Extreme Scenes: Where Hedonism and Artistic Radicalism Both Go for Broke by Alison Pearlman
Inspired by “We Started a Nightclub,” Alison Pearlman unpacks the elements that go into making radical moments that transform the course of cultural history.
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Things Were Different Then
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
SSB Celebrates 50 Years
SSB Celebrates 50 Years with an Oral History of the 70s Art Scene in LA
A Sonic Architecture of Experimental Performance and Sound
As an Igbo-American sound and video artist, kelechi’s work recalibrates, dismantles, and animates the conventions of performance spaces, culminating in amplifies it, doubles, trebles it.
Some Serious Business and Site Santa Fe Present: amplifies it, doubles, trebles it
kelechi agwuncha envisions and constructs a new framework for restaging sound artists through public activations—drawing on experimental spatial approaches found in genres like experimental music, disco, punk, and Jamaican dub
SSB and The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Present “We Started a Nightclub”
Windy City residents take a deep dive into the birth of New York’s iconic Pyramid Cocktail Lounge
Save the Ugly Music Festival
SAVE THE UGLY MUSIC FESTIVAL, features music, raffles, murals, a clothing swap, games, and lots of other wacky, experimental art activities and people.
Incentivizing Humans to Think More Critically About Our Relationship With the Environment
Whether transforming textile waste into beautiful handmade paper and journals or walking across the US collecting litter and connecting with people and communities, Chauncey Foster, co-founder of We Grow Eco, is a visionary—facilitating interactive science, art, and community programs built upon small, unified actions that lead to habitual, social, and systemic change.
BOOK TALK: Village Preservation
July 25th Zoom Webinar: “We Started a Nightclub” with Susan Martin and Kestutis Nakas moderated by Yael Friedman and hosted by Village Preservation.
Finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s “The Electronic Lover” Premieres
The finale of Lisa Mezzacappa and Beth Lisick’s audio opera set in chatrooms at the dawn of the internet airs on June 1st.
Sunder was commissioned by pianist Conor Hanick, regarded as one of his generation’s most inquisitive interpreters of new music whose “technical refinement, color, crispness and wondrous variety of articulation benefit works by any master.” (New York Times)
Here, Lisa Mezzacappa answers some of our signature #FiftyQuestions giving readers the opportunity to go more deeply into the artist’s creative process.
SSB Away welcomes bassist, composer, producer Lisa Mezzacappa from San Francisco to Casa Kama in Abiquiu. She’ll be taking advantage of the pristine landscape and silence to fine tune her serial audio opera The Electronic Lover.
Sola Bamis answers—well almost—all of our #FiftyQuestions, like: What is your current guiding motivation to work and/or express yourself? leaving a blueprint for my daughter’s freedom