m i c r o c u l t u r a l c o n f e s s i o n s
3.31.26
7pm - 11pm
3.31.26
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
POETRY
For the evening's words, our poets will think through ideas of confession and anti confession with you in the space. In our contemporary moment that demands constant exposure, how do we use withholding as an ethical tool when we tell stories? Together, we'll consider what happens when the personal crosses from the writer's side of the confession to the listener's. The work included will be alive in its pursuit of particularity—testing what that particularity reveals, what it conceals, and how that tension opens toward understanding.
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
delia’s performance will feature a guided sound score requesting the slow and intentional use of everyone’s ears, voice, and body - regardless of ability. delia then encourages relaxing into a meditative soundscape, gently shattering boundaries between internal and external worlds.
Can’t Catch Wind With a Net will play live. Formerly an idiom of improbability. Now also an improvisational séance composed of Dominika Mazurová, Camilla Padgitt-Coles, Emily Saltz, and Andrew Steinmetz.
POETRY
POETRY
Dan Kraines:
Dan Kraines regretfully watched the "Freedom Tower" being built from his room in the Astral on India St (in Greenpoint). He worked at the Strand while earning a secret, interdisciplinary Master's from NYU. Late at night, he drank at Zablozki's and danced like a nymph along the East River. Here is the page for his book.
Emily Jacobi:
I’m usually skeptical in the morning and dishonest by the afternoon. I steal karaoke songs. I talked my way out of the texting and driving ticket after you warned me the cops would be hiding there behind the Safeway. I am afraid of asking questions when I can’t anticipate the answers. My advice is always motivated by fear.
Julie Chen:
I really love this and I’m nervous my love is embarrassing. I have flashes of wanting to be wildly praised and successful, and sadness that I’m not “really” trying, a feeling that I’m holding myself back or getting in my own way, which fuels envy of others even for very small things. (1/30/26). juliechen.neocities.org
Yuma Carpenter-New:
I confess I need distance from the subject. I can't get too close to anything. I confess toc withholding when you think I'm disclosing.
MUSIC/PERFORMANCE
delia - sometimes known as sweet d - creates from a deep well of curiosity to generate movement toward a collectively imagined future. delia loathes digitality and its non-consensual implementation of permanence, perfection, and limitlessness into our collective conscious. they confess to bypassing an omnipotent sense of self-loathing from digitality’s deep imprint on their own psyche.
Can’t Catch Wind With a Net
Dominika, a worker, is interested in finding nourishment rather than identifying poison. Such a poser in her tweens: she wore her favorite tank top, which had Kermit the Frog on it, without ever seeing Sesame Street.
In 4th grade, Camilla, a listener, got a skateboard with a dolphin on it that made sounds. She wasn't very good.
Emily was rejected from Star Search at age 9, but still likes to sing a tune now and then, and pretend she made it.
Andrew is a tinkerer. At 12 years old, he stole a candy bar from a gas station for no reason but to steal. He was caught but tricked the attendant into thinking he was mistaken. Later, ashamed, he threw the candy away in a shopping mall parking lot.