Press Play Fair

Including a special performance by Nonhorse, artist and musician G. Lucas Crane’s live tape manipulation collage project, utilizing tapes from the Party Lab Archive.

Guitarist Yonatan Gat first made his mark with his band Monotonix which was hailed by Spin magazine as “the most exciting live band in rock’n’roll”. With his new trio, Yonatan has embraced a more esoteric approach – melding Middle Eastern, free jazz, surf and Latin influences with his raw approach to sound and signature psychedelic solos.Yonata is backed by Gal Lazer’s African-influenced grooves and Sergio Sayeg’s (of Brazilian psychedelic rockers Garotas Suecas) countermelodic grooves. Yonatan’s concerts tend to be mesmerizing events which are as much about music as they are about communing with the audience. Typically, the band eschews stages and sets up in the middle of the audience, adding a definite primal energy to the experience.

stud1nt is a multi-instrumental artist and DJ, born and bred in New York City. Informed by their training in jazz piano and guitar and early start sampling on turntables, their original productions and mixes live in-between the spontaneity of improvisation and acute harmonic and rhythmic composition. They create across genre with a penchant for the hypnotic low-end of club tracks and euphoric possibility of psychedelic riffs. A member of queer art collective #KUNQ, their sounds are also attentive to the politics of the body and socio-historical context. stud1nt has presented their workshop on creative approaches to production at Vassar College, the New School, and Recess Art. Their work has been featured inFACT Magazine, Pitchfork, MixMag, Resident Advisor, Rinse FM, and The Fader. Notable performances include sets at Boiler Room New York, MoMA PS1, GHE20G0TH1K, and the Brooklyn Electronic Music Festival at Output.

Screenings by 8 Ball TV, an online public access station in which everyone is invited to participate, either by submitting original content or filming at the 8 Ball TV NYC Studio.

Listening station for BOMB Magazine’s Field Recordings series.

Artist and musician G. Lucas Crane discusses the motivation behind the Party Lab project at The Silent Barn, notions of surveillance, and answers the question “why tapes?”

This will be followed by a special performance by Nonhorse, Crane’s live tape manipulation collage project, utilizing tapes from the Party Lab Archive.

Paper Cuts is a Clocktower radio program and reading series hosted by Christopher Kardambikis that is devoted to zines, DIY and small press publishing.

Readings by: Arno Mokros of Little Pharma, Devin Morris of 3 Dot Zine, Elvis B. of Homos in Herstory, Caroline Paquitta of Pegacorn Press and more!