Nuke Watch / U
2.11.26
7pm - 11pm
An evening of audio video interpretations
2.11.26
7pm - 11pm
An evening of audio video interpretations
'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
Nuke Watch play improvised electronic music that is sometimes described as "mulched" which is somewhat fitting because they believe in music as a place for the mind to grow/heal/travel/change. Warped as their sounds may be, the playing belies a crew of deeply expressive, learned improvisers who have honed their craft. Friendship and psychic connection enhances their signature ritualistic rhythms, mutant modular synthesis, nimble keyboard runs, absurdist sampling and unidentified skronk.
For the first time Nuke Watch will be performing alongside an array of videos, animations, and experiments created by the band - most of which have never before been seen in this expanded-cinema adjacent context.
They’ve released records as Nuke Watch on Post Present Medium, Patience/Impatience, The Trilogy Tapes, Commend and Moon Glyph.Their most recents being Wait For It... LP on Patience and Grave New World LP on Post Present Medium.
Grave New World could be called world music in the sense that if you folded up the world into a funnel and shook it and made everybody slide down onto a plate full of people they didn’t grow up with, they might end up making this. - Sasha Frere-Jones, 2025
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Working as an archivist, collagist and chronicler through careful sonic curation, U views his work as “art based on and presented as music”. Meticulous research goes into each project, with samples sourced and chosen to relate to each other, creating a reference maze which amounts to something more than just music.
Slotting into the broad genre classifications of techno, experimental electronic, ambient and modern classical while never fully pledging allegiance to any, U has released music with Lex Records, Ninja Tune, Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound, Where To Now? and (Man)MakeMusic.
U will be performing his latest work ARCHENFIELD live alongside an in-depth visual extension of the piece, exploring the shifting borders of rural England and Wales with its rich history of folklore customs and stories.
"There is something universal about U’s vision. It acts as a reminder that we are all situated in history, and exist in a place whose story is bigger and longer-lived than any individual." - Thomas Blake (KLOF) 2025
Slotting into the broad genre classifications of techno, experimental electronic, ambient and modern classical while never fully pledging allegiance to any, U has released music with Lex Records, Ninja Tune, Erol Alkan's Phantasy Sound, Where To Now? and (Man)MakeMusic.
U will be performing his latest work ARCHENFIELD live alongside an in-depth visual extension of the piece, exploring the shifting borders of rural England and Wales with its rich history of folklore customs and stories.
"There is something universal about U’s vision. It acts as a reminder that we are all situated in history, and exist in a place whose story is bigger and longer-lived than any individual." - Thomas Blake (KLOF) 2025