Basilica Hudson‘s season opener, the annual 24-Hour Drone Experiments in Sound & Music, is this weekend, April 27 and 28, 2019. The annual festival, presented by Basilica Hudson and Le Guess Who?, is a roving, international series featuring musicians and sound artists experimenting within the spectrum of drones (sustained tones shaped by voice or instrumentation) to create 24 hours of unbroken, uninterrupted sound.
Escape the tight hands of time in a long-form, endurance homage to sound. An all-encompassing, immersive event, 24-HOUR DRONE features musicians and sound artists experimenting with sustained tones, creating a full twenty-four hours of unbroken sound.
Droners are free to come and go over the twenty-four hours, but those who make the commitment to this long-duration work will be rewarded with the intangible feeling of meditative contentment, pure bliss, and communal collaboration.
– info & images from basilicahudson.org
This year’s lineup includes Ustad Shafaat Khan // Deradoorian // AHRKH // Zone 6 Presents: Kinlaw // NEVER TEMPLE // Jay Rodriguez: < MOTHER > // Brooklyn Raga Massive: Unstruck Sound // Famous Accordion Orchestra: Hudson Valley Dronescape // Hudson Valley Shakuhachi Choir // Iva Bittova + Matt Norman //Anastasia Clarke‘s Crushed Matrices // Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste // Sondra Sun-Odeon‘sUnsilencing // XOIR‘s XRONOLOGY // Ethan Primason + Caroline Partamian // Chris Andersen // Welkom In De Blaak // Mark Trecka // QUELQUE SHOW Montreal Block: Concrete + Skin Tone // Lumen Project Presents: Reg Bloor // Soramimi // Octonomy // Bob Bellerue // Bouquet // Ginny Benson // Ben Seretan: My Life’s Work
Tickets to the event are already sold out, however, 24-HOUR DRONE will be broadcast live on Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM, streamed online at wavefarm.org/listen, and made available through the Wave Farm Radio app (iOS).
DATES/TIMES:
2019: Saturday April 27 at 12pm to Sunday April 28 at 12pm
LOCATION:
Basilica Hudson
110 S. Front St.,
Hudson, NY 12534
MORE:
BasilicaHudson.org
facebook.com/BasilicaHudson
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