Good Grief: Soft Focus
July 22nd, 2025
8pm
'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.
Spencer Doran is a composer, sound designer and researcher working across the fields of vaporous electronic music, game audio design and environmental music studies. As half of the "humanely futuristic" duo Visible Cloaks, his work has tackled concepts like human/digital hybridity, east/west feedback loops of artistic influence and the glistening sheen of the hyperreal. As a selector, his mixes and DJ sets weave seamless flows of emotional environments, errant abstract music, neglected avant garde and proto-contemporary digital culture detritus from all corners of the world.
Motion Graphics is the solo project of NY based electronic artist Joe Williams. His work includes contributions to FKA Twigs’ 2019 album Magdalene, remixes of iconic Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, collaborations with Visible Cloaks, and as a part of Lifted, the musically adventurous, PAN-affiliated ensemble headed up by Future Times founder Maxmillion Dunbar. Williams has also composed music for installations by video artists Tommy Malekoff (Desire Lines, Forever and Ever) and Cyprien Gaillard (HUMPTY \ DUMPTY).