Electric Djinn
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Origin | New York City |
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Years active | 2013–present |
Website | electricdjinn.com |
Electric Djinn (born in
Background
The daughter of a first-generation Croatian-American and mixed-heritage American, Sweet spent her formative years in Grand Rapids, Michigan. After leaving art school, she moved to New York City.
Career
Neptune Sweet started Electric Djinn with a group of four others in the 2010s: visual artists
.Interested in exploring the possibility of virtual
Also in 2013, she played at 1335 Mabini gallery in Manila and the Colony Cafe in Woodstock, New York.[2] Two years later she played at Post Pablo Gallery in the Philippines' capital, at the Dacha Project in Freeville, New York, and Black Bear Bar in Williamsburg, the former Galapagos art space.[3] 2016 saw performances in Harlem, at Bliss on Bliss Studio in Queens, and at Aliya Surf Camp Resort in Baler, Philippines, the latter a result of an artist's residency at AIR Aurora in Baler. The next year she played at New York's the Delanceyand with visual artist Maria Hupfield at Gibney Dance.[4]
Her collaboration with Hupfield continued into 2018 with her providing the sound to the latter's performance piece during the January opening of Hupfield's solo exhibition at Galerie de l'UQAM in Quebec[5] and in the piece The Kind of Dream You've Never Seen at the Brooklyn Museum in July.[6] She also played an event at Ambrosia Elixirs store in Bushwick and continues to play at the Delancey.
Electric Djinn
Discography
- Rejector (EP, 2010s)
- "Deer Xing" (single, 2015)
- "Phoenix" (single, 2019)
Professional affiliations
- Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI)[11]
- Women in Music (WIM)
References
- ^ "BTR Live Studio with Maia: Solilians". BreakThru Radio.
- ^ "POKLONG ANADING: Art Death". 1335 Mabini website. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
- ^ Detrick, Ben (3 April 2014). "Boîte: Black Bear in Williamsburg". The New York Times.
- ^ "DoublePlus, Gibney Dance NY". Maria Hupfield website. 6 December 2017.
- ^ "Past Exhibitions:Maria Hupfield. Celle qui continue de donner". Galerie de l'UQAM.
- ^ "Dance: Maria Hupfield and Electric Djinn, Saturday, July 7, 2018". Brooklyn Museum.
- ^ Diamond, Samuel (19 July 2017). "Electric Djinn - "Deer Xing"". Tiny Mix Tapes.
- Female:Pressure. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ "Electric Djinn aka Neptune Sweet: electronic music producer, performer, sound creator". Female Pressure on Tumblr. Retrieved 26 March 2019.
- ^ Nominikat, Elke (19 March 2019). "SONG PICK: Electric Djinn – Phoenix". Glamglare.
- ^ "Electric Djinn". repertoire.bmi.com. Retrieved 3 May 2019.