Hprizm: Sound of the City

Submitted by gjd2122 on Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 9:37pm

Rooted in the creative subcultures of the Lower East Side, Hprizm’s practice spans a wide array of genres, including music, performance and multimedia installations. His current installation at Pioneer Works in Red Hook is exemplary of this very characterization.

Centered on a sonic score that moves between abstract noise and melodic interludes, Sound of the City collapses vinyl records, tape loops and granular synthesis with audio footage captured by Hprizm over the past few years.

Kronos Quartet

Submitted by ts3489 on Fri, 4 Apr 2025, 8:35pm

Tune in at 4pm on Monday 3/31 for an exclusive interview with the two newest members of the Kronos Quartet Gabriela Díaz and Ayane Kozasa. The Kronos Quartet, founded in 1973 by David Harrington, is a legendary new music group that transcends boundaries, revolutionizing what it means to be a string quartet. Díaz and Kozasa are new additions to the group after long-time members John Sherba and Hank Dutt retired, bringing their own unique style to this dynamic group.

The New York War Crimes

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:21pm

The New York War Crimes is a free newspaper, produced by and for the Palestine solidarity movement in New York City. This conversation will discuss the evolution of the project, the latest issue, and the larger history of agitprop, counterpropaganda, and radical publications in NYC.

I'd Like to Report a Murder

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:18pm

The mean book review is enjoying a renaissance. Every time a new epic takedown drops, literary New York stops working to join the pile-on. What’s the function of this ritual? To get to the bottom of this new culture of hostility, Pioneer Works Broadcast sits down with two author-critics who’ve experienced both sides of the violence: Lauren Oyler and Brandon Taylor. Moderated by Hannah Baer.

Listening with Bilna'es

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:16pm

Spend time with the cassette release "too low/too far," from Palestinian musician Dakn's nine-track journey of post-trauma soundscapes. Released by Bilna’es, this haunting collection blends harmonic textures, dissonant layers, and pulsing rhythms, evoking sensations that feel as if they’re emanating from within the body or the land itself.

A Surprise Reading from Hanuman

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:14pm

Hanuman Editions gathers a poetics of contemporary avant-garde culture from key voices of our times. In the spirit of the cult series of pocket-sized volumes published by Hanuman Books in the 1980s and 1990s, their editions invite playful criticality, unexpected parallels and unique pairings within a diffuse planetary context.

Truth or Dare with Laura Albert

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:06pm

The hosts of the Celebrity Book Club with Steven & Lily podcast, Steven Phillips-Horst and Lily Marotta, are joined by Laura Albert, the author behind the J.T. LeRoy phenomenon, to discuss self-destruction vs. self-acceptance, how to challenge the literary status quo, and her forthcoming memoir. A special introduction by artist Leigh Ledare.

The Right to Pee

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:02pm

Where to go when you’ve got to go? Bathrooms are a place for business, pleasure, and unsurveilled breaks—little wonder, then, that our access to toilets is so restricted. A conversation about the right to public bathrooms with Lux, Hell Gate, and New York Review of Architecture.

Listening with Topos Press

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 5:00pm

Topos Press hosts a listening session of Sonifying the Sun: The Mass Emergence of Brood XIII and XIX Periodical Cicadas, Volume 1, in which sound artist Patrick Quinn captures the rare sounds of periodical cicadas emerging after 13 and 17 years underground

Reading with Wendy's Subway

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 4:55pm

Wendy’s Subway presents a reading of Dafne Phono, artist Nour Mobarak's experimental translation and reimagining of the first opera, Dafne, composed and written in 1598—a story of unrequited love, patriarchal possession, conquest, and transformation, inspired by the myth of Daphne and Apollo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.

How Language is Always Late

Submitted by gjd2122 on Tue, 14 Jan 2025, 4:44pm

Playing selections from their upcoming album (via Bayonet Records), Kinlaw will disclose the process behind making selected tracks, getting stuck and unstuck, and how her thinking around performance and choreography helps the artist get closer to words.

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