesley Flanigan is an artist, vocalist, and performer in New York City. Much of her work deals with the physicality of sound, and "amplification" as a source of sound in and of itself, focusing on the relationships between noise, speakers, and voice.
In her current work, Flanigan builds her own speaker feedback instruments. Her performances with these instruments reveal a sculptural process of creating music, as she shapes the varying tones and rhythms of speaker feedback, and blends these sounds with the tones and rhythms of her own singing voice. The result is beautifully rich and physical music built entirely of feedback and voice. Flanigan also performs as part of Bioluminescence, a collaboration with R. Luke DuBois that explores the modality and materiality of human voice. In this performance, the sound of her voice is remapped, rearranged and rebuilt in real time to shape an immersive environment of video and sound.
Lesley Flanigan has performed in numerous clubs, venues, and art spaces around the country including The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Tank, Monkey Town, The Knitting Factory, The Stone, Issue Project Room, Eyebeam, Galapagos Art Space, and Exit Art in NYC, the Art Omi Fields Sculpture Park in Ghent NY, Sonoteque and Co-Prosperity Sphere gallery in Chicago, and the Weisman Art Museum in Minneapolis; she is also the organizer and curator of the performance events, Sculpting Voice and Scale of Sound in New York City. Her projects have been presented at LEMURPlex in Brooklyn, The Bent Festivals in Los Angeles and New York City, NIME conferences in Pittsburgh and Genoa, ISEA conference in Singapore, ICMC in Copenhagen, bitforms gallery in New York City, and Ringling College of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL. Her work has been featured in numerous online media outlets and blogs including Make Magazine, NPR, Engadget, and Rhizome, and is included in the second edition of Nicolas Collins' book, Hardware Hacking: The Art of Handmade Electronic Music. She holds a bachelors in sculpture from Ringling College of Art and Design and masters in media technology from the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP) at New York University. Flanigan has spoken at Ringling College of Art and Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, and Collision Collective in Boston, MA.
Actively involved in the contemporary scene of New York, Flanigan also works with many talented friends, artists and composers including R. Luke DuBois in Bioluminescence and SSB, Joo Youn Paek in Fold Loud, Tristan Perich in What's thought of as a boundless continuous expanse... and Lit, and has performed on several occasions as a guest member of the soldering-iron-weilding, overhead-projector-blasting, noise-toy-making, circuit-crunching, elegant threesome, The Loud Objects. She loves tea and feedback loops.