THE SQUARE ROOT OF NEGATIVE TWO — Allison Tanenhaus

Photo by Bill T Miller — Photo by Bill T Miller

Robin Amos
• The Square Root of Negative Two, V1 (1976–83)
• The Girls (1977–79)
• Shut Up (1981–84)
• Cul de Sac (1990–2009)
• R/A (2009–present)
• Infera Bruo (2010–2019)
• The Square Root of Negative Two, V2 (2019–)

Blaik Ripton
• PlaySoundz (2001–11)
• The Square Root of Negative Two, V2 (2019–)

Allison Tanenhaus
• Visuals

thesquarerootofnegativetwo(at)gmail.com

Photo by Bill T Miller

Photo by ShadowandSoul Photography/Tanya Rose

V1 (1976–83)

• Composed, recorded, and performed original music for dance piece “Time Splice,” choreographed by Kip Watson and performed by the Central Florida Performing Arts Company, 1976
• Composed and recorded original music for the play “Carmilla” (Grapefruit Production), 1977
• Live performances at Eventworks, 1977 + 1978

V2 (2019–present)

• GlitchKraft opening reception, September 2019
• GlitchKraft closing reception, October 2019
• Somerville Porchfest (virtual), May 2020
• Mistery Machine, August 2021
• Somerville Porchfest, October 2021
• Bleep/Blorp 2022: A Festival of Synthesizer Music, March 2022
• GlitchKraft, April 2022
• Somerville Porchfest, May 2022
• Big Robot: Solstice, June 2022
• PKD, Somerville Public Library, December 2022
• PKD (Pt. 1), New England Synth Fest @ Museum of Science Boston, February 2023

• Quarterly finalist, MiraBanART Showcase, June 2020
• Anharmonic Online Film Festival, August 2020
• ASMRKitten and Boston Collective Film Festival, August 2020
• SVOX.TV, August 2020
• Supernova Festival, Everything Abstract Sonic, September 2020
• #DigitalArtMonth, CADAF (Contemporary + Digital Art Fair), October 2020
• Finalist, Prague International Monthly Film Festival, October 2020
• Glitch.Art.Br 2020: Glitch Art International Online Exhibition, November 2020
• Adjusting the Lens, Unrequited Leisure, Nashville, TN, December 2020
• 2021 Selection (x2): 9th Annual International Video Poetry Festival in Athens, Greece, March 2021
• 4th Photometria in Motion, Ioannina, Greece, 2021
• Semi-finalist for the International Music Video Awards, 2021
• 10th International Mobile Innovation Screening & Festival, August 2021
• High Tatras Film & Video Festival, Slovakia, August 2021
• International Sound Future Awards, October 2021
• Semi-Finalist in the International Short Film Awards, 2021
• Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, December 2021
• Festival Angaelica, Columbia Gorge, Oregon, November 2021
• Audiovisual Frontiers, UC Riverside
• Finalist in the Euro Video Song Awards, 2021
• Selection, NEXT International Short Film Festival, 2021
• Best EDM Psy-Trance Song, The Psychedelic Film and Music Festival, 2021
• Air on Air, Art Ii Biennial, Finland, 2022
• ON SCREEN Streaming Festival, Vienna, Austria, July 2022

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