Good Grief: A Sonic Tapestry - SCRAAATCH, A Place to Go, Miss Olithea
8.16.25
7pm - 11pm
8.16.25
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
SCRAAATCH is the duo project of MHYSA and chuki. 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
Miss Olithea is a vocal powerhouse whose strand of experimental soul weaves a rich tapestry of music, spanning classical to R&B. Through her poignant lyrics, she highlights the beauty, pain, resilience, and often overlooked narratives of Black women. Her performance credits include Carnegie Hall, a MoMA residency with the world-renowned Burt Sugar Arkestra Chamber. Most recently, she contributed to another MoMA-commissioned work with artist Otobong Nkanga titled “Cadence.”
Outside of her live and recorded work, Miss Olithea is also a dedicated voice teacher and entrepreneur, having launched The Vocal Journey in 2020. With a deep understanding of both her heritage and the contemporary world, Olithea is more than a singer; she’s a catalyst for dialogue and an advocate for change.
Outside of her live and recorded work, Miss Olithea is also a dedicated voice teacher and entrepreneur, having launched The Vocal Journey in 2020. With a deep understanding of both her heritage and the contemporary world, Olithea is more than a singer; she’s a catalyst for dialogue and an advocate for change.
A Place to Go is the musical project of NY-based designer and artist Drew Litowitz. Litowitz crafts his music by distorting emotive folk songs and hard-hitting poetry through immersive, techno-futurist filters, creating a world where the lines between singer-songwriter and sound designer blur. A Place to Go's heartfelt songs are sonically hijacked, warped, and twisted by their deepest impulses and animalistic desires for instant gratification and restless experimentation.