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Flyer with a purple, yellow, and white gradient background. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 16; Terre Thaemlitz — Between Empathy And Sympathy Is Time; Kate Carr — let's snap and break; Nicolas Dion Buteau — sky lights; Tam Lin — Intro; Cameron MacNair — No Soul; Yann Novak — Inverted Qualia (redux); Ian Wellman — 5G Antenna Power Box; anne-f jacques — sargassum; Charles Wesley — Innocent Bond; Negativland — The Gun And The Bible; Le Tigre — FYR; Chicks On Speed — Kaltes Klares Wasser. 01.31.2025, 18:00-19:00 CET Flyer with a purple, yellow, and white gradient background. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 16; Terre Thaemlitz — Between Empathy And Sympathy Is Time; Kate Carr — let's snap and break; Nicolas Dion Buteau — sky lights; Tam Lin — Intro; Cameron MacNair — No Soul; Yann Novak — Inverted Qualia (redux); Ian Wellman — 5G Antenna Power Box; anne-f jacques — sargassum; Charles Wesley — Innocent Bond; Negativland — The Gun And The Bible; Le Tigre — FYR; Chicks On Speed — Kaltes Klares Wasser. 01.31.2025, 18:00-19:00 CET

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 16

01.31.2025
Mix
Flyer with a yellow and orange gradient background. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 15; Ian Wellman — Gas Pipes Behind Smoothie Shop; Yann Novak — Coming Up (redux); Cameron MacNair — Part Never; Charles Wesley — Traverser L'Aube; antxnio graz — HASTAQUELAMUERTENOS; a wave, a mouth; — Audre's Words; Pinkcourtesyphone — to be expected; Braulio Lam, Cyparissus — Ganymede in Film Reel; THEATH * MANNING — AN EVER LIVING PHOENIX V1; Manuel Carbone — acqua alta; Victoria Wijeratne ft. Kadeem Speaks Jeudy — A Good Place. 12.06.2024, 18:00-19:00 CET Flyer with a yellow and orange gradient background. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 15; Ian Wellman — Gas Pipes Behind Smoothie Shop; Yann Novak — Coming Up (redux); Cameron MacNair — Part Never; Charles Wesley — Traverser L'Aube; antxnio graz — HASTAQUELAMUERTENOS; a wave, a mouth; — Audre's Words; Pinkcourtesyphone — to be expected; Braulio Lam, Cyparissus — Ganymede in Film Reel; THEATH * MANNING — AN EVER LIVING PHOENIX V1; Manuel Carbone — acqua alta; Victoria Wijeratne ft. Kadeem Speaks Jeudy — A Good Place. 12.06.2024, 18:00-19:00 CET

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 15

12.06.2024
Mix
Flyer with a light blue and purple gradient background. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 14; antxnio graz — cadenza liquida; Geneva Skeen — Flutter In Place; our dear friend, the medic — when air collapsed within; Carbon In Prose — A Gentle Shimmer, Everlasting; a wave, a mouth; — Our Circular In-Between; Robert Takahashi Crouch — A Determination of Salt Water Drowning; Marcin Przybylowicz — Consumer Cathedral; Black Rain — Tokyo Night City; 10.11.2024, 18:00-19:00 CEST Flyer with a light blue and purple gradient background. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 14; antxnio graz — cadenza liquida; Geneva Skeen — Flutter In Place; our dear friend, the medic — when air collapsed within; Carbon In Prose — A Gentle Shimmer, Everlasting; a wave, a mouth; — Our Circular In-Between; Robert Takahashi Crouch — A Determination of Salt Water Drowning; Marcin Przybylowicz — Consumer Cathedral; Black Rain — Tokyo Night City; 10.11.2024, 18:00-19:00 CEST

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 14

10.11.2024
Mix
Flyer with a yellow and pink gradient with a hint of white. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 13; Dale Cornish — A Better Dancer; Ian Wellman — Relief; Pinkcourtesyphone — In Monochrome (Heliochrysum Remix of "In Voluptuous Monochrome”); Cyparissus — Parents as Set-up, Child as Punchline; our dear friend, the medic — and with imploring gaze she arrested my hands; Yann Novak — We Went out, Not with a Whimper, but a Whisper… feat. G. Brenner; mHz — Copper (Matmos); Joey Largent — Below Diorite Waters [excerpt]; Marc Manning — Further; Low Roar — Because We Have To; 08.16.2024, 18:00-19:00 CEST Flyer with a yellow and pink gradient with a hint of white. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 13; Dale Cornish — A Better Dancer; Ian Wellman — Relief; Pinkcourtesyphone — In Monochrome (Heliochrysum Remix of "In Voluptuous Monochrome”); Cyparissus — Parents as Set-up, Child as Punchline; our dear friend, the medic — and with imploring gaze she arrested my hands; Yann Novak — We Went out, Not with a Whimper, but a Whisper… feat. G. Brenner; mHz — Copper (Matmos); Joey Largent — Below Diorite Waters [excerpt]; Marc Manning — Further; Low Roar — Because We Have To; 08.16.2024, 18:00-19:00 CEST

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 13

08.16.2024
Mix

Dronebath 003

07.28.2024
Performance
Album cover made to look 3D standing upright with shadows with a light grey background. The album cover has an extremely light green background with a framed image of three AI generated greek or roman statues of heads breaking through a brick looking wall, all in a monotone dark green. Album cover made to look 3D standing upright with shadows with a light grey background. The album cover has an extremely light green background with a framed image of three AI generated greek or roman statues of heads breaking through a brick looking wall, all in a monotone dark green.

The Voices of Theseus

07.26.2024
Release
Flyer with a blue background and white text overtop that reads: LOW END; YANN NOVAK WITH G. BRENNER; Thursday, July 18; 8 PM CT Flyer with a blue background and white text overtop that reads: LOW END; YANN NOVAK WITH G. BRENNER; Thursday, July 18; 8 PM CT

Live @ LOW END

07.18.2024
Performance

Songs of Our Lives #41: Yann Novak

07.02.2024
Podcast
Flyer with a purple and pink gradient with a hint of white. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 12; Terre Thaemlitz — She's Hard (2007 Archive Of Silence Mix); Yann Novak — Traversing the Substrate feat. G. Brenner; Pinkcourtesyphone — pre-sumptuous / post-sumptuous; Cyparissus — Bad Wether; Charles Wesley — Cold Pull to the Unknown; Tam Lin — Chat Bubbles / Ennervation ; Yann Novak — Patterned Behavior (Bana Haffar Remix); G. Brenner — Brushfire; Labrinth — Washing Off The Blood; Billie Eilish — BITTERSUITE (SLOWED & REVERB); Sawako — Deep Under; 06.26.2021, 18:00-19:00 CEST Flyer with a purple and pink gradient with a hint of white. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 12; Terre Thaemlitz — She's Hard (2007 Archive Of Silence Mix); Yann Novak — Traversing the Substrate feat. G. Brenner; Pinkcourtesyphone — pre-sumptuous / post-sumptuous; Cyparissus — Bad Wether; Charles Wesley — Cold Pull to the Unknown; Tam Lin — Chat Bubbles / Ennervation ; Yann Novak — Patterned Behavior (Bana Haffar Remix); G. Brenner — Brushfire; Labrinth — Washing Off The Blood; Billie Eilish — BITTERSUITE (SLOWED & REVERB); Sawako — Deep Under; 06.26.2021, 18:00-19:00 CEST

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 12

06.21.2024
Mix
Album cover made to look 3d so it’s standing upright with a light grey background. The cover is purple with a grid of black dots covering it. There is a layer of red over top is a swirly pattern that shows the purple through the breaks, the red has a drop shadow to make it look 3D. There is white text on top of that that reads “FOUND’ at the top, “ATIONS” at the bottom and in smaller type towards the bottom “VOL. 2”. Album cover made to look 3d so it’s standing upright with a light grey background. The cover is purple with a grid of black dots covering it. There is a layer of red over top is a swirly pattern that shows the purple through the breaks, the red has a drop shadow to make it look 3D. There is white text on top of that that reads “FOUND’ at the top, “ATIONS” at the bottom and in smaller type towards the bottom “VOL. 2”.

Foundations, vol. 2

06.14.2024
Compilation
Album cover made to look 3d so it’s standing upright with a light grey background. The cover has a yellow background on the top left quarter with black text that reads “Soundreaming Volume 2 Overlooked Horizons; Jacek Doroszenko”. The bottom left quarter has a light grey background and black text that reads “Soundreaming Compilation; Anna Zaradny; Yann Novak; Autistici; Zenial; Ampscent; Giulio Aldinucci Jacek Doroszenko Ewa Doroszenko; Grzegorz Doroszenko; Chris Hernandez; Robert Worby”. The right half of the cover is a back and white digital abstraction by Jacek Doroszenko that features lines, circles, digital noise and distortion, and a few black rectangles and circles. Album cover made to look 3d so it’s standing upright with a light grey background. The cover has a yellow background on the top left quarter with black text that reads “Soundreaming Volume 2 Overlooked Horizons; Jacek Doroszenko”. The bottom left quarter has a light grey background and black text that reads “Soundreaming Compilation; Anna Zaradny; Yann Novak; Autistici; Zenial; Ampscent; Giulio Aldinucci Jacek Doroszenko Ewa Doroszenko; Grzegorz Doroszenko; Chris Hernandez; Robert Worby”. The right half of the cover is a back and white digital abstraction by Jacek Doroszenko that features lines, circles, digital noise and distortion, and a few black rectangles and circles.

Soundreaming Compilation

06.11.2024
Compilation
Flyer with yellow and tan painting in the background and white text overtop that reads: RE:SOUND SUN, Yann Novak with G. Brenner, CGRSM, Yasi Poursamad and Ami Radunskaya, Christopher Robin, JUN 8 2024 • 4PM • BUILDING 34 • MARE ISLAND • VALLEJO Flyer with yellow and tan painting in the background and white text overtop that reads: RE:SOUND SUN, Yann Novak with G. Brenner, CGRSM, Yasi Poursamad and Ami Radunskaya, Christopher Robin, JUN 8 2024 • 4PM • BUILDING 34 • MARE ISLAND • VALLEJO

Re:Sound Sun

06.08.2024
Performance
Album cover made to look 3d on a light grey background with shadows below it. The cover is yellow with photo of a sunset over water with a cliff wall in shadow on the right. The sunset is pink and yellow and the sun is reflecting orange/pink in the water. Text in the upper right corner reads “Clarities’ and text on the bottom left reads “Foxy Digitalis & The Jewel Garden”. Album cover made to look 3d on a light grey background with shadows below it. The cover is yellow with photo of a sunset over water with a cliff wall in shadow on the right. The sunset is pink and yellow and the sun is reflecting orange/pink in the water. Text in the upper right corner reads “Clarities’ and text on the bottom left reads “Foxy Digitalis & The Jewel Garden”.

Clarities

05.03.2024
Compilation
Flyer with a blue and yellow gradient with a hint of light green. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 11; Richard Chartier — variance.1; Cindytalk — I Don't Know How I Feel About Tomorrow ; Ian Wellman — Decaying House; claire rousay — soft as i can; Charles Wesley — Motorway Eternity; Pinkcourtesyphone — notes on vacuuming ; Carbon In Prose — Surrender To The Tide; The Flight — The Sky Remade; Asa-Chang & Junray — Hana (Double Suicide Remix); ATARASHII GAKKO! — Tokyo Calling. 04.26.2024, 18:00-19:00 CET Flyer with a blue and yellow gradient with a hint of light green. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 11; Richard Chartier — variance.1; Cindytalk — I Don't Know How I Feel About Tomorrow ; Ian Wellman — Decaying House; claire rousay — soft as i can; Charles Wesley — Motorway Eternity; Pinkcourtesyphone — notes on vacuuming ; Carbon In Prose — Surrender To The Tide; The Flight — The Sky Remade; Asa-Chang & Junray — Hana (Double Suicide Remix); ATARASHII GAKKO! — Tokyo Calling. 04.26.2024, 18:00-19:00 CET

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 11

04.26.2024
Mix

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 10

03.01.2024
Mix

Dorian Wood: Caca

02.17.2024
Curatorial

Ian Wellman + Friends 

02.02.2024
Performance
Flyer with a cool blue gradient with a hint of light green. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 09; Baldur's Gate 3 - Ambience: Wilderness Forest; Ether Diver - This Rainforest Holds Secrets, but Not from Me; Kate Carr - A loud hissing screech which drops in pitch halfway; our dear friend, the medic - in the garden of fainting stars; Baldur's Gate 3 - Ambience: City Streets; claire rousay - wouldn't have to hurt; Ether Diver - 2:45 a.m., Junction B, Exeter Station; Matthew Mercer - Achromia; Almeeva - Arches; Scavenger - The Slums; Baldur's Gate 3 - Ambience: Underdark; Michelle Vynessa - A Maze of Mirrors; 01.05.2024, 18:00-19:00 CET Flyer with a cool blue gradient with a hint of light green. Black text overtop reads: Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia; 09; Baldur's Gate 3 - Ambience: Wilderness Forest; Ether Diver - This Rainforest Holds Secrets, but Not from Me; Kate Carr - A loud hissing screech which drops in pitch halfway; our dear friend, the medic - in the garden of fainting stars; Baldur's Gate 3 - Ambience: City Streets; claire rousay - wouldn't have to hurt; Ether Diver - 2:45 a.m., Junction B, Exeter Station; Matthew Mercer - Achromia; Almeeva - Arches; Scavenger - The Slums; Baldur's Gate 3 - Ambience: Underdark; Michelle Vynessa - A Maze of Mirrors; 01.05.2024, 18:00-19:00 CET

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 09

01.05.2024
Mix
Circle floating in grey space with a slight shadow underneath to make it look like it’s standing upright. The circle has a photo looking through a pile of metal pipes with light on the other side shining through. At the bottom of the circle there is white text that reads: homework - year 8. Circle floating in grey space with a slight shadow underneath to make it look like it’s standing upright. The circle has a photo looking through a pile of metal pipes with light on the other side shining through. At the bottom of the circle there is white text that reads: homework - year 8.

Homework – Year 8

12.25.2023
Compilation

Inside No. 9: The Best of 2023 

12.20.2023
Press

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 08

11.10.2023
Mix

Joey Veltkamp: “tell your heart that i’m the one”

10.21.2023
Curatorial

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 07

09.15.2023
Mix

Yann Novak – Guest Session

08.31.2023
Performance

Exploring New Ground With Yann Novak

07.26.2023
Interview

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 06

07.21.2023
Mix

The Mind Gap #162

07.12.2023
Compilation

The Voice of Theseus

07.07.2023
Release

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 05

05.26.2023
Mix

Yann Novak talks Sound

05.23.2023
Interview

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 04

03.31.2023
Mix

ΩHM Festival

03.31.2023
Performance

DER Mix Series: Yann Novak

03.06.2023
Mix

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 03

02.03.2023
Mix

Cudighi Records presents…

01.28.2023
Performance

Foxy Digitalis 2022 Favorites: Yann Novak

12.16.2022
Mix

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 02

12.09.2022
Mix

Sounds Toward A Queer Ambitopia — 01

10.14.2022
Mix

A Glaring

08.06.2022
Group Exhibition

Innerscapes

07.17.2022
Compilation

Giving Water to the Dead

07.15.2022
Release

Soundwave : 115

06.12.2022
Mix

Ritual Variations

05.06.2022
Remix

University of Ambiance Vol. IV

03.21.2022
Compilation

Reflections of a Gathering Storm

03.20.2022
Release

Touch.40

03.12.2022
Performance

Telegraphic Remixes

02.14.2022
Remix

Foxy Digitalis Mix Season 2, #5: Yann Novak

02.02.2022
Mix

Transience #41 with Lou Drago and Yann Novak

01.17.2022
Mix

We Are Happened: Year 2021 Reflections

12.16.2021
Radio Show

AM 10th Anniversary

11.19.2021
Compilation

Always Together With You

11.17.2021
Score

Bathed in Light and Rapture

10.08.2021
Release

Polyglot

10.05.2021
Mix

The Voice of Energy

08.18.2021
Interview

Silver Pride 2021

07.30.2021
Screening

Exiting The Churn

06.27.2021
Mix

Soundwave : 65

06.27.2021
Mix

Lifeblood of Light and Rapture

06.25.2021
Release

DCA Cultural Trailblazers 2021–22

06.24.2021
Award

This is not a reading

03.22.2021
Remix

Finding a Way to Live

02.12.2021
Release

Virtual @ LOW END

02.04.2021
Livestream

When In Doubt Go To A Museum

01.26.2021
Group Exhibition

University of Ambiance Vol. III

01.21.2021
Compilation

Tour Mode

01.01.2021
Compilation

Homework – Year 5

12.25.2020
Compilation

Slow Sketch, Vol. 2: Reflections Of The Ambient Community

12.24.2020
Compilation

Audiosphere

10.14.2020
Group Exhibition

How to Tread Lightly

10.05.2020
Group Exhibition

Particle Count

10.02.2020
Compilation

Presence

08.04.2020
Reissue

Offset.Aura

08.03.2020
Online Exhibition

Relatives Schoensein

07.07.2020
Compilation

Spectral Blur

06.26.2020
Livestream

Wayward in Limbo #30: Yann Novak

06.26.2020
Podcast

Freq_Wave

06.13.2020
Online Exhibition

#RuidoVirico_10

05.24.2020
Livestream

Touch: Isolation

05.07.2020
Compilation

Infinite Drone

05.06.2020
Video

ATTN:SPAN

05.06.2020
Compilation

The Breeze Blowing Over Us

05.01.2020
Reissue

Doppler.Shift

03.20.2020
Release

Further Dismantling

01.31.2020
Release

Slowly Dismantling West Coast Tour

11.20.2019
Slowly Dismantling West Coast Tour

Needle Exchange

11.20.2019
Mix

Slowly Dismantling

11.01.2019
Release

Histories of the Present

10.17.2019
Public Sound Installation

Place Language

10.02.2019
Compilation

Edge to Air

07.20.2019
Group Exhibition

Concrete Shelves

06.04.2019
Interview

A Breaking Through

05.31.2019
Exhibition

Stillness

05.17.2019
Publication

Scalar Fields

04.22.2019
Release

2019 Gays Hate Techno Spring Gathering

04.18.2019
Performance

Dreamscape 7

02.24.2019
Performance

Mono 31

02.12.2019
Performance

Mess

02.06.2019
Residency

CCF Fellowship for Visual ArtistsCCF

01.23.2019
Award

Passages

01.13.2019
Screening

Perpetual Drone

11.17.2018
Performance

Endless Song

10.13.2018
Exhibition

Desert Daze

10.12.2018
Performance

Procession Relic

10.11.2018
Performance

Elevation Through Sound

09.05.2018
Performance

Karl Fousek, Yann Novak, Zzyzxzyzz

08.19.2018
Performance

Performances of Masculinity

08.12.2018
Release

Yann Novak, ambiental explorations of sound and light

07.05.2018
Interview

Face The Music Dance Festival

05.13.2018
Screening

Induce – Dancing, Thinking Loving, Listening

05.10.2018
Performance & Interview

Trill Sound Zine

05.02.2018
Interview

Etc Radio

04.20.2018
Performance

Resonance FM

04.13.2018
Interview

EU Tour March 2018

03.23.2018
2018 EU Tour

The Future is a Forward Escape into the Past

03.22.2018
Soundseminar

EMS Elektronmusikstudion

03.05.2018
Residency

Live at Human Resources

03.01.2018
Compilation

Quark: How Does The Invisible Sound?

02.25.2018
Diffusion

Touch Presents

02.23.2018
Performance

The Future is a Forward Escape into the Past

02.23.2018
Release

Happened

02.20.2018
Interview

Crucial Listening 18

02.07.2018
Interview

Contact Wave

02.04.2018
Performance & Interview

homework – year 2

12.16.2017
Compilation

Steel

12.14.2017
Compilation

A Configuration Reconstituting Itself

09.30.2017
Score

Steve Roden, Yann Novak, & Fabio Perletta

06.11.2017
Performance

Soundpedro

06.03.2017
Performance

Surroundings

04.07.2017
Release

son/mage 003 Dragon’s Eye Recordings by Yann Novak

04.05.2017
Exhibition

How a Song About Baking Bread Inspired an Experimental Record Label

03.14.2017
Feature

The Future Eve Catalog

03.04.2017
Publication

Repose

02.15.2017
Solo Exhibition

Colour Fields

02.15.2017
Edition

The Future Eve

01.28.2017
Group Exhibition

Distance In/Formation

01.26.2017
Exhibition

Present Soundings

01.17.2017
Interview

Driftworks

01.14.2017
Diffusion

In the studio with Yann Novak

12.22.2016
Interview

Attn: Magazine

11.15.2016
Interview

Ornamentation

11.11.2016
Release

Perpetual Dawn​-​Year One

09.20.2016
Compilation

Mountain, Fire, Holding Still.

08.27.2016
Performance

Monkey Town

08.16.2016
Performance

Surroundings

08.12.2016
Performance

Unfinished

07.30.2016
Performance

2016 PØST Auction

07.09.2016
Auction

mas gestos y mas caras

07.08.2016
Performance

We are inseparable there is no time

06.25.2016
Exhibition

HomeLA: Victoria Park

05.21.2016
Performance

Share Festival

05.19.2016
Group Exhibition

with/in

04.17.2016
Group Exhibition

Tad Beck + taisha paggett + Yann Novak

04.07.2016
Exhibition

The Glass System

04.06.2016
Exhibition

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes

02.26.2016
Release

Scalar Field

02.21.2016
Solo Exhibition

LARB Fall 2015

01.16.2016
Publication

Yann Novak, Robert Crouch & Marielle V. Jakobsons

12.06.2015
Performance

Yann Novak, Robert Crouch & Marcus Fischer

12.05.2015
Performance

Yann Novak, Robert Crouch & Scant Intone

12.04.2015
Performance

Escuchas

12.02.2015
Diffusion

Perpetual Dawn

11.14.2015
Performance

the silent parade

11.07.2015
Soundwalk

We Love Our Parents, We Fear Snakes

10.31.2015
Performance

Las Cienegas 06.18.2009 -12.17.2011

10.11.2015
Publication

Endlessness

09.20.2015
Performance

A Simple Procedure

09.12.2015
Compilation

Prism

09.02.2015
Online Exhibition

Idleness Performance

08.30.2015
Performance

Idleness, Endlessness

08.27.2015
Release

The Recorder Was Left On, Or The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning

08.20.2015
Group Exhibition

Prelude

07.09.2015
Release

Dancity Festival

07.04.2015
Exhibition

Touch Presents… Live in Los Angeles

06.21.2015
Performance

WAIL

06.13.2015
Score

Senses of Place

06.05.2015
Screening

Rayleigh Scattering

06.04.2015
Edition

Call & Response

05.30.2015
Group Exhibition

Scalar Field (9a00ff, ff6600, ff0066, fe0000)

04.16.2015
Edition

Sky-Lit

02.15.2015
Exhibition

TEMPERAMENTAL

02.14.2015
Group Exhibition

HomeLA

02.08.2015
Performance + Screening

After.Image

02.08.2015
Solo Exhibition

Mountain School

01.20.2015
Education