Things Were Different Then
A Laboratory for Experimentation, Venice was a cultural stew of innovators and risk takers.
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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.
Pyramid People Podcasts
In honor of the publication of “We Started a Nightclub”: The Birth of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge as Told by Those Who Lived It, co-author Kestutis Nakas talks with key players in the book who tell their stories recalling their friends and collaborators and the culture of the East Village in the early 80s.
Eileen Dover is a DJ, raconteur, writer, actor, artist, activist, comedic queen, survivor, and sober empath.
Steve Jansen’s salon performance was a barrage of sound from sources including found cassettes, a palpitating synth, a “pocket piano,” and a drum machine.
SSB is proud to present a reading by Kenny Fries—“Disability Can Save Your Life”—a timely poetic expression of the wisdom and experience of living a “disabled” life.
Some Serious Business has selected author Kenny Fries for a month-long residency in the fall of 2020 at Podere Malabiccia, a 40-acre working olive-oil farm just outside the tiny hamlet of Petroio, Tuscany.
A “modern-day gothic New York City noise band that foreshadowed our current reality of social distancing and isolation,” Isolation Society answers some of the #FiftyQuestions.
#SSBAWAY is pleased to welcome artists-in-residence Kestutis and Peanuts to Plaza Blanca.
Steve Jansen SSB AWAY Artist in Residence answers a few of SSB’s #FiftyQuestions.
Steve Jansen, coming soon to SSB AWAY, is a sound maker who worked exclusively as a writer and visual artist for more than a decade.
Having exhibited internationally as a media artist, Lisa Kori restarts her career after a long illness with Unseen, a new 3-track single.
Howl! Happening is closed until further notice and Izhar’s exhibition will be postponed. Be good to yourself, those you love, and all of us. Practice generosity and love.