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Black Hole is a space for audio.

Audio is a temporary social architecture made of air.

Our curatorial purview is to diagram ways of listening.

The listeners are the performers at Black Hole.

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BLACK HOLE  is an artist-run center for audio located in Los Angeles. Our purpose is to create a situation where people can listen to, think, and talk about audio materials that are not possible to experience with widely-distributed audio technologies for home, headphones, or cinema.

For nearly a century, audio has been used as a material for art and non-art conditions. Although there is an expansive and internationally produced body of work addressing the medium’s possibilities beyond representations of music, there have never been widely accessible facilities to render it. Unlike other areas of culture based around people listening (like music or lecturing), there is also no pervasive publisher, no collector, and no hub in the USA for dispersing knowledge even of the experiments produced. We believe that making these materials available is of cultural importance.  

BLACK HOLE is an alternative model for the continuance of this trajectory. Its primary goals are to slowly define a new type of listening space which will function as a research library, a production space, and a platform for conversation and inspiration in relation to these materials.

BLACK HOLE  is a small non-profit with a collectivized financial model. We are funded with donations made when booking listening Sessions and by individuals and organizations who support our mission and community. When you book a Session, 35% goes to the author, 35% goes to a general fund that is redistributed to all authors presenting, and the remaining 30% goes to keep the space alive.

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