'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
Audio experimentalists Moment Machine (keyboardist/synthesist Jason Lindner + eDrummer Currency Audio) curate an evening of improvisational sound journies featuring performances by themselves, Eucademix (Yuka Honda of Cibo Matto), and deep DJ sets by Doula, stitching together notions of breakbeat, bass, and sonic psychedlia guaranteed to reconfigure your concept of electronic music in the modern era. Expect a wide range of sonic and emotional textures that only the legendary LSD 4 point sound system can properly convey.
artist IG handles:
@momentmachine_music
@flymyspcshp
@currencyaudio
@eucademix
@ddddoula
@swallja
ARTIST BIOS:
Moment Machine (Currency Audio x Jason Lindner) is a live electronic post-jungle, future “drum & space” duo who together conjoin two unique worlds into an expansive sonic and rhythmic ecosystem, using improvisation, action and reaction in an engaged and spontaneous flow of live electronic beats with evolving soundscapes, harmonic rhythm and core-shaking bass. It’s a shape-shifting experience of the duo effectively deejaying their own craft in real-time.
Currency Audio: a real-time, improvisational, and generative breakbeat project powered by Ableton Live and electronic drum triggers, producer and percussionist Rajeev Maddela strives to bring a refreshingly human approach to electronic music performance and composition. Signed to dBridge’s Exit Records UK, his recent ‘Humanism’ EP was released to critical acclaim, with track Modus Choperandi featured in Resident Advisor's Top Singles of 2021 and Bandcamp’s ‘Best Electronic Music’ August Roundup. Fully improvised without a click or backing tracks, the EP aims to highlight the expressive qualities of natural time and increased dynamics, as well as a deep obsession with late 90's breakbeat
Jason Lindner aka flymyspcshp is a contemporary electronic musician, composer and producer from Brooklyn, NY, widely known for post-jazz, IDM-influenced Now Vs Now, and keys and synth work on David Bowie’s Grammy-winning final album ‘★’ (blak-stär). With an artistic identity spanning genres, cultures, formats, and technologies, Jason is a frequent performer and collaborator in the underground experimental electronic and DJ communities, actively exploring cross-sections of live electronic music and spontaneous improvisation for immersive sonic journeys both on and off the dance floor, playing everything from raves to meditative wellness sessions, both as a solo artist and in collaboration with a growing list of luminaries including Yuka Honda (Cibo Matto), Meshell Ndegeocello, Danny Elfman, Mulatu Astatke, Lauryn Hill, Angelique Kidjo, LCD Soundsystem, Saha Gnawa, Nikki Nair, Toribio, JKriv, Greg Paulus (No Regular Play), Salami Rose Joe Louis, LNDFK, Samer Ghadry, Nu Jazz, No Eyes, Hybrid Movement Company, Sidra Bell, Poncili Creacion and many others.
EUCADEMIX is the solo electronics moniker of multimedia artist Yuka Honda, best known for the band Cibo Matto, which she co-founded with Miho Hatori in 1994 and in which she created a unique one-person-band sound by triggering samples 'live.' She has produced recordings by, as well as recorded and performed with, a wide range of musicians including Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, Martha Wainwright, Laurie Anderson, Kimbra, and Nels Cline.