Spoon, Danny Brown, Dev Hynes, Best Coast & more visited Sonos Studio NYC (pics)
photos by Ilya S. Savenok, Bryan Derballa & Luis Ruiz
SPOON, Dev Hynes & Danny Brown
Sonos is in the midst of a week-long Sonos Studio NYC residency at NeueHouse. Each day there’s a variety of cool events in their intimate space (that hopefully you RSVP’d to before RSVP closed).
On Tuesday (9/30), Spoon stopped by to present the world premiere of a collaborative video and audio installation between Spoon and artist JD Walsh. In the installation, Walsh deconstructs and abstracts sounds from the track ‘Outliers’ off Spoon’s new album They Want My Soul. FADER presented a Best Coast performance there the same day, and then Dev Hynes and Brooklyn’s The Principals unveiled “Ancient Chaos” which was “inspired by the freedom of SONOS speakers to travel anywhere and impact space with sound…. free floating kinetic units embedded with SONOS speakers….A floating landscape that physically expands and contracts in connection with light and sound.” The New Yorker’s Sasha Frere-Jones hosted a Q&A with the artists afterwards. Dev also played a set.
On Wednesday, (10/1), Aloe Blacc talked about stuff (“Imagine if all the politicians around the world were raised listening to Bob Marley–could be a different place”). The Skins, Flight Facilities and and Mikky Ekko all also played that day.
Thursday brought the rowdiest moment when Danny Brown played a set to the crowd lucky to see the rapper in a venue MUCH smaller than Webster Hall where he played later that night, and much smaller than House of Vans where he plays tonight (10/3).
Today they continue the party with Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry and Party Supplies, “very special surprise guests”, and more. You can see the remaining schedule (it ends Sunday) at the Sonos Studio NYC RSVP page. More pictures of some of the action so far, below…
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SPOON
Dev Hynes
Best Coast
Aloe Blacc
Flight Facilities
Danny Brown