OOYH Records @ Artspace: Second Mondays - This month only on the Third Monday, July 17
For July only, OOYH @ Artspace will be taking place on the THIRD Monday 7/17 as opposed to our normal Second Monday. We are thrilled to be welcoming our friend Cisco Bradley from Brooklyn to celebrate the publication of his new book, The Williamsburg Avant-Garde — Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront, published by Duke University Press. For the first set Pratt Institute professor Cisco Bradley (also the author of Universal Tonality: The Life and Music of William Parker) will be discussing the book as well as reading excerpts, followed by a performance of Gary Kalar and Pippin Barnett for the second set. More on the book below the show details. Please come support this event, as we are so excited to have Cisco visiting Richmond!
Doors at 7:30pm, Music at 8:00pm
$15 suggested donation
Beer + Wine available for purchase
8:00pm: Cisco Bradley discusses The Williamsburg Avant-Garde — Experimental Music and Sound on the Brooklyn Waterfront
9:00pm: Gary Kalar + Pippin Barnett
rare string instruments and percussion
"The Williamsburg Avant-Garde is the most comprehensive study to date of one of the most important music scenes of the past 30-plus years." — Dave Mandl, The Wire
“This is an authoritative book on a creative foment that has often gone unrecognized in the discourse around experimental music in New York.” — Nate Chinen, author of Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century
In The Williamsburg Avant-Garde, Cisco Bradley chronicles the rise and fall of the underground music and art scene in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn between the late 1980s and the early 2010s. Building on the neighborhood's punk DIY approach and aesthetic, Williamsburg's free jazz, post-punk, and noise musicians and groups produced shows in a variety of unlicensed venues as well as in clubs and cafes. At the same time, pirate radio station free103point9 and music festivals made Williamsburg an epicenter of New York's experimental culture. In 2005, New York's rezoning act devastated the community as gentrification displaced its participants farther afield in Brooklyn, Queens, and beyond. With this portrait of Williamsburg, Bradley not only documents some of the most vital music of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, he offers thoughts on the formation, vibrancy, and life span of experimental music and art scenes everywhere.
Pippin Barnett and Gary Kalar will concoct a fusion of open improvisation, Middle Eastern and Bulgarian music, and whatever else may tickle their fancy. Kalar’s “Turkish banjos” and Barnett’s other-worldy percussion and drumming take the audience from soundscape to serpentine melodies to labyrinthine rhythms and everywhere in between.
Gary Kalar has been making music as a performer and composer for over 25 years. He’s played a broad variety of styles with diverse musicians from all over the world, including Mucca Pazza, Selim Sesler, Lamajamal with Ronnie Malley, and countless other projects. Kalar performs on guitar, mandolin, and a variety of Turkish and Bulgarian instruments.
Pippin Barnett has been playing drums with some of the avant-garde’s most beloved groups and composers for over 40 years. As a member of Curle, Orthotonics, and Nimal, as well as drumming for Fred Frith, John Zorn, Nicollas Collins, and many others, Barnett has played all over the map, figuratively and literally.