Peg Simone

the final Table of the Elements Festival is this week @ IPR, Alloy Orchestra plays Prospect Park this summer

An image from Robert Longo’s Pictures for Music (1979), which will be played alongside Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Trio… Since 1993 the record label Table of the Elements has staked its claim on a massive enterprise, intending nothing less than to rewrite the history of American music in the second half of the 20th century, and beyond…

unFact, Wrekmeister Harmonies, Lapis Lazuli & other shows

Chicago sound artist J.R. Robinson is like Alan Lomax with an editor’s pen. The first full-length record from Wrekmeister Harmonies captures three elliptical drone improvisations staged in museums, intercut with field recordings of ambient sounds from public places and some in-studio editing from a rotating cast of collaborators…