NO CØNTROL: HARDWARE PRODUCTION IN A SOFTWARE AGE
11.5.25
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
We’re living in a crazy time, where a literal child can create thousands of AI-generated songs in a single evening. Even for producers, this presents a very intriguing question: If software like Ableton is more convenient, cheaper and sounds great, why bother with hardware for electronic music production?
We ask Senior Industrial Designer of Moog, Stephen Petoniak, this among many other questions from you: Who are hardware instruments made for? How are they evolving from a design point of view? And how do these tools influence our creative expression?
Join us for a live Q&A and discussion, alongside live performances from Xavier Ryan, Bren Lock and Bobi & FLIKO.
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NO CØNTROL is a collaboration between NYC DJ/Producer platform NO SIGNAL and NYC label IMPULSE CØNTROL. Our series of electronic music community discussions and get-togethers merge the interests of producers and DJs in the New York scene.
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Q&A and Discussion featuring :
STEPHEN PETONIAK
Senior Industrial Designer, MOOG
and Live Performances by:
XAVIER RYAN
BREN LOCK (Live track from scratch)
BOBI & FLIKO
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