Drew Litowitz

👺 LIVE 👺 LAUGH 👺 LORE👺 MARK THE DATUM — Friday, June 5th — @mess.is.lore x @goodgrief.flac drag a feral psychedelic sideshow into town: blown-out electronics, a deranged spectacle, hypnotic noise. Pure freak chaos underneath the big top. [secret DIY location ~ tickets on sale 5.13] ᗪᗩᖇE TO GᑌEᔕᔕ ᗯᕼO ᗯIᒪᒪ ᗷᒪEᔕᔕ TᕼIᔕ ᗰEᔕᔕ?

Deep listening with @drewknowitz at @pilarbrussels #deeplistening #ambient

// TONIGHT: LARAAJI + NIXIE AT PILAR! // 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒂 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆𝒓𝒕 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒖𝒍𝒚 𝒇𝒖𝒏𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒔 𝒂 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆? 𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒊𝒏𝒔𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒓 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌 𝒊𝒏 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔? "A concert space being respected by the right artist does become a healing temple. The artist understands that Space is not limited to four walls nor to a geographical location, but the bringing of Consciousness into communion with an eternal transcendental presence. The opportunity to immerse myself in chance MUSICAL happening that grow out of an agreement to give our talents and our service to the higher good of all it’s a good feeling a planetary service feeling a cosmic service feeling". - @laraaji_official Starting at 20:00h tonight, together with @energy8medicine @karolienpolenus . Dj sets between and after the concert, with @emill.mirzoev and @drewknowitz . Tickets via our website! See you there for a cosmic trip. ✨✨✨ 📸 @kiosk.radio

CNC is a collaborative project between two visual artists / producers / punks who met in a grimey club corner sometime in the late twenty~tens in NYC. Diego with a background in Architecture, and Kate a Production Designer, kept in orbit ~ finding themselves in a spontaneous b2b years later at a renegade beach party. Their synchronicity was electric and a collaborative union was formed. Their first release together, a vinyl on @rollovermilano with remixes from @mikesimonetti @benoit_b_blush @lauerlauer in 2025 was a playful take on NY club history and an ode to Grace Jones. Over the recent harsh winter stretch a 9 track album was synthesized, a new transmission from Concret + Carpet (F.L.H.P). This now hums for the first time on outside ears, revealing an expansive 9 track release gliding though ambient soundscapes, left field breaks and onto gritty minimal techno. Their album represents a period of transformation. A new sonic moniker from Kate under the guise of Carpet (F.L.H.P), and Diego relocating from NY to Italy this month. It’s a testimony to friendship and collaboration during a period of metamorphosis. 🦋 ~~~~~~ We invite you to join us this Friday night at @apollostudionyc , where we will energetically close the loop on the creative process, and welcome in new beginnings / warm weather / playful experimentation in the form of a very informal listening party. NY favorite mainstays @frikaan_time and @plebeian.biz join the signal — Akanbi, revered for his focused intention to the community and the Groovy Groovy world will command the deepest of dance. Following suit, high-tech contemporary Plebeian guides the night with a live hardware set that is surgically precise, dub influenced and best delivered on a big sound system. 

Beneath it all, the earth keeps spinning; textures ripple and swell, well beyond first light. The early bird catches the worm ~ 11pm–7am 🪱♾️ XO Kate + Diego Ticket link in bio ~ free with RSVP before midnight. Pics ~ @crihsshirc Flyer ~ @drewknowitz

On Friday, May 8th, Apollo Studio cracks the sonic chrysalis of “CNC”—unveiling a new collaborative album; a transmission from Concret + Carpet (F.L.H.P), shaped during the harsh stretch of NY winter. What lay buried now hums for the first time on outside ears, revealing and expansive 9 track release gliding though ambient soundscapes, syncopated glitch, left field breaks and onto gritty minimal techno.
 NY favorite mainstays Akanbi and Plebeian join the signal—bending current, stirring the low end, nudging rhythms into motion. Akanbi revered for his focused intention to the community and the Groovy Groovy world will balance both fire and restraint, commanding the deepest of dance. 
Following suit, high-tech contemporary and underground favorite Plebeian guides the night with a live hardware set that is surgically precise, dub influenced and best delivered on a big sound system. 

Beneath it all, the earth moves; textures ripple and swell, well beyond first light. The early bird catches the worm ~ 11pm–7am 🦋🌀 Ticket link in bio ~ free with RSVP before midnight. @frikaan_time @plebeian.biz @concretmusic b2b @katestein.xyz @apollostudionyc flyer @drewknowitz

✨We are excited to host Drew Litowitz for our final Tuesday Talk of the semester.✨ Drew Litowitz is a New York based multidisciplinary graphic designer, creative director, design critic, and live event curator. He is currently an Art Director at STORY, runs the independent studio Graphic Support Group, co-hosts the podcast Graphic Support Group alongside James Chae, and is an adjunct professor at Parsons. From 2019-2021, he was the lead designer for Pitchfork before stints at Wolff Olins and AIR Company. He holds an MFA in Graphic Design from the Rhode Island School of Design.   WHEN: Tues. April 28• 7:00pm • via ZOOM WHAT: a 45 minute talk with 15 min. for Q+A hosted by Everett Epstein

Heat Index, Volume III. March 28th, 2026. See you June 20th for Volume IV :-) Event Credits Directors: @san_huan_ @shape_language___ Installation @zoroze.art Movement: @zoroze_ @shape_language___ @mynameisdaixa Sounds: Marble Rye @drewknowitz Gbar @_gbar_ Matük @ma.tuk Jan Loup @janloup999 Ayesha @ayescold Food Installation: @rottenmother.nyc Snacks: @snacc.fairy Videographer: @_nightshiftnurse_ Photos: @toddmidler

[TRANSMISSION FRAGMENT :: V001] The Lore continues to fester. To accumulate. Following our first congregation, an ominous mist still lingers. An artifact has been uncovered. A capsule and invitation mummified in gauze. Source identified: 𝓛𝓘𝓥𝓔. 𝓛𝓐𝓤𝓖𝓗. 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓔. V001: @mess.is.lore x @goodgrief.flac Location of Sighting: Light & Sound Design, 3.17.26 Species: Marble Rye B2B Carpet (F.L.H.P.) Content unclear; resembles: delayed decay, reassembled pattern language, static pulses, exposed structures; Grief: Good Mess: Lore Light and Sound Design maintained partial structural integrity. Slithering persists at immeasurable range. INSTRUCTIONS: Load and play. Dissolve. Reassemble. Drift. This artifact presented as proof of life and a preview of our next congregation: V002 Sunday at @reforesters.io beginning at 17.30. [END FRAGMENT — SIGNAL IN BIO] 𝓛𝓘𝓥𝓔 𝓛𝓐𝓤𝓖𝓗 𝓛𝓞𝓡𝓔 001 ~ @drewknowitz @katestein.xyz Photos @alexandra.clear

Near to the ear, a filament hums—threaded through rumor, anticipation, electricity. Oscillations gather, tone splits, vibration refracts, air misbehaves. What resembles rhythm begins to converge—shedding grid and measure, forming as vapor—becoming something viscous. Humid whispers prevail as @goodgrief.flac x @mess.is.lore gather again, this Sunday ~April 12th at the acclaimed Reforesters Laboratory. This iteration leans further into live manipulation—patching, unpatching, rerouting in real time. A lattice of machines thinking aloud. Modular synthesis as divination: voltages consulted, signals misdirected, accidents preserved. The room becomes an instrument with 24th inputs. FEDRA arrives this time not as selector but as conduit—forging errant transmissions, bent percussive languages, and dislocated melodic forms into threads through space and time. Her practice drifts between circuitry and inheritance: Latin American polyrhythms stretched across unstable clocking, bass pressure warped through modular architecture, fragments of melody suspended like fog in feedback. Raised between Buenos Aires and Bogotá, now operating out of Brooklyn, she traces a cartography of sound that resists fixation. As a founding member of Internacional Bailable and co-host of Papaya Papaya Mamâo on East Village Radio, her work traffics in crossings—genre as membrane, identity as resonance, the dancefloor as site of subtle rupture. Her sets and productions behave like systems under tension: porous, migratory, quietly volatile. Expect neither arc nor arrival, everything circulates. Gaze as pressure, drifts, and interference patterns accumulate in the dark. Enter our process. Cross the threshold. The descent is already underway. Come squirm with us. Ticket link in bio. @ex.wiish @qasimnaqviofficial @aka.fedra @drewknowitz / @marble_rye_in_the_mix @katestein.xyz @reforesters.io

For those who are not yet well versed in sacred tongue of gobbledygook ~ on April 12th, the wicked and wise convene with the static whisper of solace at Mess is Lore x Good Grief. Unbridled, we writhe towards Reforesters Laboratory, where a powerful and peculiar 24 point sound awaits the deranged; a distorted vision mangled in sound and sight. As dead leaves swirl and static ripples, we clear away the muck from the corners of our third, fourth and fifth eyes. A sinister bleep, a grisly boop and a godforsaken buzz tickle the brain. Pleasure and pain, there’s so much to gain, when one dares to descend into messy terrain. Raw modular mania ensues, as Qasim Naqvi’s steadfast vision guides us through the chasm hushed angst and entropic ecstasy. A drummer and composer, Naqvi is perhaps best known as a founding member of the revered polyrhythmic instrumental trio Dawn of Midi. Passionately committed to conjuring experimental sound and bending all barriers, Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist with a deep affliction for analogue and modular synthesizer systems. The revered Brooklyn-based sonic searcher has performed/been commissioned by The BBC Concert Orchestra, Jennifer Koh, The London Contemporary Orchestra, Stargaze and others. He has been a featured composer at the Musica Nova Festival in Helsinki, the Spitalfields Festival in London, Ultima Festival, Southbank Centre and the Rest is Noise Festival in Holland. Dawn of Midi have released two bonafide masterpiece records, a body of work for which Radiohead personally picked Dawn of Midi as their support band for two sold out concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden for their *Moon Shaped Pool* tour. A feeling of sensual freneticism will entrance and entrap. Slip into the void, embrace the abyss. Let the floor cradle. Decay gracefully. Soak in the shadows. Submit to the subterranean pressure. Come squirm with us. Ticket link in bio. @mess.is.lore x @goodgrief.flac @qasimnaqviofficial @reforesters.io

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Full streams from Friday March 27th are now online ⊚ Marble Rye ⊚ Puff ⊚ Just a Touch w/ Jordan Coley ⊚ Contractor linked in bio