Sound Patterns: A Night of Experimental & Ambient Music

Unicorn Bar is proud to present "Sound Patterns, " a night of experimental and ambient music. Inspired by the work of Pauline Oliveros, "Sound Patterns" features three local performance groups with varying backgrounds in these genres, unified by their love of innovation and repetition.

Join us for an evening of unexpected sounds that will irk, please and challenge your ear in the best possible way. 
 
DOORS 7pm
SHOW 8pm

$10 adv/$15 doors

Houston/Lindorff/Spreaders

Houston: An improviser of various sorts. He works primarily with misuse and perversion of objects and systems. Virtuosity, volatility, futility, and capability are thought of. Zoots currently lives, works, and plays in Kingston, NY.

Lindorff: A sound artist based in the Hudson Valley focusing on catharsis and poetry through deep relationships and accidental ceremony with object manipulation. Co-owner and curator of Notice Recordings. 

Spreaders: Scraping droning squeaking noise from ulster county NY. Singed tape and wet electronic source since 2018.

Ezra Feinberg is an American composer-guitarist, a practising psychoanalyst and former founding member of the San Francisco-based collective Citay. The highly acclaimed third album ‘Soft Power’ (2024) saw Feinberg enlist an impressive array of fellow musicians including Mary Lattimore, David Moore (Bing & Ruth), Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Robbie Lee and more. Defined by its abundance of melodies, repeating figures and ecstatic improvisations, Soft Power exudes an enlightened and transformative spirit to empower the listener. Recorded in New York by regular collaborator and engineer John Thayer, it follows previous albums ‘Recumbent Speech’ (2020) and ‘Pentimento and Others’ (2018). Feinberg was also a key contributor on the Arp album ‘Zebra’ in 2018. Feinberg currently resides in New York’s Hudson River valley.

Dani Dobkin (Brooklyn, NY) and Matt Sargent (Hudson Valley, NY) are on tour in support of "Bend," out now on Waveform Alphabet. Beginning with a phrase from Gertrude Stein, "Act so that there is no use in a centre," the improvising duo delights in the exploration of their contrasting sensibilities. Their sets include guitar, modular synthesis, clay objects, and live processing. Their new album "Bend" has been described as “a guitar record retrieved from far in the future” (Antonio Poscic, Research Music).