There was a different kind of radioactivity in Ken Ueno's rather severe “Sabinium,” for electronic tape with a video realization by animator Harvey Goldman. Ueno recorded the sounds of bursting bath bubbles, convolved them with battle noises and built the results into a sometimes-fragile, sometimes-brutal but always poetic piece of noise music. Goldman's animation — primordial cell-like structures interacting in a sort of cosmic soup — elegantly interpreted the score and referenced the underlying story of the Sabine women, and in spite of its mercilessly monochromatic and minimalist materials, “Sabinium” was fascinating throughout.

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