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It's our birthday! We officially turn 25 today! The first Non-Event was on May 13, 2001 at MassArt and featured a fantastic double bill of Filament and Poire_Z. There are 2 current members of Non-Event – @susannabolle & @strunk.christopher –who were at that show and can attest to its life-changing properties. Thanks to all the musicians, organizers, partners, and audience members for your support over the years and to @huckleberry_rumsauce (joined soon after by @sedimentaldrift ) for taking that initial leap into the void! Photo: @evicshen at Boston City Hall by @anni.elly

COMING UP!! May 15th at 7:30pm Rare Boston performance by Joshua Abrams' Natural Information Society with @lemuel__marc & @jakemessinameginsky duo rounding out an amazing bill... It'll be 2 days after Non-Event turns 25, so there may well be 🎂 Link to more information & tickets in our profile. Joshua Abrams formed Natural Information Society (NIS) in 2010. With Abrams' orchestration of traditional & contemporary instrumentation, NIS creates long-form psychedelic environments informed by jazz, minimalism & traditional musics. Current & former band members include Lisa Alvarado, Jason Adasiewicz, Mikel Avery, Ben Boye, Hamid Drake, Ben Lamar Gay, Emmett Kelly, Norberto Lobo, Artur Majewski, Nick Mazzarella, Jeff Parker, Frank Rosaly, Jason Stein, Kuba Suchar, Nori Tanaka & Chad Taylor. In 2015, Natural Information Society & Bitchin Bajas collaborated on Automaginary (Drag City). Composer/filmmaker Jake Meginsky, a New Music USA award winner and Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellow in both music and film, has collaborated and performed with an extraordinary range of musicians including Milford Graves, Alvin Lucier, Joan La Barbara, Kim Gordon, Vic Rawlings, Greg Kelley, Bhob Rainey, Joe McPhee, Thurston Moore, William Parker, Daniel Carter, Paul Flaherty, John Truscinski, Arthur Brooks, and Bill Nace. His recordings can be found on NNA, Mantile, Second Sleep, Feeding Tube Records, Rel Records, Open Mouth Records, Wooden Finger Records, Ultra Eczema Records and Ecstatic Peace Records . His latest solo album, 1000cuts, will be released on Ben Hall's Ornette Coleman Fiend Club records (OCFC) in 2026. He is presently artist in residence at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought in Northampton, MA. Lemuel Marc is a composer and trumpet player from Boston. They play regularly around New England with improvisers including Evan Palmer, Yoona Kim, Brittany Karlson, Michael Larocca and the Hivemind Brass Quintet. Lemuel's debut solo album, "Replace the Population" was released in 2025 on Relative Pitch Records. Photo of Jake Meginsky & Lemuel Marc by @mjrosenstein

Photos from the second night of Non-event’s Waterworks Fest, featuring performances by: Greg Kelley presents “A Fanfare for Non-Event” featuring Kelly Bray, Eric Dahlman, Ellwood Epps, Forbes Graham, Lemuel Marc, and Kimmie Sabio Jesse Kenas Collins x Michael Rosenstein x Yoona Kim (trio) Michiko O. Bill Nace & David Watson Amirtha Kidambi & Music Research Strategies Thanks to all the performers and organizers.

Images from Night Two of this year’s Waterworks Festival – such an amazing series of performances. Massive thanks to everyone who made it out to the show and to everyone who helped make this festival possible. ‘ Thanks to @tinnitus_photo for the beautiful photos 1-4 @ordinaryfanfares presents “A Fanfare for Non-Event” featuring @kelly.e.bray , Eric Dahlman, @eppsellwood @forbesgraham_ , @lemuel__marc , Kimmie Sabio 5-8 @brightwoodprojects , @mjrosenstein , @yoonakimusic 9-11 @snirupustimo 12-15 @cosmonican and @davidwatsun 16-20 @kidominator & @music_research_strategies @metrowaterworks @wzbc @newtonculturalcouncil @streetcarwines #caféfixe #trumpets #experimentalmusic #bostonexperimentalmusic #nonevent

Photos from Night One of Waterworks 2026! 1-2 @acampbellpayne , 3-4 @halfnormal , 5-6 @accordionchoir , 7-8 SUTUR @ehrrrdz & @unnoaaron , 9-10 @daveseidel Great sets last night! Looking forward to Night Two tonight!! Thanks to @tinnitus_photo for the great photos! @metrowaterworks @wzbc @newtonculturalcouncil @streetcarwines Link to info & tix in our bio

@kidominator performs on Night Two of Waterworks (Saturday, April 25) in a duo with drummer @music_research_strategies . Super excited to present the debut of this amazing duo! Amirtha Kidambi is invested in the creation and performance of subversive, anti-hegemonic music, from free improvisation and avant-jazz, to Indian carnatic and devotional, experimental bands, electronic music, noise and new music. She is an educator, activist and organizer working to challenge systems of white supremacist, colonial, capitalist, patriarchy, and is co-founder and co-organizer of South Asian Artists in Diaspora and Musicians Against Police Brutality. As a bandleader and composer, she is the creative force behind the incendiary protest group Elder Ones and has received critical praise for her albums Holy Science (2016) and From Untruth (2019) on Northern Spy records from the New York Times, Pitchfork, Wire Magazine and Downbeat among others. Photo by Juri Heinsch @newtonculturalcouncil @metrowaterworks @wzbc @streetcarwines #cafefixe #experimentalmusic #waterworks2026 #bostonexperimentalmusic #nonevent

@halfnormal performs TONIGHT (April 24) to close out Night One of this year's @metrowaterworks festival. Truly, not to be missed! Grab tickets & get more information at the link in our bio/profile. Bob Bellerue is a sound artist, experimental musician, sound/video curator, and A/V technician based in Ridgewood NY. Over the last 35+ years he has been involved in creating and presenting a wide range of sonic activities – experimental music, sound art, noise, junk metal percussion ensembles, soundtracks for dance/ theater/ video/ performance art, Balinese gamelan, and sound / video installations. Bob’s sound work is based in improvised free noise within multidimensional feedback systems, using amplified instruments, objects, decontextualized field recordings, and resonant spaces, processed by electronics and software written in the Supercollider audio synthesis programming language. @newtonculturalcouncil @wzbc @streetcarwines @masscultural #cafefixe #bostonexperimentalmusic #experimentalmusic #noise #waterworks2026 #nonevent

Tomorrow! Friday 4/24 I’m playing a solo set at NonEvent’s Waterworks Festival.

DAFNE VICENTE-SANDOVAL CHARLES CURTIS THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 2026 AT 8PM

This Saturday (April 25) @ordinaryfanfares presents a special “Fanfare for Non-Event” in celebration of us turning 25 this year. The piece will feature an all-star lineup of local experimental trumpet players: @kelly.e.bray , Eric Dahlman, @eppsellwood , @forbesgraham_ , @lemuel__marc , and Kimmie Sabio. This is a clip from Greg’s incredible set at the Waterworks 2023 festival. 🎺🎺🎺🎺 Link to tickets & festival passes in our bio – the trumpets will be kicking off Night Two, so don’t be late!! #trumpets #experimentalmusic #bostonexperimentalmusic #nonevent @wzbc @newtonculturalcouncil @streetcarwines #cafefixe

@yoonakimusic will perform this Saturday (April 25th) as part of the Waterworks festival. She'll be performing on her new custom-built & designed electronic ajaeng in a trio with @mjrosenstein and @brightwoodprojects . Expect pure 🔥🔥 Get tickets or passes to the Waterworks festival in the link in our bio Yoona Kim is an ajaeng (Korean bowed zither) performer and composer whose practice weaves through the traditional and the experimental, the past and the present. Yoona synthesizes the temporal fluctuations and ephemeral resonances of Korean traditional music with the timbral expansiveness and radical ethos of noise music and free improvisation. Video of Yoona performing at Boston City Hall by @jackamadon with audio recording & mix by @azevedoaudio @newtonculturalcouncil @streetcarwines #experimentalajaeng #electronicajaeng #waterworks2026 #bostonexperimentalmusic #experimentalmusic

This Saturday Michiko O. @snirupustimo performs as part of this year’s @metrowaterworks festival. She’ll perform two short pieces including a piece from Pancake Moon, a hauntingly beautiful release in which in which she layers farfisa , piano samples, and live performance on the shō. Link to tickets & festival passes in our bio – not to be missed! Michiko Ogawa (Michiko O) is a Berlin-based researcher-performer-composer born and raised in Tokyo, Japan. She has performed at major international festivals including MaerzMusik (Berlin), Supersense Festival (Melbourne), Café OTO (London), Kontraklang (Berlin), Edition Festival (Stockholm), Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (UK), Ultraschall (Berlin), and the Brisbane International Film Festival, among others. Her most recent release, Pancake Moon, was recently released on Futura Resistenza. Video clip @sooishi @motherfoucaultsbooks