FIREWORKS IN YOUR FACE. DARK. SHARP.
Hudson, NY makes a huge deal out of Flag Day and then they blast off their aesthetic munitions from our parking lot. What else is there to do but throw a huge, goth, freak out dance party?
JUNE 10 - exactly what we’re gonna do.
https://basilicahudson.org/events/freak-flag-day/
Continuing to spotlight some of the DRONE artists - - taking hold of the DRONE at midnight will be composer / performer Raven Chacon, harnessing energies in an endurance set that will last until 3am
Seen here: a wild clip of Raven performing in an open desert landscape in New Mexico with percussionist Candace Hopkins, but do note that it is *impossible* to fit the breadth of Chacon’s important work into an Instagram reel
@ravenchcn / / a Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, performer, and installation artist from Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation whose expansive midnight endurance set will bridge the realms of delicate chamber music, searching noise, site specific installation, and unmoored performance
DRONE IS SOON
NOON 2 NOON
MAY 27 - MAY 28
TICKETS ARE LIMITED
basilicahudson.org
an amazing recent clip of @fujilllllllllllta performing live at @pioneerworks - featured here, a hand-built pipe organ
FUJI||||||||||TA will be one of four special “endurance” sets at this year’s drone, performing for three continuous hours near the end on Sunday morning
His work revolves around this organ, the presence of sound in nature, and the concept of GAGAKU, a form of Japanese classical music with origins of more than 1,000 years ago
Welcome 2 the DRONE
NOON 2 NOON MAY 27/28
A LARGE, SURREAL SLEEPOVER
TICKETS ARE LIMITED (get yours now)
A lovely clip of Pauline Oliveros introducing the practice of Deep Listening®️
Oliveros remains a profound sonic visionary with a presence in the Hudson Valley’s, so it’s only appropriate that her work will conclude this year’s DRONE. Local artist and Deep Listening practitioner Lisa B. Kelley will facilitate a realization of Oliveros’ the Heart Chant, a powerful communal exercise
JOIN US LISTEN DEEP SEE YOU MAY 27
Ringing the halls of Basilica once again at this year’s DRONE will be Gamelan Dharma Swara - a ringing Balinese orchestra whose melodies and rhythms shimmer and ascend
Seen here: Dharma Swara performing at SoundScape 2014
“Gamelan Dharma Swara is a coalition of musicians, dancers, and composers presenting Balinese performing arts through performance, commissions, and education. Dedicated to tradition along with development and exploration through new works, their mission is to cultivate Balinese gamelan as a global artform, engaging diverse partners and curious audiences.”
LIMITED TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW ~ SEE YOU AT NOON MAY 27:
https://basilicahudson.org/programs/24-hour-drone/
the DRONE is presented by Basilica Hudson and @le_guess_who in collaboration with @sarahgvanburen
🕐🕦🕕🕚🕐🕦🕕🕚🕦🕐🕚🕕
Incantational tremolo picking will rattle the walls of our foundry - massive shredder LITVRGY joins this year’s DRONE for a rare solo performance
/ / fresh off the release of 93696, a stunning new album
“Liturgy is the project of Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix, whose yearning, energetic
‘transcendental black metal’ exists in the space between metal, experimental, classical music
and sacred ritual. The band is simultaneously a platform for fine art and theology. For Basilica’s
24-hour Drone event Haela Ravenna Hunt-Hendrix performs a solo set of looped guitar
counterpoint, vocals, and electronic percussion”
JOIN US BUY YOUR TIX SPACE IS LIMITED
https://basilicahudson.org/programs/24-hour-drone/
#blackmetal
#holyspirit
In one month the DRONE returns to Basilica in all its sprawling glory
24 hours of continuous sonic explorations from a global, forward-pushing crew of artists
Are you ready? Come sleep on our floor, bask and bathe
Tickets here and very likely to sell out - better grab one now:
https://basilicahudson.org/programs/24-hour-drone/
Seen here: Kinlaw closes out DRONE 2019
Presented with Le Guess Who? and Sarah Van Buren
THIS THURSDAY — JULY 28:
Jackie West (@jacquelynwest) will perform along with Emily Ritz (@lumpland) and Shana Falana (@shanafalana) for our LAST #JupiterNights of the summer before we take return in September.
Jackie West is a singer/songwriter from Brooklyn whose music explores deep inner landscapes, depicting them through song as a means to find freedom within self and clear insight in life. West writes on classical guitar and transfers arrangements to play as a fully electric band which creates the opportunity to experience her songs in different setups.
#hudsonny
JULY 21: Looking forward to our next #JupiterNight with claire rousay (@clairerousay) and Matchess (@matchesse)!
claire rousay’s music zeroes in on personal emotions and the minutiae of everyday life – voicemails, haptics, environmental recordings, stopwatches, whispers and conversations – exploding their significance.
Link in bio for tickets and more info ~
Doors 7pm, Music 8pm
#hudsonny
THIS THURSDAY — JULY 7, #JupiterNights continuing in the theme DRONES, we are proud to present @kraftwitch (John Moletress), @sallydecker & @brianamarela. Get ready for meditative, experimental, dreamscapes that evoke introspection with a sense of expansion.
Doors open at 7pm, music at 8pm, link in bio for tickets and more information! ~
John (they/them) is a genderqueer artist based in Denver. Their practice, both interdisciplinary and willfully undisciplined, is rooted in performance.
Current work is compelled by ritual, divination, magick, earth-based practice(s), and sound + spectral objects.
#Hudsonny
THIS THURSDAY - JUNE 30TH — Our new weekly series #JupiterNights welcomes local artist @benseretan (Troy, NY) to the stage, opening for producer/composer Debit @deliabeat (NYC). Doors & food by @local111restaurant at 7PM, link in bio for tickets!
Ben Seretan’s work morphs and shifts frequently – in 2018 he doled out My Life’s Work, a 24-hour-long piece of guitar drone autobiography but then followed it in early 2020 with Youth Pastoral, a mega-church-sized, full-band album about breaking up (with God) that was named one of the best of the year by Pitchfork (“bursting with exuberance”). Another left turn – 2021 brought Cicada Waves, a serene record consisting entirely of an antique piano and encountered sound from the Appalachian woods.
Aquarium Drunkard wrote, “There’s a moment towards the end where Seretan spontaneously duets with a nearby songbird and it’s one of the most magical things you’ll hear this (or any) year.”
Don’t miss it!
#hudsonny
