Past Events — 2018

Join us at The Yard (John Hancock Tower, 6th Floor) for our Year-End Concert and Fundraiser.

Join us for our December experimental coffee house at 7pm with Curt Newton.

In conjunction with the exhibition Introducing Tony Conrad: A Retrospective, please join the MIT List Visual Arts Center and Non-Event for an evening of experimental sound performances by close friends and collaborators of Tony Conrad.

Non-Event and NEC’s Department of Music Theory present Christian Wolff and Ordinary Affects along with NEC Students performing two new pieces plus works for solo piano.

Join us for our November experimental coffee house at 7pm with Hollow Deck.

Non-Event and Mobius present an evening of performances by friends and collaborators of the late Jed Speare

Join us at The Yard (John Hancock Tower, 6th Floor) for a performance by Meridian (Tim Feeney, Sarah Hennies, Greg Stuart), percussion as well as a solo by Brittany Karlson, bass

Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum present and evening of solo works by Kevin Drumm and Andrea Pensado.

Non-Event and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy present Asha Tamarisa’s Piece for Fog Space, an intimate, site-specific performance inspired by the tension in Nakaya’s work of engineering a material that both shows and obscures its site, of making visible and tangible a medium that is vulnerable to its conditions. In this performance, sound reflects its site back to itself with subtle interventions.

Non-Event and NEC’s Department of Music Theory present , and the Goethe-Institut Boston present Eva-Maria Houben along with NEC Students performing her pieces.

Join us for our October experimental coffee house at 7pm

Non-Event, the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture, and the Harvard Graduate School of Design present Concrete Sounds: Multichannel Experimental Electronics in Boston City Hall with solo sets by Richard Chartier and Victoria Shen

Join us at 8pm at Anderson Hall at the SMFA for an 8.1 surround performance by Reidemeister Move (Christopher Williams, contrabass + Robin Hayward, tuba) and Mike Bullock solo

Non-Event and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy present Luke Martin practices in the imaginary: reading, a piece for two people, performing slowly, quietly within Fujiko Nakaya’s Fog x Beach sculpture

Join us for our September Coffee House at 7pm featuring Tongue Depressor (Henry Birdsey + Zach Rowden)

Join us at The Yard (John Hancock Tower, 6th Floor) for a performance by Michael Pisaro of his piece Transparent City.

Join us for our August Coffeehouse at 7pm featuring Lure, the solo project of Allison O.

Join us for our July Coffee House at 7pm featuring Liz Tonne

Join us for our June Coffee House at 7pm featuring Donkey No No (Jenifer Gelineau, Omeed Goodarzi, and Ted Lee)

Join us at 8pm at First Parish Church in Cambridge for a performance by Lonnie Holley and a solo by Bill Orcutt.

Join us at Korean Church for the Boston premier of Jakob Ullman’s Minters stern for solo bassoon & prerecorded voice performed by Dafne Vicente-Sandoval as well as Andre Cormier’s Sol Branche Feuille Pluie (2018) for solo cello & modular synthesizer performed by Mem1 (Laura Cetilia, cello; Mark Cetilia, modular synthesizer)

Le Laboratoire Cambridge presents Ecology and Sonic Practice, an artist talk by Jennie Gottschalk and D. Edward Davis.

Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum present and evening of solo cello by Okkyung Lee along with a performance of Andy Graydon’s Mishaps and Malaprops (an Oral History) for six voices

Join us for our May Coffee House at 7pm featuring Bats from Pogo (Andrea Pensado & Walter Wright)

Non-Event presents Sonic Section Perspectives (For Paul Rudolph), a site-specific piece conceived by José Rivera & Michael Rosenstein for six participant-collaborators. Introduction by Chris Grimley

Non-Event and the Metropolitan Waterworks Museum present Sarah Davachi performing her piece Untitled piece for harmonium, violin, viola da gamba, and electronics with Eden Macadam-Somer (violin) & Ben Swartz (viola da gamba) as well as a piece by Katarina Miljkovic

Join us for our April Coffee House at 7pm featuring Cleo Miao

Join us at The Yard (John Hancock Tower, 6th Floor) at 7:30pm (doors) for Travelogues of Sound: A Listening Session
with Florian Dombois and Andy Graydon

Non-Event and SMFA Library Sounds present an evening of improvisations in the SMFA Library by Judy Dunaway and Ricardo Arias (balloon duets) as well as a solo by Wendy Eisenberg (guitar, banjo)

Non-Event and Washington Street Art presents solo sets by Christian Kobi (saxophone & electronics) and Vic Rawlings (cello & electronics).

Non-Event is pleased to present three artists in this evening of performance on the new “Soundscape” audio surround system by d&b audiotechnik. Presented as part of the Dissolve Music @MIT Conference

Join us at 8pm at Anderson Hall at the SMFA for the Thomas Lehn/Marcus Schmickler analogue & digital synthesizers duo in Quad along with a Howard Stelzer performing “Crossing Parallel” for digital video & ~20 cassette players

Join us for our February Coffee House at 7pm featuring Andrew Neumann

Le Laboratoire Cambridge presents ArtScience Talk, a talk by Wenhau Shi about Sound Art in China

swissnex Boston and Non-Event present PULSATIONS [BITUMEN] by Marcel Zaes, an audiovisual performance that combines generative digital music with four viola players, using an original graphic notation featuring a BRAID.live algorithm and visuals.