We’re very excited to welcome Sydney Spann and Theodore Cale Schafer to the Overtoon workspace from November 18th to 20th!

About their time with us:

“Theo and Sydney have traveled to Europe to play shows in Brussels and Den Haag in celebration of recent solo releases. They have each developed distinct musical styles nurtured by their formative years in Santa Fe and Baltimore DIY scenes, respectively. Theo’s music has been described as minimalist, concrete, neo classical and Sydney’s has been described as experimental, reductionist, sound art. Both use melody, field recordings, and play experimental and ambient shows. They will use their time at Overtoon to record sounds and music together for a collaborative release.”

Sydney Spann, originally from Baltimore, MD, is a sound artist and musician based in New York. They work with synthesis, electronics, and voice to embellish a personal archive of field recordings, culminating in studio compositions and live performances. Recent music engages the affective dynamics within childcare work. They have performed at the High Zero Festival of Experimental Free Improvised Music, Bar Laika by e-flux, Performance Space New York, Center for Performance Research, Cafe OTO (London), and KM28 (Berlin). They were a 2022 Artist in Residence at ISSUE Project Room and hold an MFA in Music/Sound from Bard College. Their newest LP “Sending Up A Spiral Of” was released with Recital.

Theodore Cale Schafer is a musician. Schafer’s music often confronts the tropes of ambient, drone, and field recording music to arrive at his own style of concrete music—fusing elements of auto-biography, an open ambivalence to instrumentation, and self-reflexive composition structures. Informed by his work as an audio engineer, his work combines digitally sourced audio and manipulated self-recordings to create its own unique fidelity—equally informed by Playstation OSTs, modern classical composition, confessional narrative, and spoken word. Schafer has most recently released works including Trust (Students of Decay), Our Blood for .S (Daisart) and It's Not a Skill, It’s a Curse (Longform Editions)