A double bill celebrating the release of Matt Evans “Daydream Observatory” with AKP Recordings, opened by trumpeter and electroacoustic composer Chris Ryan Williams.

Matt’s fourth full length album, Daydream Observatory, points its lens towards self-examination and charts a course through a constellation of interior worlds. Sparked by a misunderstanding of the term ‘’psychogeography,” the album inhabits landscapes of consciousness through a collection of synth-saturated, drum-driven, “zone poems.” The album vacillates from meditative to cacophonous, making up a kind of character alignment chart of things light, dark, wholesome, and misanthropic. The sound orbits the phantasmal chill-complexity of previous solo records New Topographics (2020) and Soft Science (2022) while including and responding to several distinguished guests including Chris Ryan Williams (trumpet), Domenica Fossati (flute), Marta Tiesenga (saxophone), and Nyokabi Kariũki (kalimba). Inspired by Italo Calvino’s “Mr. Palomar,” Mark Bradford’s colorfully tattered collages, and maximalist referential streetwear brand “BootBoyz.Biz”, Daydream Observatory assembles a wide array of sonic worlds to present a detailed perspective on the everyday balancing of tragedy and comedy.

Matt Evans drums and electronics
Chris Ryan Williams trumpet + electronics
Domenica Fossati flute + electronics
Jennae Santos electric guitar
Ethan Woods electric guitar

Chris Ryan Williams’s Cavernous Resonance is an audiovisual exploration of the resonance of cavernous spaces. The work pulls inspiration from Plato’s ideals and the Allegory of the Cave, as well as Chris’s research in Puerto Rico where he has documented the spatial, architectural, and sonic qualities of caves. The performance will be accompanied by artist Laura Sofía Pérez’s video and film footage of caves and travelers in Puerto Rico.

Chris Ryan Williams trumpet & electronics
Laura Sofía Pérez film & video projection

A livestream will be available free of charge at 8pm on the day of the performance and archived for future viewing.

Matt Evans is a drummer, composer, and producer based in Brooklyn. His performances and recordings collage together drum-driven improvisations, playful synthesized sound-organisms, and various musical collaborators to create brightly-hued and embodied electroacoustic sound worlds. His compositions draw inspiration from millennial esoterica, surreal natural phenomena, and science fiction, resulting in hypnotic soundscapes that have been described as “hyperreal and phantasmal” (Wire Magazine), and “a form of chill complexity” (New York Times). Matt is a life-long collaborator, frequently working with other musicians, choreographers, artists, and filmmakers in both precise compositions and intuitive, improvisatory projects.

Chris Ryan Williams is an artist and musician based in Brooklyn, NY whose work unfolds through electroacoustic composition and performance installation. His EP Live earned praise from Jazz Right Now and The Quietus for its “dazzling collaged pieces that ricochet between improvised passages and written material” (Peter Margasak, The Quietus). His debut LP Odu: Vibration II, praised by Pitchfork and named one of NPR’s Best New Albums, reimagines a journey through Plato’s Cave. Williams’ work has been performed and presented extensively across the U.S. and Europe, including at the Venice Biennale, Roulette Intermedium, Walt Disney Concert Hall, The Royal Danish Playhouse, National Sawdust, and Performa Biennial. He has received commissions from the Pan Afrikan Peoples Arkestra, WasteLAnd, the American Composers Forum, and the International Contemporary Ensemble.