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
Jay Reinier: Sound/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.
Jay Reinier’s work tightropes the boundary between speech and sound, often taking the form of creative/critical hypertexts, performances, and installations. Inspired by posthumanist ideas, their work challenges anthropocentrism, using technology and multimedia to articulate technological, ghostly ways of being.
Reinier attended Oberlin College and Conservatory, where they studied composition and comparative literature. They received Highest Honors for his undergraduate thesis, "Demons of Analogy: The Encounter Between Music and Language After Mallarmé," which investigates how French Symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé theorizes a musical poetics, and how music speaks back at this poetics. They have designed and taught four courses in Oberlin's Experimental College which explore experimental literature and posthumanist philosophies. They currently live and work in New York City and are getting their MFA in Performance and Interactive Media Arts at Brooklyn College.
Patphysics website: https://www.pataphysics.io/
Questions? Please reach out at delightfactorynyc@gmail.com.
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