Mattress Factory welcomes Margret Cox for a live electronics performance, commissioned as part of Lydia Rosenberg’s exhibition, Do this while I wait, now on view at 1414 Monertey through December 2023.

The performance will start at 6:20 PM and will end at 7:30 PM. 

Over the course of her exhibition, Rosenberg has worked with the Mattress Factory to produce a small series of programs that expand on the ideas around language and the layered lives of objects found in her installation. For this final event, Rosenberg invites artist Margaret Cox to present her work as part of this expanded dialogue. Cox’s performances are mesmerizing demonstrations of careful listening to the voices and frictions inherent in objects. While in Rosenberg's work material is undergoing constant transformation, in Cox’s work objects and materials are brought to life through their interactions with each other as the artist responds through improvisation and attention to encourage their self-expression.

Margaret Cox lives and works in Pittsburgh, PA. She is a really good listener. Her focus in electronic media while at Carnegie Mellon University and exposure to Pittsburgh’s experimental music scene fostered a lifetime interest in sounds. She enjoys noises, freezes, stutters and slips and has developed an enthusiasm for new instrumental techniques and the design of new instrument interfaces. In her performances, Margaret manipulates voice, field recordings, found sounds and electro-acoustic devices.