October 3rd, 2025 6pm-8pm
October 4th, 2025 2pm-4pm
About:
XTL, the Audio Workshop will explore texture and otherworldly realities through deconstructed/constructed electronic sound. Workshop lead, Kator will demonstrate the infinite ways of experimenting with sound design using the DAW software Ableton Live 12 Intro. Experimenting with a sound pack created specifically for the workshop by Kator, Participants will work together to create their own soundtrack to an imagined reality/world. This workshop includes the basics of working with Ableton, its user interface, features, tools, and music making fundamentals. Participants will work to implement these basic principles into their soundscapes bringing their sonic world to life with color, movement, and diverse dynamics.
Participating Artists & Collaborators
About the Artist:
Kat Nzingha is the artistic persona of Kator Moore, a multidisciplinary experimental artist born and raised in Philadelphia whose creative practices explore abstruse textures through sound, performance, technology, and sculptural materials. Their work alludes to the experience of the transitioning body, demonstrating the importance of reformation and becoming. Bridging the physical and digital, the cryptic sounds they produce are the extensions of their sculptural objects. Kat Nzingha uses constituent forms, industrial materials, and digital electronic hardware to express the trans experience as the feeling of change. Their work often generates thoughtful discourses to ask new and urgent questions about change, identity, and the body.
After releasing an EP, Angeltribe on London label TT in 2020, and Vorphic Skin on Toothgrinder Press in 2023, Kat Nzingha released the album Grind on AngeltribeXTL. Shorty after, they released RIM under the artist name BRYYA on the label formfourm which consists of heavy focused sound design techniques. Kat Nzingha performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in Philadelphia and was selected for Cathode Ray Tapestries: Sound Museum Video Synthesis Residency in 2023.