Arone Dyer's Dronechoir
this Saturday, June 28th at Roulette in Brooklyn, NYC
I helped organize a performance happening this Saturday at Roulette in downtown Brooklyn: the latest instance of Arone Dyer’s Dronechoir.
Use promo code “BandG5” (no quotes) for a $5 discount on the ticket price. If you’re not in New York City or otherwise can’t make it IRL, it will be livestreamed as a multi-camera video on the night of the show. Watch it at this link (also embedded below).
For background on the piece, I’d encourage you to click over to Arone Dyer’s recently launched Substack. While she primarily writes about her latest adventure—training to become a volunteer firefighter in her small upstate New York hometown—her most recent post offers insight into the origins and creative process behind Dronechoir.
an audio/video preview of Dronechoir
If you prefer recorded media to live performance, this piece may be a challenge. It’s really meant to be experienced in real time, with bodies sharing the space in a room. Still, there has been some limited documentation. There are, of course, a few photos…
And here is “EROICA”—the only Dronechoir recording that has kinda sorta been officially released. (It was posted exclusively to Buke & Gase’s Scholars Alliance, their subscription-based community on Bandcamp.)
Finally here’s the best Dronechoir video currently available: an eight-minute excerpt filmed in 2016 at Berlin’s PEOPLE festival.1
Eternal thanks to the venue presenting this weekend’s show! Roulette is one of New York’s longest-standing spaces devoted to experimental performance. With their institutional support, and additional backing from the New York State Council on the Arts, we are hoping to create a proper recorded document of Dronechoir this weekend.
If you’d like to dive deeper into ambient, instrumental, or Fourth World music,2 I’ve provided links below to earlier posts from my mixtape delivery service to guide your listening.
drone & ambient focused posts on AHB’s Goodies
wordless vocals & music before language
sounds like the bar band in Star Wars aka Fourth World music
Finally, I’ll leave you with this moment of zen
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