Outline returns to Knockdown Center for its first edition of 2023 and its most ambitiousĀ
installment yet. The festival bridges the seasons with two nights of music spread across the venue: On Saturday April 29th, Night One fills the Atrium with an internationalist lineup of some of electronic music’s most forward thinking voices. Glitch legends Matmos headline alongside footwork iconoclast Jlin, Chinese operatic noise artist Pan Daijing makes her U.S. debut and experimental Pow Wow vocalist Joe Rainey completes the lineup alongside syrupy dance-pop hybridists Meth Math and Golin. Prepare yourself for a sonic maelstrom both searing and enveloping.
Saturday May 13th, Outlineās Night Two opens the Ruins for its summer season with Standing on the Corner, Makaya McCraven, Laraaji and Liv.e. Each presents a deeply steeped, richly textured vision of the avant garde as a place of radiant possibility and cultivated psychedelia. Standing on the Corner and McCraven are well known to anyone following the cutting edge of jazz. Each, in their own way, blends hip hop, incredible ensemble playing and deep emotional expression into something indelibly modern. Laraaji has been an unwavering practitioner of celestial sounds, operating in his own lane for decades, while Liv.e tweaks ’90s R&B for the Web 2.0 era.