Join us for an evening of ambient audio-video marking the release of Geoff Matters' album "Last Coast" at Synesthesia's gallery space.

●Date●

Saturday, Dec 4th, 8 pm-midnight

●Timetable●

8pm- DJ

9pm-( )

10pm- Geoff Matters

11pm-DJ

●Ticket●

$10
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/218784599627

*Proof of vaccination required

*Max 20 people capacity

●Address●

10min by walk from Knickerbocker Av (M train)

You will get the address when you get your ticket via Eventbrite.

●Performances●

Geoff Matters:

Geoff Matters presents a hallucinatory journey through precomposed ambient worlds. This performance draws from the audio-video album "Last Coast", other recent releases, and unreleased material.

( ):

"( ) Instrument" is an improvised ambient reactive performance with live music and reactive video. All music and video by Jeremy D. Slater.

Notes and chords on the guitar are assigned to video clips so that the video reacts to the live music performance. This reactive video system is the basis of this work in progress and is a further exploration of the artist's interest in video as an instrument.

●Artists●

Geoff Matters works with sound and light. You may have run into him shredding with his electronic punk band, projecting decorations around galleries and parties, experimenting his way through a dance performance soundtrack, or plugging you in at your local jam session.

( ) is Jeremy D. Slater. His sound work consists of field recordings as a base to create compositions with guitar, objects, ambient noise, environmental sound, and other instruments. Performances include live performed video that is ambient and reactive. Video work also includes single and multiple channel videos for screening and installations with sound and ephemeral sculpture. In addition to his solo project ( ), he is a member of Plan 23, The Principle String Quartet, ROTC (Rubaiyats of the Cicadas), Frogwell, and tū. Jeremy D. Slater was one of the 1999 recipients of the Computer Art Fellowship from New York Foundation of the Arts (NYFA) and has attended the Experimental Television Residency, was guest musician at Watermill Center and HERE with Cave/Leimay, and was artist in residence at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon in Seoul, South Korea. He has exhibited and performed in the United States, Canada, England, Germany, France, Italy, South Korea, and Japan.

http://www.parenthesismusic.com

http://www.jeremyslater.net

Join us for our opening exhibition & album release party at Synesthesia on Saturday, July 24th. Synesthesia will present Schillaci’s solo exhibition, “The labour we delight in physics pain” at the gallery and The Spacemen's album release party at a special secret basement.
We will open the gallery at 6 pm and the performance will start at 7 pm.

●Date●
Saturday, July 24th, 6 pm-11 pm

●Ticket●
Free
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/163115838865

●Address●

10min by walk from Knickerbocker Av (M train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite.

●Opening Exhibition @ gallery space ●
“The labour we delight in physics pain” by Schillaci
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions
https://schillaciii.com/

●The Spacemen’s album release party @ basement●

The Spacemen’s album release party with special guests. A night of experimental music and visual projection supported by the City Artist Corps Grants.

The Spacemen:
The Spacemen offers a valiant attempt at capturing the interstellar experience. The ambient, experimental project comes from Ayumi Ishito (Saxophone), Theo Woodward (Synthesizer, Vocals), Nebula and the Velvet Queen (Theremin), Jake Strauss (Guitar, Bass), and Steven Bartishev (Drums). The Spacemen is full of distortion, unexpected percussive rhythms, and competing melodies.
Their debut album “The Spacemen Vol. 1” has been released on 577 Records. This set will be live streamed on 577 Records Instagram account. IG: @577records

Damien Olsen: various synthesizers
Damien Olsen will perform a live soundtrack for his video work "What's in the Box"; an alucinatory journey documenting the surface of 180 paintings simulating geographical environments like aerial views, executed during the pandemic.

Wit & Daniel
Wit & Daniel (Prawit Siriwat and Daniel Durst) is an exploration of intimate sound creation and manipulation. Their live performance is cathartic, meditative, explosive, immediate, and never predictable. With an intuitive sense for each other, they navigate time as if it were a rubber-band stretched to its breaking point.

Danni Huang: visual
Danni Huang is a new media artist based in New York City. She moved from Shanghai to New York in 2016 and received her Master’s from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Interactive Telecommunications Program in 2018 where she focused on animation, mixed reality, and installation art. She is interested in creating experiences that tell compelling stories, as well as building engaging worlds that lie at the edge of art and tech.

●Line-up●
7:30pm- Mohamed Kubbara Quintet
8:20pm- Wit & Daniel
9:10pm- Damien Olsen
10:00pm- The Spacemen

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com
https://synesthesia.space/

●Instagram●
https://www.instagram.com/synesthesia47/?hl=en

Synesthesia presents live experimental electronic music at the outdoor rooftop and TR7's Inside VAULT SEVEN closing exhibition on Saturday, June 26th.

This night will be the final chance to see Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7’s solo show, " Inside VAULT SEVEN " at the gallery space. .....Come find out which side of the Vault you are on...... if you never go in, you may never get out!

●Date●

Saturday, June 26th, 7pm-11pm

●Address●

You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite.

●Closing Exhibition●

" Inside VAULT SEVEN " by TR7

http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Line-up●

7:30pm-8:20pm: Boris Nazarov and his friendly machines

8:40pm-9:30pm: Symmetry

9:50pm-10:40pm: "GASLIGHT TV - The New Opera" by TR7

●Performers●

Boris Nazarov and his friendly machines

https://borisnazarov.bandcamp.com/music
https://www.youtube.com/user/Borisnazarov

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Symmetry

Symmetry is mixed media artist Jose E. Murcia, also known as JEM, who originates from The Bronx. He began in 1978 as an Experimental Rock musician using home-made electronic, sound generating gadgets, tape recorders and consumer electronic keyboards (synthesizers were too expensive in the 70's) Over the years, he has traversed the full gamut of electronic musical expression by playing New Age and Techno Music using keyboards, drum machines and sequencers. Most recently, he has been doing live remixes of Dark Industrial and Space Music using MP3s, generators, samplers and semi-modular synthesizers. Music is the ultimate phase of his artistic evolution in that it is both visual and cinematic in nature. His mission is to use music and sound to to establish a unique experience within the subconscious mind of every listener.

https://www.reverbnation.com/symmetry2010

https://soundcloud.com/user5879063

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Exhibition " Inside VAULT SEVEN "closing performance:

"GASLIGHT TV - The New Opera" directed by TR7

As George Orwell's 1984 & Brave new world predictions of how the future manipulation of humanity would look like, GASLIGHT TV sheds light on the matrix of today's state of the Republic.

More broadly, the novel examines the role of truth and facts within politics and the ways in which they are manipulated. The story takes place in an imagined future, the year 1984, when much of the world has fallen victim to perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, historical negationism, and propaganda.

The players:

Mark Dilks, Wes Trexler as Bushwick Buck, TR7 as Benjamin Banneker the Seventh

Scenes /movements:

1. Morphological Phase1984

2. What's Happening Jayne Cortez?

3. Caged Domestic the Prequel ...the Proposition

4. The Whistleblowers Awards nominees are.....

https://www.araoof.com/

●Contact●

Synesthesia47@gmail.com

Synesthesia presents Déjà vu? on May 29th... Déjà vu? is a night of ambient music with multi-projection screening and liquid light by : A Clockface Orange.

Currently, Synesthesia presents Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7’s solo show, " Inside VAULT SEVEN " at the gallery space.

Unfortunately, our rooftop is closed for renovation, and the event needs to be indoor for the next few weeks.

The gallery will open at 7pm and the performance will start at 7:30 pm. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask.

●Date●

Saturday, May 29th, 7p m- 11 pm

●Address●

To be announced
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite.

●Closing Exhibition●

" Inside VAULT SEVEN " by TR7

http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Timeline ●

7:30pm-8pm: Concetta Abbate

8:20pm-8:50pm: Gestalt Tone Color x A Clockface Orange

9:10pm-9:40pm:Dawoud

10pm-10:30pm:THE SECRET CULT OF INFINITE KITTEN

●Performers ●

Concetta Abbate

Concetta Abbate is a classically trained violinist turned improviser and composer. Her musical career is defined by the philosophy that music knows no bounds. Grammy.com describes her original performances as a mix of “Violin and delicate vocals that float between the worlds of Modern Classical, Neo-Folk, and poignant and poetic verse”

She has worked as a recording artist and performed with countless orchestras and ensembles in NY. She has released four full length studio albums of her original music. Her compositions have been used in dance productions by Arch Contemporary Ballet as well as Wendy Osserman Dance Company and in films such as “L'attessa” (International Fashion Film Festival of Milan 2015). She has traveled as a distinguished composer in residence to TAKT Gallery in Berlin (2016) as well as the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation in Captiva Island, Florida (2019).

In 2014 she founded a Music Education program called Teacup Music which provides sliding scale music lessons to students in Brooklyn. Her teaching work has received grants from Brooklyn Arts Council, The Roothbert Fund and the Charles Mayer Foundation. Concetta holds degrees in Music, Education and Cultural Studies from Smith College (BA) as well as Columbia University (MA).

www.concettaabbate.com

Bandcamp: https://concettaabbate.bandcamp.com/

Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/concetta_abbate

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Gestalt Tone Color x A Clockface Orange

Gestalt Tone Color (Gabriel Guma):Either as part of the electronic music group Underworld Oscillator Corporation, as a member of the expanded film collective Optipus, or in collaboration with filmmaker/sound artist/partner-in-crime Rachael Guma, GTC has performed at Anthology Film Archives, Fridman Gallery for the New Ear Festival, Theater 80, Kilroy Metal Ceiling, the Morbid Anatomy Museum, Parrish Art Museum, the annual Filmmakers Co-op Benefit, Mono No Aware XI, Mana Contemporary, Muchmore's, Secret Project Robot, Transient Visions Festival of the Moving Image, Microscope Gallery, and the Knockdown Center. He has also contributed with live soundscapes to two of the Dreamlands expanded cinema series of events, co-organized by Microscope Gallery and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Recently, GTC co-wrote the score for E-Ticket, a short by experimental filmmaker Simon Liu, which screened at the Sundance Film Festival and at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Visuals by A Clockface Orange:Rachael Guma and Genevieve HK, working as the artist group known as A Clockface Orange, design and present live liquid-light performances to accompany musicians, sound artists, and musical recordings of all genres. Their work showcases an appreciation for ephemeral, experiential art inspired partly by the Fluxus movement and 1960s experimental culture. They have collaborated with, and perform as part of the expanded cinema collective known as Optipus, as well as on their own, in and around New York City. Their liquid light shows incorporate the use of water and oil based liquids on glass plates to create captivating “visual music” using analog overhead projection.

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Dawoud

Dawoud is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, and band leader of the ensemble God's Unruly Friends. In addition to being an accomplished guitarist and bassist, it is his work on the sitar and dilruba that earned his reputation as "The Jimi Hendrix of the sitar," His experiments with applying unprecedented concepts, techniques, and electronics, his fearless blending of genres, his electronic, symphonic, and chamber works, and his focus on the psychoactive properties of sound, have extended the boundaries of music. His performance will include selections from his Harmolodic Raga Cycle, and improvisations on secreal ancient themes.

godsunrulyfriends.com

https://godsunrulyfriends.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/godsunrulyfriends

musiciansformusicians.org
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THE SECRET CULT OF INFINITE KITTEN

THE SECRET CULT OF INFINITE KITTEN is an experimental sound and visuals project comprised of INFINITE KITTEN + RGB Values. They are a Brooklyn based AV duo specializing in a variety of different musical styles and visuals to match. The musical styles of INFINITE KITTEN range from. Dancefloor friendly techno-breaks and IDM to formless atmospheric noize and ambience.

Their real names are Nate Tronick and Julia Gordon. This couple has also performed in the past as Erotic Body Station, an electronic music duo that formed out of the NYC based Electronic Music collective known as WARPER PARTY.

They perform as a duo, but also as solo artists as a VJ duo known as RGB Values + n8tronick.

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●Rule●

Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.

●Contact●

Synesthesia47@gmail.com

An evening with live experimental techno music and visuals on Saturday, April 24th at the outdoor rooftop. Currently, Synesthesia presents Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7’s solo show, " Inside VAULT SEVEN " at the gallery space.

The exhibition space and rooftop will open at 6:30 pm and the performance will start at 7 pm. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask.

●Date●
Saturday, April 24th, 6:30 pm-11 pm
※If it rains, we will cancel the event and reschedule for Sunday, April 25th. We will announce you via Eventbrite's Email.

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get the address when you get a ticket from Eventbrite

●Timeline●

6:30pm: Open/ Nicko Fierro (DJ)

7:00pm-7:50pm: PERSONATOR

8:00pm-8:50pm:Rob Interface/ Permian Strata (visual)

9:00pm-9:50pm: 5ToK3

10:00pm-11:00pm: TimAdri / Permian Strata (visual)

●Performers●

◯Michael Rogers◯
NJ USA AKA PERSONATOR / AKA ACIDCAJUAL88
TECHNO HOUSE AMBIENT
https://microvision.bandcamp.com/.../unknown-artist-time...
official releases at www.lostsoulenterprises.com
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/pgKmZddGczVoMeUm9

◯Rob Interface◯
Rob Interface is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn who primarily focuses on making live electronic music, with styles ranging from techno and house to ambient and experimental. He makes music using hardware synthesizers and drum machines, with most of it being improvised. He currently performs solo and works with music collectives Warper Party and Bkwildlife. He is also the founder of cult techno/punk band Blak Blondz, a trio that features heavy synth grooves, acid bass lines, distorted vocals, and screaming guitar. He also founded SenseNet, a darkwave/cyberpunk band with a strong retro/80s influence.
www.soundcloud.com/rob-labs
www.soundcloud.com/sensenetusa
www.facebook.com/blakblondz

◯5ToK3◯
Stoke spelt 5ToK3 is a British modular artist, living in Brooklyn NY, who has been busy gigging, recording and live-streaming his modular synthesizer set ups for several years

5ToK3 released his debut album in November of 2020 “In The Name Of Cwejman” an album of live performances released across all the big music platforms including Bandcamp, spotify apple etc
5ToK3 spent a decade collecting the now infamous cwejman modules to build an almost wholly cwejman rig which combines deep basses and pure oscillator waveforms to produce his unique heavy experimental D n B / techno sound.

◯TimAdri◯
TimAdri is a live gear music duo made up of Chanski and Your Grace Adrianna Natalie who perform electronic music with sounds penchant towards Techno, Acid, and experimental.
Chanski is a veteran follower in the NYC underground Techno scene and a local resident DJ for many well known events held by Erratic, Aphotic and Twice As Proper. He has released an EP from the Brooklyn-based vinyl-only imprint "Monday Off". Your Grace Adrianna Natalie, also know as Acid Whore fell into production naturally from her interest in electronic music. In 2012, Adrianna acquired a MIDI controller and Ableton Live to begin shaping these early efforts into something concrete and her experience behind the boards show a budding young talent making an impact on the hard, nasty end of the Acid techno spectrum, now with lots of hardware additions to her studio contributing to the grit of her sound. Signed to the experimental electronic label Alrealon Musique for her debut EP.
Their unique individual sounds complement each other so well that when combined together as TimAdri they create magic in their live performance. Enjoy these two talents combined as one.
https://soundcloud.com/chanski https://m.soundcloud.com/yourgraceadriannanatalie

◯Nicko Fierro (DJ)◯
https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/JszC9TQTDhapqvbLA

◯Permian Strata (visual)◯
Permian Strata is a Brooklyn-based artist that specializes in creating music videos and performing visual accompaniment to live music.

https://www.youtube.com/permianstrata
https://www.instagram.com/permianstrata/

●Solo Exhibition●

" Inside VAULT SEVEN "
TR7 creates an "Art Happening" that an agency for improvisation & ephemeral matrix of modalities. Maneuvering sculptural metaphors & activating social commentary works as signifier of the surveillance state and questioning the autonomy of self.
Accompany by Raoof's 11th iteration of the Micro Film Festival's immersive video installation are works who origins speaks to specific events/individuals. However, as in language, they have morphed to mirror the current state of the union & beyond. " It's like these works have an etymology of their own".
The use of assemblage works (of readymade materials) placed in conversation & or merged to speak to symbolic meanings & gestures that contain & question notions the human condition.
Furthermore, the a/v activation of installation will be conducted in 4 measures.
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Rule●
Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the show

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com

Join us for our spring opening on Saturday, April 3rd. Synesthesia will present Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7’s solo show, " Inside VAULT SEVEN " at our gallery space and sound visual performance on the rooftop space. The exhibition and the performance will start at 5 pm until Midnight. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask.

●Date●

April 3rd, Saturday 5 pm-Midnight

※If it rains, we will reschedule for Sunday, April 4th 5 pm-Midnight. We will announce you via Eventbrite's Email.

●Address●

Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)

You will get the address when you get a ticket from Eventbrite

●Solo Exhibition●

" Inside VAULT SEVEN "

TR7 creates an "Art Happening" that an agency for improvisation & ephemeral matrix of modalities. Maneuvering sculptural metaphors & activating social commentary works as signifier of the surveillance state and questioning the autonomy of self.

Accompany by Raoof's 11th iteration of the Micro Film Festival's immersive video installation are works who origins speaks to specific events/individuals. However, as in language, they have morphed to mirror the current state of the union & beyond. " It's like these works have an etymology of their own".

The use of assemblage works (of readymade materials) placed in conversation & or merged to speak to symbolic meanings & gestures that contain & question notions the human condition.

Furthermore, the a/v activation of installation will be conducted in 4 measures.

●Performance●

5-5:50pm- mario-enrique paoli

6:20-7:10 pm- Chaka Benson

7:40-8:30 pm-TR7

9-9:50pm- Vampÿrates with Reg Bloor

10:20-11:30pm- New York A/V Institute

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mario-enrique paoli

mario-enrique paoli studied guitar and music theory from an early age. Studied music theory and harmony with Dr. Neli Justicia, classic guitar with Juan Sorroche, and improvisation with Robert DeVore. In the late 70’s and 80’s he undertook studies of electronic music with Robert Ceeyly at BEEP (Boston Electronic Experimental Project Inc.) and electro-acoustic arranging and composition with Albert Mayr (Music of Times and Tides). In 1977 he moves to Boston to continue his musical studies in arranging and composition, film scoring and guitar at Berklee College of Music. In 1981 he was invited to join Mobius Theater Inc. (later named Mobius Performing Group, now Mobius Artist Group) based in Boston, MA. He worked with the company until 1990. While at Mobius he produced, designed and directed experimental music-performance works and collaborated and co-produced dozens of works with the company and with national and international performance artists. In 1982 co-founded the experimental television collective Subterranean Video (S.Vid), based at Boston Film and Video Foundation Inc. (BFVF) where many classic intermedia works were produced. In 1990 moves to NYC and works at Film Video Arts Inc. as an associate producer, film/video editor and workshop instructor. For the past 20 years he has been an adjunct faculty at The New School University, School of Media Studies. He has and continues to work, perform and collaborate on various music projects, including 'Signal to Noise' (an experimental electronica music ensemble), 'Oblique Strategists' (an experimental electric guitar duo with Karl Fury), La Electronica (a duet with Gianni Intili), enrique paoli (solo experimental guitar) and 'Wow and Flutter' a new solo electronica project.

Chaka Benson

Chaka Benson grew up on a diverse diet of Philly music ranging from Schooly D to Sun Ra. The Philly streets thrum and echo with improvisation and DIY spirit. This simple aesthetic informs his music and artistic approach. The sound from his modular synthesizer is ever-evolving, changing over time, layered, a challenge to pin down and always rewarded! His legendary live performances are well known on the experimental electronic music scene. Each performance has a new patch specially prepared for it and a new improvised set is performed each time. https://cmbperformance.blogspot.com/?m=0

Blood is the Music of Life <> Vampÿates {{DJs Richard Sylvårnes & Bradley Erøs}} <> with Guest Guitarist Reg Bloor

"just some hints at 'the mysterious mixed blood or the sanguine stew of our sources', both stolen & unburied (animal, mineral, vegetable & human, flesh ~ voices & sonic bites, spanning centuries of living creatures, from the exotic to the rare, screams & beastly howls, cries of murder & raging indictments, ritual & revolt, hypnotic hymns & piercing rants, savage litanies & soothing incantations, woven in a rhythm bed of loopy pulses & deeply entrancing throbs, the Vampÿrates' bloody mixology of music is a dense dark spell of layers, both organic & electronic, stirring & unnerving, that may send chills up your spine as you prepare yourself for the double-fanged pierce of pleasure."

New York A/V Institute

Boris Naz - drum machine, synthesizers DJ Activphaze - turntables and samples Yana Davydova - guitar VJ Fuzzy Bastard - live visuals https://borisnazarov.bandcamp.com https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkAudioVideoInstitute/

TR7

Taji Ra'oof Nahl aka TR7 is an American interdisciplinary artist whose vocabulary delves into social commentary via historical & futurist aesthetic. Installation, video, performance , soundscapes, sculpture, painting, are utilities that embodies poetic & abstract narrative for his oeuvre.

His work has been in exhibitions at, The Italian Palace - Tangier Morocco, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Averill and Bernard Leviton Gallery at Columbia College of Chicago. African American Art Museum Philadelphia, & Fleisher Art Memorial.

Solo exhibition which include; Pageant Soloveev Gallery Philadelphia, Indigo Bleu Design & Cultural Center, Little Berlin Annex Space & Icebox Project Space, Marginal Utility Gallery, Philadelphia and Velocity Fund grant recipient for 2019.

Group showing at West Chester University, Goggleworks Reading Pa., Ice Box Project Space, Philadelphia Pa., National Archive Philadelphia. Pa., University of Pennsylvania. James Dupree Gallery, Philadelphia City Hall, Moore College of Art, and others.

Also includes in 2015 Artblog People's Choice awards PEW Fellow (wish list), and (By way of - Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade ) 2015 Best Exhibit.

Artist -In- Residence Icebox Project Space 2017 along with creative director at American Muslim Museum & Archive. Commissioned projects with Paul Robeson House, John Coltrane House - Philadelphia, & Fairmount Park Conservancy. With Performative works at Kimmel Center, Vox Populi, ICA Philadelphia, Harlem Gatehouse, & Masjidullah Cultural Center.

Furthermore, he was the founder & director of acclaimed Taji Modern Gallery in Philadelphia circa 1998 - 2009. Also he a member of Philadelphia Dumptser Divers.

As TR7 social engagement base expands, so does his collaboration list; Jamaaladeen Tacuma, George E. Lewis, Amber Arts Collective, Kali Yuga Zoo Brigade, Yoichi Uzeki, Charles Lloyd, June Lopez, Eva Peston, Meg Foley Erik Honesty, Bariq Combs, Sebastienne Mundheim, Embarker, Chaka Benson & others.

Taji also spearheads 2Spiral Art Collective, collaborates with artists of vast disciplines to develop art that explores the transformative elements of compassion, freedom, justice, and productive activism.

https://www.araoof.com/

●Rule●

Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.

●Contact●

Synesthesia47@gmail.com

Synesthesia will present Walid Shaharul's solo exhibition, "Safe Place" curated by roosi at our gallery space and sound performances, "Invincible VibrationsII" on the outdoor rooftop. The exhibition and performance will start at 6 pm until 11pm. Please everyone bring your mask!

●Date●
Saturday, Nov 7th 6-11pm
※If it is a rain day, we will reschedule for Sunday, Nov 8th 6-11pm.

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get the address when you get a ticket from Eventbrite

●Solo Exhibition●
Walid Shaharul
"Safe Place"
curated by roosi
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

About roosi
roosi was formed with the intention to connect fine art to everyone. The art industry is often perceived as “exclusive” or “unreachable” by many people, roosi aims to shift traditional views of fine art and dismantle its longstanding ideals. roosi values diversity, community, and aims to bring the luxuries of the art world to those who don’t fit the conventional mold. https://roosi.org/

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"Invincible VibrationsII"

Ongoing journeys in sound performances by:

●6-6:30pm- TidalChannel
Tidal Channel are the noise / poetry alliance of Genevieve Fernworthy and billy cancel. Their output spans “sonic abrasiveness” (New York Times) to displaced string laden folk tales. Their single X-Dressing At The Radar Base (BC35 Volume 2 Bronson Records) was recently described In FREQ as “as a surreal spoken word masterpiece.” In 2017 they performed “In Rode Headless-Multi” at Wheal Jane Mine, Rosendale, opening and closing the sculpture exhibition “Eotechnic Sensorium.” www.TidalChannel.com

●6:50-7:20pm- NURBSTREAM
Electronic explorations of otherness - sounds of the Mantis Haus. https://soundcloud.com/nurbstream

●7:40-8:10pm- Rob Interface
Rob Interface is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn who primarily focuses on making live electronic music, with styles ranging from techno and house to ambient and experimental. He makes music using hardware synthesizers and drum machines, with most of it being improvised. He currently performs solo and works with music collectives Warper Party and Bkwildlife. He is also the founder of cult techno/punk band Blak Blondz, a trio that features heavy synth grooves, acid bass lines, distorted vocals, and screaming guitar. He also founded SenseNet, a darkwave/cyberpunk band with a strong retro/80s influence. www.soundcloud.com/rob-labs www.soundcloud.com/sensenetusa www.facebook.com/blakblondz

●8:30-9:30pm- New York A/V Institute
Boris Naz - drum machine, synthesizers DJ Active Phaze- turntables and samples Yana Davydova - guitar VJ Fuzzy Bastard - live visuals https://borisnazarov.com/ https://www.facebook.com/NewYorkAudioVideoInstitute/

●10-11pm- Plan23
Dok Gregory - lap steel guitar, theremin Karl Scholz - Werkbench sampler ( ) aka Jeremy Slater - prepared guitar, sampler WvS - software synthesizers Chris Jordan - live visuals R. Buckminster B - space trucking vibe carrier https://plan23.bandcamp.com

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com

Mesma Records is pleased to invite you to the fourth edition of Mesmarize, our event series dedicated to live electronic music. After our last event was cancelled in March due to the virus outbreak, we are especially excited to host Mesmarize at Synesthesia—a much beloved place and community whose spacious rooftop will allow us to get together safely. The acts will be the ones programmed in March, selected to make this evening an excursion into the moody and intimate regions of electronic and experimental music.

The Synesthesia will open at 7:30 pm and the performance will start at 8 pm. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask and social distance!

●Date●
Saturday, Oct 10th 7:30-11pm
*If it rains on Saturday, Oct 10th, we will reschedule for Sunday, Oct 11th. We will announce to you via Eventbrite's Email.

●Performers●
∴ Solpara
@Solpara — Exploring the sounds of techno, electro, ambient, breaks and post-punk, Solpara is a Lebanese-American producer and dj born and based in NYC. He started the underground event series Booma Collective in Montreal in 2010 which turned into record label in 2013. Since then, Solpara has released music with @Brutaż, Quiet Time, @Other People, L.P.C, Booma and appeared in worldwide events, notably Boiler Room, Confused House, MUTEK Montréal & San Francisco, B018 & The Ballroom Blitz (Beirut), Demi-Monde (Paris), and Światło (Warsaw.)

∿ Canto Villano
Canto Villano senses among makeshift amplification systems ~ channeling roving waves that choke and flow amid densities through found objects ~ sounding leaks of vibration, the aural emerges as a residue of the tactile.

⟨ Otodojo
Otodojo ties together experiences, environment, and sound to bring the listener closer in touch with themselves. This is reflected in their event series @Microtones, held monthly in Ithaca, NY. otodojo's first full length album, 'A Sound Place', was released on the Los Angeles imprint @Acid Camp as a limited edition cassette in November 2019.

⋅ Impakt
Impakt is a New York based creative whose work combines images and music through digital means. The auditory elements of her work combine experimental sounds with danceable rhythms, while the visual elements explore how sound can be transformed into other forms of perception.

*If it rains on Saturday, Oct 10th, we will reschedule for Sunday, Oct 11th. We will announce to you via Eventbrite's Email.

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite.

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com

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Mesma Records is a Paris and NYC-based music label focusing on publishing and promoting electronic music.
http://mesmarecords.com/
https://www.instagram.com/mesmarecords/
https://mesmarecords.bandcamp.com/music

An evening with a live improvisation performance and experimental film screening on Sunday, Oct 4th, 9-11pm at the outdoor rooftop.

Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask and social distance!

●Performance●

9pm: N/um

Drew Wesely - guitar/objects
Lester St. Louis - cello
Carlo Costa - percussion

String/percussion trio creating sound spaces through timbre, silence, and structural relationships that emerge as process through improvisation. That process and its energetic source we call
n/um -
viscera.
ecstatic,
white screen of silent heat
bound in stone;
dissolving bodies to ancestral vibrations;
subtle traces of the first word
behind the curtains of time,
wounds open as doorways
falling through a single sound;
we reach for/through/as
[n/um]

10pm: Joanna Mattrey-violin, Leila Bordreuil-cello, Sean Ali-bass

Freely improvised string trio that explores unconventional sound worlds, natural resonant frequencies of the instruments, and calls upon extended techniques through the use of preparations and unorthodox playing styles. The trio has performed at MoMA PS1, the Rubin Museum, Issue Project Room, and Arts for Arts among others, and recorded a radio segment on WKCR. Their debut album "i used to sing so lyrical" was released on Astral Spirits in May 2019.

●Date●
Sunday, Oct 4th, 9-11 pm
※If it rains, we will cancel the event we will announce you via Eventbrite's email

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite.

An evening with a live Improvisation performance by

- Quintet Free Improvisation
- Sound-Painting lead by Sam Day Harmet
- Ensemble Free Improvisation

J.C. Aman - electric guitar/pedals
Calvin MacDonald - electric guitar/pedals
Jasmine Chang - electric guitar
Alina Jacobs- tenor saxophone
Salma Zenia - Violin
Theo Woodward -laptop/ableton/push/voice/Kaossilator
Carlos Johns-Davila - theremini/laptop/ableton
Thomas Miritello - synth/electronics
Brendan ‘Eggman’ Metz - electric bass/pedals
Jake Strauss - electric bass
Mike Vassallo - keys/pedals
Damien Olsen - keys
Rafael Carrasquillo - keys/synths
Mohamed Kubbara - drumset

●Date●
Sunday, October 4th, 5 pm-8 pm
※If it rains, we will cancel the event. We will announce to you via Eventbrite Email.

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite Email.

●Rules●

-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.

-As always, no littering

●Contact●

Synesthesia47@gmail.com

A Testu Collective curated evening at Synesthesia. Sculptural movement with live sound and visual performances exploring transitory states. This is the second in a series of curated events at unconventional locations in response to performance venues being closed indefinitely in NYC due to Covid-19.

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This night will be the final chance to see Sinejan Kılıç Buchina’s solo show, "From Place to Non-Place" at our gallery space. (Every 6 people can get inside of gallery with masks) http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Date●
Thursday, October 1st, 6:30 pm-9 pm
※Since the weather report says it will rain on Wednesday, September 30th we rescheduled to the next day, Thursday

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Withfriends.

●Performance●

○7-7:20pm
Yoko Murakami/Will Atkins/Testu Collective
Sculptural Movement

Yoko Murakami - movement
Will Atkins - movement
Serena Stucke(Testu) - soundtrack
Dan Tesene(Testu) - fabrication
Testu Collective - creation & design
@yokoteki
@will.t.atkins
@testucollective

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○7:20-7:40pm
ÉMU
ethereal ambient sounds,live visuals that recreate a beauty of resonance in a search of harmony among human and nature combining technology and organism
@emuaudiovisual
http://www.maria-takeuchi.com

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○7:40-8:00pm
Testu Collective
Live manipulation of fluid dynamics with self organizing liquid systems and experimental electronics with field recordings
@testucollective
testucollective.com

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○8-8:20pm
Impakt
audiovisual performance combining analog and digital soundscapes
@im_pakt

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○8:20-8:40pm
Paloma Kop
ambient audiovisual performance combining analog video feedback, optical manipulation, and recordings from experiments with liquids, magnets, radio, and synthesizers.
@palomakop
http://palomakop.tv

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com

Déjà vu? is an experiential event series with ambient music and multi-film screenings. Let's chill out!

Currently, Synesthesia presents Sinejan Kılıç Buchina’s solo show, "From Place to Non-Place" at our gallery space. (Every 6 people can get inside of gallery with masks)

The exhibition and the performance space will open at 6:30 pm and the performance will start at 7 pm. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask and social distance!

【Musicians】

● 7-7:30 pm: Dawoud Kringle
Dawoud the Renegade Sufi is a musician (multi-instrumentalist / composer / improviser / producer) whose genre defying music is inspired by the vast musical traditions from around the world; east and west, acoustic and electronic, modern and ancient. Dawoud uses these varied genres to provide a creative and sacred inspiration, and illuminate a new musical path.

● 7:40-8:10 pm:
PYRON(Music)
Kareem Woods(Dancer)
Theo Woodward(Visuals)
Bandcamp: https://p-y-r-o-n.bandcamp.com/album/transcend

● 8:20-8:50 pm: Rob Cortes
Rob Interface is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Brooklyn who primarily focuses on making live electronic music, with styles ranging from techno and house to ambient and experimental. He makes music using hardware synthesizers and drum machines, with most of it being improvised. He currently performs solo and works with music collectives Warper Party and Bkwildlife. He is also the founder of cult techno/punk band Blak Blondz, a trio that features heavy synth grooves, acid bass lines, distorted vocals, and screaming guitar. He also founded SenseNet, a darkwave/cyberpunk band with a strong retro/80s influence.
www.soundcloud.com/rob-labs
www.soundcloud.com/sensenetusa
www.facebook.com/blakblondz

● 9 pm-9:30pm: Mt.Borracho
Mt.Borracho is the surrealist A/V Project founded in 2013 by Zach Smith and Cameron Day. The project is influenced by the paranormal, odd suburban void, and recently a diagnostic between humans and 5G cellular. Esoteric sound design via strange post-industrial and techno. Selected for the 2020 SXSW Showcase. Zach Smith presents dark ambient technique for Synesthesia in their NY debut.
https://mtborracho.bandcamp.com/

● 9:40pm-10:10pm: Project Kandate
Project Kandata is a NYC-based musician and composer. Utilizing Eurorack synthesizer, with which he processes the sounds he collected through field recording, PK explores neuro-physical experience through his ambient, drone, and noise music incorporating multi-layered overtones and inaudible frequency components.

● 10:20pm-10:50pm: TR7
American; Philadelphia based interdisciplinary conceptual audio/ visual artist & composer. TR7's vocabulary delves into social commentary via historical & futurist aesthetic. Installation, video, soundesign, sculptures, essays, are utilities that embodies poetic & abstract narrative for his oeuvre. TR7'S sonic exploration travels from drone , noise, free jazz & experimental hip hop traditions.
www.araoof.com 

●Projectionist●

○Genevieve HK
Genevieve HK is a projection artist working as 1/2 of the liquid-light performance group known as A Clockface Orange. Using water and oil based liquids on analog projectors, Clockface composes live, organic, "visual music" in collaboration with sound artists and musicians working in all genres and mediums.
https://www.instagram.com/adjusted_level/
https://www.instagram.com/clockfaceorange/
https://clockfaceorange.wixsite.com/lightshow

○Bradley Eros
Braldey Eros is an artist, experimental filmmaker, mediamystic, maverick curator, sound collage, photographer, expanded cinema,performance, writer & poet, nomadic teacher and private investigator—initiating, exhibiting, & curating at a multitude of ephemeral spaces and long-lasting venues, from micro-cinemas & storefronts to galleries & museums. His work includes intimate collaborations with Aline Mare (Erotic Psyche), Jeanne Liotta (Mediamystics), the Alchemical Theatre, Circle X, and kinoSonik.; intense research with Jeanne Liotta on the films of Joseph Cornell. He has created dozens of ‘zines, posters, soundtracks, unique artist’s books, and film performances in the unfixed universe of ephemeral cinema.

●Date●
Sunday, September 27th, 6:30 - 11 pm

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Eventbrite.

●Solo Exhibition●
-Sinejan Kılıç Buchina
"From Place to Non-Place"
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com

This will be ALL ANALOG PROJECTION & the collectors will COME IN PERSON with A FILM PRINT, rare gems, from the Mushroom Archive, this de-centralized collection of the collective analog print archive, All screened in 16mm, Super8 or Regular 8mm.

We will show each film one at a time on a single screen, (tho we may play around with some films), with its own soundtrack, unless it's silent & we might add a live or (other, alternative) musical soundtrack.

There will be a small audience of participants and viewers on the rooftop at Synesthesia in Bushwick. Considering that their rooftop is rather large and open, and the total attendance would be small, social distancing is possible and essential, and masks are mandatory. The new Mushroom Archive zine will also be available.
& yes, this falls exactly on what would actually be, or would have been, my mother's 100th birthday!
So it is a gathering of film nuts & a lovely celebration to boot! <> ßradley ∑ros

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●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Withfriends.

●Solo Exhibition●
-Sinejan Kılıç Buchina
"From Place to Non-Place"
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com

An evening with a live jazz performance by Ayumi Ishito (sax), Hajime Yoshida (guitar), Yoshiki Yamada (bass), Carter Bales (drums), Lauren Lee (vocalist/piano), Jonathan Heagle (guitar), Julia Chen (piano), and Lavondo Thomas (Bass) on Thursday, September 17th at the outdoor rooftop.

Currently, Synesthesia presents Sinejan Kılıç Buchina’s solo show, "From Place to Non-Place" at our gallery space. (Every 6 people can get inside of gallery with masks)

The exhibition and the performance space will open at 7:30 pm and the performance will start at 8 pm. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask and social distance!

●Date●
Thursday, September 17th, 7:30 pm-11 pm
※If it rains on Thursday, September 17th, we will cancel the event since our space is outdoor. We will announce to you via Whithfriends Email and if we cancel, the ticket fee will be refunded.

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Whithfriends.

●Solo Exhibition●
-Sinejan Kılıç Buchina
"From Place to Non-Place"
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions

●Performance●
-8 pm: Ayumi Ishito (sax), Hajime Yoshida (guitar), Yoshiki Yamada (bass), Carter Bales (drums)
-9 pm: Lauren Lee (vocalist piano)
-10 pm: Jonathan Heagle (guitar), Julia Chen (piano), Lavondo Thomas (Bass), Carter Bales (drums)

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com
917-789-2252

Ongoing journeys in sound and light
live performances by:

●New York A/V Institute
Boris Naz - drum machine, synthesizers
DJ Activphaze - turntables and samples
Yana Davydova - guitar
VJ Fuzzy Bastard - live visuals
https://borisnazarov.com/
facebook.com/vjfuzzybastard
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●Patrick Todd - laptop
https://7knives.bandcamp.com/
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●Hisayasu Takashio w/ Kelvin Daly
- sounds of sculpture, oscillators + custom made stringed instruments
http://www.shiotakashio.com/#/performances
https://www.kelvindaly.com/invented-instruments
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●Plan 23
Dok Gregory - lap steel guitar, theremin
Karl Scholz - Werkbench sampler
( ) aka Jeremy Slater - prepared guitar, sampler
WvS - software synthesizers
Chris Jordan - live visuals
R. Buckminster B - space trucking vibe carrier
https://plan23.bandcamp.com

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Currently, Synesthesia presents Sinejan Kılıç Buchina’s solo show, "From Place to Non-Place" at our gallery space. (Every 6 people can get inside of gallery with masks)
http://synesthesia.space/exhibitions
The exhibition and the performance space will open at 7:30 pm and the performance will start at 8 pm. Please, everyone, keep wearing your mask and social distance!

For those of you who can't join us at Synesthesia physically we will be webcasting the entire event live from both
https://plan23.net/video and https://twitch.tv/plan_23

●Date●
Saturday, September 12th, 7:30 pm-Midnight
※If it rains on Saturday, September 12th, we will cancel the event since our space is outdoor. We will announce to you via Whithfriends Email and if we cancel, the ticket fee will be refunded.

●Address●
Bushwick Area ( close to M, J, L train)
You will get our address when you get a ticket via Whithfriends.

●Rules●
-Please keep wearing your mask and social distance during the party.
-As always, no littering

●Contact●
Synesthesia47@gmail.com
917-789-2252

A program designed to serve Spirit.
We will attempt through various methods to contact Spirit.

A program designed to serve Spirit.
We will attempt through various methods to contact Spirit.

David Grollman and his magic cup will bring tears to your eyes and pleasure to your loins. David will invoke spirit through voice and music.

Mio & Keiko will play a card game following an undisclosed strict order that potentially communicates with the Word Spirit. The game will be conducted in dual languages (English and Japanese) traveling through the ambiguous arena of interpretations.

Jeff Eissfeldt will use his shaman drum to provoke a spirit journey.

Also a screening of Bradley Eros' short film {Houdini} Séance ( a late but much appreciated and anticipated addition to the program!)

Dr. Susan B. Barnes is an international medium, former communication professor, and spirit artist. She received her M.F.A. and Ph.D. from New York University in Performing Arts and Media Ecology. Currently, she operates the Spirit Art Gallery in Cassadaga, NY.

Dr. Barnes will conduct a spiritualist message service and also a physical mediumship session involving trance .
Steve Speer will assist.
A brief history of Spiritualist practices and a demonstration of evp techniques will be included.

An evening with a live improvisation performance and experimental film screening.
(going forward this will be every second sunday)

<Sound>
●Drew Wesely - guitar/objects
Drew Wesely is a guitarist, composer, and improvisor based out of Brooklyn, NY. His music explores the intersection between noise and pitch running the gamut from ferocious energy and abstracted lyricism to repetition, space, and minimalism. His compositions aim to create dynamic, self-perpetuating musical spaces which embrace players’ idiosyncrasies and allow the music to grow from itself organically while maintaining a unique intensity. In recent years he has established himself as a unique member of the Brooklyn improvised music scene performing and recording with Joe Morris, Ingrid Laubrock, Joe Moffett, Eli Wallace, Joanna Mattrey, Carlo Costa, Sean Ali, Hery Paz, Lester St. Louis, and many others.
●Weston Olencki - electronics
Weston Olencki is a South Carolina-born musician working at the intersections of improvisation, contemporary composition & extended instrumental performance, new media technologies, and noise-based practices.
●Nathaniel Morgan - saxophone


●Eli Wallace - synth
Eli Wallace is a pianist, improviser, composer, and curator who resides in Brooklyn, NY. Since moving from Oakland, CA in 2015 he has established himself in the New York improvised and creative music scene, constantly seeking out improvisers with a similar predilection such as Daniel Carter, Ingrid Laubrock, Billy Mintz, Ches Smith, Trevor Dunn, Chris Pitsiokos, Andrew Smiley, Sandy Ewen, Carlo Costa, Sean Ali, Angela Morris, Brandon Lopez, Erika Dicker, and many others. His project Slideshow Junky utilizes numerous one-page pieces as a tool for improvisation and collaboration. He is also a member of the collective trio Cataclysmic Commentary, whose debut album Audience Participation was included in multiple “Best Albums of 2018” lists. And, he is one half of Rob Pumpelly’s duo Dialectical Imagination, whose third album was released by Leo Records. His work as a pianist displays his vast milieu of experiences from classical, jazz, and free improvisation studies, while incorporating contemporary piano performance practice to create a sound that is uniquely his own. As a composer, he’s written pieces for solo piano, chamber groups, jazz ensembles, vocal jazz ensembles, jazz big band, chamber orchestra, full studio orchestra, and received commissions from Contra Costa College JazzaNova, Lawrence University, and dancer Randee Paufve. His musical education was granted by Lawrence University, Appleton WI, and New England Conservatory, Boston, MA, where he completed a Bachelor’s of Music, and a Master’s of Music, respectively.
●Jason Nazary - electronics
Jason Nazary is a drummer/producer/improviser/composer from Atlanta and based in Brooklyn. Fascinated by the intersection of acoustic and electronic music, Jason has been a force in New York's creative music scene for over a decade. He's released two records under his solo project, So Ghost, that explore the use of acoustic drums as trigger and control sources for electronic instruments in the context of raw, minimalist compostion and improvisation. He also co-leads a number of ensembles, among them the dystopian electro noise duo Clebs with singer Emilie Weibel, Anteloper, an improvising modular beat shredding duo with trumpeter/juno explorer Jaimie Branch, Bear In Heaven, a psychedelic, synth heavy indie rock band, and Little Women, a noise meets free jazz, soul quartet.

<Film>
●Braldey Eros
Braldey Eros is an artist, experimental filmmaker, mediamystic, maverick curator, sound collage, photographer, expanded cinema,performance, writer & poet, nomadic teacher and private investigator—initiating, exhibiting, & curating at a multitude of ephemeral spaces and long-lasting venues, from micro-cinemas & storefronts to galleries & museums. His work includes intimate collaborations with Aline Mare (Erotic Psyche), Jeanne Liotta (Mediamystics), the Alchemical Theatre, Circle X, and kinoSonik.; intense research with Jeanne Liotta on the films of Joseph Cornell. He has created dozens of ‘zines, posters, soundtracks, unique artist’s books, and film performances in the unfixed universe of ephemeral cinema.

Three journeys through inner space with psychedelic ambient electronic video noise at the controls!

Open: 7pm
Door: Suggested Donation $10

8 PM: Sean Ali
https://seanali.com/
Double bass improvisations

9 PM: The Azerbaijan A/V Club
http://www.theazerbaijanavclub.com/
Multimedia music, synaesthetic sound & vision, video jazz

10 PM: Plan 23
https://plan23.net/
Sonic explorations into uncharted space

An evening with live audiovisual performance by Fernando Molina, Damien Olsen acoustic guitar solo w/ Contemporary Dancer Emily Pope Blackman and Guitarist Yana Davydova.

Entrance Suggested Donation $10

Open: 7:30pm

●7:50-8:00pm: Kristin Anderson (3D Video)
●8pm-8:30pm: Yana Davydova (a Solo Guitar)
●8:40pm-9:10pm: Fernando Molina (Audio Visual)
●9:20pm-10pm: Damien Olsen (acoustic guitar solo) with Emily Pope Blackman (Contemporary Dance)

<Artist Biography>

●Kristin Anderson
As a multidisciplinary conceptual artist, communication of the underlying concept is of primary importance, and media, space and presentation are selected exclusively per project. My works create an oscillation between the role of the image and the role of the viewer. The intention is to make the viewer aware of their thoughts on the subject, and of their reaction to the awareness, ideally putting them in a state of mind to contemplate both. Sometimes I use novelty to attract the viewer and then draw them into a deeper experience and message. New technologies easily provide that novelty. Recurring themes include the formation of and awareness of identity, broader human universals, and my personal epiphanies as I try to understand and negotiate the specific physical, familial, societal and spiritual influences which encase my life on earth.
http://kanderson.com/portfolio.html
https://www.youtube.com/user/KAndersonVideos

●Fernando Molina
Architect, Audiovisual Artist.
Develops his career as an architect working in the field of public and private work.Participates in national and international competitions being awarded locally and in Spain, Japan and the United States. He designed television sets and served as art director in advertising movies. Graduated from the Master's Degree in Expanded Music at the National University of San Martín, as an artist, he researches and develops audiovisual projects of a performative nature and audioreactive whose plural edges and even diametrically opposed, all go through a
search in its visualization, design and morphology through the use of machines, media digital and computer. His work has been exhibited and represented in Buenos Aires, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Barcelona, Rome and New York; and at the Mutek and Live Performers Meeting Festivals.
https://www.fernandomolina.org/
https://www.gonzalezmolina.net/
Instagram: @fermolinabrac


●Yana Davydova:
Yana Davydova is a versatile electric and classical guitar player. As an electric guitarist she is known for her ethereal rich textures and creative guitar work influenced by modern classical guitar repertoire as well as ambient/noise sounds and free improvisation. She regularly performs, records and tours with a variety of art rock bands (Woodhead, We is Shore Dedicated, Ryne Ziemba band) as well as her main project, Echo Moth, for which she writes music and lyrics. Besides session guitar work, she frequently performs as an improviser creating looped guitar soundscapes and textures either as a solo act or in collaboration with other musicians or theater companies. (“Miracle Day” by Tom Sime and “Ask Joseph” by STEPS Theater , “Face/Off” by Sebastian DiNatale (of The Daily Show)). A graduate of the Manhattan School of Music in classical guitar performance, Yana resides in New York City.
http://www.yanadavydova.com/


●Emily Pope Blackman
Emily Pope is a performing artist, teacher, choreographer, dancer, and video artist. She is an alumna of the North Carolina School of the Arts (1991). She received her BFA in Dance Performance/Choreography from The Ohio State University (Summa Cum Laude 1997) and her MFA in Dance/Choreography from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts (2007). She has performed with White Wave Young Soon Kim Dance Company, Hilary Easton + Co., Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects, Tiffany Mills Dance Company, and Douglas Dunn + Dancers. She started HoverBound Productions in 2006, as multimedia performance lab for her collaborations with other local artists. Her work has been presented at Chen Dance Center, The TANK, Chez Bushwick, John Ryan Theater, 3rd Ward, St. Marks Church, TheaterLab, and Galapagos.

● Damien Olsen
Damien Olsen is a Multidisciplinary Artist based in NYC. Born to an immigrant Russian family and relocated to Brazil where resided until the late 90s. Currently focused on Sculpture and Music. In the middle 70s, while being a student of Psychology and Contemporary dance he worked as a photographer assistant and advertising designer. After few years of college he dropped Psychology school to pursue a career in contemporary dance that lasted for near 12 years. At the time studied Zen and Taoism at a Zen Center commanded by Robert Aitken Roshi and trained Capoeira in several academies in the Brazilian state of Bahia.

In the late 90s moved to New York and continued to work in many forms of visual arts and music. Initially supported by Art dealers Mr. Ivan Karp from the Ok Harris Gallery; and the expert in Constructivism, Mrs. Cecilia de Torres. From 2003 to 2006 he studied music composition and Jazz improvisation with ECM Artist, the Finnish Guitar Player and Composer Raoul Bjorkenheim.

As a musician he works in a wide range of electronic music genres, from Avant Jazz to Dance and Lounge music he has performed in most venues of The City of Florianapolis and Bahia ( Brazil ) and Downtown Manhattan and Brooklyn and recorded and produced a significant discography that involves more than 20 tittles. since the early 70s Piano and Guitar are his main instruments and by the middle 90s he started playing bass guitar and electronic instruments ( various synthesizers, samplers, loopers and computers ).

An evening with live performance by M/S/T, Project Kandata, Nicholas Jozwiak. Their sounds will be an overtone of Ambient, Drone, and Free Jazz.

Door: Suggested Donation $10
Open: 7pm

●M/S/T
M/S/T is the NYC based avant-garde jazz trio of drummer Mason Macias, saxophonist/flautist Craig Schenker, and drummer John Thayer. They formed in 2017 (after previously performing with Marnie Stern, Matana Roberts, and Drunken Sufis) and recorded their debut album, a collage of improvisations colored with vintage tape echoes and reverbs, at Thump Studios in Brooklyn. The two sides of the resulting cassette show the sound of a group that has found it’s collective voice. Spontaneous, playful, and aware; this is reactionary music that evolves as a dialog between players through conversational percussion and echoes of European folk melodies.
https://moonvillain.com/album/m-s-t

●Project Kandata
Project Kandata is a NYC-based musician and composer. Utilizing Eurorack synthesizer, with which he processes the sounds he collected through field recording, PK explores neuro-physical experience through his ambient, drone, and noise music incorporating multi-layered overtones and inaudible frequency components.

●Nicholas Jozwiak
Nicholas Jozwiak is an NYC based multi-instrumentalist, working in jazz and experimentalism. He is a member of Sarah Bernstein’s VEER Quartet, Peter Evans’ Being & Becoming, Aaron Burnett’s Big Machine and Gabriel Marin’s Social Assassins.
https://instagram.com/nykjawz?igshid=fq6219depv51

Chris Williams - Trumpet
Aaron Edgcomb - Percussion
Erin Landers - Movement

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Natalie Greffel - Voice et al.
Aliya Ultan - Cello et al.

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Chris Ryan Williams is a performer, composer, improviser, trumpeter, and educator quickly finding himself in circles alongside LA’s finest contemporary improvisers and experimentalists. Concerned with building community across disciplines his live performances involve immersive music and multimedia aesthetics.
chriswilliamssound.com

Aaron Edgcomb is a composer, drummer, and percussionist from Reno, NV, currently based in Brooklyn NY whose work appears in such contexts as improvisational music, jazz, “new music”, noise, and song. At the forefront of Aaron’s artistic practice is the way music creates and changes social and political identities.
aaronedgcomb.com

Erin Landers is a Brooklyn based dancer, choreographer, and co-director of the Hudson Valley based repertory company A-Y/dancers.

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Natalie Greffel is a Berlin based vocalist, instrumentalist, composer and arranger. She is known for her work with various projects as well as her stylistic flexibility.
nataliegreffel.com

Aliya Ultan (b. 1996) is a composer/improviser, cellist and vocalist from Brooklyn, NY. Born into a family of artists and musicians, Ultan was immersed in a variety of creative mediums and environments. Ultan utilizes her voice as a mechanism to communicate vulnerability that is unfettered by sociality. When in combination with her cello playing, Ultan uses both instruments to contort pitch centers and reconstruct sonic spaces.
aliyaultan.com

Beyond Duo
Cheryl Pyle -c flute /alto flute , Michael Eaton -soprano sax

We are an acoustic, free jazz, experimental duo, playing in the moment music. Composing from our life experience in music, and listening to create through composed pieces of new jazz explorations from the heart. each player has a chance to voice their individual ideas in unaccompanied solos and within the framework of a musical suite of improvisations.

Synesthesia Gallery Hosts the first screening of Agitate Essential Cinema Vol 1

AGITATE:21C is excited to present the first screening of our international touring program Agitate Essential Cinema Volume 1 with the immense talent and essential work of Nazlı Dinçel, Karissa Hahn, Sylvia Toy St Louis, Lynne Sachs, Gisela Guzmán, Morrison Gong, J.E. Sharpe, Kelly Gallagher, Anu Valia, and Xiaoer Liu !!! This is the first in a series that will have a revolving list of curators from around the world, a renegotiation of the term “Essential Cinema” with artists that are defining the avant-garde and independent cinema. We celebrate the past avant-garde geniuses whose work was always essential but left out through this exhibit of some of the greatest artists in the world. (without the homogenous white patriarchy)

Program Details:
Karissa Hahn - Regal (2min, sound)

Nazlı Dinçel - Untitled - (12min, sound)

Lynne Sachs - Carolee, Barbara, Gunvor - (9min, sound)

Sylvia Toy St. Louis - AND SO I SAID - (6min, sound)

Morrison Gong - Eros Diary - (5min, sound)

Jennifer Sharpe - Lights Bypass - (3min, sound)

Karissa Hahn - _______ - (4min, sound)

Gisela Guzmán - Llegué Bien - (6min, sound)

Kelly Gallagher - Slower - (7min, sound)

Morrison Gong - Festal Flutter - (3min, sound)

Karissa Hahn - Please Step Out Of the Frame - (4min, sound)

Anu Valia - Lucia, Before and After - (14min, sound)

Xiaoer Liu - 2nd Time [Xiaoer Midnight Paintings] - (3min, silent)

Come join Andrea Parkins and Matthew Ostrowski, with special guests Brian Chase and Matteo Liberatore, to celebrate the release of their first duo CD, 'Elective Affinities,' on Infrequent Seams.

Electronic accordionist and sound artist Parkins and digital musician Ostrowski explore, through a series of bristling exchanges and dynamic interactions, the enabling chemistry of their creative relationship which, although until now undocumented, has extended across nearly two decades. Both are assertive characters musically, conceptually bold and gesturally flamboyant, embracing wild notions and turbulent activity. Their real-time assemblages are texturally variegated, volatile, concentrated, busy, gritty, vividly colorful and sometimes brash. Samples from a range of sources, instrumental, vocal and synthesized sounds are kneaded and churned, they coalesce, dissolve, run and spill producing.

After nearly two decades of collaboration, both in live performance and installation projects, Elective Affinities marks the first recording project from Andrea Parkins and Matthew Ostrowski. These eight works represent the current state of their shared sonic explorations, which have been driven by their philosophical as much as their musical interchanges over the years. A shared fascination with physical and musical gestures, densely interwoven meshes of events, and the aesthetics of interruption and breakage lay the groundwork for this album of intricate assemblages, recorded in real-time. Incorporating concrete sounds, both live and sampled, cutting-edge synthesis techniques, live processing, and instrumental and acoustic feedback, Elective Affinities is a study of valences, of molecular combinations and recombinations, of forms in states of development, flux, and collapse.

Andrea Parkins:

Andrea Parkins is a sound artist, composer, and electroacoustic improviser known for her pioneering approach on her electronically processed accordion and investigation of embodiment and chance with her custom-designed virtual sound-processing instruments. Described as a “sound-ist,” of “protean,” talent by critic Steve Smith, Parkins’ laptop electronics, amplified objects, and Fender-amped accordion create sonic fields of lush harmonics and sculpted electronic feedback, punctuated by moments of gap and rift. Parkinsʼ work has been presented at venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, Experimental Intermedia, and Kunsthalle Basel; and festivals such as NEXT (Bratislava), Cyberfest (St. Petersburg), All Ears (Oslo), and many more. She has collaborated in performance or on recordings with artists such as Ute Wassermann, Lotte Anker, Magda Mayas, Tony Buck, Nels Cline, Matthew Ostrowski, George E. Lewis, and others. Parkinsʼ recent notable projects include her amplified performance drawing series, which she developed as an invited resident artist at the Rauschenberg Residency in Captiva, Florida; and Two Rooms (Variation 1), for solo performer and 40 loudspeakers, which premiered in 2016 at the Akousma Festival in Montreal. Parkins’ recordings have been published by Important Records, Confront Recordings, Infrequent Seams, Confront Recordings, Atavistic, Creative Sources, Henceforth Records, and Victo; and she can be heard as a contributor on numerous other labels. 

www.andreaparkins.com

Matthew Ostrowski:
A New York City native, Matthew Ostrowski is a pioneer in the field of electronic music, having worked intensively for over two decades with custom-designed gestural control systems for live performance.  Using digital tools and formalist techniques to engage with quotidian materials -- sonic, physical, and cultural – Ostrowski's work explores the liminal space between the virtual and phenomenological worlds.  His work, which has been seen on six continents, ranges from live electronic performance to installations incorporating video, multichannel sound, and computer-controlled objects. Ostrowski has collaborated with a large number of artists in the US and abroad, including David Behrman, John Butcher, Diamanda Galás, Nicolas Collins, Anne LaBerge, Andrea Parkins, The Flying Karamazov Brothers, and many others. He regularly performs in the duo KRK, with Prague-based contrabassist George Cremaschi, and with R. Luke Dubois in the multimedia duo Fair Use.  


Matteo Liberatore:
Matteo Liberatore is a boundary-pushing guitarist and composer working at the intersection of free, contemporary classical, and noise music. Based in Brooklyn, Liberatore spent much of his life in the medieval region of Abruzzo, Italy, amidst dramatic landscapes reflected in a playing style of “unsettling beauty” and “striking physicality” (The New York City Jazz Record). At the heart of Liberatore's work is a mode of free improvisation guided by a compositional sensibility, one informed by his experience and training in a multiplicity of genres. Matteo Liberatore is known for his nuanced treatment of timbre, texture, gestures, and rhythms, often using extended techniques, electronics, and various preparations. This approach can be heard in his first solo album––aptly titled Solos––which was released by Innova Records in 2018: “This is not just sonic novelty or gratuitous use of extended techniques; each of the pieces, while largely improvised, [has] clarity and purpose” (Avant Music News). Solos was included in Ted Gioia’s best albums of 2018.

Brian Chase:
Brian Chase is a drummer and composer living in Brooklyn, NY. His diverse range of work includes that with Grammy-nominated rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the NYC experimental music community, and Drums and Drones, a project focusing on the application of harmonic tuning to drums and percussion. In 2018, Brian started his record label, Chaikin Records, at the suggestion of John Zorn. 
www.chaikinrecords.com
Chase/Liberatore Duo video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aD2RL1XzHtg

Synesthesia is pleased to present "The Cloud of Unknowing", the first feature film by Richard Sylvarnes. The film debuted in competition at the inaugural Tribeca Film Festival in 2002, played festivals throughout Asia and Europe and was released by Possible Films. On this special night we will be joined by the director and lead actress Miho Nikaido.

The following is an excerpt from a review by Maitland McDonagh:
“Richard Sylvarnes' first feature is a delicate watercolor dream of a ghost story, as insubstantial and tremulously haunting as an unquiet spirit. Set in New York City and shot on digital video, the film's smudged, ethereal look is by turns limpidly beautiful and gently eerie. The film, which was produced by Hal Hartley, takes its title from an obscure, 14th-century Christian treatise that urges spiritual searchers to value personal experience of God — or ghosts — over doctrinal dictates, and stresses the power of love to calm the soul and enrich all life's experiences. The film is rich with evocative images and while never frightening, it creates a pervasive atmosphere of unease that lingers like the faint scent of unfamiliar perfume.”
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About the artists:

Famed Japanese actress and dancer Miho Nikaido is best known for her work in the films "Tokyo Decadence", "Chain". "Kimono", "Flirt", and being a member of Kazuo Ohno's dance company.

Richard Sylvarnes is a multi-disciplinary artist who has shown his work internationally. He was the recipient of a Creative Capital grant and nominated for a Rockefeller Renew Media Fellowship. His Berlin based experimental band KaiSaR just released their double live CD entitled "KaiSaR Live 0418 Berlin" on the Skrymir label.