The NYX Festival – August 10-12, NYC

SPECTRUM PRESENTS

THE NYX FESTIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL & PROG MUSIC

AUGUST 10-12 at SPECTRUM, 121 LUDLOW STREET, NEW YORK CITY

COMPLETE FESTIVAL INFO HERE

A festival that celebrates the historical interaction between the genres of classical Experimental Music and Progressive Rock since their beginning and into the 21^st century.

Spectrum, a recently-opened new-music performance venue in NYC’s Lower East Side, presents the NYX Festival: Three days of music where Experimentalism and Prog Rock merge. Since the last century, these two genres have shared a number of key features: the free use of emerging technologies by way of synthesizers & electronics, ambitious musical structures, asymmetric time signatures and, notably, virtuosic performance involving “traditionally-amplified” electric guitars and their kin as well as “traditionally-acoustic” instruments such as piano. The NYX Festival has a line-up of highly-talented and exciting musicians from NYC and elsewhere. This will be an enjoyable, envelope-expanding experience for participants, both audience and performers alike.

FRIDAY, AUGUST 10from 7:30 PM until midnight, doors open at 7:00 PM, tickets $15

Chapman Stick Night hosted by Greg Howard

Chapman Stick players work in all genres of music: rock, jazz, classical, folk world and experimental. This concert features six top players, from around the East Coast, for five hours of rock, progressive rock, jazz fusion and free improvization. Greg Howard will host the concert and perform throughout the evening.

with

Brett Bottomley

Rob Martino

Steve Adelson

Michael Bernier

Bright Brown

SATURDAY, AUGUST 11 from 2:00 PM until midnight, doors open at 1:30 PM, tickets $10 for individual acts or $25 for an All Day Pass

2:00 PM: ensemble et al.

3:30 PM: David Smooke & Courtney Orlando

5:00 PM: Erbium

6:30 PM: TBA

8:00 PM: Little Worlds – Bartok’s Mikrokosmos Re-imagined