Chicago drill rapper Sasha Go Hard, with NYC’s own Salomon Faye, Psychoegyptian (Mykki Blanco’s Dogfood Music Group), HAK (formerly of Ratking) plus DJ AHARAW (Doom Dab), Joey Desktop, and Gregory Free, with extra live performance guests!! Presented by Caesar Caeser Records and NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance).
Come party in the Ready Room with Beathaus!
Open House creates compellingly strange pop songs that sprawl into sonic landscapes through the use of movement, choreography, and staging. The band’s new piece Rememberer uses amplified eight-foot-long sheets of Styrofoam wall insulation, erected into teetering structures that vibrate, hum, squeak, and seem destined to collapse. Architecture doubles as instrument in this collage of music and live construction directed by Steven Reker, which will be performed at the BAM Next Wave Festival in October. Their mini-residency at Knockdown Center culminates with a short open rehearsal performance.
For the past few years Honey Radar, from Philadelphia by way of Indiana, has released cassettes, cd-rs, and lathe-cut singles at a breakneck pace, turning heads in underground rock circles. Blank Cartoon – their first LP for What’s Your Rupture? records – was released this past May to high acclaim, with Pitchfork naming it one of the “best underground garage rock albums of 2016.” They will be joined by Brooklyn’s Plates Of Cake whose third album Becoming Double was released earlier this year garnering favorable comparisons to The Soft Boys, The Go-Betweens, and Nick Lowe. Also on the bill is Baltimore’s Other Colors who play “exploratory pop” and have a new record out on Friends Records, as well as NYC-based Bronze Float, whose understated rock has been compared to Arthur Russell, Skip Spence and Sebadoh.
Machines in Music is a free two-day modular synthesizer exhibition that brings together users and makers for hands-on exploration, discussions, and performance. Last year’s conference hosted 24 modular synthesizer companies from around the world, attracting the attention of beginners and experienced synthesizer users alike. This year’s event is co-curated by Verbos Electronics and Control, and will allow even more participants to meet industry professionals and test out new modules.
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Machines in Music showcase
Oct 8, 8pm: Tearing Light From Sound, Mark Verbos, Alessandro Cortini, and Suzanne Ciani perform tickets $15
Auxiliary program
Oct 8, 7pm and Oct 9, 5:30pm, : Jorge Chikiar: Radio Collection with John King, Ariel Passadore, Marcelo Toledo, and Leo Genovese using modulated radios and live processing. tickets $10
Radio Collection is a performatic installation by Jorge Chikiar with the use of 8 AM and FM modulated radios. The main aim of tuning in broadcasts of different radio dial stations of the NY area is to use the phonemes as part of an embryo of sounds which will give shape to the structure of the work intervened with the collaboration of local artists playing their instruments and processed in real time.
Jorge Chikiar is an Argentine composer, sound artist and producer. He has presented work at Colon Theater, CETC, Maccarone Gallery, and The Kitchen, among others. Chikiar has produced works for Laurie Anderson, Michael J. Shumacher, Thurston Moore, Jim O’Rourke, David Behrman, Zeena Parkins, Ikue Morí, Steve Reich and more. He has composed works such as Wu Wang for Fractus Ensemble, Granos en el Viento work for Moxenio and Live Electronics, Cracks of Ice, a multichannel acousmatic installation with sounds recorded in Antarctica. He has collaborated with John King for their Crossing Hemispheres recordings and with Marcelo Toledo to produce the opera The Jungle Within.
October 8, 7pm:
Jorge Chikiar clarinet & live electronics
John King viola & live electronics
Ariel Passadore samplers
October 9, 5:30pm:
Jorge Chikiar clarinet & live electronics
Marcelo Toledo Bandoneón, Tibetan trumpet, sakushi.
Leo Genovese keyboards and saxophones
Ariel Passadore samplers
with
Pablo Gonzalez interface designer
Nicolas Stavorengo electronic engineering
Nasty Nigel released his first solo work El Ultimo Playboy: La Vida Y Los Tiempos De Nigel Rubirosa
A fête of the feminine future with an audio/visual ‘spiral up’ for the closing of MAMI with a blessed lineup of womxn-identified DJs.
☯THE FAKE ACCENT COLLECTIVE☯ hosts a special evening as we call upon Mami Wata for wealth, wisdom, emotional guidance, and sexual liberation.
