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Tethered Ashes features a body of work researching urbanization, genre, algorithm, and indeterminacy in music composition. Through deconstructed instruments, scores, and installation, a lens on listening, environment, and power dynamics is called to focus.
Our relationship to creation is one of control which can live and die by our ability to acquiesce this desire. The humor of human folly is inherent in the craft of technological development. The impresa of the cyborg, our hybrid circumstance calls us to reckon with our instruments and man-made environments as an extension of selves and mapping out their limitations.
“Everyone is failing. Our entire experience is this side of perfection. Failure exists in relation to goals. Nature has no goals and so can’t fail. Humans have goals and so they have to fail. Often the wonderful configurations produced by failure reveal the pettiness of our goals. Of course, we have to go on striving for success, otherwise we could not genuinely fail. If Buster Keaton wasn't genuinely trying to put up his house it wouldn't be funny when it falls down on him.” - Cornelius Cardew
Juan Cisneros is a multidisciplinary artist/musician born, living, and working in Austin Texas. His work addresses our relationship to technology, media, and how culture and memory are shaped through music, sound, and the mediated image. Juan received his BFA from the University of Texas in 2006 with a focus on video and performance and is a current MFA candidate in Music/Sound at Bard College. Juan contributed to the artist collective the Totally Wreck Production Institute between 2004-2012 producing EIHITV, a public access television show, and a string of performances and group shows utilizing humor and speculative fiction to grapple with internet culture and corporeality. Juan has exhibited and performed locally with OK Mountain, MASS Gallery, ATM, The Visual Art Center at the University of Texas, Las Cruxes, NMASS Festival, Hyperreal Film Club, and The Contemporary Austin. International shows and collaborations include working with Future Gallery, Space 1026, and Interstate Projects.
