Assembly No. 18 curated by Lester St. Louis & Luke Stewart
April 20, 2024
7pm doors 8pm music
Full dinner menu available, seating is first come first serve
performing live in the back room
KWAMI WINFIELD
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“A multi-disciplinary type who plays trumpet, drums, electronics, trash, Kwami creates collections of visual creations, rocks, pez dispensers. Her music can touch on the relationship of externalized sound and the ancillary, grotesque functions required to produce them. Looking for windows between noisy circuits and noisy bodies, both bubbling from complications to resource consumption and procurement.”
PHONG TRAN
is a Brooklyn-based composer and visual artist primarily working in digital and electronic mediums. His work revolves around emotional experience in digital and nonphysical spaces. Phong’s most recent work, The World We Left Behind, is a ballet made in collaboration with Troy Schumacher (NYC Ballet) and BalletCollective. The work was inspired by a newly commissioned tabletop roleplaying game by Samantha Leigh in which two players collaboratively explore an abandoned world and uncover shared mysteries and secrets.
SAM WENC
is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, performance and installation. Wenc has released music on Where to Now, Moone Records, Noumenal Loom, Sweet Wreath, and Obsolete Staircases. He has performed throughout the US, Canada, and Peru. He’s been artist-in-residence at Elektronmusikstudion EMS (Stockholm, Sweden) and Art OMI (Ghent, NY). In 2022, he composed the score for artist Sophia Giovannitti’s short film “A Monopoly of Violence” presented at Duplex Gallery NYC.
+ all night selector JUSTIN FRYE
…is a musician and visual artist from Virginia Beach, VA, who has been based out of New York City since 2003. Frye has released 5 LPs + countless tapes, 7”s and EPs with his project PC Worship, which also acts as a vessel for his visual art, photography & writing.
$20 at the door, cash/Venmo, no advance tickets
7pm doors
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
8pm music
performing solos, duos and as a trio:
LAO DAN is a classically trained Chinese flutist at Shenyang Conservatory of Music (SYCM), Lao Dan sticks to his own vision of and approach to the bamboo flute and its sounds. His playing continues to push the limits of artistic expression on this instrument, exploring the possibilities of free, energetic, and nonconformist ways of sound-making confined by neither Jazz nor traditional Chinese musical conventions. His improvisation often brings to the audience an overwhelming sonic experience in which the East and the West, the ancient and the modern clash dramatically on each other. Bandcamp
JOHN MCCOWEN‘s musical life has become an obsession with discovering a polyphonic language on a historically monophonic instrument – the clarinet. This has led him to a unique acoustic vocabulary that is akin to a shifting soundscape of electronic feedback. John’s multi-phonic approach is based in drones, difference tones, and beating harmonics as a means to showcase the compositional potential within a single, acoustic sound source. His work has been described by The New Yorker as “the sonic equivalent of microscopic life viewed on a slide” and by The Wire as “an astonishing demonstration of pure sound & human will.”
CHARMAINE LEE is a New York-based vocalist. Her music is predominantly improvised, and favors a uniquely personal approach to vocal expressed concerned with spontanaeity, playfulness, and risk-taking. Beyond extended vocal technique, Charmaine uses amplification, feedback, and microphones to augment and distort the voice.
Continuum Culture & Arts Presents
7pm doors 8pm music
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
performing live in the back room
Judy Dunaway (Boston, MA)
“…is primarily known for her numerous works for latex balloons as sound producers, including sculptural sonic performances, sound installations, interactive pieces and acousmatic works. She has presented these works at premier venues, festivals, museums and galleries throughout North America and Europe.” Balloon Music Manifesto
Devin Gray
Devin Gray’s fresh approach to modern drumming has enabled him to play with many of the world’s great jazz musicians. He is interested in a multitude of musical directions and prioritizes sincerity.
TACTICAL MAYBE
Tom Blancarte – bass
Nana Pi Aabo-Kim – saxophone
Louise D.E. Jensen – saxophone
Halym Aabo-Kim – drums & euphonium
$15
doors 7pm
full dinner menu available
seating is first-come, first-served
performing live in the back room
Music Research Strategies + andrea haenggi + Luke Stewart
drums + movement + bass
WINDSCOUR
Joe Moffett – trumpet
Zach Rowden – electronics
Jessie Cox
expanded percussion
$20 at the door (cash/Venmo, no advance tickets)