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THE POINT

NYC Noise is dedicated to presenting, promoting, & documenting NYC's experimental (slash avant-whatev, DIY, weirdo) music & artists; Primary Goals include making sh*t accessible, performance against corporate interests, & finding ways to make this *last.* more on that in a sec, but first...

other gr8 nyc things!!

((r)evolving list, sorry if you should be here & aren't!)
COMMUNITY: 3afak (bc | insta) • Black Science Fiction (insta) • cc (gofund | insta) • CfPT (insta) • LiveCode.NYC (insta) • PTP (bc | insta) • Relative Pitch (bc | insta) • Synth Library (insta) • Trevorshaus • Voluminous Arts (bc | insta) + LABOR + ACTIVISM: Artists Against Displacement (insta) • Bandcamp United (insta) • Music Workers Alliance (insta) • United Musicians & Allied Workers (insta) • W.A.G.E. (insta) + OBJECTS: Downtown Music Gallery (insta) • Ergot Records (insta) • The Record Shop • Thousands of Dead Gods (insta)
+++ start of a list of NYC REGULARS (collectives, orgs, series, zones)

THE POINT, CONT'D

at the ~heart~ of nyc noise is a live music calendar featuring a wide range of genres, for whatever "genre" is worth to you: yes noise, "electronic," free / avant / even some cap-J jazz, contemporary classical / "new music," all things improvised, ambient, post-[whatever], glitchy techno, avant-metal, trashy art rock, performance pieces, surreal puppetry... arbitrary curation = what i like + what my friends, friendishes, & acquaintances like &/or (hopefully "&") are playing. ~rough criteria~ = 1) singular, live event including 2) both visual & audio components & 3) explicit attention to sound, with 4) all events in brooklyn, manhattan, queens, the bronx, or (it finally happened!!) staten island; links provided for everything so you don't need to take my word for it & can easily find tickets / confirm details.

i'm super into affordable performances *&* people being compensated for their labor. it is expensive as f*ck to live here, & artists can easily become inadvertent agents of the gentrification that pushes them/us out. other ~big hopes~ for the site include finding ways to push for increased transparency around $$$ in music & more community partnerships so we can mobilize to help our neighbors. also working on a venue directory &/with improved accessibility info; more on that soon!

practical sh*t

ideally this site helps you avoid socials, but sometimes insta's the only option for a link (sorry!!!). calendar's updated on a daily basis, w/ events usually double-checked day-of. it's hard to keep track of stuff, so help is VERY EXTRA GREAT! submission form is HERE; you can also email me at contact@nyc-noise.com –– use the subject “EVENT [date]" and include the date & time, artists, venue/address, age policy & access, & link(s) as *text* (i hate typing out yr weird illegible flyer copy lolol) –– or share events via g-calendar or google form.

other nyc noise stuff

beyond the calendar of events (& some livestreams), u can also check out:

–– [rotating] BANDCAMP ROUNDUP w/ links to buy from local artists & stores [BIG list here]
–– INSTA (@NYC_NOISE) w/ vid/pix of performers (i hate using this so much lolol but am gonna try to post more)
–– YOUTUBE archive (@NYCNOISE) as soon as i figure out my storage sitch will resume updating from giganto personal collection!!, ~200 vids so far
–– "SITES LIKE THIS" page has calendar sites in different places (& also some alts for nyc!)
–– "REGULARS" page is a bunch of spots & series & curators; will make it prettier eventually, but lotsa gr8 stuff to check out
–– "BLOG" for first drafts of rants
–– if you're looking for a paywall'd article i've shared, it should be in the "FTPaywall" drive folder (tho i reorganized a little, email if you can't find something), which also includes pdfs of texts when kind ppl provide them for sharing –– most recently ethan philbrick's group works, which looks gr8!!! –– or when i've transcribed a thing (like mlkjr's "beyond vietnam") i can't otherwise find accurate versions of online. (i removed a big chunk of the stash i hadn't double-checked for permissions, but recently re-added large verso trove; lmk if u are verso & that makes you sad, but i promise my traffic is mostly not for books!!)
–– attempt at remaining COVID resources
–– learn to contribute to WIKIPEDIA
–– info on UNIONS
–– info for TENANTS
–– ways to organize for PALESTINE (relatedly: PACBI)
–– coming soon !!!!!!!! IT HAPPENED:  MAP  TIMES !!!!!!!
–– learn why i'm mad about PARTIFUL !!!
–– if u know computerz, check out the GITHUB & jump into ISSUES

cuz i'm broke ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

so yeah it costs money to run nyc noise (site + domain costs, cloud storage, technology, many many hours, etc.), & i will never paywall sh*t + don't want ads, so if you use the site regularly—or are just feeling generous! or have money!—consider donating via paypal or venmo (include a note that you're heading over from the site so i can feel warm/fuzzy), patreon, or (best!!) here again are those direct subscription links from top: $5/month + $25/month. inbox gets a little overwhelming, so apologies if i take a while to respond; if i seem to have forgotten to add something, feel free to poke at me again!

thanks

the REAL nyc noise is the friends we made along the way!!! :') for ages site was a mostly-solo venture, simply cuz i don't make enough money to pay anyone (i tried to hire helpers years ago but could only afford it for a few weeks lmao)... that means the people who have helped are TRU SAINTS!! there are PILES missing from this, but quickly / for now:

first mention to paul feitzinger (he's not Publicly Online so link's to my loving troll /PAUL page), percussionist / pal / linguistics research scientist / ham radio operator / light artist / Bike + Computer Person! his ~biggest contribution~ was the original top-of-site calendars; if you wanna see how annoying the site was before, head to october 2018 & check out the lineup for the 10/25/18 liturgy opera—but actually DON'T, just try & then give up bc there are hundreds of events & no shortcuts to individual dates ahhh!! i met paul in either 2017 or 2018, & for 5 years (2018-2023), paul was the only other person with a password to make updates, so whenever i f*cked something up (say i'm somewhere with terrible wifi & try to update the site anyway & it blanks out half the calendar at 2am & my connection is SO bad that i can't maintain it long enough to even load an earlier version from the revision history??? is a thing that happened june 1 '23), paul is who i frantically texted asking if he could plz fix it!! :D he also made me listing-specific tools for stuff that annoyed the hell out of me to reformat (like those insanely long BPH marathons lolol)... more recently he also made the new submission form which saves me a BUNCH of work by formatting stuff for approval yayyy!!!

in fall 2023 i met /GREG & now he is also one of my (& site's!!!) best frens :') he has done VERY MUCH for nyc noise: in '23, working w/ me & a crew of recurse center folks, he rebuilt the site from scratch (github) while still keeping its rugged ~spirit~; after years of manual updates & copy/pasting chunks of html, it's more of a relief than i could've imagined & better / faster for all of *u* users, too :'''') now there's an Actual Database!! & the site knows that events have times!! (back in 2023-09 we did not have "ical + gcal" shortcuts bc everything below the top calendar had the formatting of a very long email, lol...) & now in 2025 greg has also added MAPS!!! & also a trillion other things, u should check out the /GREG page for more.

in fall 2024, we met new site pal KIRILL! (like paul, he does not have a website or public socials!!! i find this impressive even tho it is clearly Not Me, lolol) i made a temporary / pic-of-handwritten-note insta post in september 2024 asking for HELP cuz i'd been assaulted & had a concussion & was feeling v overwhelmed :/ kirill saw that & sent an email offering to help –– i was not being great w/ email-checking, but that turned out not to matter cuz he just jumped into the github & started doing stuff!!! :D

we also have a new 2025 computery pal KALEB!! i do not have a ramble about kaleb yet but stuff he's (already??!!!) done is listed on /new!!

i had wildly great volunteers for 2022 church shows, including azumi O E • gavilán rayna russom (of voluminous arts) • justine herve • greg siegel • [with many extra zillion thanks:] eli charm –– the last 2 can't find on Internet rn, will ask later –– most of this crew fully ran a show when i left town last-minute & needed help, amazing :''')

another hella thank you to reiner michalke & everyone at the monheim triennale. (i'm hesitant to say more than that cuz i am not universally a Popular Association right now whoops??, i guess we'll save a longer thing for email ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)

other biggest THANK YOU is to ANYONE WHO HAS EVER DONATED ANY MONEY TO NYC NOISE, EVER. i ran a gofundme in 2019 saying i needed a new laptop but really i also had put medical debt on a credit card & was In Trouble enough that i considered moving to philly, which in hindsight wouldn't have saved me that much money anyway!! (i do luv philly, & if i biked i could see it, but i'm too distracty & also a klutz...) it raised $2.5k & i covered some debt & was able to keep my head above water another day: HELL YEAH!! the last few years my Big Gratitude is to people doing the monthly donations via stripe & patreon (which has had a long-standing instruction for elon musk to pay me $42,069 / month, he's just too much of a fuckup to follow directions), cuz that is regular monthly cash for things like GROCERIES –– because we have to eat food EVERY DAY???? fucked tbh!! also big luv to folks who send one-time donations via paypal & venmo; often i find out about these when i'm freaking out about overdrawing my checking & redownload the apps while spiritually crossing all my fingers, so yeah lots of Adrenaline Gratitude lolol... I WILL GET ALL OF YOU STICKERS &/OR BETTER STUFF EVENTUALLY, i know i've been vaguely gesturing toward it for years but... I WILL OK, LUV U

xoxo,
j

p.s. (sorry i always forget my end on intros lol) right hi i'm jessica; i take photos, go to shows, & luv spreadsheets & playing curator. as of fall 2024, my ~big dreams~ are to work for a union & that we abolish prisons & debt –– & then if there's still time, universal basic income / housing / healthcare (with real dental; wanna fix my teeth!!!) for all.

early-pandemic "about" page

(some of that page is still relevant, but also… not…? now 2023; SH*T'S STILL WEIRD)

"Aside from the dangers of the virus itself, piles of people & venues have lost their source(s) of income since COVID-19 hit the city. Given how many of us have already been paying rent by the skin of our teeth, deal with chronic illness, don't have a full-time employer to provide paid leave, etc., keeping NYC's creative communities intact will require direct government intervention, ideally in the provision of health care & the freezing of rent, mortgage, & utility payments. That said, I personally can't make decrees about those systemic changes... So this site gathers & provides resources at the level of individuals & communities."