Experimental Music at Trans Pecos, April 9

From New York’s Trans Pecos:

Wet Ink Presents: Experimental Music at Trans Pecos
HPRIZM / The Miz’Ries / Premature Burial / Headless Monkey Attack

Thursday, April 9th
8:30-10pm
915 Wyckoff Ave, Queens, NY

Wet Ink Presents @ Trans Pecos is a monthly concert series of experimental music presented in Ridgewood, Queens. These concerts aim to bring together unusual music in the NYC area in interesting and exciting combinations. The series is hosted by the Wet Ink Ensemble and curated by Jeff Snyder and Quinn Collins.

HPRIZM is known for “Evoking images of Sun Ra and Africa Bambatta at once” (Jesse Serwer XLR8R). As the founding member of the critically acclaimed Antipop Consortium, Prizm has consistently challenged the boundaries of traditional hip-hop, winning the praise of taste makers across the globe. In the course of his career, spanning nearly a decade, Prizm has shared the stages with a wide array of artists ranging from The Roots to Radiohead, Mos Def and others. As a composer his pieces have been installed in the Whitney Biennial (NYC) as well as the Mazzoli Electro-kraut digital hardcore supergroup, T

he Miz’Ries: uber-americo noise nerd Quinn Collins plays broken records on a turntable with crazy effects, mad genius inventor Jeff Snyder plays his own analog synth creation whilst Neuseelander songstress Leila Adu sings and plays electronic drum pads. The Miz’Ries have been described as “a noise band that plays 3-minute pop songs”, and as “the music that plays in the club the bad guys hang out in”.

Premature Burial is a trio of three heavyweights in the New York improvisation scene. Peter Evans is known for his own Peter Evans Quintet, as well as his performances with ICE (the International Contemporary Ensemble), Nate Wooley, and Rocket Science, a quartet with Evan Parker, Sam Pluta, and Craig Taborn. Matt Nelson can be heard as the saxophonist in TuneYards, Battle Trance, and the Skeletons. Dan Peck is the leader of the doom-jazz trio The Gate with Tom Blancarte and Brian Osborne, as well as a member of ICE and a frequent collaborator with artists like Anthony Braxton, Nate Wooley, and Ingrid Laubrock.

Headless Monkey Attack is an electronic music project founded by composer Ryan Carter, with Dennis Sullivan on percussion. At its core, Headless Monkey Attack performs live electronic music that is synthesized in real time from code that responds to input from a video game controller. Aesthetically, the music draws from different genres of electronic dance music (there’s some vaguely dubstep-y and glitch-y stuff) with a global sense of form more inspired by the long history of the Western classical tradition than the world of EDM. Praised by the New York Times as “imaginative…like, say, a Martian dance party,” Ryan’s music has been commissioned by Carnegie Hall, the MATA Festival, and the Calder Quartet, and has collaborated with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the JACK Quartet, the Mivos Quartet, and many others.