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:

Todd Polenberg
Joshue Ott (superDraw)
Ezekiel Honig
Georgios Cherouvim

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: $15
This is a shoes-off event. Wear cushy 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.

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.

Special Guest

Georgios Cherouvim is a Brooklyn-based artist working with computer animation and code. He experiments with algorithms, new technologies and installation in pursuit of new aesthetics and visual languages. He often programs custom tools and instruments, which he uses to produce his work, and enjoys shifting between the roles of the developer and the artist.

Georgios' work has been featured in festivals and venues worldwide, including Siggraph, Ars Electronica, South by Southwest, the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Art Futura, Athens International Film Festival, and the Greek National Opera. Georgios is a member of Onassis ONX and was an artist-in-residence at the Watermill Center in February 2024.

He graduated with honors and an award from the National Center for Computer Animation in the United Kingdom. Since 2005, he has worked as a creative and technical director in visual effects for feature films, TV, and Virtual Reality. Georgios teaches an animation class at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is a mentor at NEW INC of the New Museum, and has served as a jury member for the ÉCU film festival and the Irish Film & Television Academy.

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

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

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