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
Kenneth Kirschner: Sound
The Housewives’ Guide To Anatomy: Visuals
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.
Kenneth Kirschner is a composer of experimental music working at the intersection of avant-garde classical composition and contemporary electronic music. His work is characterized by a close integration of acoustic and electronic sound sources; a strong focus on harmony, pattern, and long-form development; and experimentation with techniques such as chance procedures, indeterminacy, and microtonality within a digital context. An advocate of open source music, Kirschner releases his work freely on his website, kennethkirschner.com, which holds an archive of all his published music from the 1980s to present. His work has been released by labels such as 12k, Greyfade, Sub Rosa, and Room40. He performs internationally, and has created sound art and multimedia installations for galleries, museums, and public art. Kirschner was a 2015 artist in residence at Eyebeam, a 2016 artist in residence in Times Square, and a 2019 NYFA/NYSCA Fellow in Music/Sound. He lives and works in Brooklyn.
The Housewives Guide To Anatomy aka Sarah Porter is the author of eight novels for adults and children; her novel WHEN I CAST YOUR SHADOW was a Bram Stoker finalist and VASSA IN THE NIGHT was one of Booklist's Top Ten YA SFF books of the year. A new, untitled novel is forthcoming next year. As a VJ, she has played venues including Roseland Ballroom, the Nokia Theater, Joe's Pub, Galapagos, and Tonic. Her second solo art show, The Buried Sun, opens at Delight Factory on May 29, 2026.
Patphysics website: https://www.pataphysics.io/
Questions? Please reach out at delightfactorynyc@gmail.com.
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