Sontag Shogun
Ari Finkel
Lea Bertucci
Causings
This month’s Sunday Service, Knockdown Center’s free monthly performance series, is hosted by Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown. Titled Pairings in Horror: The Visceral & The Visual Impact, the evening will feature live and digital performance responding to a narrative within the horror genre, matching artists who will collaboratively experiment, improvise and create. Pairings include Lamy Istrefi Jr. with Leo Genovese + Mersiha Mesihovic/CIRCUITDEBRIS and Stacy Grossfield Dance Projects + Gil Sperling, and more TBA! Plus a secret text reading by Rie Yamaguchi-Borden.
Same As Sister was formed out of a proposition to see if it was possible to construct a horror dance – a choreographic vocabulary that truly evokes feelings of suspense and surprise – for the viewer to experience. Since then, the collective’s explorations within the horror/terror genre have transformed into a cross-disciplinary approach to performance-making, that in the words of Jess Barbagallo, “creates a wholly new universe on-stage that revels in a perverse celebration of the ominous.” For Pairings in Horror, Same As Sister invites teams of artists to open a door to this universe by responding to a secret text that will be disclosed to the audience only at the end of the evening. Each pair will utilize live and digital elements to emphasize the sensory pleasure that best represents their collaboration between disciplines. Set in a haunted house, the artists’ unique interpretations of the shared text will become rooms into their uncanny and unpredictable imaginations, perhaps even nightmares.
Same As Sister/Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown (S.A.S.) is a New York City based performance collective founded in 2013 by choreographers Briana Brown-Tipley and Hilary Brown. Before this joining of creative interests, the sisters, who originate from Toronto, Canada, graduated from École de danse contemporaine de Montréal (LADMMI), and have performed for a variety of artists including Peggy Baker, Candice Breitz, Doug Elkins, Philippa Kaye, Mike Kelley and Jillian Peña. Same As Sister collaborate in the fields of contemporary dance and theater, and experimental music and film/video to explore the complexity of human behavior and its inherent uncanniness. Their cross-disciplinary works have been presented at Centre d’Art Marnay Art Centre (2017 Artist Program Residents), Movement Research and Bailout Theater at Judson Memorial Church, CRAWL at 22 Boerum Place, BRIC Arts | Media House (2015 BRIClab Residents), New York Live Arts (2014-2015 Fresh Tracks Residents), Triskelion Arts, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange and Chen Dance Center. sameassister.squarespace.com
Lamy Istrefi Jr. is a New York City based Jazz drummer/percussionist, composer and conductor, originally from the Republic of Kosovo. Istrefi Jr. attended the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Graz (KUG) in Austria, before relocating to the United States. He is currently a member of Grammy award-winning saxophonist, Joe Lovano’s Classic Quartet, for which he has toured internationally to perform at such prestigious festivals and venues as the Healdsburg Jazz Festival, the PDX Jazz Festival, Blue Note Milano, Bimhuis Amsterdam and the Bergamo Jazz Festival, among others. Istrefi Jr. also collaborates with a diverse and notable group of musicians for his own artistic projects which include the Lamy Istrefi Jr. Trio and Quartet featuring NEA Jazz Master, Dave Liebman, and the Musical Minds Orchestra, a large experimental ensemble that he founded in 2010. smallslive.com/artists/1284-lamy-istrefi-jr/
Leo Genovese, originally from Venado Tuerto, Argentina, studied classical piano at the National University of Rosario before moving to Boston to attend the Berklee College of Music, where he graduated as a Professional Music Major in 2003. Genovese has performed and recorded with renowned musicians such as Hal Crook, Darren Barrett, George Garzone, Francisco Mela, Joe Lovano, Bob Gulloti, Phil Grenadier, Dave Santoro, Chris Cheek and Ben Monder. From 2005 he toured internationally and recorded with bassist and vocalist, Esperanza Spalding. His first album, Haiku II, was released in 2004, and was followed by Unlocked in 2008 and Seeds in 2013. facebook.com/leogenovesemusic/
Mersiha Mesihovic/CIRCUITDEBRIS is a space for interdisciplinarity, radical dance and community engagement which Mesihovic initiated in 2011 to formally conceptualize her collaboration with artists across disciplines. She has collaborated closely as a producer, dramaturge, performer/choreographer with artists such as Karen Bernard, Reggie Wilson, Jaamil Olawale Kosoko and James Brandon Lewis. Her work has been presented internationally, and received support from New Dance Alliance and New York Foundation for the Arts. Mesihovic currently resides in New York City, where she is actively developing her unique movement method, M-BODYMENT, and teaches at a wide range of institutions and cultural organizations in the United States and abroad including Gibney Dance Center, Peridance Capezio Center, and Wits University in Johannesburg and TUT University in Pretoria, South Africa, where she is a frequent guest lecturer. circuitdebris.org
Stacy Grossfield was born and raised in Lakeland, Florida, and has choreographed and performed in New York City since 2003. Her most recent work, hot dark matter, was presented by JACK in March of 2016. Her previous works include Fur & Tulle and Red, Pink, Black – the latter for which she received a Manhattan Community Arts Fund grant in 2013. She has shown work at Brooklyn Arts Exchange, BRIC Studio, Center for Performance Research, CATCH, Dance Theater Workshop, Food for Thought at Danspace Project, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Roulette and through AUNTS at various venues including Arts@Renaissance, NADA Art Fair and the New Museum. Grossfield is a choreographer for hire and has recently choreographed the one-man-show, Quiet, Comfort, a Hoi Polloi production at JACK, as well as the Okkervil River music video “Judey On A Street”. She was a 2008-2009 Fresh Tracks Artist-in-Residence at Dance Theater Workshop. She has served on dance panels in NYC and taught a feedback class at Brooklyn Studios for Dance called Show & Listen. She holds a BFA in Dance Performance from SUNY Purchase. stacygrossfield.com
Gil Sperling is a multimedia artist, performance maker and video designer. He has created short films and video installations, video design for the stage and multimedia performances. Sperling is a graduate of the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem, and holds a BA in Psychology and Philosophy. He spent a year as a fellow at the Cologne Academy of Art (KHM). As a multimedia performance creator his works include Shulamis or the Well and the Pussycat at the Target Margin Yiddish Lab, New York (2012), Sotto Voce, a multimedia musical theater project presented in Berlin (2011) and Ruhe Sanfte, a musical-visual performance presented at the Israeli Opera (2005). Noted video design work includes City of Glass at the New Ohio Theater (2016), Trade Practices at HERE Arts Center (2014), Uriel Acosta at The Chocolate Factory (2014) and Don Giovanni at the Cologne Opera (2010). His video installation work has been presented at the SVA Gallery in New York, Hellerau Arts Center in Dresden, Germany, Kampo Museum in Kyoto, Japan and Ein-Harod Museum in Israel. Sperling was a Nominee for an NY Innovative Theater Award (2016) for Video Design in City of Glass, a Planet Connections Award Winner (2012) for Outstanding Use of Projections and Multimedia in Trafficked and Winner of the Operare 11 Prize for New Musical Theater Productions (2011) for Sotto Voce. gilsperling.com
Rie Yamaguchi Borden born in Ehime, Japan, has been a part of New York City’s vibrant Jazz and free-spirited music scene since 1999. Regardless of the medium she is working in, she has the desire to express most honestly and soulfully all that life has to offer. Yamaguchi-Borden is currently a member of the Musical Minds Orchestra led by Lamy Istrefi Jr., where she collaborates with a variety of artists who are simultaneously engaged in opening their personal and global awareness to delve into something much deeper creatively. She continues to cook up schemes as a Jazz vocalist and drummer in NYC.
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About Sunday Service
Sunday Service is a curated series of short-form live performances across mediums. Taking place the first Sunday of each month in the Ready Room, a guest curator is invited to organize a salon style evening of in-progress works, performances, and presentations, anchored by a framing principle such as a question, proposition, theme, or formal structure. Sunday Service encourages works in progress and interdisciplinary endeavors showcased in a lo-fi environment to foster experimentation and critical discourse amongst peers.
Brooklyn alternative hip-hop artist billy woods celebrates the release of his new ablum, Known Unknowns.
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Known Unknowns is billy woods’ new album, a follow-up to 2013’s Blockhead collaboration Dour Candy. Blockhead is still behind the boards here but there are also a couple beats from his longtime collaborator Aesop Rock. But the center of the whirlwind is still woods, who re-emerges from a two-year hiatus after releasing the avant-garde Today, I Wrote Nothing in early 2015. Known Unknowns finds the artist on more melodic ground, but still his esoteric, acerbic self, spinning verses equal parts joy and terror, wry wit and blind rage. There are guest appearances from ELUCID (Armand Hammer), as well as Aesop Rock, Homeboy Sandman, Googie, singer Barrie McLain and DJ Mo Niklz. Since Dour Candy, Blockhead has worked with Aesop, Sandman and MarQ Spekt but Known Unknowns shows that he and woods have developed their own unique chemistry. – Backwoodz Studio
billy woods
ELUCID
Denmark Vessey
Quelle Chris
Googie
Career Crooks (Zilla Rocca and Small Pro)
Hosted by PremRock
bvdub is Brock Van Wey, a native of the San Francisco Bay Area. Devoting his life to the SF rave scene in the late ’80s, he began to DJ and promote his own deep house and ambient events in 1991, rising 10 years before a self-imposed exile to China in 2001 to escape the state of a scene he could no longer accept. He began to produce his own music in 2006, with his overtly emotional and hypnotic sound quickly spreading to Styrax, Millions of Moments, Southern Outpost, and Meanwhile, before a natural and gradual shift to his trademark ambient onslaughts saw him call n5MD, Glacial Movements, AY, Darla, echospace [detroit], Kompakt, and many more home. Now returned to his native Bay Area, he has continued his prolific output, with a string of self-released CD and digital-only releases, a monolithic rework of Vortexual [element seven] for echospace [detroit], and his newest, most wistful, and hypnotic work yet – his return to Glacial Movements, with Epilogues for the End of the Sky, with numerous upcoming projects already in production for late 2017 and well into 2018.
Brock has also released numerous ambient projects under his given name, deep house as Earth House Hold, and drum & bass as East of Oceans. He has released remixes and collaboration tracks on Ghostly, Kompakt, Oktaf, OWSLA, Soma Recordings, Air Textures, A Strangely Isolated Place and many more, and to date his vast catalog contains well over 25 full-length albums, over a dozen singles, and more than fifteen guest appearances and remixes. He has been featured in interviews and in-depth pieces in Resident Advisor, A Strangely Isolated Place, Headphone Commute, Organic, Spectrum Culture, Kana Broadcasting, and more.
Fairly reclusive in his performance schedule to-date, he chose to perform only one to two times a year, and has performed at festivals such as Decibel (US), Up to Date (PL), Salon Ambientu (PL), Ambientfestival (DE), Off-Tone (JP), Sub Strata (US), Festival Spectaculare (CZ), Music Infinity (CZ), Fields (RU), and individual shows in the US, Poland, Russia, Japan, Czech Republic, Slovakia, and more, performing with artists such as Rafael Anton Irisarri, Bruno Sanfilippo, Marsen Jules, Fennesz, Robert Henke, Matthias Grassow, and port-royal, along with a host of solo shows. As his ever-prolific output continues to grow, it would seem his quest to test the emotional limits of electronic music is only just beginning…
OVERTIME continues! Our summer-long Saturday party in the Ruins returns with a party brought to you THE ORACLE. Come kick back in the sunshine, grab a frozen drink, and enjoy!
Quay Dash
Prince Harvey
Night Doll
HD
Vermilion Bird
Hosted by Pauli Cakes and Nicky Ottav
Outdoor Visual Artwork by:
Phil Buehler
Martha Hipley
More TBA
About OVERTIME
This summer, we’re teaming up with the best promoters, hosts, and DJs to bring you an outdoor party every weekend! Come get down in the Ruins and kick back with a frozen drink and your favorite acts.
EVERY SATURDAY ALL SUMMER LONG
Tickets Start At $15
Radeberger is the official sponsor of OVERTIME
MIXPAK and Tryna Function present a very special party named SUMMER FRENZY, featuring dancehall star SPICE who is flying in from Jamaica for an undoubtedly crazy live show, performing hits “So Mi Like It”, “Indicator” and “Sheet”. She is joined by rapper/R&B artist Tink, whose Winter Diary mixtape series has made it into Rolling Stone top albums list, and is set to release her debut album with Timbaland later this year.
On DJ duties are Jamaican producers & selectors EQUIKNOXX hot off the heels of their excellent album “Bird Sound Power”, Culture Clash winners MIXPAK SOUND SYSTEM (feat Dre Skull & Jubilee) as well as another performance by move making Staten Island rapper SQUIDNICE.
For the afterparty we move indoors, where Bala Club’s KAMIXLO joins us from London to headline, alongside Jersey club innovator DJ JAYHOOD, as well as NY club stalwarts TYGAPAW & BJ BEBE.
About OVERTIME
This summer, we’re teaming up with the best promoters, hosts, and DJs to bring you an outdoor party every weekend! Come get down in the Ruins and kick back with a frozen drink and your favorite acts.
EVERY SATURDAY ALL SUMMER LONG
Tickets Start At $15
Radeberger is the official sponsor of OVERTIME
Yeah, That’s What She Said! (YTWSS) holds their annual pop-up event featuring art, performances, and workshops by working class and poor women, women of color, immigrant women, trans women, and queer women. YTWSS*2017’s theme is MOTHERLAND. What does home mean to you? What does lineage mean to you? What does connection and intimacy with your past, present, and future mean to you?
This weekend-long event at Knockdown Center will include work selected from an open call related to environmental justice, places of origin, family and chosen family, reproductive justice and bodily autonomy, borders, ancestry and lineage, and borders, nationalism, and colonialism.
This is an 18+ event
Full Schedule of Events
Friday, July 7
7 – 10 pm
Opening Event, YTWSS artwork on view
7:30 – 8:30pm
Open mic
(Sign-Up Link Here)
Saturday, July 8
2pm
Shuttle from L Train Jefferson stop begins
2 – 10pm
Gallery open
3:30 – 6pm
Women and Femmes only Workshops
3:30 – 4:30pm: Solidifying Foundations: Organizing and Self/Collective Care as Descendants of our Mothers
5 – 6pm: Femme In Public: Using Art & Fashion as Political Disruption
7 – 10pm
Music, dance, and poetry performances with Candice Iloh, Zoe map, STEFA*, Mikeala Xochitl, Cheroya Davenport, Deborah Conton, NECIA, Linda La Sarabi, Anesha.
Sunday, July 9
2 – 10pm
Gallery open
5 – 6pm
Women and Femmes only Workshop
Following Our Inner Compass: Honing & Honoring Our Intuition
7 – 8:30pm
MOTHERLAND Film Screening and Q & A
ABOUT
Yeah, That’s What She Said! is a series of women-lead events that build relationships and experiences through the arts and activism centering working class and poor women, women of color, immigrant women, trans women and queer women. We are collectively self-organized and largely funded by community support. From 2014-2016, we held weekend-long pop-ups that brought together hundreds of women from across New York City.
OVERTIME continues! Our summer-long Saturday party in the Ruins returns with a party brought to you by Kiss & Tell and Lost Soul Enterprises. Come kick back in the sunshine, grab a frozen drink, and enjoy!
Kiss & Tell and Lost Soul Enterprises present:
DJ Minx [Women On Wax] Mike Simonetti [2MR, Pale Blue, Kiss & Tell] Scott Murakami [Lost Soul Enterprises]
Kiss & Tell Party and Lost Soul Enterprises are collaborating on a series of two outdoor events in the beautiful and lush garden at Knockdown Center. For the spring edition we have invited Detroiter and Women on Wax label owner DJ Minx, along with our respective residents Mike Simonetti and Scott Murakami . Come early and enjoy the beautiful garden. Cocktails and food will be available.
Hosted by R. Gamble and Seze
DJ Minx was inspired to spin by the famed Music Institute in Detroit. Her style is described as funky, powerful house, with a splash of grace. For two years, Minx engineered and hosted “Deep Space Radio,” an electronic music show on Detroit’s WGPR radio station, on which she conducted interviews and played mixes by DJs and Producers from around the world. The show was heralded by the innovators of techno music (“Magic” Juan Atkins, Kevin “Reese” Saunderson, Eddie Fowlkes, and Derrick May). Minx also voluntarily did a weekly radio program at the University of Canada on CJAM 91.5 FM called “Steamy Windows,” which featured house music by local and international artists.
As a resident of world-renowned Club Motor, Minx opened for artists such as Basement Jaxx, Doc Martin, Cajmere, and Afrika Bambatta. In December 1996, Minx founded Women on Wax, a collective of female DJs from the Metro Detroit area. From then on, she began working with promoters and DJs across the country, and helped to solidify the career of several top female DJs and songstresses.
Being a featured performer during the first Detroit Electronic Music Festival (D.E.M.F.) in May 2000 had an incredible impact on Minx’s career. Since then, she’s played at Tresor in Berlin, Output in New York, Toronto’s Film Lounge, Club Ohm in Portland, Deep Sugar in Baltimore, and Club Air in Japan, and for with massive crowds in Paris, Cancun, Switzerland, Spain, Belgium and numerous other domestic and international locales.
In 2001, Minx established her own record label called Women On Wax Recordings, which has served as a vehicle to present many talented artists and producers to the world including Diamondancer, Pirahnahead, and Diviniti. Minx has also expanded her musical majesty by creating a sub-imprint of the label called W.O.W. B.A.M. (Women On Wax Bangin’ Ass Music). Besides releases on her own labels, she has produced and remixed tracks for Minus (Berlin), Trisomie 21 (Paris), Soiree Records (Detroit), West End Records (New York), Code Red (Baltimore), United Music (Paris), Whasdat Music (Detroit), Liberate (Chicago), and Fast Forward (Atlanta), among others.
Currently on the Connect Bookings roster, Detroit’s “First Lady of Wax” is going strong after nearly three decades of DJing. Minx recently moved her “Queen Beats Radio” weekly show to the new deepspaceradio, and she continues to host parties, specifically during Movement in Detroit. She was named one of the “20 Women Who Shaped the History of Dance Music” by Mixmag and one of the “Best house music DJs of all time” by TimeOut New York.
Mike Simonetti [ 2MR, Pale Blue, Kiss & Tell ]
At the forefront of a relatively underground movement for over two decades, few artists have had a history matching that of veteran-producer Mike Simonetti’s. But it’s this 20- year backstory that reveals the interminable role he’s played in the world of dance music. His first introduction came in 1988, at the tender age of 17, when he landed a job handing out flyers at the legendary NYC nightclub Mars. He was just a kid at the time, but it left an impression on him that would manifest itself years later. His record collecting habit got him his first few gigs as a club promoter in the early 90s, and it was then he got his first taste of DJing—hitting the lawless basements and warehouses of New York City. He quickly made a name for himself in the local club scene as a resident at the legendary parties Rubulad and Motherfucker. It was during this time that his tiny record label Troubleman Unlimited started gaining momentum as well, and by the end of its ten-year run would yield seminal releases by The Walkmen, Zola Jesus, Titus Andronicus, Prurient, Unwound, Glass Candy, Chromatics and many more.
Nearly a decade after its inception, Simonetti put Troubleman to rest and teamed up with Johnny Jewel to launch the dance music label Italians Do It Better. Its first release —a hard-hitting synthpop compilation called After Dark—was a game changer. Eventually, Mike released his first EP of original material, Capricorn Rising, after a slew of re-edits and remixes. The EP laid the groundwork for what was to come, yielding a range of influences from techno, krautrock and ambient music to soundtracks.
While Simonetti was in the middle of writing his debut solo work, he was asked to remix tracks from the West Coast twosome Silver Hands. Immediately taken by the incredible range of lead-vocalist Elizabeth Wight, he reached out to collaborate. The result of the bi-coastal email exchange would eventually become Pale Blue.
Most recently, Simonetti has decided to split from Italians Do It Better to focus on Pale Blue, as well as a totally new venture: the freshly minted label 2MR (Two Mikes Records). A collaboration between Simonetti and Captured Tracks founder Mike Sniper (whose own band Blank Dogs was released on Troubleman in 2008), 2MR is an opportunity for Simonetti to start from a blank slate and release music he believes in.
Scott Murakami [Lost Soul Enterprises, Bentwave Radio]
Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival Presents 2017 LADIES BATTLE! + Planet X: All Female Lifestyle Art Show in Partnership with Manifesto.
Join us for the final dance battle of the 2017 Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival! The day features preeminent female street dancers from around the world, and culminates with a public showcase of art, music, and dance!
Full details on the event can be found here: https://www.ladiesofhiphopfestival.com/2018-ladies-battle.html
LADIES BATTLE!
In July, NYC is the backdrop for our annual dance battle LADIES BATTLE! Female competitors from around the world travel to NYC for this battle. Winners from LOHH Toronto & LOHH China will be flown to the birth place of Hip-Hop to battle it out.
LADIES BATTLE! is 1-on-1 Dancehall, Breaking, Popping, Hip-Hop, Waacking and House Dance. Doors open and our stellar all-female DJ line-up is spinning hip-hop, funk, house, soul, and classics. The winners will be awarded cash prizes, gift bags and one-year “bragging rights”. The winner can boost themselves as one of the world’s best female Hip-Hop dancers!
JUDGES
The event is judged by a panel of elite dancers from around the world, like Tweetboogie, Nubian NeNe, Toyin Sogunro and many more…
**This event is 18+. All performers under the age of 18 must be accompanied by a parent or guardian.
Want to compete in LADIES BATTLE!? Check out https://www.ladiesofhiphopfestival.com/2018-ladies-battle.html
Hip-Hop + House + Popping + Dancehall + Breaking + Waacking
More details here: www.ladiesofhiphopfestival.com
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About Ladies of Hip Hop Festival
Ladies of Hip Hop Festival (LOHHF) exists to provide a safe space for women and girls to create, learn, exchange, exhibit and perform art linked through the narrative of Hip-Hop culture. LOHHF provides positive role models of girls and women working in all faucets of the Hip-Hop culture. Traditionally, men have dominated all facets of the Hip Hop scene, but Ladies of Hip Hop Festival changes this tradition and puts women center-stage.
LOHHF offers artistic training workshops, performance opportunities, international artist exchanges, public talks, artistic life training and female entrepreneurship and empowerment opportunities. We are helping create the next generation of female artistic leaders in the Hip Hop community. The festival is an event given by women, for everyone! It’s important to us to have the participation and support of men in the community too! Teaching and sharing the culture through the female perspective is essential to the growth of the culture. Essential to our mission.
About Michele Byrd-McPhee
Michele Byrd-McPhee is the executive director and founder of Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival (LOHHF) The Ladies of Hip-Hop Festival is an event produced by women, for women. Each year Byrd-McPhee selects an elite group of female artists from around the world to exhibit their work, teach, and perform. These artists have extensive experience and understanding of the Hip-Hop culture and are qualified to pass on its traditions with accuracy and authenticity. Through education, performance and community exchanges, this annual hip-hop festival puts the focus on women and their relationship with hip-hop culture. Men have traditionally dominated all facets of the Hip-Hop scene, but LOHHF changes this tradition and puts women center-stage for the entire event.
Bookworms
https://soundcloud.com/bookworms
“The Brooklyn-based producer Nick Dawson, a.k.a ‘Bookworms’ has been turning heads in the city with his psychedelic techno since the late aughts…like listening to a techno or house record that’s been doped up on tabs of acid and having one revelatory experience after another…” — Michael Scott Barron, thump.vice.com
uncertain (Buffalo, N.Y.)
https://uncertain.bandcamp.com
uncertain is a post-industrial musick project started by Florian-Ayala Fauna around 2007. Her project is highly influenced by the occult and the work of artists including Coil, Current 93, Aleister Crowley, and many others of esoteric tradition. Many albums have involved her fiancé, Felix Keigh, contributing vocals and lyrics, establishing a great emotional depth set within the æthyrl soundscapes. Together they represent a movement in the underground community of LGBTQ+ and transgender artists coming into their respective scenes, going against societal norms any way they can. Florian and Felix are both transgender; Florian being an intersex trans-femme with XXY chromosomes, and Felix establishing himself as a transman in recent years. The emotional struggles with transgender issues and various chronic and psychological conditions feeds into their intense, sublime, and emotionally raw esoteric moon musick.
Antikythera
https://soundcloud.com/antikythera-sir
Hard electronix & noise/sound art poetry attack: currently featuring writers & performers Jeff Grunthaner and Ben Tripp. Anyone who wishes to become a president of Antikythera can be one. Please address all correspondence to weareantikytheraATgmailDOTCOM.
Searmanas
https://soundcloud.com/searmanas
Searmanas is the solo moniker of electronic producer Niabi Aquena. Originally hailing from the Shanandoah Valley in rural Virginia, Aquena has based her musical practice in New York City for almost two decades. A classically trained pianist and vocalist, her musical evolution has led her to experiment with electronic hardware. The sound of Searmanas explores the role of ceremony within urban experience, resulting in severe, textured landscapes with touches of sparse vocals. Her wordless poetry ranges from industrial glitches to layered, oceanic progressions, all tied together by an aura of questioning and chaos. Conceived in 2016, Searmanas has already performed with the likes of John Bender, Hieroglyphic Being, Miho Hatori, and Mahogany. She is a member of Brooklyn-based new media collective CHASM and regularly performs live in NYC and beyond.
* w/DJ sets before, in-between & afterwards by * :
Compile
https://privatearchive.bandcamp.com/album/ten-wolves-end
“Global synesthesia for the accustomed youth.”