An audiovisual concert series at the intersection of the psychedelic and the avant-garde. ️Pataphysics pairs live ambient and downtempo music with evolving cinematic image compositions created in real-time.️ Sink into a multi-sensory, beautiful environment with immaculate sound and fully lose yourself in otherworldly sonic and visual explorations. This is a shoes-off event, get comfy.

Artists:

Todd Polenberg : Sound

Joshue Ott : Sound/Visuals

Ezekiel Honig : Sound

Sean Smith: Sound

Sabina Hahn: Drawings

7:30 Doors open
8:00 PM: Concert begins
There will be breaks between sets.
Ends ca. 11:00 PM

Delight Factory bar is open throughout the night.

Admission: $20
This is a shoes-off event. Wear comfy socks.

About the Artists

Ezekiel Honig's emotively warm electronic-acoustic music nestles into a comfortable, shared space between melodic event-driven ambient, muted techno, textural downtempo, and slowmotion house. Using these genres as reference points from which to stray, Honig utilizes everyday objects and spaces amidst processed instruments, tethering to our physical universe while eschewing any concerns of figurative reality. Plastic, metal, wood, and air coalesce with Rhodes, guitar, horns, and piano, creating a sound of contrast and contradiction, pairing inviting, fuzzy chords with clunky and dirty mishaps. Honig finds this sense of balance - of past and future, acoustic and digital, abstraction and concrete immediacy - by grounding himself in the idea that a sound can be a representation of infinite stories, emotions, possibilities, and simultaneously be just a sound to be used in a work of audio.

Todd Polenberg is an award-winning artist, engineer, and electronic musician who works with light and sound to create sublime otherworldly experiences. His work has been shown at Ars Electronica, Science Gallery Dublin, Mysteryland, Burning Man and featured in Forbes and Forward magazines.

Joshue Ott is a New York-based performer and software designer. Ott is the creator of superDraw, an instrument for live cinematic audiovisual improvisations with which he has performed at venues ranging from Mutek to Carnegie Hall. He also creates apps, including the popular Thicket, 3draw, snowDrift, Pitch Painter with Morton Subotnick, and the Variant series.

Sean Smith has been involved in the underground music scene in NYC since moving there in the late 1990s. He started the band Socks and Sandals with Clark ov Saturn and they played live, improvisational electronic shows in dance clubs and art galleries, and released records on NYC’s Microcosm Music. Sean played solo shows, spanning genres from experimental improvisation to dance club music. Under the pseudonym Nicholas Sauser, he released records and remixes and co-founded the record label Goosehound, which operated in the minimal techno scene of the mid-2000s. Sean maintains a slow but consistent pace these days when it comes to music productions. Stylistically, he blends decades and genres into groove-based music with one foot planted somewhere in the past and one in a personal vision of the future.

Sabina Hahn is a Latvian-born author and illustrator whose work blends quiet humor, emotional nuance, and a deep sense of wonder. Raised in Riga, she spent her childhood devouring books, daydreaming and drawing - habits that gradually shaped her creative voice and led her toward a life in storytelling. She now lives and works in New York, where she continues to turn her lifelong love of reading and doodling into expressive, character-driven art. Sabina’s illustrations are known for their warmth, subtle wit, and the way they capture the magic of ordinary moments. Sabina creates picture books for children as well as illustrated works for a broader audience. Her artwork for Into the Uncut Grass - a fable for adults written by Trevor Noah - brought her expressive visual style to a wide readership; the book debuted as a #1 New York Times bestseller.

Learn more: https://www.pataphysics.io/

Questions? Please reach out at delightfactorynyc@gmail.com.

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