Photo: Edouard Plongeon
Sabisha Friedberg's composition, performance, and installation work draws upon a chimeric arcane, exploring perceptual delineation of space through sound, sculpture, light configuration, and visual time-based media. Integral to her practice, Friedberg's work explores perceptual thresholds, often employing low frequencies with textural landscapes in compositions often presented in multi-channel, site-specific installations. The work articulates a devised metaphysical syntax which comprises a specific poetic narrative applied to solo or collaborative pieces.
Friedberg’s projects center on experimental electroacoustic composition and writing, traversing sonic, visual, and time-based media. Formally, she follows in a Minimalist music tradition of repetition, reduction, and duration, using archaic analogue tools with granular synthesis for composing and presentation.
Her site-specific installations have been described as immersive sound environments that examine the materiality of sound and its relation to architectural space, unfolding as temporal and spatialised aural constructions that situate the listener inside a dynamic acoustic field. Sabisha Friedberg has received commissions for compositional projects, residencies, and recording imprints, and has performed and exhibited internationally in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Russia. Friedberg received a Master of Fine Arts in Music/Sound from Bard College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the San Francisco Art Institute. The artist is based in Paris.