Decem

Viul

A night of ambient, drone, and soundscape from four Past Inside the Present artists: Benoît Pioulard, Viul, Hotel Neon, and awakened souls.

Music 8pm-11pm, four 30 minute sets.

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Benoît Pioulard is the primary audiovisual project of Michigan-born, Brooklyn-based Thomas Meluch. With six LPs on the renowned kranky imprint, as well as a catalog of works for Universal (UK), Morr Music (DE) and others, he has constructed a unique aesthetic steeped in the textures of analog decay and pop song structure using chiefly guitar, piano and tape processing. He has also built an extensive archive of Polaroid photographs (many of which grace his album covers), the first official collection of which is the hardcover book "Sylva", released in 2019. For live performances Meluch constructs towering loops, seamlessly weaving in gentle guitar-and-voice songs for hypnotic, unbroken sets typically backdropped by film work from like-minded visual artists.

Hotel Neon is the Philadelphia-based trio of Michael Tasselmyer, Andrew Tasselmyer, and Steven Kemner. Together they create music to get lost in: cavernous, reverberating guitars and synthesizers, matched with visual projections in an immersive audio/visual experience. Since forming in early 2013, the group has released 9 full-length studio albums and several EPs. Hotel Neon has toured and collaborated with the likes of Benoit Pîoulard, The Sight Below, Simon Scott, and Marcus Fischer, filling everything from living rooms to cathedrals with their densely layered walls of sound.

Viul is a Brooklyn, NY-based composer and ambient musician. His latest release is Konec (A Strangely Isolated Place, 2022), a collaboration with Benoît Pioulard written and recorded in the earliest days of the pandemic and imbued with the concurrent dread, stillness and strange beauty of an abruptly-halted world. Viul's previous releases include Bright Decline (Disques d'Honoré, 2019) and Outside the Dream World (Past Inside the Present, 2019).

awakened souls is the ambient music project of veteran electronic music producer, James Bernard and Cynthia Bernard (marine eyes). Crafting layers of sound from their bedroom studio using guitars, synthesizers, field recordings and meditative vocals, their hope is to help others find the sense of calm that music brings to them. Their newest album Night Songs was released on Past Inside the Present in March of 2022.

This is an age 21+ event.

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