About

Rhiannon Catalyst (aka Rhiannon Erbach-Gruber) is an artist, organizer, and curator specializing in building dream teams and crescendos.

She’s served as a curator and manager of spaces, teams, and events in NYC for over 15 years, often with a focus on innovative technology and culture that pushes envelopes both artistically and technologically. In the event world, this often meant underground, renegade, and outsider art & culture. The canvases and stages she worked with included trains, trucks, boats, floats, domes, and once a german military tank modified to be a DJ/sound booth for festivals and parades. She first became involved with curating on a massive scale in New York CIty at the age of 21 when she discovered a giant concrete and glass box on the riverfront in Dumbo, Brooklyn. That box became known as the Lunatarium, a now legendary 20,000 square foot art and music venue she booked and stage managed as the venue’s sole Music Director for five years. She also booked and managed events on trains, trucks, and boats and performed on floats, stages, and once on top of a german military tank modified to be a DJ booth for festivals and parades.

As an artist, Rhiannon is known as an impassioned vocalist and songwriter who loves and has deep experience collaborating and working with children as well as adults. After teaching herself to improvise singing with DJs of many genres (first in an all-female crew of DJs, vocalists, and event producers called Sister), she was asked to front the 6-piece live house and acid jazz band The Shift (Blunted Funk Records). She then joined dub-reggae-electronic collective Subatomic Sound System, touring and performing on Central Parks’ Summerstage in a headlining bill with Lee Scratch Perry and Alpha Blondy. She is also a published writer, visual artist, and transmedia storytelling expert. She continues writing and performing with a focus on multimedia storytelling and creating modern myths.