Subwoofer Duo and Huichun Yang
subwoofer duo (alma Laprida & Bryce hackford)
huichun yang
tuesday, april 7, 2026 at 8pm
SMFA at Tufts (Drawing Studio, 2nd Floor)
230 The Fenway, Boston
Music: 8pm (Doors: 7:30pm)
Admission: $20 general | $15 for non-SMFA students and Non-Event members
FREE for SMFA students & MCC Card to Culture holders
No one turned away for lack of funds
Non-Event and SMFA at Tufts University are pleased to present the duo of Bryce Hackford and Alma Laprida, performing on two subwoofers, and a solo set by experimental musician & technologist Huichun Yang.
About the Artists
Subwoofer Duo is a new collaboration between Bryce Hackford and Alma Laprida exploring sound amplified exclusively via subwoofers in performance, installation and workshops. A subwoofer is a type of speaker that produces lower frequencies; the type that is responsible for making a car bumper bump. SD performances dialog with the architectures in which they take place (often exceedingthose architectures), and have so far used electronics, synthesizers, voices, tromba marina, recordings of animals among other beings, and vibrators in their instrumentation. The custom SD sound system is currently being built.
Huichun Yang (楊惠鈞) is a Taiwanese experimental musician and technologist based in Brooklyn, New York. She improvises with self-built wooden instruments, balloons, and mouth harps alongside electronics and computer processing, transforming bodily tension into sound. Through breath and touch, her performances use inner rhythm to build relationships between body and instrument. She has taught live coding at the Rhode Island School of Design and led workshops at the NYU ITP program. Her work has been presented at DIY venues and internationally at ICMC (Boston), Non-Event (Boston), Residual Noise (Providence), EESF (California), and the SOUND/IMAGE Festival (London). In 2025, she received a grant from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
