Abrons EXP: Makers, of The Makers, of The Makers
August 23, 2025
7:30–10pm
Makers, of The Makers, of The Makers
Exploring light, movement, and language as vehicles for the soul, this three-act performance features custom-built musical instruments that transform energy, signals, and gestures into sound. We bring our handcrafted machines directly to you!
International artists and inventors Audrey Chou, Lusine Kirakosyan, and Octavio Figueroa invite you into a space where sound becomes a bridge: between mind and machine, body and environment, me and you.
Showtimes
Aug 23 August 23

Image courtesy of Audrey Chou
About the Artists
Audrey Chou (She/Her) is a New Media Artist working with real-time technologies. She is interested in exploring the relationship between movement, sound, and system based interaction, connecting the experience of the moving body as a way of music making. She works with site-specific performance that embarks and questions the way of how we engage with culture, technology, people, as well as the presence of self.
Lusine Kirakosyan (She/Her) is a multidisciplinary designer and storyteller whose work blends sound, visuals, and cultural memory. She is interested in the details, the small moments, the hidden patterns, and the way things connect. She values memory and history, believing that everything we create builds on what came before us and shapes what comes next. In her work, she thinks about the experiences people bring with them, their habits, their stories, and their ways of seeing the world. For this show, she will perform with a sound-visual instrument she created (LEZU), an interactive piece that merges image and audio in real time.
Octavio Figueroa (He/Him) is a Mexican composer and sound artist whose work focuses on the "misuse" of technology. Blending traditional composition, custom tech, and interactive techniques, Figueroa's performances embrace analog minimalism, inspired by the humanity embedded in systems typically associated with efficiency and control. His latest piece, The Light Before, is an exploration of the concept of transduction from light into sound. No tricks, no code, no getting your hands dirty, working directly with the photons. Light becomes sound.
About Abrons EXP
Abrons EXP is a new live music series in the heart of the Lower East Side. Abrons Arts Center’s Experimental Theater—a flexible, black box theater venue—hosts showcases organized by music curators and artists at a discounted rental rate.