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Sandy Ewen is a sound artist, visual

artist and architect who has recently relocated to NYC from Houston, TX.

Ewen’s audio practice focuses on extended guitar techniques,

improvisation, graphic scores and interdisciplinary collaboration. Her

unique approach to guitar incorporates a wide array of implements –

railroad spikes, sidewalk chalk, threaded bolts, steel wool and other

items become an arsenal of abstraction. Ewen has worked extensively with

film makers, dancers, poets and musicians to create films, audio

recording, sound interventions and performance art. Ewen’s musical

collaborations include trio Etched in the Eye, duo with Tom Carter

called Spiderwebs, the trio Garden medium, and ongoing collaborations

with percussionist Weasel Walter and bassist Damon Smith. For nearly ten

years, Ewen has been the leader of an all-female large ensemble. The

ensemble conceptualizes and performs sound and performance art,

utilizing graphic and text based scores and improvisational constraints.

The ensemble performed with an amplified bathtub at Diverse Works in

2016, and performed a suite of installation-specific compositions for Francis Alÿs’ Fabiola Project at the Menil.

Sandy has spent much of 2017 touring, performing solo sets and in

collaboration with Steve Jansen (tapes and electronics) and Maria Chavez

(turntables) around Europe. In years past, Ewen has performed

alongside Roscoe Mitchell, Keith Rowe, Lydia Lunch and many others, and

has performed and recorded with Jaap Blonk, Henry Kaiser and more. In

2014 she performed at San Francisco’s 13th Annual Outsound New Music

Summit, and she has made several appearances at Austin’s annual No Idea

Festival.