Madison Greenstone

Madison Greenstone is a clarinetist and improviser based between Berlin and Brooklyn. Their solo practice explores material and spatial expressivities of sustained sound through richly noisy timbral actions. Recently their work explores dreamlike acoustic mirages, spatial interferences of difference tones and beating, and draws inspiration from fiction writer Yoko Tawada’s proposition that there is no such thing as a room with a fixed size.

Their debut solo album, Resonance Studies in Ecstatic Consciousness (Relative Pitch Records 2023), was included in Bandcamp’s Best Experimental Music of 2023 compilation, and has been described as “one hell of a calling card” (The Wire) and “mind-blowing” (Nowhere Street). Madison can be heard on labels such as Wandelweiser Editions, Another Timbre, TAK Editions, Pleasure of the Text Records, eë editions, Unknown Tapes, New Focus Recordings, Impakt Collective, Greyfade, Important Records, Mengi, and Longform Editions. 

Madison’s work has been presented by Blank Forms, Lampo, ISSUE Project Room, Cafe Oto, KM28, Morphine Raum, Oscillation Festival (BE), and Rhizome DC. Madison’s writing on experimental music has been published through LAMPO imprint, Museum of Art and History Neuchâtel, Museum of Contemporary Art Zagreb / k-verlag, and Blank Forms. 

They perform as a member of TAK Ensemble (NYC), and collaborate with John McCowen (MUNDANAS), Laura Cocks, Jan St. Werner, and Ryan Sawyer (Shaker Ensemble). They sustain a cross-disciplinary dialogue and creative exchange with the Kyiv-based visual artist Anton Saienko.