Artists Space

Abasement #72

Concert
October 7, 2024, 7pm

Performances by Hans Tammen's Dark Circuits Orchestra plays Niblock & Cardew, Pat Murano & Dave Shuford, Ryan Sawyer's SHAKER Ensemble, and C. Lavender. DJ Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn. Visuals by Cable_Visions.

Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of yellow, pink, and orange paper. A piece of green paper at the bottom reads "A/BA/SEME/N/T." Other pieces of typewritten text list the performers and event details.
Flyer by Joe Frivaldi. [Magazine cut-outs and ink drawings are collaged together on a background of yellow, pink, and orange paper. A piece of green paper at the bottom reads "A/BA/SEME/N/T." Other pieces of typewritten text list the performers and event details.]

Abasement is a music series featuring performances, a guest DJ, and a projectionist. Beginning in 2015 at Max Fish bar in New York's Lower East Side, the evening brings together artists and bands working in free improvisation, jazz, noise, minimalism, and experimental composition. When Max Fish permanently closed due to Covid, one of the few experimental music venues in Manhattan temporarily ceased to exist. Artists Space is pleased to continue hosting Abasement.

A solo performer with their hands up holds tuning forks. They are standing behind a mic stand. The performer and walls are covered with mulitcolored light projections.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [A solo performer with their hands up holds tuning forks. They are standing behind a mic stand. The performer and walls are covered with mulitcolored light projections.]
Solo performer on stage behind a table of electronic instruments with a large speaker to their right. The walls and musician are covered with pink and purple patterned projections. A group of audience members are visible in the foreground.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Solo performer on stage behind a table of electronic instruments with a large speaker to their right. The walls and musician are covered with pink and purple patterned projections. A group of audience members are visible in the foreground.]
Five performers sitting in a row playing various wind, string, and percussion instruments. They are facing microphone and sheet music stands. There is a pink-tint covering the musicians and the wall behind them.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Five performers sitting in a row playing various wind, string, and percussion instruments. They are facing microphone and sheet music stands. There is a pink-tint covering the musicians and the wall behind them.]
Five performers sitting in a row playing various wind, string, and percussion instruments. They are facing microphone and sheet music stands. Multicolored patterned projections and disco ball reflections cover the two walls and musicians. Audience members are visible around the stage.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Five performers sitting in a row playing various wind, string, and percussion instruments. They are facing microphone and sheet music stands. Multicolored patterned projections and disco ball reflections cover the two walls and musicians. Audience members are visible around the stage.]
Two performers leaning over tables use electronic instruments. The performer in the foreground and a column behind them is bathed in orange light. A single red colored light bulb is visble on the ceiling.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two performers leaning over tables use electronic instruments. The performer in the foreground and a column behind them is bathed in orange light. A single red colored light bulb is visble on the ceiling.]
Two musicians on stage use various instruments. The musician in the foreground plays a mandolin. The musician behind them is using electronic instruments on a table. There are yellow and pink patterned projections, a red light bulb, and reflections from a disco ball around the room.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Two musicians on stage use various instruments. The musician in the foreground plays a mandolin. The musician behind them is using electronic instruments on a table. There are yellow and pink patterned projections, a red light bulb, and reflections from a disco ball around the room.]
Eight musicians sitting side by side at tables use electronic instruments. Various colored lights emit from each audio board. There are audience members in front of and behind the musicians. The room is dimly lit with a strip of blue light on a wall.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Eight musicians sitting side by side at tables use electronic instruments. Various colored lights emit from each audio board. There are audience members in front of and behind the musicians. The room is dimly lit with a strip of blue light on a wall.]
Nine musicians sitting side by side at tables use electronic instruments. The wall behind them is covered with blue tinted lights. There are a few audience members visible in the foreground.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Nine musicians sitting side by side at tables use electronic instruments. The wall behind them is covered with blue tinted lights. There are a few audience members visible in the foreground.]
Eleven musicians using electronic instruments sit at tables behind a stage. The room is dimly lit with blue lights on the wall. A performer stands on stage facing the musicians with a finger up in the air. In the foreground there are audience members.
Abasement #72. Performance documentation, October 7th, 2024, Artists Space. Photo: Joshua Wildman. [Eleven musicians using electronic instruments sit at tables behind a stage. The room is dimly lit with blue lights on the wall. A performer stands on stage facing the musicians with a finger up in the air. In the foreground there are audience members.]

The Dark Circuits Orchestra consists of 21 musicians playing analog synthesizers, performing orchestra pieces of Phill Niblock, and the drone pages of Cornelius Cardew's Treatise.
...with Lucie Vitkova, Marcia Bassett, Teerapat Parmongkol, Alex Zhu, Emad Jamal, Monica Rocha, Shoko Nagai, Crystal Penalosa, Dafna Naphtali, Chuck Bettis, Cecilia Lopez, Kamran Sadeghi, Michael Schumacher, David Galbraith, Daniel Neumann, Abby Davis, David Rothenberg, Ben Manley, Miguel Frasconi, Andrew Neumann, Laura Feathers, Larry Seven & Hans Tammen. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya.
Phill Niblock: Baobab (2011)
Phill Niblock: 2 Lips (2008)
Cornelius Cardew: Treatise (1963-67) Pages 7-19, 41-44

Pat Murano: "One night in mid 1994 the no neck blues band were playing a show at the knot room in the basement of the original knitting factory. Although it was nearly pitch black in the room, I noticed a figure on stage crouched in the corner producing a bone shaking guttural moan into a microphone. Amidst the chaos, I briefly wondered how he got there. Dave and I have been playing music together ever since."

Dave Shuford: "Pat and I have been making improvised sounds together for over 30 years now, in groups both large and small. All throughout we have also enjoyed discussing and debating various masters of the musical realm like Ghostface, Richard Wright, Keith Hudson, Maurizio Bianchi, Alan Shorter, and Iannis Xenakis"

Ryan Sawyer's
SHAKER Ensemble
We all heal
For those that don't all ways want to
We present
Ryan Sawyer's
SHAKER Ensemble
Requiring
Laura Cocks
Madison Greenstone
Jessica Pavone
Nate Wooley

The Shaker Ensemble is yours to warm as you see...
BIG FUN

C. Lavender (Lavender Suarez) is an interdisciplinary sound artist, sound healing practitioner, and educator. Bandcamp asserted that "C. Lavender makes music with curative powers, but it’s also confrontational, primed to change you whether or not you want it to." She is the author of the book "Transcendent Waves: How Listening Shapes Our Creative Lives." C. Lavender has albums and recordings featured on the labels Editions Mego, Ecstatic Peace! and RVNG Intl. Her latest full-length album, “Rupture in the Eternal Realm,” was released by iDeal Recordings in 2024. More info: www.clavender.net

Gabriel Jermaine Vanlandingham-Dunn is a writer, music historian, professional listener, and DJ from Baltimore, Maryland. He's the creative consultant at Astral Spirits Records (Austin, Texas) and runs the subsidiary cow: Music, which is the musical branch of the cow arts program.

Working primarily with video synthesizers and bygone broadcast equipment, Cable_Visions explores the chaotic and colorful nature hidden in feedback loops and anachronistically analog signal paths.

Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015.