TOMORROW, Thursday, April 30th, APLR presents Audrey Chen with MANAS.
Audrey Chen works with voice, cello, and analog electronics to create deeply personal, textural compositions that move between structure and spontaneity.
Formed in Asheville, MANAS (Tashi Dorji and Thom Nguyen) explore a fluid space between free jazz, noise, and post-hardcore improvisation, shaped by years of collaboration and touring.
Join us for an evening centered on improvisation and exploration. Tickets are available now.
@autonomousmanas@audrey.isabel.chen@tashidorjiiii@thom_nguyen__
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Coming up soon - APLR presents Audrey Chen with MANAS on Thursday, April 30th.
Audrey Chen works with voice, cello, and analog electronics to create deeply personal, textural compositions that move between structure and spontaneity.
Formed in Asheville, MANAS (Tashi Dorji and Thom Nguyen) explore a fluid space between free jazz, noise, and post-hardcore improvisation, shaped by years of collaboration and touring.
Join us for an evening centered on improvisation and exploration. Tickets are available now.
Artwork: @william.schmiechen@autonomousmanas@audrey.isabel.chen@tashidorjiiii@thom_nguyen__
5.2 live @ Commune -
@autonomousmanas is an Asheville-based experimental duo of @thom_nguyen__ and @tashidorjiiii exploring improvisation through electric guitar and drums. Their music shifts between sparse textures and explosive energy, driven by deep listening and spontaneous interplay. Rooted in the city’s underground scene, they create immersive performances that dissolve boundaries between noise, rhythm, and form.
Based in Berlin, @audrey.isabel.chen is a Taiwanese-American vocalist, cellist, and composer working at the intersection of improvisation, noise, and performance art. Using extended vocal techniques and electronics, she creates visceral, shape-shifting sound worlds, collaborating widely across experimental music, dance, and interdisciplinary contexts.
8-11p
Tickets in bio
APLR presents Audrey Chen with MANAS on Thursday, April 30th.
Audrey Chen works with voice, cello, and analog electronics to create deeply personal, textural compositions that move between structure and spontaneity.
Formed in Asheville, MANAS (Tashi Dorji and Thom Nguyen) explore a fluid space between free jazz, noise, and post-hardcore improvisation, shaped by years of collaboration and touring.
Join us for an evening centered on improvisation and exploration. Tickets are available now.
Artwork: @william.schmiechen@autonomousmanas@audrey.isabel.chen@tashidorjiiii@thom_nguyen__
Monday night felt like the Big Bang in reverse—primordial chaos sculpted into sound. ⚡️Another great performance organized by Fouroneone: MANAS in a first-time quintet with one guitar, two drummers, one bass, and one volcanic voice. Sanket Lama (Chepang), Ember Vaughan-Lee (Mimosa Park), and Monika Khot (Nordra/Zen Mother) joined forces for a gunfire of adrenaline and seismic groove. 🔥🧠💥
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💥 Night 2 of 2 nights w MANAS, June 8-9 at Trans Pecos 💥
June 9: MANAS + Sanket Lama (Chepang), Monika Khot & Ember Vaughan-Lee
Ka Baird & Qiujiang Levi Lu
Bloodrot (Dagger Wound + Solace Dialtone)
June 8
MANAS + Zoh Amba
Blasé
Blacks' Myths (Luke Stewart solo)
🎟️ Ticket link in bio
~*2-night tickets available*~
Trans Pecos, 9-15 Wyckoff Ave Ridgewood Qns
June 9 features MANAS (Thom Nguyen and Tashi Dorji) in a first-time quintet with Sanket Lama, incendiary vocalist of beloved Queens-based, Nepali grindcore band Chepang; drummer Ember Vaughan-Lee of Philly-based screamo/crust band Mimosa Park; and bassist Monika Khot of future-pop projects Nordra and Zen Mother.
MANAS first began collaborating with the Chepang crew via impromptu live sessions when one or the other band was passing through Queens or Asheville respectively, which eventually led to Dorji and Nguyen contributing tracks to Chepang’s revelatory 2023 grindcore epic Swatta. Lama’s high-intensity vocalizations burst forth in tight counterpoint to the band’s pummeling blast beats on that record, and the two bands have remained friends ever since. A drummer that can match Nguyen’s multi-limbed physicality is a rare thing, but the addition of a second, equally berserk drummer in Vaughan-Lee and the low-end growl of Khot’s bass is a visceral combination of forces.
Ka Baird & Qiujiang Levi Lu will present an embodied ritual for extended voices and microphones, feedback and electronics, and Bloodrot—comprising Dagger Wound, of queer-noise activists Mirrored Fatality, and Solace Dialtone, one of the many monikers of multi-dimensional musician/improviser Kwami Winfield—will open with a set of harsh noise.
