1 Year of Ballet w/ Juliana Huxtable + Mike Midnight + Celes + Ballet DJs

May 18

6:30–1 am

'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

BALLET is beyond excited to announce our 1-year event alongside three unique artists we've long-time admired.

After an off-the-walls club set at the very first Ballet, Celes makes a full-circle return to the stage with a looping 4-deck hybrid live set of her own textural productions. Our other live artist has refined a contemporary take on trip-hop, lush downtempo, and 2000s nostalgia, making a much overdue US debut and marking the first time his angelic, after-hours tracks will be heard live on this side of the pond. A familiar face in the nightlife milieu, our third guest really needs no introduction — for a pretty singular 90 minutes, one of today’s most incisive artists spins a freeform, open-ended collage of sound. Ballet DJs open and close the function.

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