clairaudience, Jonathan Schenke, Noelle Payongayong, Elzee
10.10.25
8pm - 12am
10.10.25
8pm - 12am
'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 seasons change, we turn inward, hopefully toward each other. Tonight is for listening to those shifts and connections.
Noelle Payongayong is a nurse from New Jersey with poetry published in 86 Logic, Ouch Magazine and elsewhere. She opens the night with a reading to focus our thoughts and attention toward sound.
Jonathan Schenke is a member of the groups P.E., Eaters, and Gift Horse who will play a live set drawn from his solo full-length debut Passages, recently released on No Gold. The material draws deeply from his previous musical endeavors, as well as his background in classical and jazz recording and sound design. Synthesizers share space with piano, strings, voice, and wind instruments. The result is a highly cinematic experience, blurring the lines between electronic and acoustic, composition and collage, definition and abstraction.
clairaudience is the experimental guitar project of Queens-based musician Mike Sheffield. Equal parts shoegaze, drone, and ambient, the project was inspired by a random folder Sheffield found on a computer hard drive while gathering remembrances after the sudden loss of a friend. For this show, clairaudience will perform as a full band, with additional backing from Sheffield’s longtime collaborators Jessica Papitto, Healani Combier-Kapel, Carly Salas and Alex Cvetovich.
Elzee closes with a listening set that draws the expansive live soundscapes of the evening into closer range, pulling from both her earlier love of guitar + vocal music and her more recent immersion in electronic sounds. She was inspired to learn how to DJ years ago at a gathering of friends in the Catskills that included two members of the clairaudience band, so this is a particularly special full-circle set reflecting mutual influence and admiration between friends.
Noelle Payongayong is a nurse from New Jersey with poetry published in 86 Logic, Ouch Magazine and elsewhere. She opens the night with a reading to focus our thoughts and attention toward sound.
Jonathan Schenke is a member of the groups P.E., Eaters, and Gift Horse who will play a live set drawn from his solo full-length debut Passages, recently released on No Gold. The material draws deeply from his previous musical endeavors, as well as his background in classical and jazz recording and sound design. Synthesizers share space with piano, strings, voice, and wind instruments. The result is a highly cinematic experience, blurring the lines between electronic and acoustic, composition and collage, definition and abstraction.
clairaudience is the experimental guitar project of Queens-based musician Mike Sheffield. Equal parts shoegaze, drone, and ambient, the project was inspired by a random folder Sheffield found on a computer hard drive while gathering remembrances after the sudden loss of a friend. For this show, clairaudience will perform as a full band, with additional backing from Sheffield’s longtime collaborators Jessica Papitto, Healani Combier-Kapel, Carly Salas and Alex Cvetovich.
Elzee closes with a listening set that draws the expansive live soundscapes of the evening into closer range, pulling from both her earlier love of guitar + vocal music and her more recent immersion in electronic sounds. She was inspired to learn how to DJ years ago at a gathering of friends in the Catskills that included two members of the clairaudience band, so this is a particularly special full-circle set reflecting mutual influence and admiration between friends.