Transporter is dedicated to experimental sound as communal practice.

We aim to create a space of flow, movement, and crossing – of ideas, possibilities, and temporalities.

Established in 2024 at the Boston Cyberarts Gallery, Transporter is a series focused on music, sound, and performance. We’re particularly interested in showcasing experimental music that pushes – and erodes – the boundaries of the sonic, revealing unconventional approaches to making, absorbing, and engaging with the medium. In addition to curating live performance, a central part of Transporter is offering a space to discuss, study, and create experimental work. As such, we want to provide an outlet for play and experimentation as a way to highlight the process of assembling, developing, and refining a piece. Finally, we aim to foster a space of interdisciplinarity, pairing music with various modes of creation within the visual, performing, and literary arts. Overall, Transporter is a series concerned with the creation and dissemination of experimental music, with particular attention to its intersections with related artforms and modes of expression.

TRANSPORTER: Transporter puts on shows

We book local and touring artists from a wide range of traditions and genres within the “experimental” umbrella, creating a heterotopia of sound and art.
1. We believe the “experimental” umbrella even encompasses musics that aren’t readily apparent as “experimental” (e.g. hip-hop & dance, popular & beat-based etc.) and that this multiplicity of genres, styles & traditions can be reflected back into each other, revealing layers and ways of listening unnoticed as such.
We bring sonic and visual work together, fostering cross-pollination between musicians and artists often through video and film.
We try to bridge the artificial and often institutional divides between underground/DIY/improvisatory/untrained music and notated, orchestral, and acoustic works (often called New Music and found in the conservatory or higher education).
We believe the show experience is as large a part of the show as the music itself. There is room for multiple ways of experiencing the work; multiple ways for your body to be, react, and move to music; and multiple ways to listen to sound within a communal environment.
We want to be a space for community-building even beyond music and sound – we invite artists, zine-makers, and clothes sellers among others to showcase their work and meet others undertaking similar projects.

LABORATORY: Transporter is experimental in its approach (Transporter : Laboratory)

Our Laboratory series is for events that break or don’t fit into the traditional show “lineup” model.

Durational works & singular visions
Talks, workshops, lectures, knowledge-sharing, listening parties, co-working sessions, discussion roundtables, and casual hangouts.
Expanded cinema & live scoring
Commissioned pieces to be performed later (long-term/delayed collaboration)
Works in progress & critique/feedback sessions
Other pop-up events (zine release parties, pop-up art display with sound, pop-up installation, etc.)