In collaboration with Brooklyn-based Cooler Gallery, musicians and sound artists are invited to create, compose, and imagine new works for 2-weeks in the Catskill mountains. The summer session creates space for connecting with nature, experimenting with new modes of working, and actively developing projects. The theming this season will be “Music After Us” and the artists will be encouraged (but not required) to work together to dig deep on this theme and create new works.
Music is an ephemeral art. But what happens after we are no longer here? Is it possible to create music that will outlast us? Something that speaks to a larger set of ideals outside the frameworks of human society? Will the wind and the waves be the new musicians? Will the trees, insects, mushrooms, and mollusks be listening?
In collaboration with Brooklyn-based Cooler Gallery, Musicians and sound artists are invited to create, compose, and imagine new works for 2-weeks in the Catskill mountains. The summer session creates space for connecting with nature, experimenting with new modes of working, and actively developing projects. The theming this season will be “Music After Us” and the artists will be encouraged (but not required) to work together to dig deep on this theme and create new works.
This free summer program is available to artists working in primarily audio mediums, but we are open to others who wish to dig into the theme. The multidisciplinary environment is designed to foster new connections and ideas, and the nature of the communal space makes it best suited for those who are excited to collaborate and connect over shared meals. Residents should have at least some physical component to how their work manifests or is performed (meaning, it is not purely digital). While most past residents have come from formal art backgrounds, we encourage musicians or creatives from professional fields looking to deepen a developed practice or specific project to apply.
By participating in the free program, residents agree to share artifacts or documentation of their project with Cooler Gallery and the Shell House for the purposes of documenting and sharing.
Applications now closed.