This month, we are excited to host Brett Sroka as part of the Small Things Studio residency Program. Brett is a musician and interdisciplinary artist who lives between Istanbul and New York.

After his residency period of three weeks starting this Thursday, 24th Apr., to 14th May, the exhibition showcasing his works produced throughout the residency period, ‘Spectral Variations,’ will meet with the audience on the 15th of May and will be open until the 08th of June.

‘Spectral Variations ’ When Isamu Noguchi spoke of ‘listening to stone’, he was not only rhapsodising metaphorically, but describing an ancient sculptor’s technique of tapping a block of stone around all sides to divine its inherent structure. Out of the omnipresent phenomenon of sound, there are inherent forms and transcendent beauty that mathematics and music attempt to carve out of the air, like the sculptor’s stone.

Through works of music, sound, video, and sculpture, Spectral Variations traces the chaotic world of sound all around us, from the ‘invisible architecture’ of musical sound in the harmonic series to the intervention of tuning, the human attempt to bend these phenomena to our own cultural will.