$70 FESTIVAL PASS (grants admission to all three nights of No Fun New Perspectives)

For the first time since 2009, the legendary No Fun Fest returns to New York with a three-day fest titled No Fun New Perspectives, focusing on improvised music and featuring a dream-like lineup of avant-garde musicians from different generations, with every presentation during the festival a world premiere that will push experimental music to new and unknown places.

No Fun Fest was celebrated as a pivotal event in Experimental Music and Noise during its original run in New York City from 2004 to 2009, and a second edition in Sweden in 2009.

Bill Nace (guitar), Carlos Giffoni (electronics), and Charmaine Lee (electronics and voice)

Twig Harper (electronics), Hada Benedito (prepared piano), and Michael Foster (saxophone)

Lea Bertucci (electronics and voice) and David Watson (bagpipes)

Mark Morgan (guitar), Samara Lubeski (violin), and Greg Kelley (trumpet)

Carlos Giffoni is the person behind No Fun, which included a festival that ran in NYC in different venues from 2004 to 2009, multiple collaborations with other festivals around the world, and the No Fun Productions label. Carlos is a Venezuelan musician who lived in the US from 1996 to 2025 and currently resides in Valencia, Spain. With recent releases on Ideologic Organ and Room40. As well as recent residencies at GRM in Paris and EMS in Stockholm. He has collaborated with an impressive list of experimental musicians, and his work has been featured in multiple fashion campaigns and films.