Exposure Therapy: Live Experimental Music Performances

Atheer Soot  is the sound and performance project of Moe Mustafa, a Jordanian-Palestinian artist based in Helsinki. The name means “that which resonates into outer space,” and it reflects Moe’s approach of using sound as a way to explore memory, migration, and the feeling of being untethered. His work often draws on color and material as tools for shaping sonic memory. Bandit Lu , the project of P...

Deaf Anthropologist  is the project of Gaetano Rago, a Hamburg-based artist working across sound, design, and text. With a background in interdisciplinary anthropology and a lifelong sensorineural hearing loss, Rago explores how auditory perception shapes reality. His work frequently centers on auditory pareidolia, the tension between familiarity and estrangement, and the dynamics of immersion and...

Heliocentrist  is the experimental music project of Atlanta-based Adam Nguyen. With no set agenda,  Heliocentrist  was conceived to explore Adam’s inclination towards minimalism, repetition, loose structures and gentle sonic textures. As an avid multi-instrumentalist and vintage electronics tinker, Adam finds inspiration in acoustic and analog sound sources. New Jersey-based Darrin Maier makes mus...

Jolly Birdie  is the project of Baltimore-based composer and musician Joe Aliberti. Drawing from ambient, drone, and space music, the project centers on hardware synthesizers to create sounds that evoke calm and contemplation. Joe has been developing Jolly Birdie for over eight years, but the project has recently gained more visibility through local performances—and collaborations like this one. V...

Exposure Therapy presents onewayness and Simon Bridgestock

In this session,  Actor Network  and  Alex Lough  craft a cinematic world, brimming with deconstructed landscapes, hostile weather systems, and the remains of shattered spacecraft, half-swallowed by unfamiliar terrain. Their sound is meticulously shaped, building tension with precision. The performance unfolds like a series of otherworldly transmissions in invented languages—unintelligible, yet st...

Today's session is a collaborative live set between Light Time Delay (Seattle) and ululo (Montréal). To learn more about the artists in this session, including links to their music, and to hear a mastered version of their performance, visit the episode page on our website . If you're interested in signing up to participate in Exposure Therapy, or to learn more about future performances, visit our...