Leftroman is the artist name of Ian Condry, professor at MIT and founder of the MIT Spatial Sound Lab. He will be presenting a preview of his upcoming quadraphonic album “Phantom Center” to be released in the summer of 2026.  The album is a collection of electroacoustic works that aim to evoke latenight listening bars in Tokyo. The songs are designed for playback on multichannel speaker systems and will be specially mixed for the octophonic cube at Fridman Gallery. 

Eli Purdy-Flacks :: Four Worlds: Anthropocene is a sectional piece which explores nature and technology from 4 different angles. Each section functions as a world by itself, isolated, and also simultaneously exists in relation to all other sections. 
Infinitely sustainable, adapting and evolving at a speed so slow we cannot wrap our minds around it, nature’s interlocked systems of life and death ask no one of anything. Through the first section of my piece, I explore nature untouched. To start with, this section provides context for all subsequent worlds. It asks is there anywhere to go from here? Are we progressing or regressing? Is there even such a thing?

Daria Baiocchi, "GELB" :: Wrapped in noise, the opening of this work draws the audience into a raw and primordial environment, where sound emerges as an unstable matter in constant transformation. An evolving texture unfolds gradually, immersing the listener in a suspended sonic space in which density, grain, and resonance continuously shift. From the very beginning, noise is not treated as an absence of form, but as a living substance—an acoustic soil from which the entire structure of the work originates.