Good Grief & Mess is Lore:
JP (live)
SCRAAATCH (live)
Relaxer (live)
Carpet FLHP b2b Marble Rye
3.17.26
7pm - 11pm
JP (live)
SCRAAATCH (live)
Relaxer (live)
Carpet FLHP b2b Marble Rye
3.17.26
7pm - 11pm
'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
Mess Is Lore x Good Grief summon the most feral of fishes. Slip downstream into an experiment dredged from deranged dream logic, psychic residue, and ritual mischief.
The floor is yours: Lie down. Rot gently. Soak in the sludge. Thrash to the harsh. Submit to the low-end pressure. Dissolve. Reassemble. Drift.
What crawls forth from the sonic swamp remains unknown. Together we’ll wade through three inexplicable live transmissions instigated by perpetual sound-mutants Relaxer, Scraaatch, and JP, alongside an opening ambient DJ descent from newly anointed MiL residents Carpet (F.L.H.P) and Marble Rye.
Sharpen your most sensuously sinister instincts. Enter soggy. Leave altered. Come squirm with us.
Relaxer is the project of Daniel Martin-McCormick, fka Ital, member of Black Eyes, Cry and Gaze and co-founder of Dripping. Rooted in the US punk/noise underground of the late '90s and early 2000s, Martin-McCormick's music embodies a sensual, visceral edge that reflects and extends that legacy. His hardware live sets, honed over a decade of tours, are exhilarating, white knuckle rides, while his DJ sets fluidly cross genres and eras with a cathartic sense of urgency. He's been a repeat performer at Berghain (where the Relaxer project made its live debut), De School, Unsound, Nowadays and many others. Following his composition studies with Morton Subotnick, Relaxer's music has also evolved a new modality: alongside his club works there have been concerts of long form durational works featuring spoken word and richly spatialized sound design
SCRAAATCH is a duo project making multimedia art and performances, experimental music, and hybrid DJ sets from their studio in Brooklyn, NY. Their releases have included Teardrops EP (2019), 'DON'T TALK TO ME REMIXES' (2022), Distortion Études (Bunny Jr. Tapes, 2024) and contributions to compilation albums by Parisian label ParkingStone's “Virgō” (2021), artist Kevin Beasley's "A View of a Landscape" (2023), New York collective and label PTP’s “RESIST” (2024) and most recently ‘“Only Sounds that Tremble Through Us (To all those we are indebted to, before and after us)” (2025) for the Bilna’es platform. Residents of London’s NTS Radio since 2017, they’ve received support from DJs including Fauzia, Mistervacation, Laurel Halo, Kode 9, and others. In 2024, they presented their first solo exhibition, Distortion Play at Company gallery in New York.
JP is an NYC based music fan and artist who specializes in atmospheric IDM and dubbed out downtempo. He has recent releases on Theory Therapy and OST as well as 1/3 of Housecraft Recordings trip-bient group Ahem.
Carpet (Feels Like House Party) is the new experimental arm of Australian artist Kate Stein, label runner for 99FVR and crowd favorite for her gleeful anything goes approach to dance narratives. As a newfound foil, Carpet (F.L.H.P) is dance music deconstructed but never detached. It still moves — just differently. Grooves slouch, stumble, and seduce. Breaks blur into ambience. Post-punk textures rub against minimal percussion, influence surfaces in its grit and restraint.
Marble Rye is Drew Litowitz, who also releases music under the name A Place to Go and runs Good Grief, a curatorial platform and event series focused on emotional release through immersive sound. His eclectic mixes move through moods of healing, pain, joy, love, and loss, surveying the entire spectrum of ambient and experimental music—from spiritual new age and synth odysseys, to spoken word and field recordings, to dark dub-inflected psychedelic polyrhythms and electronic sounds from all over the world.