This is going to be a particularly busy month! Things kick off on the 9th with the return of Carlos Giffoni’s much-loved No Fun Fest (at which in years past I played a rip’per of a digital noise-oscillator set at The Knitting Factory, then a realization of one of Conrad Schnitzler‘s Cassette Concerts at Music Hall of Williamsburg) in the form of a 3-day festival at Roulette Intermedium called “No Fun, New Perspectives” at which I’ll debut a new collaboration w/ the inestimable Chris Goudreau of Sickness fame on the 10th! The entire festival is packed with first-time collaborations from dozens of all-timers, certainly not to be missed but on the off-chance you can’t make it is both being streamed by Roulette in real-time via YouTube™ (scroll down for the feed) AND over the airwaves on WFMU!
Alpha State #13 will be on on The Lot on Monday the 13th from 7PM-9PM with special guest Tommy McCutchon of Unseen Worlds (espect prog, minimalism, new music, 70s synth; all the good stuff) followed by the fourth-ever duo set with Chuck Bettis as part of an incredible Abasement lineup at Arists Space on the 20th (also on the bill: a rare solo set by Oliver Ackermann of A Place To Bury Strangers & Death By Audio fame, the duo of Dirty Three‘s Jim White & Masami Tomihisa performing as You-On, and Hairbone!)
Then, C & I will head out to Robert Wilson’s Watermill Center on Long Island to take part in the once-in-a-lifetime Arc performance by ∈Y∋ (sidenote: in the Hrvatski years, I was once asked to open for Boredoms, a dream-come-true as I became an instant life-long fan after stumbling into a couple of the Boretronix tapes in the Village back in the early 90s; the EYE + C.O.L.O set at Powerhouse was easily the best thing I saw last year!) as part of their Limitless Time event on the 24th (incredible lineup w/ Isabelle Huppert, Pina Bausch, Laurie Anderson, and a staging of Lou Reed‘s Metal Machine Music, all outdoors in the woods in the Hamptons). A few days later, on Monday the 27th I’ll begin a week-long residency at the IDM Studio at NYU Tandon School of Engineering in downtown Brooklyn on the 27th (where I intend to compose & record a piece on the studio’s vast arsenal of Modular Systems that have been augmented with novel tactile interfaces for people who are blind, or have low vision).
Finally, on the 31st, I’ll head out on the road to Newark, DE for a solo peformance as part of the Tabs Out folks’ Final Fridays series at Newark Bike Project (will algo all-timer William Fields, As Surviving Total, and Wide Color) & will head down to Takoma Park, MD the next day to play at Tonal Park with Bill Nace & Mike Bernstein‘s project w/ Brian “Geologist” Weitz, Deli Philosophers! First time down the seabord for music in a good few years, looking forward to the trip!
PS. Taped this conversaion with Chris Miller (who also hosts the fantastic La Synthèse Humaine YT™ channel) & Shawn O’Sullivan last month for their rejuvenated Base Camp Beta podcast; fun deep dive into my come-up in Electronic Music from the early-90s onwards, getting into some ragebait-adjacent topics towards the end there but all in good fun; after this & the Cycling ’74 one from earlier in the year, I’ve revised my stance somewhat on podcasts from the baseline “Turn This Off Listen To Music Touch Grass” to “These Can Be Fun & Illuminating” so please get in touch if you’d like me to take part in one.
