Archive Marathon
9.7.25
2pm - 8pm
9.7.25
2pm - 8pm
'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
The studio has been grabbing 90-minute audio snippets from events and recording them to cassette tapes. Since then we have amassed over 300 tapes that need to be digitized, organized, and mastered.
Every Monday night, the archive team (Julius, Vince and Dan) get together to do this in real-time, playing back each tape for a digital transfer, then meticulously tagging and organizing the files. They get through seven tapes in a night if things go perfectly, which of course, they often don't.
This is where you come in: to close the gap, we are hosting a handful of all-hands-on-decks marathon sessions this fall with multiple transfer and organization stations, hopefully getting through a few dozen tapes a night, and (re)discovering some great sounds in the process. If your idea of a good time is managing audio files, and you want to learn from literal pros about creating digital archives, come through on September 7.