A.B.E.L.A.
April 30th, 2025
7-11 PM
'vienna', a new release on Small Forms Records w FIM Basel Concert March 2023 Hypersurface is a NYC-based trio consisting of Drew Wesely (guitar/objects), Lester St. Louis (cello), and Carlo Costa (percussion). Hypersurface explores timbral, durational, and formal aspects of improvisation with lenses focused on their instruments' acoustic particularities alongside employing tiles, railroad spikes, ceramic plates and other objects to expand them further. In coming together Carlo, Drew and Lester wanted to create a music that puts emphasis on the erasure of sonic boundaries, embracing the liminal spaces between their instruments, their sounds and the greater sonic environment. Timbre, gesture, duration, particles, layers… a real time tapestry of its own. The trio has given performances throughout the United States and Europe in a diversity of concert settings from clubs to large halls and galleries; with each utilizing the acoustics to follow potent musical pathways. Kamau Amu Patton is an interdisciplinary artist and educator whose work examines history and culture through engagement with archives, documents, stories, and sites. Patton’s projects are dialogic and take form as expanded field conversations. http://kamaupatton.com
Música de Tensão hosts a night of Latin American ambient and experimental music, celebrating the improvisatory electronic rhythm artists, A.B.E.L.A, or the Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika. A.B.E.L.A. is a true collective – they call it a sindicato, or union – and they push as equally for the rights of musicians as they push the boundaries of the diverse embodied Latin American rhythmic traditions through electronic innovation. You can't find A.B.E.L.A.'s music online, and that's intentional, you have to be there for the ritual of its performance. Música de Tensão, a project of the DJ and curator of Fiber, aka Fuge, will open and close the night with hypnotic nightscapes woven out of contemporary experimental music from Brazil and Latin America.