Rockefeller Memorial Chapel, the site of this week’s Ambient Church concert celebrating 25 years of the Kranky label Credit: Matt Frankel Update on Thursday, December 6, at 5:30 PM: Windy & Carl will ...
Less than 48 hours after the election, a crowd slowly filtered into a 109-year-old Gothic Revival church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. They were there to see Natalie Mering, the wry folk singer-songwriter ...
Ambient Church founder Brian Sweeny is well aware of the problems ambient artists face when playing traditional venues. For years, the Los Angeles organizer had been intrigued by the idea of churches ...
“We have this gift of all these beautiful spaces and they need to be used to their maximum potential,” says Brian Sweeny, the cofounder and curator of Ambient Church. His semi-regular Brooklyn concert ...
In 1949, the British composer Daphne Oram wrote a piece for two orchestras. A traditional ensemble would perform first, then its work would be manipulated through early-era electronics. When the two ...
“Look at all the beautiful New Yorkers,” William Basinski said in his strange, Brooklyn-by-way-of-Texas lilt. He addressed a crowd of hundreds, stacked in the pews and spilling into the aisles, as he ...
This week’s picks include Moses Sumney, The New Colossus Festival, Fessesz, Human Impact (ex-Unsane), the Planned Parenthood benefit with Courtney Love & Melissa Auf der Maur, and more. Fennesz’s tour ...