Friday, December 12, 2025
8pm (Doors at 7:30)
222 Bowery, NYC
$20
TICKET LINK AND INFO HERE

In the immediate aftermath of September 11, Swiss artist Georg Gatsas (@georggatsas) moved to New York City. In September of 2025, Caterina Barbieri’s label light-years released The Process, a book of Georg’s photographs from 2002–2007.

To celebrate the release of The Process, Georg has asked three of his favorite performers, Eric Copeland (@esl__books), Geologist (@geobriensystem), and Vorhees (@vorheesmusic)—people whose work he first encountered in the years of the book—to play solo sets.

His friend Ethan Swan (@ethanswan) tells his story:

“He’d met Ira Cohen at a lecture in St. Gallen the year prior and formed a connection so immediate that the poet offered the use of his couch for as long as Georg liked.

But the city that Georg found was not the city of that invitation—people were suspicious, bunkered, craving comfort and avoiding implications. Most of them were, anyway. There were others who saw this desolation as an opportunity. They held shows in abandoned buildings, commandeered the empty bars, made work that cut, crashed, and overwhelmed.

Georg followed the threads of this other New York, taking photographs all the time. Some of his pictures were of the haunted, empty streets. Or the abandoned objects, shuttered buildings, wild cats. The heaps of trash that were the only signal that someone must be alive in those buildings.

But mostly he took pictures of the people making this other world. Genesis P-Orridge and Kembra Pfahler and Stephonik Youth. Artists and musicians and weirdoes. Black Dice. Animal Collective. Gang Gang Dance.

Assembling the book raised a lot of questions for Georg about those years, and just as many about the present day. What has changed in the last twenty years? What habits persist? Where are the gaps now and how can they be weaponized?”
— Ethan Swan

This event is made possible with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York.

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Abasement #78

Monday, June 16th
7pm
Free, no RSVP required

Performances by Gryphon Rue, Alex Waterman, and Edwin Torres; Morio Agata with Yujin Yama, Tsugumi Takashi, and Avery Brooks; Vorhees; Loren Connors; and Phantom Honeymoon. DJ Ryan Sawyer. Visuals by Jim Spring. Projections by Bradley Eros.

Terry Riley’s 1964 Minimalist Masterpiece is once again heard at LPR in a celebrated rendition

Emerging from the legendary Darmstadt concert series, this yearly performance of Terry Riley’s In C—ongoing since 2005—has become a New York City tradition. At once completely faithful to Riley’s original score, and yet “the most vital, audacious and energizing…ever heard” (New York Times), curator-musicians Nick Hallett, Zach Layton, and collaborators Billy Martin and Gabby Fluke-Mogul of the Creative Music Studio have assembled a distinguished group to improvise with Riley’s identifiable, interlocking melodic patterns. Guitarists, electronic musicians, orchestral instrumentalists, and vocalists groove in step to the propulsive backbeat of drums and percussion. All proceeds from the event will be used to support the vital mission of the Creative Music Studio founded in 1971 by musicians Ornette Coleman, Karl Berger, and Ingrid Sertso.

Unprecedented in design, Terry Riley’s In C, made a radical impact on contemporary music at its 1964 premiere, influencing a generation of composers and paving the way for Minimalism. Its performers are tasked with repeating 53 short melodies through endless combinations, resulting in a hypnotic tapestry of sound. No two performances are the same. New York City’s longest-running annual performance gives audiences a chance to revel in Riley’s riotous cacophony.

Performers include: Billy Martin, drums; Matana Roberts, alto saxophone; Lea Bertucci, alto saxophone; Matt Bauder, tenor saxophone; Pauline Harris, violin; Conrad Harris, violin; Joanna Mattrey, viola; Ben Vida, synthesizer; Cecilia Lopez, synthesizer; Simon Hanes, strings; Zach Layton, 17 string bass; Henry Fraser, bass; Alex Waterman, cello; Eszter Balint, violin; Kyra Sims, french horn; Pauline Roberts, percussion; Laura Cocks, flute; Samantha Kochis, flute; Daphna Naphtali, voice; Nick Hallett, voice; Nicky Paraiso, voice; Shara Lunon, voice; Katie Porter, clarinet; Nels Cline, guitar; Yuka Honda, keyboard; Marina Rosenfeld, keyboard; Catherine Sikora-Mingus, saxophone; Shahzad Ismaily, synth; Ben Neill, trumpet; and many more. The lineup is subject to change.

TICKETS HERE