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🥃 FHD Monthly: Kengchakaj x MAYSUN

🥃 FHD Monthly: Kengchakaj x MAYSUN

Sunset Park

Fri, March 14, 2025, at 7:30 PM, EDT

Pay the musicians
Drinking policy
Don't bring your own drinks
Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks for sale
Wheelchair access
Not wheelchair accessible
Kids
Kid-friendly event

This is a groupmuse

A live concert in a living room, backyard, or another intimate space. They're casual and friendly, hosted by community members.

Host

Amy G.

Join us for an evening of synthesizer + drum music and cocktails/mocktails!

🎟️ Doors open at 7:30pm
🎶 Show starts at 8:00pm
🥃 Cocktails & mocktails available for purchase at this groupmuse. Please support local business by getting at least 1 drink at the bar!

🎹 About Kengchakaj:
Kengchakaj is a Bangkok-born, New York-based award-winning pianist, improviser, synthesist, and one-half of elekhlekha อีเหละเขละขละ, an artist collective with interdisciplinary media artist, Nitcha Tothong. Kengchakaj’s practice engages with organizing and improvising sounds that draw inspiration from ancestral soundscapes and modes of collaboration and expression rooted in Southeast Asian tradition and lineage. His medium of expression spans acoustic piano, retune analog synthesizer, electronics, multichannel spatial audio, and live coding (real-time programming to create sound or image) speculative imaginary electronics ensemble utilizing technology to produce a multimedia multisensory live performance.

🥁 About MAYSUN
Etienne Mason, known professionally as MAYSUN, is a composer and sound artist known for his unique blend of drumming expertise and sound design, creating immersive atmospheric soundscapes. With a focus on the use of physical space to shape and manipulate sounds, he crafts compositions that serve as soundtracks to his life events.

MAYSUN’s work is characterized by an innovative approach that transforms real-life sounds into musical tones, skillfully interweaving the dimensions of time and space within his compositions. His work explores spatial audio, technology, and the emotional impact of sound.

In addition to his artistic pursuits, MAYSUN has been serving on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) since 2023. He completed the 2024 ITP/IMA Fellowship at New York University, is currently a mentor at New Inc., and is a participant in the New Amsterdam Composers' Lab.

What's the music?

Kengchakaj Kengkarnka
MAYSUN Drums/Fx

Location

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Attendees

Katherine Kyu Hyeon L. (she/her) Emcee
Ianjoe C. (he/him)
Tuerhong G.
Jianhao Z.