Monday, February 16
7pm
Free, no RSVP required
Performances by Hisham Akira Bharoocha / Leila Bordreuil / Nava Dunkelman Trio, History Dog, Kieran Daly Plays Standards with John Hébert And Jason Nazary, and Wednesday Knudsen. DJ ice melt . Visuals by Ronnie Ahlborn. Projections by Bradley Eros.
Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a half Japanese half Indian Burmese multidisciplinary musician and visual artist who has been based in Brooklyn, NY for 27 years. Bharoocha is known for being a founding member of Black Dice, and a former member of bands such as Pixeltan (DFA), Boredoms live band (2007-2015), and Soft Circle. He is also known for his work as a music director for the Boadrum large scale drum performances led by Boredoms over the years. Bharoocha is currently a member of the duo Kill Alters, as well as releasing solo drum / electronics records using his own name, while releasing tribal electronic records under the moniker YOKUBARI.
Leila Bordreuil is a French-American cellist, composer and sound-artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She accesses concepts as diverse as Noise, contemporary classical, free jazz, and experimental traditions but adheres to none of them. Her music mixes deep melancholia with harsh noise-walls at ear-bleeding levels, and was described by the New York Times as “steadily scathing music, favoring long and corrosive atonalities”. Driven by a fierce interest in pure sound and inherent texture, Leila challenges conventional cello practice through extreme extended techniques and unorthodox amplification methods, to the extent she sometimes seems to be playing the P.A system rather than the cello. Her compositions frequently incorporate sound-spatialization by way of site-specific pieces and multichannel installations, and focus on neurological perception and our physiological relationship to sound and space.
Nava Dunkelman is a percussionist and improviser based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Tokyo, Japan and raised in a multi-cultural environment by an American father and Indonesian mother. Her musical approach is innovative and dynamic, combining virtuosity and intuition. Meticulous in an intrinsic way, she uses her distinctive sound palette to explore and give life to a vast spectrum of musical possibilities. Nava's current projects are electro-percussion experimental noise duo IMA with Amma Ateria, and percussion duo NOMON with her sister Shayna Dunkelman. She also has performed and collaborated with Angélica Negrón, Brandon Seabrook, Du Yun, ÉMU (Maria Takeuchi), Fred Frith, gabby fluke-mogul, Ikue Mori, John Zorn, Pauchi Sasaki, William Winant, yuniya edi kwon, and many others. She has performed classical and contemporary pieces with the William Winant Percussion Group, Joan Jeanrenaud, Raven Chacon, San Francisco Girls Chorus, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players and others. Her work has been recognized through notable awards and residencies, including the Jerome Artist Residency (2024–2025) and Jerome Commission at Roulette (2023–2024), the Hermitage Artist Retreat (2025), Loghaven Artist Residency (2024), create Award with the American Composers Forum (2023), and the New Music USA Creator Development Fund (2022).
Root Systems, History Dog's debut album, transmutes the pulse of New York's improvised music community, where raw expression and collaboration thrive. Shara Lunon, Chris Williams, Luke Stewart, and Lesley Mok bring voice, trumpet, bass, and drums into a fierce dialogue with electronics, poetry, and collective improvisation. Rooted in the community's spirit of exploration, this album invites listeners to confront humanity's fractures and connections, creating realms of intimacy and inertia.
Kieran Daly is a composer and guitarist from South Carolina with concentration in experimental monophonic music. Actively performing and publishing in various formats internationally since 2007, his work focuses on a first-principles approach to structured improvisation in the American modernist tradition. His work has been presented by numerous imprints including Hibari, Infant Tree, Marginal Frequency, Chicago Reader, Pitchfork, Triple Canopy, Wire Magazine, and Madacy Jazz, his co-operated label with composer Sam Sfirri. Since 2015, he has soundtracked several features and shorts by Canadian filmmaker Isiah Medina.
John Hébert is an American jazz double bassist, composer, bandleader, and educator. Since the mid-1990s, Hébert has been a central figure on the New York City jazz scene, recognized multiple times in DownBeat magazine’s Critics Poll as a Rising Star bassist. He has performed and recorded with major artists including Andrew Hill, Lee Konitz, Paul Bley, Kenny Wheeler, Paul Motian, Mary Halvorson, and Maria Schneider. In addition to his work as a highly sought-after sideman, he leads his own groups such as Byzantine Monkey and the John Hébert Trio.
Jason Nazary is a drummer/producer/composer from Atlanta and based in Brooklyn. Jason has been a force in New York's creative music scene for over 20 years. Early projects include the influential noise jazz group, Little Women, & Anteloper, an electro-acoustic duo w jaimie branch. He currently performs regularly with Amirtha Kidambi’s Elder Ones, Helado Negro, Darius Jones & the Sam Weinberg trio, as well as solo & his own groups, the improvising avant hip-hop quartet, WRENS, & the Saint Abdullah / Jason Nazary duo.
Wednesday Knudsen (Pigeons, Weeping Bong Band, Stella Kola) is a woodwind multi-instrumentalist based in upstate New York. Her solo practice is oriented toward an ambient-experimental mode. Her work engages an interplay between compositional and improvisational approaches, exploring interactions of environmental context and notions of occasion with given sets of dynamic musical parameters.
Ronnie Ahlborn is a New York-based digital and new media artist. She holds a BA in Studio Art and Human-Centered Design from Dartmouth College, where she was the first digital artist to be awarded the Perspectives on Design Award, given to the Studio Art capstone project deemed most worthy of recognition. Ahlborn has since shown in galleries and created live performance visuals across New York City. Now, she is working on her MFA thesis in Computer Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York, creating a large-scale interactive installation, while also designing graphics for artists such as Florence + The Machine and Kpop Demon Hunters under REPUBLIC Collective. She recently received a Clio Music Award for her Creative Design work on Metro Boomin’s A Futuristic Summa.
dj ice melt is a bookseller/translator/dj(rare). authority permitting.
Bradley Eros, as always, (since the very beginning of Abasement (.001) will project their "hand-made" analog slides, and/or film ~ all night long! *** "eau de cinema", 'musique plastique', "philosophical jaywalker", "Eros C'est L'amour!"
Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015.
