Mon, Feb 16 at 7:30 PM

John King & Leyya Mona Tawil / Jack Langdon / Jennifer Gersten

Long Island City
$17.18

The duo of King + Tawil has been in action since 2020.
John King is a composer, violist, guitarist, curator, and activist. His musical output focuses on spatialized chamber and large-scale concert music as well as chance-determined and spontaneously generated sonic structures.
Leyya Mona Tawil is an artist and cultural activist operating internationally. She works in voice, electronics, and hybrid performance practices. She is Syrian and Palestinian, engaged in the world as such. Performance highlights include CultureHub Re-Fest, The Stone, Philadelphia Museum of Art w. Philadanco, AMP Live at Indexical, and Radio Alhara. They are also included on Amplify Palestine's BDS Mixtape Volume 3, released in 2025.
Their individual sound palettes weave dynamically in real time, creating a new hybrid composite of place and material at each iteration.

Jack Langdon is an Ojibwe composer of experimental music. His work investigates incompleteness, indifference, mimesis, stagnation, and material brevity. As a performer, his mediums are the pipe organ and the Ojibwe wooden flute, the bibigwan. His discography includes works released on Dinzu Artefacts, Empty Stage, Lobby Art, and IMPREC. He is enrolled in the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Jack will be playing a solo bibigwan set which focuses on mimesis of natural sounds, disjunct phrasing, and silence.
His recordings have been released by IMPREC, Sawyer Editions, Dinzu Artefacts, and Lobby Art Records. His written work has been published by Sound American, Cacophony, and Shred Magazine. He runs an independent record label and music journal called Empty Stage and runs a blog called Challenging Music.

Jennifer Gersten is a violinist and writer from New York City. Formerly a tenured violinist in Helsingborg Symfoniorkester (Sweden), she instigates avant-garde and improvised music projects in the US and Scandinavia. Her improvised work is motivated by the notion of what the violin could do if it only tried. Also a journalist, Jennifer has contributed feature reporting and music criticism to The New York Times, The New Yorker, Bloomberg, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post, among other publications.
As a violinist, Jennifer has performed with groups including TAK Ensemble (US), the Norwegian Radio Broadcasting Orchestra, and Stavanger Symfoniorkester (NO); she has also served as co-concertmaster of the Tanglewood and Lucerne fellowship orchestras. Forthcoming composed projects include violin works created with Jo David Meyer Lysne (NO), Inga Margrete Aas (NO), and Luis Fernando Amaya (MX/NO). Her experimental duo, Goal Weight (with Maggie Cox), will release its debut record on Relative Pitch in spring 2026.
She will play a twenty-minute acoustic solo set that does not unduly harm the violin.


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