Experimental Music in Troy NY

From the RPI experimental media and performing arts center:

New Nothing: Boredoms: BOADRUM 9 plus DEERHUNTER
Friday September 11, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall

The New Nothing series kickoff includes two bands, nine (make that ten) drummers, and an evening of noise/music that’s experienced not just with the ear but the entire body.
Unfiction: The Sounds of Science

Thursday September 17, 7:30 PM | Theater

The eight mesmerizing short films of Jean Painlevé in The Sounds of Science screening are at once a mix of surrealist-influenced shorts and serious science documentaries accompanied by a hypnotic and dreamy score by rock band Yo La Tengo.
Slow Wave: Seeing Sleep

September 25 – September 27 | multiple venues

A three-day festival of installations, film, music, and scientific experiment devoted to the methods for giving form to the elusive, and at times, ineffable enigma of sleep. (Please note: September 26 includes a sleep-over with advanced reservations).