{"title": "Matana Roberts Presents: “off the record…”", "start": "2026-11-11T20:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Roulette", "address": "Atlantic Avenue 509, 11217", "price": "$25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://ci.ovationtix.com/36368/production/1282037?performanceId=11836634", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental"], "description": "A live solo performance by composer, saxophonist, and sound experimentalist Matana Roberts, presented as part of the ongoing COIN COIN project. The piece moves between memory, imagination, and lived experience, following association rather than chronology, with language, gesture, silence, humor, and chance shaping each telling. Conceived as a celebratory postscript to the COIN COIN recordings, part of which began at this venue, it makes space for ideas and questions beyond those recordings. 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The shop celebrates musician David Grubbs alongside Corbett vs. Dempsey's issuing of the From Red Black to Black, from Blue Black to Black CD, which includes a thirty-minute composition built out of six soundtracks Grubbs composed for McElheny's 2023 show of the same title at Corbett vs. Dempsey in Chicago. John Corbett and David Grubbs will dialogue, then Grubbs performs a solo set; CDs will be available for purchase and signing, and events are free with all welcome.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/from-red-black-to-black-from-blue-black-to-black-cd-release-55302/", "official_url": "https://www.recordgrouch.com/events/m5u8fle4s50cgsmmbgq3hn1vwf4brq", "image": "https://noky.io/images/9ed2279f42a0077f2d6323084c2649a980a2b81bc09eca4da6ca64127b2435fd-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Opening night performance | Monobloc Harp by Dan Ortiz Leizman", "start": "2026-11-05T18:30:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-05T20:30:00-05:00", "place": "Strother School of Radical Attention", "address": "Washington Street 55, 11201", "price": "Free (RSVP strongly encouraged)", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "exhibitions-museums", "tags": ["stage/performance-art"], "description": "An opening night performance and reception for the group exhibition 'Haunted by Light'. Artist Dan Ortiz Leizman turns the mundane monobloc chair into a string instrument, playing ephemeral sounds described as 'apocalyptic folk music' that navigate the nostalgia and personal memories marked on the chair. The exhibition gathers photoreactive media such as cyanotypes, autoradiographs, lumen photography, plant ashes in glass sculptures, and audiovisual environments for collective mourning. 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The lineup includes Dr. Michael Yatauro on quantifying drummers' timing statistically, Cherri Diesel with live code music via Strudel.cc and visuals with Hydra, Brian Bishop's audience-led Breath Choir, Elizabeth Kezia Widjaja's NO FOTO© on flicker and perception, Sophia Sobers' Sonic Pi live code performance Ambient Ecology, and Robbie Lyman, a mathematics professor at Rutgers University, demonstrating digital synthesis of analogue waveforms.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/composition-57513/", "official_url": "https://www.wonderville.nyc/events/composition-11-8-26", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e58126c3f002a4fcaeaec37326b75796be22b633935b1909e8d27eb0185685c9-2000.webp"}, {"title": "At the Hearth: Live Music with Rachel Feldhaus, ROHANA, and Warner Meadows", "start": "2026-11-11T17:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-11T18:00:00-05:00", "place": "Cooper–Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum", "address": "East 91st Street 2, New York", "price": "Pay What You Wish", "price_from": "0.00", "price_to": "0.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/classical"], "description": "At the Hearth is a drop-in program of live viola, cello, and keyboard music held in the museum's historic Carnegie Library. Rachel Feldhaus on viola, ROHANA on cello, and Warner Meadows on keyboard and electronics will improvise together in their distinct styles of classical, folk, jazz, and experimental music. Alexandra Hodkowski, Curator of Public Programs, will give a welcome. Hosted by Cooper Hewitt curators, educators, conservators, and librarians, the hour invites visitors to sit by the fireplace, listen, and ask questions.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/at-the-hearth-live-music-with-rachel-feldhaus-rohana-and-war-76947/", "official_url": "https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/at-the-hearth-live-music-with-rachel-feldhaus-rohana-and-warner-meadows-11-11-2026/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f675d74d552049f16c5444b04571f3f54881a63926af9ab05f521644695d6656-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Mo Kubbara's Indeterminate Orchestra - Experimental", "start": "2026-11-08T20:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-08T22:00:00-05:00", "place": "Shrine World Music Venue", "address": "Adam Clayton Powell Jr Blvd 2271, 10030 New York", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "Mo Kubbara's Indeterminate Orchestra - Experimental is a live performance at Shrine World Music Venue. It is an improvisational orchestra exploring the intersectionality of acoustic, electro-acoustic and diverse electronic instrumentation, conducted by Nick Gianni and featuring some of the most wild savage talent in the city.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/mo-kubbaras-indeterminate-orchestra-experimental-55829/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long", "start": "2026-10-23T00:00:00-04:00", "end": "2026-10-30T00:00:00-04:00", "place": "Peter Jay Sharp Building, Howard Gilman Opera House", "address": "", "price": "Tickets start at $35", "price_from": "35.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://commerce.bam.org/production/55619", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["literature/poetry", "music"], "description": "I Guess It Was My Destiny To Live So Long is a transdisciplinary poetry series honoring the legacy of Brooklyn icon June Jordan. It is curated by Hanif Abdurraqib, a BAM Curator and MacArthur \"Genius,\" now in its third year, and this year spotlights powerful voices from across the African Diaspora. The evening on offer pairs versatile composers and instrumentalists Meshell Ndegeocello and Samora Pinderhughes, who share a night of words and music under the series' banner. The program also includes Poetry Overnight at BAM, Southern Oracles by the Black Air Poets, Be Holding based on a Ross Gay poem, and Stones in the Water with Sarah Kay, Clint Smith, Anis Mojgani, and Abdurraqib.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/i-guess-it-was-my-destiny-to-live-so-long-51198/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ca322bacd44652032ba8e3d49e9c02203731c1f147933a90f0e38b4f8fdc7558-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Andrew Smiley CD Release + Sophie Leetmaa + Gloatmeal (Kate Gentile/Matt Mitchell)", "start": "2026-11-01T19:00:00-05:00", "end": "2026-11-01T23:00:00-05:00", "place": "Ibeam Brooklyn", "address": "7th Street 168, 11215", "price": "$20 for the show, $30 for the show plus a CD, no one turned away for lack of funds", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/experimental/improvisation"], "description": "A CD release concert for Andrew Smiley's new album, Taking What Was Mine, which he will perform in its entirety on guitar and vocals. The night also features sets by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Sophie Leetmaa and by Gloatmeal, the duo of Matt Mitchell on piano and synthesizer and Kate Gentile on drums. The program includes experimental and improvising musicians and synthesizer-based performance. Tickets are $20 for the show or $30 for the show plus a CD, with no one turned away for lack of funds.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/andrew-smiley-cd-release-sophie-leetmaa-gloatmeal-kate-genti-53120/", "official_url": "https://www.ibeambrooklyn.com/home/2026/11/1/andrew-smiley-cd-release-sophie-leetmaa-gloatmeal-kate-gentilematt-mitchell", "image": "https://noky.io/images/220fad69b97509a465750596d01f4a0ecc1e993cbbb78bb2382b784d79552cc2-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Broken Robots", "start": "2026-11-12T21:00:00-05:00", "end": null, "place": "Pete's Candy Store", "address": "709 Lorimer St", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/jazz"], "description": "The Broken Robots is a live music show at Pete's Candy Store, a small venue on Lorimer Street in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn-based band plays everything from hard rock to psychedelic jazz, performing fully improvised sets. Their new album, IN THE HEART, was recorded live and fully improvised in Brooklyn and released on Adhyâropa Records. Their music moves from chaos to communion, pulling listeners into the band's search for the profound in the profane, mundane, and insane.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/new-york/events/the-broken-robots-54792/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8b71abf7f9d87eb1d87d9cb88deb662e20867168f7ff3a0ce205c16f9c60a46a-600.webp"}]}