Ash Fure

Ash Fure is an artist in Brooklyn, NY who creates tactile sound installations where audiences physically interact with speakers and sculptural objects to experience music through vibration and friction rather than passive listening.

Ash Fure distills music to its physical essence: vibration, friction, and the raw materiality of speaker cones. Over the past decade, she's built a practice that inverts the relationship between listener and sound. Instead of sitting still, audiences press, lean, and lift through tactile installations. In collaboration with architect Xavi Aguirre, she reimagines athletic equipment as sonic sculptures activated through friction, pressure, and movement. Her 2017 immersive opera-with-no-words The Force of Things uses megaphones and low, vibrating subwoofers while performers weave through the audience. A finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Music, she holds a doctorate from Harvard and directs the M.F.A. in Sonic Practice at Dartmouth College. She creates visceral installation-performances that challenge conventional notions of music.