MoMA PS1 AND OTHER MUSIC PRESENT COME TOGETHER: MUSIC
FESTIVAL AND LABEL MARKET ON MARCH 23 & 24
LONG ISLAND CITY, New York, February 28, 2019—MoMA PS1 and iconic record
shop Other Music have teamed up once again to present the third annual Come
Together: Music Festival and Label Market on Saturday, March 23 and Sunday,
March 24. The expanded two-day event will offer live performances, films,
workshops, and panels that celebrate the interactive ecosystem of local and
international music communities, along with a label market featuring over 75
participants. Part of MoMA PS1’s VW Sunday Sessions performance series, Come
Together reasserts the central and essential role that communities play in both the
creation and consumption of new sounds, recasting the fading record store
experience for the current moment.
LIVE PERFORMANCES
Come Together will feature performances in the VW Dome from some of the most
innovative and groundbreaking artists working today. A special Saturday evening
program features Black Sabbath Cover Band Rehearsal, formed by Mick Barr,
Angel Deradoorian, Greg Fox, Brad Truax, and Nick Zinner, and culminates with an
all-vinyl set by Detroit-based DJ Jay Daniel. Saturday afternoon will feature live
performances by Barrie (Winspear) and a solo set by Marissa Nadler (Sacred Bones
Records), and, on Sunday, live sets from Beijing-based rock group Gong Gong Gong
(Wharf Cat Records) and Brooklyn-born rapper Tabby Wakes (Fool’s Gold).
DJ SETS
Through the weekend, a diverse group of DJs will provide the soundtrack for Come
Together. On Saturday, DJ Language, Lindsey Caldwell, and Duane Harriott reunite
as NegroClash, a celebration of Black electronic and dance music, as well as
musician and producer Benamin, and Jezenia Romero, founder of Bunny Jr. Tapes,
who will play a set of music from womxn-fronted bands with a focus on musicians of
color. DJ sets on Sunday include Helado Negro (Roberto Lange), Freak Terrains,
and Star Eyes (aka Vivian Host of Red Bull Radio’s Peak Time).
SPECIAL PROJECTS
This year’s special project spaces will include Bushwick record store Human Head,
with an interactive presentation of rare music excavated from basements, garages,
and closets. Pick Up the Flow, an online equipment and merchandise exchange for
New York-based musicians founded by Selwa Abd aka Bergsonist (Discwoman), will
host a meet-up featuring curated playlists, group discussions, a vinyl swap, and a
hands-on mastering workshop with engineer Josh Bonati. On Sunday, Los Angeles-
based radio station Dublab will present a special quadraphonic audio and video
installation including visuals by Alex Pelly.
In Artbook, a collection of rare printed materials from the foundational New York City
record label West End Records will be organized by Love Injection Fanzine founders
Paul Raffaele and Barbie Bertisch and recording artists Holy Ghost!, who will
release West End’s first full-length album of original music in more than three
decades later this year. West End Records was established in 1976 by pioneering
producer Mel Cheren (1933-2007), who is credited with ushering in the 12” remix
single via music from luminaries such as Walter Gibbons, François Kevorkian, Larry
Levan, Tom Moulton, and Arthur Russell. Cheren is also known for his AIDS activism
in the 1980s.
CONVERSATIONS
Conversations throughout the weekend include a panel discussion focused on health
and wellness in creative communities of color with Bunny Michael, Raven Burgos,
and Erika Santoro, moderated by Maluca Mala; an intimate conversation with West
End recording artist and legendary disco producer Kenton Nix; and a panel hosted
by The Creative Independent, featuring Sacred Bones founder Caleb Braaten,
Kickstarter’s Meredith Graves, and Brandon Stosuy of The Creative Independent
and Basilica Soundscape.
WORKSHOPS
A series of limited-capacity workshops will highlight varied ways of building
community and supporting artists. On Saturday, Oscar Nñ and Mohammed Fayaz of
Papi Juice will navigate participants through logistics and strategies for intentional
and inclusive event planning. Also on Saturday, improvisational vocalist Charmaine
Lee will lead a performance-lecture on the voice as a polyphonic instrument, and
present a guided listening session and discussion of her aesthetic influences and
process. On Sunday, Suffragette City, a volunteer-run zine collective, returns to
host a zine-making workshop.
SCREENING
A special advance screening of Carmine Street Guitars will play in the VW Dome on
Saturday before its April 24th premiere at Film Forum. Directed by Ron Mann, the
film is an intimate portrait of one of Greenwich Village’s last remaining artisans, who
turns wood from old New York buildings into bespoke electric guitars for some of the
best musicians in the world, with appearances by Nels Cline, Jim Jarmusch, Lenny
Kaye, Charlie Sexton, Eszter Balint, Kirk Douglas, and more.
ZINE
To commemorate the constellation of music communities gathered for Come
Together, MoMA PS1 and Other Music are producing a collaboratively designed zine,
featuring artwork and advertisements from labels and zines participating in the Label
Market. The zine will be available at the event for free.
LABEL MARKET
Over 75 labels will sell records, merchandise, and special limited items. Headphones
provided courtesy of Sennheiser will be positioned at listening stations throughout
the fair to highlight releases from participating labels. Current participants, with
more to be announced:
!K7
4AD
ATO Records
Anthology Recordings
Artbook
Astro Nautico
BBE Records
Bar/None
Bayonet Records
Big Dada
Blank Forms
Brainfeeder
Brassland
Bunny Jr. Tapes
Cantaloupe Music
Captured Tracks
Cascine
Counter Records
DFA
Dead Oceans
Dischord Records
Discwoman
Domino Records
Don Giovanni
Fat Possum
Fire Talk Records
Glitterbeat
Gold Bolus Recordings
Hospital Hill
Human Head
Jagjaguwar
Jass Records
Joyful Noise
Recordings
Kemado Records
Knitting Factory
Records
Luaka Bop
Matador Records
Mexican Summer
Mount Analog
Mute Records
New Amsterdam
Records
Ninja Tune
Nonesuch Records
Northern Spy Records
Nublu Records
Other Music
PAN
PTP
Partisan Records
Paxico Records
Polyvinyl Records
R&S Records
RVNG
Rough Trade Records
Sacred Bones
Secretly Canadian
Smithsonian Folkways
Software Recording
Co.
Strut Records
Styles Upon Styles
Sub Pop
Suffragette City
Superior Viaduct
Technicolour Records
Temporary Residence
Ltd.
The Kitchen
Third Man
True Panther
Unseen Worlds
Records
Warp Records
Wharf Cat Records
Winspear
XL Recordings
Year0001
Young Turks
TICKETS
Day Pass, Saturday or Sunday, 12:00–6:00 p.m.: $10 advance, $15 day-of
Festival Package, Saturday, 12:00–9:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00–6:00 p.m.: $20
advance, $25 day-of
Saturday evening programming from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. requires a Festival Package
ticket.
mo.ma/cometogether
#ComeTogetherFest
ABOUT OTHER MUSIC
Other Music was a NYC-based record shop specializing in indie, underground, rare
and experimental sounds, a music mecca on East 4th Street in Manhattan for two
decades from 1995 to 2016. Renowned for their broad and adventurous selection,
the deep knowledge of their staff, the shop’s diverse tastes, and its open approach to
music of any era and style, the store was a hub of the vibrant local scene. With a
widely read weekly new music newsletter, Other Music was known around the world
as a destination for music fans everywhere. The shop outlasted many of its
contemporaries on the record scene, but in 2016, in the face of continuing migration
of music consumption online, they closed their doors. The announcement was met
with a massive outpouring of love and sadness in the press, and from artists,
industry, and fans around New York City and the world, all asking the same
question—how can we hold onto the grounding force of physical spaces in a digital
world?
ABOUT VW SUNDAY SESSIONS
MoMA PS1’s acclaimed VW Sunday Sessions performance series welcomes visitors to
experience and participate in live art. Since its founding in 1976, MoMA PS1 has
offered audiences one of the most extensive programs of live performance in the
world. VW Sunday Sessions highlights artists responding to contemporary social and
political issues through a wide variety of creative and critical lenses. Encompassing
performance, music, dance, conversation, and film, the series develops and presents
projects by established and emerging artists, scholars, activists, and other cultural
instigators. With a focus on artists that blur and break traditional genre boundaries,
VW Sunday Sessions embraces the communities in New York City that create and
sustain artistic practice.
Since 2012, VW Sunday Sessions has presented a commissioning program resulting
in new work by Trajal Harrell, Mårten Spångberg, Anne Imhof, Tobias Madison and
Matthew Lutz Kinoy, Hannah Black, and Colin Self. Additionally, the VW Dome Artist
Residency offers a platform for creative development and experimentation for artists
at all stages of the creative process.
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VW Sunday Sessions is organized by Taja Cheek, Assistant Curator, and Alex Sloane,
Assistant Curator, with Alexandra Rosenberg, Associate Producer; Chris Masullo,
Production Coordinator; Eliza Brennessel, Performance Coordinator; Enrique Alba,
Production Assistant; and Cody Simons, Production Assistant.
VW Sunday Sessions and the VW Dome at MoMA PS1 are made possible by a
partnership with Volkswagen of America, who have supported the program since its
inception.
Major support is provided by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
Dance programming as part of VW Sunday Sessions at MoMA PS1 is supported in part
by the Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
ABOUT MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1 is devoted to today’s most experimental, thought-provoking
contemporary art. Founded in 1976 as the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, it was the
first nonprofit arts center in the United States devoted solely to contemporary art
and is recognized as a defining force in the alternative space movement. In 2000 The
Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center merged, creating the
largest platform for contemporary art in the country and one of the largest in the
world. Functioning as a living, active meeting place for the general public, MoMA PS1
is a catalyst for ideas, discourses, and new trends in contemporary art.
Hours: MoMA PS1 is open from 12:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Thursday through Monday.
Closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
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New York City residents, MoMA members, and MoMA admission ticket holders within
14 days of visit. Free admission as a Gift to New Yorkers made possible by the Anna-
Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation.
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Island City, Queens, across the Queensboro Bridge from midtown Manhattan.
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