Strings & Electronics

3.7.26
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

An ensemble convened for the evening — gabby fluke-mogul, Jessica Pavone, Lester St. Louis, Tristan Kasten-Krause, Ron Shalom — will perform a new work for strings and sub sine wave by Mica Levi and an early graphic score by Robert Ashley.

Jude Berkson opens the night with a solo electronics set. 

To conclude the program, Ka Baird joins the string ensemble in open improvisation. 

Curated by Max Levin.



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