HERE For NY
Vegyn, Eartheater, Underscores, Rxk Nephew
Knockdown Center52-19 Flushing Ave., Queens, NY 11378 · Map
This night happened — Sat 10 Feb 2024
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Who was billed12 artists
In the order the promoter listed them.
- Vegyn
- Eartheater
- next: Industry City, Fri 30 OctAlice Longyu Gao
- next: Huxley's Neue Welt in Berlin, Wed 25 NovDJ_Dave
- underscores
- RXK Nephew
- Liv.e
- Roy Blair
- James Ivy
- MGNA Crrrta
- Push Ups
- Sara King
Set times were not published.
the pairs that have met
65 of the 66 pairings on this bill were first meetings.
- DJ_Dave and Roy Blair — 1 shared bill before that night, first on Sat 23 Sep 2023.
Who they are
Last at Webster Hall in Dec 2023 · often with amr*, Stonie Blue, WAREHOUSE, none of them here that night
“New York-based artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and vocalist Eartheater distills a three-octave vocal range, experimental digital production and classical composition into works suspended between sonic abstraction and arresting lucidity.”
their own biography
the whole biography
New York-based artist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and vocalist Eartheater distills a three-octave vocal range, experimental digital production and classical composition into works suspended between sonic abstraction and arresting lucidity. Her recorded output is enhanced by her viscerally emotive live performances that capture her fearless physical investment and gut-wrenching vocal sincerity. With her 2020 album, Phoenix: Flames Are Dew Upon My Skin, Earthaeter is reborn. Composed, produced, and arranged entirely by Eartheater, Phoenix draws a path back to the primordial lava lake from which she first emerged, as it also testifies to the many resurrections her project has undergone over the last decade. While the album renews her focus on guitar performance and legible structure, Eartheater balances the unabashed prettiness of acoustic harmonic songs with the dissonant gestural embroidery of oblique instrumentals. The album, released in fall 2020 via PAN, is the result of a laborious revival in fire, and recontextualizes Eartheater’s combinatorial approach to production within her most confident abstractions, adjacent to some of her most direct and affecting songs to date. Eartheater made her full-length debut in 2015, releasing the twin albums Metalepsis and RIP Chrysalis on Chicago label Hausu Mountain. In 2018, Eartheater signed to renowned experimental label PAN to release her third full-length, IRISIRI. The record laid out as a shifting network of abstract songcraft, laced with sudden structural upheavals and collisions of mutated themes from numerous sonic vocabularies, ranging from classical and experimental to electronica and metal. IRISIRI received year-end accolades from Pitchfork, The Quietus, CRACK and more, consistently named one of the best experimental albums of the year. In 2019, Eartheater pivoted with the release of the mixtape Trinity, a collection of siren songs created with her New York cohort of friends and collaborators including AceMo, Tony Seltzer, Color Plus, Dadras and more. Eartheater self-released the mixtape on her own recently launched imprint, Chemical X. The same year, she also released a collaborative EP with her friends, the experimental harp and violin duo LEYA, titled Angel Lust. In addition to her own material, she has collaborated with musicians including Show Me The Body, Moor Mother, Caroline Polachek, Dinamarca, Sega Bodega, Prison Religion and more. Eartheater’s resume is also extensive with commissions for a range of institutions and ensembles; she has scored original material for visual artist Tony Oursler and video artists Semiconductor, and has soundtracked the runway collections for fashion houses Proenza Schouler, Chanel, Acne Studios, and MUGLER (for whom she regularly models). Eartheater was also tapped by the contemporary chamber orchestra Alarm Will Sound to compose an original score of six movements that has debuted in 2018 at the Sheldon Concert Hall in St. Louis, Missouri, and has since been brought to Lincoln Center’s 2019 edition of Ecstatic Music Festival in New York. Throughout it all, Eartheater has pursued an unflinching touring schedule, headlining shows across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia, sharing bills with her contemporaries like Actress, Oneohtrix Point Never, Jenny Hval, Yves Tumor, and Juliana Huxtable, and performing at renowned international festivals like Unsound, CTM, Le Guess Who?, Donaufestival, MIRA and MoMA PS1’s Warm Up. Live performance is a central aspect of the Eartheater project, as she uses tension and improvisation to translate her intricate compositions into unforgettable corporeal expressions, often accompanied by the concert harpist Marilu Donovan (who also performs with LEYA). Additionally, Eartheater has collaborated with art duo FLUCT, and in 2017, she starred in Raul de Nieves and Colin Self’s opera The Fool at legendary NYC performance art space, the Kitchen.Their RA profile lists PAN and Hausu Mountain Records.often with SAM-E, Black Noi$e, NGHTCRWLR, none of them here that night
often with Eli Escobar, CLOSED SESSIONS, D'Marquesina, none of them here that night
“Making music with code”
their own biography
Recently at Telephone, The 1896, Mood Ring · often with Support, horsegiirL, Somewhere Special, none of them here that night
often with umru, Cedric Madden, Certified Jesus Freak, none of them here that night
Recently at Baby's All Right, Knockdown Center · often with Trilla Kay, Yoshi Yin, Bri Mafia, none of them here that night
often with Embaci, Augustus Muller, Jasmine Infiniti, none of them here that night
Last at Mood Ring in Sep 2023 · often with Lil Bun Buns, none of them here that night
Recently at Baby's All Right, Good Room · often with Anna Luna, Nation, KING, none of them here that night
often with espurr, Brightviolet, Dollmaker, none of them here that night
names these artists often play with — not that night
- umru1 with DJ_Dave, 1 with Eartheater and 1 with underscores
- Chloe Scarlett1 with Push Ups and 1 with underscores
- Anna Luna3 with MGNA Crrrta
- 3l3d3p2 with MGNA Crrrta
- 4evr2 with MGNA Crrrta
- amr*2 with Vegyn
- Angel Emoji2 with MGNA Crrrta
- DJ Kellen2 with MGNA Crrrta
how this compares
- Median final count, Saturdays at Knockdown Center268
- Middle half finished between121 and 553
- Past Saturdays at this venue counted86
The room
Knockdown Center — 251 events and 819 distinct artists since Aug 2023.
Who put it on
HERE Fest — 2 events and 15 artists since Feb 2024.