Hosted by artist and composer Byron Westbrook, Chromatic Fields explores threads of overlap between ideas in contemporary art practice and music making. The program features new and historical avant-garde music ranging from minimalism to maximalism, including intermedia works, sound sculpture, electro-acoustic music, deep listening and sound artists operating in a conceptual field.

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This month’s episode of Chromatic Fields showcases artist, composer and musician Marina Rosenfeld. The first hour features tracks selected by Rosenfeld, including pianist Marino Formenti performing works of Machaut and Janáček from his Kurtag’s Ghosts album, as well as composer Kamran Sadeghi’s experiments with Nam June Paik’s video synthesizer. The second hour features installation audio from Rosenfeld’s multi-channel video installation µ (mu) followed by a live performance of Rosenfeld with Ensemble Contrechamps from Musica Festival Strasbourg in 2023.

Marina Rosenfeld is an artist, composer, and musician based in Brooklyn, New York. Crossing the disciplinary boundaries of sound, performance and visual art, her works have interrogated and redefined the fundamental conditions of sound and music for three decades. Her exhibition and performance history includes solo works for the the Park Avenue Armory, the Museum of Modern Art, Portikus, the Serralves Museum, the Holland Festival/Stedelijk Museum, the Kitchen, the Gwangju, Whitney, Montreal and Performa biennials, and festivals and institutions throughout Europe, North and South America, Asia and Australia. As a turntablist working with a palette of original dub plates, Rosenfeld has also performed and recorded improvised music since the late 1990s. She is a recipient of the 2024 Alpert Award in Visual Art.