Monday, April 6
7pm
Free, no RSVP required
Performances by Dreamcrusher + Bonnie Baxter + Samantha Riott, JG Thirlwell’s Xordox, Hans Tammen + Ronnie Ahlborn + Yaching Cheung, and Leo Chang. DJ Miggy. Visuals by Katherine Liberovskaya. Projections by Bradley Eros.
Dreamcrusher is the experimental noise project of Luwayne Glass, a New York–based noise artist originally from Wichita, Kansas. Glass describes the project as “nihilist queer revolt musik."
Bonnie Baxter is an experimental musician and is the vocalist for Kill Alters alongside Hisham Bharoocha & Nicos Kennedy. She is also 1/2 of the duo Prolaps alongside Machine Girls' Matthew Stephenson.
Samantha Riott, formerly of the band Rodenticide, is a singer, writer & musician whose artistry blends avant-garde music, spoken word & theatrical performance.
JG Thirlwell is a composer/producer/performer based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Melbourne, he moved to London in 1978, then relocated to NYC in 1983, where he has been based ever since. As well as his own name, he works under many pseudonyms including Manorexia, Foetus, Xordox, Steroid Maximus, Baby Zizanie, Hydroze Plus, Clint Ruin and Wiseblood. JG created the musical score for the Emmy-winning FX show Archer, and for Adult Swim/Cartoon Network show The Venture Bros, for which he was nominated for an Annie Award. He has also scored several features and short films, as well as the first season of Dicktown. He has released over forty albums. If there is a common thread to his varied musical styles, it is a dramatic intensity and an evocative, cinematic quality. Thirlwell has also featured as producer, remixer, collaborator or arranger for a wide variety of artists including Karen O, Noveller, Zola Jesus, Helm, Mivos Quartet, Melvins, Swans, Nine Inch Nails, Lydia Lunch, Coil, Z’s, The The, Simon Hanes, Tony Oursler, Nick Cave and many more. JG has completed commissions for Kronos Quartet, Bang On A Can, Alarm Will Sound, String Orchestra of Brooklyn, Experiments in Opera, Zephyr Quartet, Great Learning Orchestra, Dither, Jeffrey Zeigler, William Basinski and more. He is also an acclaimed graphic artist. In 2010, he received a fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts in sound / composition. He has created sound installations which have exhibited in Santarcangelo, Kaliningrad, Vienna and Gotland, and is a member of the freq_out sound art collective. He performs live with a chamber ensemble, with his multi-channel electro-acoustic “Silver Mantis” project and with his electronic project Xordox.
Bec El-Saleh is a non-binary sound artist based in Brooklyn, New York. A classically-trained harpist of over 30 years, Bec creates a range of personal work, from improvised ambient harp and guitar music with their duo R&D, to vulnerable art-pop with their songwriting arm, Kitba. As a performer, they have shared the stage with artists including This Will Destroy You, JG Thirlwell, and Half Waif, and as a recording artist, they have appeared on records by Cassandra Jenkins, David Byrne, and Half Waif.
Hans Tammen is just another worker in rhythms, frequencies and intensities. He likes to set sounds in motion, and then sit back to watch the movements unfold. Using textures, timbre and dynamics as primary elements, his music is continuously shifting, with different layers floating into the foreground while others disappear. This flows like clockwork, “transforming a sequence of instrumental gestures into a wide territory of semi-hostile discontinuity; percussive, droning, intricately colorful, or simply blowing your socks off” (Touching Extremes).
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. Ahlborn has since shown in galleries and created live performance visuals across New York City. She is currently 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 Ariana Grande and Florence + The Machine under REPUBLIC Collective.
Yaching Cheung is a visual artist, dancer, and dance director operating between NYC and Berlin.
Leo Chang is a Korean experimental musician, improviser, composer, and sound artist based in New York. Since 2019, he has been focused on building electronic performance setups derived from Korean folk practices and instruments. For instance, he built an instrument where he amplifies Korean gongs (used historically in folk, shamanic, and court music) with transducers and resonates them with his voice, microphone feedback, and other processed audio input. Leo has been a Commissioned and Resident Artist at Roulette Intermedium, Center for Performance Research Artist-in-Residence, a recipient of a Korea Foundation Cultural Exchange Grant, and Brooklyn Arts Council grant. He has performed in various venues and gatherings, notably Pioneer Works, Pierre Boulez Saal, the Lot Radio, NYC Winter Jazzfest, Vision Festival, Basilica Hudson, MATA Festival, Ostrava Days Festival, New York City Electro-Acoustic Music Festival, and the International Computer Music Conference. Leo holds a PhD in Electronic Arts from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Miggy Littleton has collected and dealt vinyl records for over 30 years. Since the early 90's he has played in many bands based out of Maryland and New York including The Sex Beatles, The Shit, The Hassassins, Scarpetta, TJO, Ida, The Mad Scene, Blood on the Wall, White Magic , The Hated and more. In 2024 he helped create Emo Laptop.
Katherine Liberovskaya is a Canadian intermedia artist based in NYC. Involved in experimental video since the 80's, she has produced numerous single-channel video art pieces, video installations and video performances, as well as works in other media, that have been shown around the world. Since 2001 her work predominantly focuses on the intersection of moving image with sound/music in various both ephemeral and fixed forms (projections, installations, performances), notably through collaborations with many composers and sound artists in improvised live video+sound concert situations where her live visuals seek to create improvisatory "music" for the eyes. For over 22 years she collaborated on many projects with her partner composer/intermedia artist Phill Niblock on various live, video and installation projects. Other frequent collaborators include: Keiko Uenishi, Laura Ortman, Shelley Hirsch, Katie Porter, Dafna Naphtali, Barbara Held, Mia Zabelka, Al Margolis (IF,BWANA), David Watson, among many others. In addition to her art work she curates events in experimental video/film, sound/music and A/V performance, notably the yearly Screen Compositions evenings at EI NYC since 2005 and, since 2006 the OptoSonic Tea salons first in NYC then in various nomadic locations in North America and Europe as well as on-line during the Covid pandemic. In 2014 she completed a PhD in art practice entitled "Improvisatory Live Visuals: Playing Images Like a Musical Instrument" at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). She is currently the artistic director of Experimental Intermedia NYC.
Bradley Eros, as always, 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!"s
Abasement has been curated by Joseph Frivaldi and Robert Mayson since 2015.
