Good Grief - Cosmic Relief
June 22nd, 2025
7pm
June 22nd, 2025
7pm
'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
Good Grief is a deep listening live event series curated by Drew Litowitz (A Place to Go, Marble Rye) and friends. This edition, the sixth in the series—co-organized by alternative comedian, actor, and musician Jaboukie-Young White—is titled “Co(s)mic Relief" and efforts to blend mindful meditation, sound healing, and spoken word comedy into a seamless experience of humor, sonic therapy, emotional release, disorientation, and peace of mind.
Jaboukie Young White
Standup comedian, writer, singer, and rapper Jaboukie Young-White has carved out a distinctive niche in the public eye with his wry commentary about life as a gay performer and first-generation child of immigrants. He began as a standup comedian and Internet presence before working as a screen actor and writer and eventually branching out into music as well. Going by his first name, Jaboukie released his debut album, All who can't hear must feel, on Interscope in September 2022, building upon his comedic sensibility and cultivating a danceable hybrid of club and rap styles.
Joe Pera
Joe Pera is a standup comedian, writer, and filmmaker from Buffalo, NY now living in New York, NY. Pera is best known for his Adult Swim series, Joe Pera Talks With You, which The LA Times refers to as "TVs quietest, most artful comedy". He has performed his subdued standup on Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Comedy Central. You can also hear his voice on Bob's Burgers, F is for Family, and the Pixar film, Elemental.
River Ramirez
River L. Ramirez (they/them) is an NYC based artist originally from Miami, FL. Working in the mediums of Comedy, Film, TV, Writing, Visual Art and Music, it's easy to forget they are just a little furby with a knife. River’s work explores magick, collective consciousness, and liberation through play. Their work has been written about in the NYT, Forbes, Art in America, SSENSE, and GQ. They teach a class called "How To Be In Front Of People '' at the Brick Aux (new one starting in February) and just released a new EP: GIVING. and you can also find them in Julio Torres's PROBLEMISTA out now.
Many Ohms
Many Ohms is a union of musical spirits resonating together. Through harmonic distortion and tactile frequencies, Many Ohms explores the textures of tension and fragility. What begins as improvisation becomes structure; what begins as noise becomes meaning. Each performance unfolds as a sonic ritual, where repetition becomes trance, and silence is part of the offering. Composed of Haku Leaf, Michael Lee, Red Lunch, and Finn Fu.
Sound Observer
Sound Observer facilitates acoustic meditations in the ground of care, nurturing the seeds of deep listening into the fruits of personal transformation. Their practice is a contemporary modality with ancient roots, integrating western psychoacoustic science and eastern wisdom in a meditative setting, to help people access expanded states of consciousness, supported by a suite of overtone-rich instruments.
Marble Rye
Marble Rye is the ambient electronic and DJ project of Drew Litowitz (A Place to Go). In both his DJ sets and his original music, Litowitz explores the tension between the earnest aspirational tranquility of New Age music with the looming darkness and self-seriousness of the experimental and avant garde. Hope and foreboding bend and morph across time for a transcendent experience through sound.
Jaboukie Young White
Standup comedian, writer, singer, and rapper Jaboukie Young-White has carved out a distinctive niche in the public eye with his wry commentary about life as a gay performer and first-generation child of immigrants. He began as a standup comedian and Internet presence before working as a screen actor and writer and eventually branching out into music as well. Going by his first name, Jaboukie released his debut album, All who can't hear must feel, on Interscope in September 2022, building upon his comedic sensibility and cultivating a danceable hybrid of club and rap styles.
Joe Pera
Joe Pera is a standup comedian, writer, and filmmaker from Buffalo, NY now living in New York, NY. Pera is best known for his Adult Swim series, Joe Pera Talks With You, which The LA Times refers to as "TVs quietest, most artful comedy". He has performed his subdued standup on Conan, Late Night with Seth Meyers, and Comedy Central. You can also hear his voice on Bob's Burgers, F is for Family, and the Pixar film, Elemental.
River Ramirez
River L. Ramirez (they/them) is an NYC based artist originally from Miami, FL. Working in the mediums of Comedy, Film, TV, Writing, Visual Art and Music, it's easy to forget they are just a little furby with a knife. River’s work explores magick, collective consciousness, and liberation through play. Their work has been written about in the NYT, Forbes, Art in America, SSENSE, and GQ. They teach a class called "How To Be In Front Of People '' at the Brick Aux (new one starting in February) and just released a new EP: GIVING. and you can also find them in Julio Torres's PROBLEMISTA out now.
Many Ohms
Many Ohms is a union of musical spirits resonating together. Through harmonic distortion and tactile frequencies, Many Ohms explores the textures of tension and fragility. What begins as improvisation becomes structure; what begins as noise becomes meaning. Each performance unfolds as a sonic ritual, where repetition becomes trance, and silence is part of the offering. Composed of Haku Leaf, Michael Lee, Red Lunch, and Finn Fu.
Sound Observer
Sound Observer facilitates acoustic meditations in the ground of care, nurturing the seeds of deep listening into the fruits of personal transformation. Their practice is a contemporary modality with ancient roots, integrating western psychoacoustic science and eastern wisdom in a meditative setting, to help people access expanded states of consciousness, supported by a suite of overtone-rich instruments.
Marble Rye
Marble Rye is the ambient electronic and DJ project of Drew Litowitz (A Place to Go). In both his DJ sets and his original music, Litowitz explores the tension between the earnest aspirational tranquility of New Age music with the looming darkness and self-seriousness of the experimental and avant garde. Hope and foreboding bend and morph across time for a transcendent experience through sound.