Isaac Silber

 
silberis1@gmail.com

Recording//Mixing//Mastering Engineer



The School for Temporary Liveness Vol. 4Performance Assembly at The KitchenJuly 2025
The School for Temporary Liveness is an assembly of artists and organizations reimagining performance through the frame of a school, organized by Lauren Bakst and Niall Jones. For its fourth iteration, it was hosted at The Kitchen. 

I worked as an A1 sound engineer throughout the program, collaborating with artists Julie Tolentino, Juliana Huxtable and Via App, Nora Chipaumire, Bilna’es, Denise Ferreira da Silva, Wendy’s Subway, and more.    
Moor Mother: Closing PerformancePerformance by Black Quantum Futurism at Performance Space New York June 2025
This was the closing performance of Black Quantum Futurism’s Open Room residency at Performance Space New York. For this residency, Black Quantum Futurism installed the Memory Vortex Inn, an interactive exhibition, from September 20th, 2024 to June 30th, 2025, which they activated with a series of performances throughout the residency. The closing performance involved an improvised collaboration beween Moor Mother (Camae Ayewa), Tcheser Holmes, Joy Guidry, Kyle Kidd, and Vitche-Boul Ra.  

I worked as A1 sound engineer for this performance. 
A. Garden Performance Program at Performance Space New York June 2025
A. Garden was organized by Tara-Jo Tashna, and held at Performance Space New York on June 12th, 2025. 

Inspired by the idea of a forest bath or nature walk, A. Garden, or “Anthrophony (human made sound) Garden” encouraged us to blur the distinctions between human and nature. Featuring Lake Dorn, YATTA and Keith N’Dong, with a live installation by Neda Mouzayanni, the audience was invited to take a moment of reprieve in this auditory garden. Under the prompt of regeneration and rebirth, each artist’s interpretation was enlivened through sonic based interventions. 

I worked as A2 sound engineer for this night of performances. 
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.
A Ritualistic ConversationPerformance by Joy Guidry and Kyle Kidd at Performance Space New YorkNovember 2024
             
 A Ritualistic Conversation was a performance by Joy Guidry (bassoon, electronics) and Kyle Kidd (vocals, harmonium), which was one of a series of activations of Black Quantum Futurism’s Memory Vortex Inn installation in the Open Room of Performance Space New York. 

I worked as the A1 sound engineer for this performance. 
 
“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.