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Madame Gandhi is an award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music about gender liberation and personal power. Don’t miss her live as she takes over the Planetarium with her mission to use music as a medium for a message about positivity, personal expression, and human thriving.
“Going deep, bravely into the pain” is how Madame Gandhi describes Vibrations, her third studio album, and this could easily double as a subtitle for it. For several years prior to the pandemic, the overachieving artist and public speaker traveled on and off, including touring Oprah and MIA alike, leading a Ted Talk, and writing a song for Hillary Clinton’s streaming series, Gutsy. “While that time was beautiful, it distracted me from deeper emotional work that I didn’t know I had to do. Sometimes when we’re in that pain,” Gandhi says, “we forget that getting past it is possible. After all, pain are the pulsations that remind us we’re alive.”
In the end, her healing is our healing. “We need to show the multidimensionality of our existence,” she says. “I think that’s part of the message of my entire project. Don’t limit yourself. What is your authentic expression as a human?” Of course, she doesn’t expect you to know all the answers. So she put Vibrations out into the world to inspire that journey.
With support from Violet Nox, with visuals by Allison Tanenhaus and Mr. Improbable.
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Tuesday, November 14 | 7:30 pm
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Madame Gandhi is an award-winning artist and activist known for her uplifting, percussive electronic music and positive message about gender liberation and personal power. She was recognized in Forbes “30 under 30” for music and in BBC 100 Women, and her TED Talk about conscious music consumption has been viewed over a million times. Waiting for Me, shot in Mumbai, India, focuses on radical expressions of joy, color, and freedom, winning the Music Video Jury Awards at SXSW Film Festival in 2021. In June 2022, Gandhi completed a master’s in music science and technology at Stanford University’s CCRMA where she spent time in Antarctica sampling the sounds of glaciers melting to create empathy and awareness around climate change. Her third studio album, Vibrations, mixed in Dolby Atmos, was released in 2022, following the release of her previous albums Voices (2016) and Vision (2019).
Gandhi actively collaborates with other female and gender-expansive people in the industry. Her song “The Future is Female” was featured as the theme song for the 2022 Apple TV+ docuseries Gutsy about the world’s boldest and bravest women. She also composed the original score for the documentary Periodical about menstrual equity that premiered at SXW 2023. In June 2023, she was awarded the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame Abe Olman Prize for excellence in songwriting and leadership.
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Violet Nox is a rhythmic ambient electronic trio from Boston, MA., comprised of Dez DeCarlo on synth and effect pedals, Andrew Abrahamson on synthesis, samples, clocked machines, and Noell Dorsey with experimental vocals. Together they explore a sonic landscape rich with synthetic, organic, and poetic sensations. Their live performances captivate audiences with mesmerizing audiovisual spectacles. ‘Vortex and Voices,’ their 6th full-length album, released on September 15, 2023, via Somewhere Cold Records and in October 2023, via Aumega Project Germany. On the new release, atmospheric melodies and pulsating rhythms take listeners on an astral journey through veils of emotion and imagination. With ‘Vortex and Voices’ dawning, Violet Nox continues expanding its artistic boundaries, delving into new psychedelic territories, and attracting enthusiastic fans worldwide.
Allison Tanenhaus (she/her) is a New York–born, Boston–based digital glitch artist. She specializes in trippy op art, anachronistic tech mashups, and unexpected dimensional qualities.
Source material consists of Allison’s photos, AI imagery, and artifacts that she reconfigures using smartphone apps. Made with equal parts deliberation and experimentation, the remixed results are rainbow-hued mutations that take on a psychedelic life of their own.
At a time when platforms pervasively cull personal data—and digital flawlessness is the norm—she views reclaiming devices, embracing error, and transforming environments as radical acts of autonomy and mindfulness. Also looks way cool.
Allison’s work has been showcased in 26 countries via exhibitions, public art, festivals, and guerrilla postings. Highlights include the ICA Store at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston Cyberarts, New England Synth Fest at the Museum of Science, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center, SaveArtSpace, “Empowered Women Empower Women” curated by Paris Hilton, the Alternative Power 100 by shesaid.so and Patreon, and her traveling shows “GlitchKraft” and “Haus Party.”
Allison is a grantee of Somerville’s Visual Art Fellowship and the City of Boston’s Transformative Public Art Program, and is a member of electronic music group The Square Root of Negative Two and optical installation duo bent/haus.
Charles "Charlo" Choueiri (Mr. Improbable) is an Emmy-nominated media producer and visual artist based in Somerville, MA. He is an agent of hype and an explorer of consciousness. His work in live VJing, projection mapping, generative art, and film have been used to explore inner space, ineffable concepts, and illuminating vibrations. His work has been shown at venues, galleries, and events across New England, as well as in Georgia, Texas, Arizona, California, and Black Rock City, NV.
