Immerse yourself into the multi-sensory experience of Pataphysics: 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 comfy intimate and beautiful environment with immaculate sound and fully lose yourself in otherworldly sonic and visual explorations. This is a shoes-off event.
Artists:
Todd Polenberg
Joshue Ott (superDraw)
Ezekiel Honig
Brent Arnold
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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 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.
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 Guests
Brent Arnold, composer and cellist, creates original music for solo cello & electronics and composes for concert, opera, film, theater, dance. In his solo works—an alchemy of neoclassical, minimalism, noise, and drone—Brent Arnold draws from a lifelong meditation on the instrument’s inherent nature, and from musical traditions from every corner of the earth. His cello playing elicits supernal, disquieting beauty which he deconstructs into spectral drones and heavy electroacoustics.
In addition to live performance he creates music for film, theater, dance, and opera. He has composed, arranged, and/or played on hundreds of recordings and his contributions have made a defining imprint on the works of others. Recent collaborations include Drew McDowall, Randall Dunn, Lia Ouyang Rusli, SQÜRL (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan), Zola Jesus, Jessica Pavone, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Steve Von Till, and Hiro Kone.
He is a founding member of Ghost Quartet with Dave Malloy, Brittain Ashford, and Gelsey Bell. In 2024, his opera Ali, co-written with Walid Ben Selim and Grey Filastine, premiered at the legendary opera house La Monnaie in Brussels, Belgium. 2023 saw him as an artist-in-residence at NYC’s esteemed arts incubator Pioneer Works. In 2021, he orchestrated and conducted the performances of Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s score to Candyman (Universal Pictures), the critically acclaimed motion picture co-written by Jordan Peele.
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Learn more: https://www.pataphysics.io/
Questions? Please reach out at delightfactoryNYC@gmail.com.
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