The Seventh Gate
3.25.26
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
Bring your pillow and most comfortable dancing shoes as we cross 'the seventh gate', Elly Kace’s latest musical offering. Participants are welcome to lie on mattresses on the floor, nap, snuggle, dance and sing along as the music washes over the space - this is a radically accepting environment.
Kace’s five piece ensemble -featuring crystal singing bowls, synthesizers, guitar, drums, piano and bass - will weave catharsis and regulation through the air in ceremony, cultivating space for participants to feel, release and just be, as the music washes over it all.
Fully composed songs from the record will be sprinkled with channeled/improvised soundbath portions, unique to the moment and collection of people at the gathering.
The evening will begin with tender music from Canadian musician Sarah Rossy to open our hearts and prepare the space for the soundbath.
Following ‘the seventh gate’ soundbath experience, DJ kō-a will break us through to the other side with a mystical ecstatic dance experience of celebration.
This one night only experience will soften our hearts, connect us with our unique magic and hold space for joyful celebration and liberation from suffering. We hope you can join us.