Marcia Bassett is a NYC-based musician and artist known for her innovative and unconventional approach to music. Her work explores areas of sound collage, improvisation, and audio-visual environments. Whether working with electronics, guitar, or synthesizer, Bassett constantly pushes the boundaries of sound and image to create a heady sonic interplay of otherworldly narratives that are equal parts trance and critique.
She is the founder of Yew Recordings. Recent solo recordings include Midnight Xpander LP recorded at EMS (Stockholm); Repeater cassette; Undulating Arkasboning cassette released on Artsy Records (2022), and a Digi-EP, Altering The Form, on the Belgian KraakRecords label KRUT. Collaborative recordings include Sunview (Live recordings with Chuck Bettis); Dream of Autumn Electrified Blues I & II (Live recordings with Ignatz), and Indexical/Rhizome live recordings with Samara Lubelski (Relative Pitch Records).
She frequently joins others in collaborative installations and multimedia projects. Recent solo and collaborative work include "Triangulated Waves" electric guitar and violin improvisations with Samara Lubelski for abstract film by Marcia Bassett at Tabakalara, San Sebastián, Spain; sound and live visual collaboration with Ursula Scherrer; multimedia installation with live visuals/sound with Ursula Scherrer and Sergej Vutuc at The Film Gallery, Paris, FR; Buchla Music Easel improvisation with Ted Gordon; "The Eternal Now" Buchla Music Easel improvisation with Ted Gordon and colorslide stroboscopic light experiments by Jeffrey Perkins at The Diffusion Festival, Baltimore. DC; Social Entropy, a 4-channel sound installation at Human Resources, LA; and group collaboration with Margarida Garcia, David Maranha and Manuel Mota.
In the 1990s, Bassett, along with Grant Acker, founded Un, releasing records on Tom Lax’s label, Siltbreeze Records, and touring extensively. Following Un, she went on to form Double Leopards with Chris Gray and Jon Chapman, an experimental collective that emerged in the early aughts. Relocating to NYC and adding Mike Bernstein and Maya Miller to the Double Leopards collective, the band introduced floorcore, hunching over their gear and creating smoked-out, densely layered sonic tapestries that blurred the boundaries between noise, drone, and psychedelia. Bassett's musical explorations also led her to join forces with Pete Nolan and Steve Gunn, in the band GHQ, delving into improvisational psychedelic, folk-infused territories. Bassett was also a member of the ear-splitting noise duo Hototogisu. In addition to her band collaborations, Bassett released many solo recordings under the moniker Zaimph.
Bassett studied at Tyler School of Art, Drexel University, and Rutgers University.
Website: https://marciabassett.org/
Bandcamp: https://yewrecordings.bandcamp.com/ and https://marciabassett.bandcamp.com/ Instagram: Marcia Bassett (@lilyruskroda)
Victoria Keddie is an interdisciplinary artist whose work spans sound, video, installation, performance, and research. Her practice investigates the architectures of communication—acoustic, spatial, and technological—and explores how gesture, noise, and interference shape human experience. For over a decade, she co-directed E.S.P. TV, an international platform for hybrid media and broadcast-based performance. She currently teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, leading the course Listening Beyond Hearing alongside a spatial sound studio she designed for the program. She also directs the Spatial Sound Consortium in collaboration with Harvestworks, connecting studios internationally to develop new forms of access and collaboration.
Keddie has performed and exhibited internationally at venues including Fridman Gallery, Pioneer Works, and The Whitney Museum of American Art (US); The Barbican (UK); Museum Angewandte Kunst and Berghain Kantine (DE); The Goethe-Institut (CO); and MAPS (DK). Recent fellowships include NYSCA/NYFA for Music/Sound (2022), the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (2023), and the Bemis Center Sound Art and Experimental Music Fellowship (2024). In 2025, she was Composer-in-Residence at EMS (Elektronmusikstudion) in Stockholm. Her sound works are represented by Autopilot Music Publishing (DE) and released through Raster Media (DE), Chaikin Records (US), and Fridman Gallery (NYC/US). Her video works are distributed via Lightcone (FR) and The Filmmakers Co-op (US).
Website: https://www.victoriakeddie.com/
Auto Pilot Music Publishing (DE/ EU): https://autopilotmusic.com/victoria-keddie/ Raster media (DE/ EU): https://raster-media.net/artist/victoria-keddie/
Chaikin Records (NY/US): https://victoriakeddie.bandcamp.com/album/apsides
Fridman Gallery (NY/US):
https://newear.bandcamp.com/album/electrona-in-crystallo-fluenti-ecf
LightCone (FR/EU): https://lightcone.org/en/cineaste-2631-victoria-keddie ESP TV (US): www.esptv.com
Instagram: @Vict_0r