Phil Edelstein

Phil Edelstein is a sound and media artist. He is a founding member of eba in 1972 and then Composers Inside Electronics in 1973. With CIE, he has collaborated on David Tudor’s Rainforest IV performance environment since inception at New Music in New Hampshire and more recently with John Driscoll on the Rainforest V cycle.

His work is grounded in sound and software as physical sculptural expressive plastic media and objects seeding the theatre that arises between person, performers, and cybernetics. There is a recurring interest in interactive tactility and the transitions between transitory viewer, engaged observer and listener, participant, performer.

Recent performances and realizations have included: sound design for David Tudor’s Weatherings for the Lyon Opera Ballet’s production of Merce Cunningham’s Exchange, Pulsers with Michael Johnsen in Berlin and Paris, Pepscillator andMicrophone with John Driscoll adapted from the E.A.T. Pavilion archives at GRI and the Tudor Wesleyan Instrument Collection; extended CIE ensemble for Forest Speech at MoMA and realizations with Stephen Petronio Dance Company Bloodlines project. New work in 2022 included Subject to Change, an audio-visual system performed with Jakob Edelstein, and interactive installation for 8 thumbs. A new work LocaleS3 with parallel pieces by Michelle Jaffe and David Reeder shown September 2023 under auspices of a Harvestworks New Works Residency using the NousSonic position tracking system.