Isaac Silber

 
silberis1@gmail.com

Recording//Mixing//Mastering Engineer



A Flat SuiteAlbum by Wilks GroupFebruary 2025
A Flat Suite is an album composed, recorded and mixed by Zack Wilks.  

I contributed drums and percussion performance on tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 13, and recording engineering for the drums and percussion throughout the record, recorded at Oori Studios.
“Coterie”Song by Momo IshiguroOctober 2024
“Coterie” is a song written, produced and performed by Momo Ishiguro. 

I contributed vocal recording engineering for this song, recorded at Oori Studios.
Dance and ProcessPerformance by Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye, and Ogembi Ude at the KitchenSeptember 2024
For this iteration of Dance and Process, The Kitchen welcomes two artists and DAP alums, mayfield brooks (DAP 2019) and Niall Jones (DAP 2016), to lead the program newly. The 2024 cohort of artists Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye, and Ogemdi Ude will be in residence at The Kitchen at Westbeth beginning in July, where they will engage in a group process, facilitated by brooks and Jones, of sharing work in progress and receiving feedback. The program culminates in public performances of new works by each artist on September 20-22, 2024 at The Kitchen at Westbeth.

Dance and Process 2024: Rena Anakwe, ms. z tye, and Ogemdi Ude is organized by mayfield brooks and Niall Jones, with Matthew Lyons, Curator, and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant.

I lead the sound system design, installation, and live sound mixing for the performance. 
Made for TelefishionFilm by Wong Kit YiSeptember 2024
Made for Telefishion is a film by Wong Kit Yi, which premiered at the Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) in September, 2024. It will be shown at the Kitchen in New York, NY in November, 2024. 

I recorded, edited, mixed and mastered the audio for the film, and produced an original sound piece for the film score. 
Do IAlbum by DaysReleased May 2024
Do I is the debut album of the band Days, consisting of Ethan Philbrick and Ned Riseley. The record was produced by Kyp Malone, and recorded at Poulet Poulet Studios in Nantucket, MA. 

I did the recording engineering, and played drums on the album. 
 
BLACK BACKSTAGEInstallation and performance series by Harmony Holiday at the KitchenMarch-May 2024
Inspired by the ways Black music is often born in these ruins and becomes their archive(s)—brought to the stage, the radio, and the album as necessity/commodity—the exhibition comprises a short film, prints of new writing, a sculptural, sound installation, occasional live performances, and a series of public conversations. Installed immersively, the various elements of the exhibition are parts of a whole and transform The Kitchen into a hybrid, liminal space that quotes the pared-down aesthetic of backstage spaces. The environment evokes the practical, immaterial aesthetic of a makeshift storefront church, revival meetings, faith healings, and other underground modes of instilling Black sacred and everyday rituals within the spectacle of performance. BLACK BACKSTAGE therein draws an intentional contradiction between the barren spaces that are left untended, and those that are cared for because they support the sale of Black spectacle.

Harmony Holiday: BLACK BACKSTAGE organized by Legacy Russell, Executive Director & Chief Curator and Angelique Rosales Salgado, Curatorial Assistant, with Tsige Tafesse, 2023-24 Curatorial Fellow.

I contributed live sound mixing for performances, and setup and mixing for installation sound, in collaboration with sound designers Johann Diedrick and Caleb Giles. 

Lavender DealPerformance by Niko Hallikainen at the Tibet HouseNovember 2023
Niko Hallikainen (b. 1989, Helsinki, FI) is a performance poet and novelist whose text-based works delve into themes of class, sexuality, romance, collective grief, and mysticism. His durational performances intertwine personal narratives and historical collective memory, drawing from all facets of popular culture and urban life to underscore how societal shifts profoundly influence the human condition. For his New York debut at the Finnish Pavilion Without Walls, Hallikainen will reflect on desire and loss through the narrative of a romance in Lavender Deal. The text, which unfolds as a site-specific, two-part narrative, concerns a pandemic-era relationship over Zoom with a long-distance lover whose course shifts once they plan to meet in person.

Calling on the titans of New York’s queer art and literary scenes of the 1970s and 1980s as “guiding spirits,” Hallikainen contextualizes longing and solitude through the art and writing of iconoclastic cultural figures such as David Wojnarowicz, William S. Burroughs, and John Wieners in an intergenerational “séance” inspired by poet John Giorno’s Buddhist ceremonies. During the performance, Hallikainen will incorporate live sound mixing and scents to create a multi-sensory poetic narrative.

Curated by Job Piston, Curator at Large.
A co-production with Tibet House.

This performance featured a sculptural installation by Man Yau.  

I contributed the sound system design and installation, and live sound mixing for the run of performances. 

“Meet the Residents”Podcast series by Amant2022-present
Meet the Residents is a seasonal series of interviews with Amant’s New York Studio & Research residents.

They mostly take place in the residency studios at 306 Maujer Street, on the couch and surrounded by working references. With these casual conversations, we introduce the residents’ practices to our wider audiences and also discuss broader questions, such as: what is artistic research and how is it done, what is the impact of the New York/Amant context, in what ways has the proposed project changed since arriving and why? And finally, what voices might our residents hear?

I audio edit, mix and master the podcast series.  
March is for MarchesImprovised recordings project by Morgan Bassichis and Ethan PhilbrickDecember 2019
March is for Marches is a yearlong project composed of a series of 12, monthly site-specific recordings done as improvised pieces by Morgan Basshicis and Ethan Philbrick, produced by Triple Canopy. 

I mixed and mastered the audio for this project. 
Star ChoirPerformance by My Barbarian at the Park Avenue ArmoryMay 2019
Star Choir was developed by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade while serving as Armory artists-in-residence. The 45-minute musical performance tracks a group of humans who attempt to colonize a hostile planet after the Earth’s decline. Following some wonder and violence, a hybrid species is formed. Star Choir is performed by six singers and musicians playing synthesizer, cello, harp, horn, bass and percussion, and with animated projections.

Star Choir is performed with Hai-Ting Chinn, Tomas Cruz, Tomas Fujiwara, Ariadne Greif, La Toya Lewis, Anthony McGlaun, Ethan Philbrick, Riza Printup, RaShonda Reeves, Kyra Sims, Luke Stewart, and Jorell Williams.

I recorded the live audio for post-production.