DURATIONS: Ballet: buttechno [Live A/V], Klein, Matana Roberts & Lesley Mok, Significant Other [Live A/V]

Buttechno at public records

Ballet is an ambient/experimental performance showcase based in Brooklyn, NY. This curation includes the US debut presentation of buttechno’s endless Xpire, Klein’s singular melding of noise and R&B, saxophonist Matana Roberts’improvisational genius, and Significant Other’s debut live set via forthcoming audiovisual work.

buttechno's sonic identity is built on spacious, dystopian, and wonky reflections on techno that explore the liminal spaces between rhythm and texture. His productions feature rhythmic cells ranging from strict to rubbery, lending direction to blue, ruminating, and post-apocalyptic voids and creating soundscapes that mirror expansive barrenness and urban desolation. This approach has earned him recognition for providing "spastic electronics and fireball ballistics" at major festivals and legendary clubs.

Klein is an artist and musician whose work often blurs the lines between fact and fiction. Her music releases, films, and performances are often informed by urban mapping, surveillance, humor, hip-hop, noise, identity, and beyond. Her work has been shown and/or performed at museums, galleries, yards, squats, and pubs.

Matana Roberts [they/them] is a dynamic instrumentalist and multidisciplinary artist whose practice explores the mystical roots and intuitive, spirit-raising traditions of American creative expression. Their innovative work has forged new conceptual approaches to considering narrativity, history, and political expression within improvisatory structures.

Lesley Mok is a New York City-based percussionist, composer, and sound artist. Their work is guided by a continual search for the connection between the mundane and the divine, the experience and manipulation of time, and a desire to capture emotional dissonance and complexity.