Alex Brown, an inventive young New York painter, combines photorealism and Vasarely-style abstraction. Looking at one of his optically mesmerizing, subtly hued canvases is something like looking at a photograph through a patterned shower curtain: the image is atomized almost beyond recognition

ben hamblin is an electronic musician who composes spatial, atmospheric, electroacoustic music, either in live performance or non-realtime production. He is interested in the idea of using limited sound sources to create pieces of vast depth and obscurity; testing the ina