Fiber Vol. 12:
myu 無, San Huan(live), nguyendows99
[10.4] 6pm-midnight
Hi, Fiber friends. We’re back again for October! In respect to Halloween & Samhain and the passing of the autumn equinox that will bathe the entirety of our parties in moonlight for the next 6 months, we’re dialing the thermostat towards the colder aspects of electronics. This one has been cooking for a while, as we’ve been really excited about these artists and wanted to hear what they could do on the holographic sound system at L&SD in a comfortable setting with a crew that is down for wherever they take us.
Opening this round is our resident myu 無, who likes to combine feral energy with driving orchestral movements over industrial and drum and bass percussion. Their vantablack, elemental, rager sets typically close the night, but we’re excited to see what kind of ritual they can set the stage for as an opener. In response to allegations of creating unwelcoming soundscapes, they promise they will be digging into the strange. “Less bleak, more silver linings.”
Spanning from the sentimental to the cerebral, San Huan exerts a dynamic emotional and technical range across their productions and sets that are informed by dub, IDM, techno, and dreampop, weaving recorded sound fragments through voice-like electronic processing to create a mythological language. San Huan’s recent live set at the exhibition Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time made us dwell on the fragmentation between technology and spirituality and asks whether the two can be constitutive instead of corrosive. In an era where that question is increasingly relevant, we’re more than thrilled that they’ll be bringing a resounding ‘yes’ in the form of a live set.
Closing the night, we have Nguyendows99, a b2b between besties nguyendowsxp & 99 ranch. 99 ranch’s Lava recordings series has hosted some of our favorite sets of the past year, with Jaijiu, le Frit, and a wild one by nxp. Both nxp & 99 ranch are known for their high-energy post-club sets, captivating us with their unexpected conjunctions of kinetic tracks with serious bass weight from a truly global sound system culture spectrum. Beyond the catharsis and subterranean slaps they’re both known for, you can also expect creative detours into the headier, ethereal edges of electronic music with a diasporic sensibility.
Fiber brings together music, food, movement, and solidarity at your favorite deep listening space. Inspired by block parties, house parties, and other improvised friends and family celebrations, from the salões de festas of Salvador, Brazil, to the parks and apartments of New York City, we invite our favorite DJs and producers to play personal sets, digging deep into their bags to play music they love that doesn't fit easily in a club setting, letting them move you in expanded ways. There is a 4-point Klipschorn system, in a lovely and comfortable space, and there is a homemade buffet of high-vibrational vegetarian food to keep you fueled throughout the night.
We’re happy to have our homies back from the Cultural Solidarity Project, an organization that has been at the forefront of the ongoing Boiler Room boycott, and who support artists and activists facing repression for their artistic, vocal, and demonstrable support for Palestine. They’ll be bringing art and other merch for sale, and are going to talk about how to get involved: they recently opened the organization up to general membership, and are looking for cultural workers with all manner of talents & experience who are commited to building the anti-imperialist cultural resistance. If you want to support them there is an add-on in the cart, which goes directly towards their mutual aid efforts.