B2: Jim Supanick and Joshua Gen Solondz
September 20 - October 2, 2021
The Synthhumpers (Jim Supanick and Josh Solondz) have been making music together on overloaded power strips since 2009; their current sounds negotiate a split allegiance between dance floor, concert space, and house of ecstatic worship. They are each committed to the belief that (in the words of Kodwo Eshun) "the body is a large brain that thinks and feels a sensational mathematics", and an improvisatory ethos that treats machines as co-agents. Their shared background as moving image makers color their sound, as they create soundtracks for car chases where police pursue Steve McQueen driving a stolen ice cream truck through treacherous flooded streets of southern Florida.
Artists
Jim Supanick is an artist and writer. Born in Cleveland and living in Denver, he is a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, working on a dissertation about the field and laboratory investigation of nonhuman animal sensoria. He is also a member of SynthHumpers, a shape-shifting electronic audio collaborative that explores structured improvisation and instrument building. Jim is a lecturer of critical media practices at CU Boulder’s College of Media, Communication and Information.
