Sitting at the intersection of the psychedelic and the avant-garde, Pataphysics is an audiovisual concert & lounge series showcasing live ambient, experimental, drone, and downtempo music and visuals. Sink deeper into a comfy intimate environment with immaculate sound and fully lose yourself in otherworldly sonic and visual explorations.
Artists:
Ezekiel Honig
Joshue Ott
Todd Polenberg
Night Shining
7:30 PM: Doors open, mingle & get settled
8:00 PM: Concert begins
Several sets with short breaks in-between. Delight Factory bar is open throughout the night.
Admission: $15
This is a shoes-off event. Wear cushy socks.
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.
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.
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.
Night Shining, aka Michael Romeo, was born in 1985 on Long Island, NY and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. Romeo is a multimedia artist, musician, and developer who has performed live, released albums, visual art, and creative software. His performances are live real-time a/v performances that combine computer graphics and audio into a cohesive medium utilizing everything from algorithmic assisted musical productions to computer vision. Romeo's work integrates a multitude of technologies, electronics building, and computer programming. As a creative technology director, Michael Romeo has worked with major brand clients like Microsoft and Nike along with major artists like Bjork, Moses Sumney, and the estate of Sol LeWitt to bring custom software based art installations to life.
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