Our first show of the season is on November 20th, featuring Love Free Spirit, Grout, Kira McSpice and Sean Brennan, curated by Mika Lungulov-Klotz. These four artists all work in beautifully layered ways, weaving imaginative, intimate, haunting, playful, contemplative and harsh textures together.

Grout is the moniker of Mallie Sanford, based in NYC and embedded in the experimental music scene for over a decade. They use bells, tapes, manipulated field recordings, voice, synthesizers and effects processors to create textural fragments of sound, hypnotic drones, and sonically woven swells of chaotic dissonance. Grout’s music is intrinsic to their interdisciplinary practice that also involves lamp and object making. They rework and activate discarded objects with light and movement in an attempt to playfully reveal the spirit. 

Love Free Spirit

To Be Free Spirited in Love

Love For a Free Spirit

A Spirit Free of Love

Love Free Spirit is a new project of  Ariel M (Chicago Research). The project eschews previous attempts at rhythm-oriented and conventional song structures in favor of abrasive freeform compositions, incorporating live tape loops and electronic treatments reminiscent of first wave industrial.

New York based singer-songwriter, Kira McSpice crafts a haunting and deeply personal strain of dark folk, gothic art-pop, and experimental music. A classically trained cellist, McSpice now performs on guitar, omnichord, and voice, weaving dense, layered loops that evoke a soundscape both ethereal and deeply visceral.

Sean Brennan is an accomplished arranger and cellist hailing from Chicago, IL, and currently based in Queens. A longtime member of Brooklyn avant-rock and chamber-pop ensemble Sloppy Jane, he has been a fixture of the Brooklyn scene for the past 7 years. As a solo performer, his practice reimagines the concerto form using amplification as accompaniment, blending the DIY spirit of early industrial and ambient music with a deeply personal harmonic language.