Mary Ocher + Flung

Armed with two new records, Berlin's Mary Ocher returns to the US for the first time in 5 years. She's been pushing the boundaries between pop and avant-garde for almost two decades, with playful and colorful form, and clever content that winks at everyone who recognizes its cultural and historical references.
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Gregg Kowalsky + Blevin Blectum
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Strider + St Celfer

We usher in the Arab.AMP 2025 season at The Lab with Strider—the longtime duo of Joanna Mattrey and Steve Long. The group’s alchemical procedures fuse together field recordings, found objects, derelict instruments, keyboards, bowed strings, to create ambient soundscapes in miniature. Our evening opens with St Celfer, the folk, glitch, improvisational project of john macdougall parker who asserts, "There is a lot of noise today—we just need to hear the music within it."

Directed by Leyya Mona Tawil, Arab.AMP is a platform for experimental live art, music and ideas by artists of the SWANA diaspora, the region, and our allied communities. The Arab.AMP 2025 season highlights practices of listening and action; through sound, performance and conversation.

Strider
Joanna Mattrey is a violist and composer exploring free improvisation and new music. Using extended techniques and electronic alterations, she creates ritualistic performances and installations. Recent works include Battle Ready and Arrhythmia. Press and album reviews by The Wire, The Chicago Reader, Bandcamp Daily, Noise Not Music, and more. 'Joanna Mattrey is becoming a force of nature' (Foxydigitals)

Steve Long is an artist and organizer working with sound, language, and space. For him, creative work is an act of facilitation. His recent composition Aug. 26, 2024 included both professional and amateur musicians, resulting in an ensemble of 60+ participants. Press and album reviews by Tabs Out, Foxy Digitals, New York Jazz Review, and more. '[Long's work], is an act of sanctity and spatial purification; not a containment but a reclamation and honest hope to provide such spaces where words and barriers can collapse.' (Tabs Out)

St Celfer
St Celfer, treading glitch-tronic failure, creates improvisational future-folk compositions - sound is amalgamated and congealed into a resolution of crossed and overloaded signals. In performance St Celfer embraces sensory overload in order to unlock ways of perceiving a world made narrow by the impositions of power. St Celfer (john macdougall parker), of American and Korean origin, floats between NYC, Seattle, and São Paulo where you can find drawings on the 'Space Between Points' in the collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MACUSP). 4 albums over 4 years are named "New & Notable" by the editors at Bandcamp.com including one featured wave track for Infrasonica.org, ‘Voicing Abstraction.’ His music has been broadcast on Ridgewood Radio (WFMU), Radio Eclectus (KHUH) and Flotation Device (KBCS). Part of the '00's New York music scene playing CBGB's, The Kitchen, Tonic, The Tank, Remote Lounge, Galapagos Art Space, Sputnik, and Stinger Club. John, in the spirit of Charles Ives, always made art and music alongside being a coach and former Olympic athlete.
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Mayuko Hino + Lucas 'Granpa' Abela + Rubber (() Cement

Doors 7pm / Show 7:30pm
$17 adv / $20 door / free or discounted for members

Mayuko Hino is a pioneering Japanese noise artist known for her visceral and captivating performances, combining auditory chaos with intense visual elements.

Lucas ‘Granpa’ Abela (formerly Justice Yeldham) has been performing their signature instrument; shards of amplified glass for over 20 years. Their singular practice spawned from the international noise music underground, where the glass evolved from a means to create free-noise cacophonies into an oddly versatile instrument producing an organic form of outsider electronica.

Coalescing into a specific burning vision in 1994 Rubber (() Cement was put together as a direct idea for a super science future that will happen. The next technological breakthroughs are realized in a zero-tech way with the emulation of the unrealized 'next step' with the actual "vision" existing in the present (picture a cargo cult with stats on NASA industries) using extremely experimental sounds with a Genetic Geneflub & massive Cimevox computer fronting the experiment.
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Shane Parish + Katsy Pline

Shane Parish will perform his solo guitar arrangements of music by Alice Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Ornette Coleman, Aphex Twin, Kraftwerk, John Cage, and so much more.

Katsy Pline is a guitarist and singer living in Berkeley, CA. Her latest album ‘Devotion’ is a record of ambient country music assembled from B-bender guitar, electronics, synthesizers and saxophone. Largely eschewing harmonic development in favor of oceanic feeling, the record stretches the swirling unconscious yearning of heartbreak country into glacial shapes, starlit and blue.
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Mundanas + Oakland Reductionist Orchestra
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Lia Kohl

Lia Kohl performs a live rendition of Normal Sounds, her recent solo album on Moonglyph Records.

Equal parts reverent and playful, Normal Sounds is built around field recordings of anthropogenic sounds: fridge drones, grocery store beeps, car horns. Using a textural cloud of cello and synthesizers, Kohl alternately hallows and mimics them, offering them to the listener in a new light. The live performance will draw on Kohl's practice as an improviser, as she plays with and around the material of the album.
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Byron Westbrook + Thomas Dimuzio
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Chihei Hatakeyama

Chihei Hatakeyama is a sound artist, an organizer and mastering engineer who was born in 1978, and lives in Tokyo. He has performed for years under his given name and also as one half of the electroacoustic duo Opitope, along with Tomoyoshi Date. Hatakeyama got involved in playing music through strumming a electric guitar in a few rock-oriented bands in his teenage years. Subsequently a laptop computer superseded his bands as his main platform. Hatakeyama polychromes memory-evoking soundscapes with various recorded materials of acoustic instruments such as guitars, vibraphone, and piano; mostly played by hand and processed time and time again via laptop. His first album Minima Moralia was commissioned for release by the Chicago-based label kranky in early 2006.
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