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SHOW ANNOUNCEMENT ✨ My series 2 Blocks Down has a new life and place in East Flatbush at Gil’s home. I’m thrilled to have a space and welcome the beginning of a new series in collaboration with Gil Arno. OCT 16th at 7pm / Music at 8pm Jenny Graf with Nitin Mukul (visuals), Karol Konstancia, and Gabby Fluke-Mogul Karol Konstancia (PL/US) @karolkonstancia is an electroacoustic musician who uses feedback, voice, improvisation and concrete compositional practices to create narratively dense retellings of Polish Highland folk music.

For this show, Jenny Gräf (DK/US) @jennygraf_ performs a set combining self-built electroacoustic instruments, analogue synthesizer, and vocals. Moving from the quiet shimmer of her hand-built speakers to the raw, resonant textures of her metal bow instrument and synth, the set moves through shifting terrain between noise, voice, and electroacoustic sound. This is Gräf’s first US performance in seven years. She will perform with live visuals by Nitin Mukul @nitin_mukul_studio an American visual artist of Indian descent who maps spaces where painting and video intersect as a durational experience. In 2020 Mukul co-founded Epicenter NYC, a community journalism multiplatform initiative that engages, connects and informs and empowers through the power of culture and community.

Gabby Fluke-Mogul @flukemogul is a Brooklyn-based violinist, improviser, composer, educator, organizer, and doula. Weaving within experimental threads of improvised musics, their playing has been described as “embodied, visceral and virtuosic” and “the most striking sound in improvised music in years.”

Doors 7pm Music 8pm This is a home not a venue. Light eats will be available and contributions are welcome. BYOB / contributions for the artists are welcome.

Feel free to bring a chair to sit on if you need a chair. There will be some at the space but can not guarantee a seat. by @lilyruskroda

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Scenes from 2 Blocks Down at Gil’s house in East Flatbush. ❤️💚❤️ thanks to @karolkonstancia & @jennygraf_ @nitin_mukul_studio @flukemogul for amazing performances! I’m still looking for a pop up venue for my next two shows that were scheduled at Sunview. Please be in Touch if you have a lead! Let’s keep the synergy flowing! ❤️💚❤️ #2blocksdown #eastflatbush #houseshow #loveandpeace #improvisedmusic taken in Brooklyn, New York by @lilyruskroda

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Hi all, I’m honored to announce I am an official board member at Epsilon Spires @epsilonspires in Brattleboro @brattleboro VT! I’m very excited this amazing opportunity! Thank you @vict_0r for the recommendation! There are so many amazing events and opportunities coming up at the space and I’m very excited about some future projects with their very unique pipe organ installed in the Sanctuary by the Estey Organ Company, founded in Brattleboro by Jacob Estey in 1872. Scroll through to see photos of the space and check out the video for the fall fundraiser with this Lucky number: 7! 🎃🧡We hope to raise $7777 by Halloween with help from anyone and everyone! Chip in if you can every penny helps to keep this beautiful creative community alive, pay the heating bills and support touring musicians, film programming, organ concerts and keep spaces weird and free for experimentation and collaboration with our friends and neighbors, and our communities. The Lucky 7 fundraiser is pivotal to keeping the doors open. ⚡️💛7️⃣☄️⚡️💛7️⃣ 🎃💀⚡️💛7️⃣☄️ check out the upcoming Halloween event screening of Begotten with special guests Son Of Earth Flesh on Bone setting the evening’s tone with their array of sound-making devices. @sonofearthfleshonbone and on Nov 28th there will be a screening of FAUST (1926) w/ Pipe Organ Score by Peter Krasinski! Check out the website so much more happening https://www.epsilonspires.org/upcoming-events donate link in my bio. Please be in touch if you’re interested in connecting to Epsilon Spires as well! Peace and love 💛🎃💛 taken in Epsilon Spires by @lilyruskroda

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Scenes from @museum_of_music_technology_mmt with @ted_gordon watch full program on @youtube such an amazing Museum and the EMEAPP/MMT’s special exhibition Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla is not to be missed! So much cool programming going on! 🚀⚡️🚀 by @lilyruskroda

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Highlights from a day at the Museum of Music Technology located in Harleysville, PA USA

Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla
Hands on exhibits production electronics were available. Additional historical prototypes and technologies are also seen. One of the directors kindly showed the details from a very early Don Buchla circuit.

A film screening in the afternoon and a lecture and performance in the evening.

AFTERNOON AT THE MOVIES — Subotnick: Portrait of an Electronic Music Pioneer

Don Buchla in the Cybernetics Moment: Exploring Buchla's Place in 1960s San Francisco Featuring Ted Gordon and Marcia Bassett
@ted_gordon @lilyruskroda

Lecture/Discussion and improvised duo performance using Buchla instruments

Check out the 2026-2027 Instruments That Talk Back: Celebrating the Legacy of Don Buchla event series for more Buchla history and performances.
https://emeapp.org/buchla-exhibition/

MMT Powered by EMEAPP:
Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project

@emeapp @museum_of_music_technology_mmt

#buchla #liveelectronicmusic #musictechnology taken in Harleysville, Pennsylvania, USA by @lilyruskroda

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The psychedelic effects of LSD have been well documented. But what about the psychedelic effects of electronic musical instruments?

In the early 1960s, Don Buchla made a living designing circuits that translated biological phenomena into electronic signals, building instruments for the blind and experimental sensors for NASA research into manned spaceflight. These devices didn't just report on the senses. They hinted at the possibility of changing them.

Then his friend Owsley Stanley began flooding San Francisco with hundreds of thousands of doses of LSD, and Buchla found another technology that promised to alter his senses, and his consciousness.

Join us on October 3rd at 8PM at the MMT in Harleysville, PA as musicologist @ted_gordon explores Buchla's place in the 1960s counterculture, including his relationships with Stanley and Timothy Leary, his work on the legendary 1966 Trips Festival, his involvement with the San Francisco Tape Music Center, and his interest in psychedelic technologies.

Following his lecture, Gordon will be joined by Marcia Bassett @lilyruskroda, a frequent collaborator and NYC noise legend who regularly performs with Buchla instruments and guitar, to perform an improvised duo, articulating some of the ideas developed in the talk.

Tickets are available at tickets.theMMT.org and we'll see you when you get here!
#donbuchla #further #kenkesey #museum #buchla taken in Harleysville, Pennsylvania by @lilyruskroda

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@lilyruskroda -guitar, @indre____ -kankles, @dontstartevil -pedal steel, @clopez_sz_ -electronics 9/11/26 at Sunview Acropolis

Hear more Marcia 👉 https://yewrecordings.bandcamp.com

Hear more Indre 👉 https://stroomtv.bandcamp.com/album/despu-s-de-llover

Head more Ximena 👉 http://ximenabedoya.squarespace.com/

Hear more Cecilia 👉 https://cecilialopez.bandcamp.com

#marciabassett #indrejurgelevicite #ximena #cecilialopez #sunviewacropolis by @lilyruskroda

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🔥 SHOW ALERT!!! 🔥
LE ZIG NO. 2 (my new arthouse music series)
9/19 STAMFORD, NY
THE CARRIAGE HOUSE // 76 MAIN STREET

💥Marcia Bassett (@lilyruskroda creates uncharted realms, Brooklyn, NY)
💥 Scott Helland (@guitarmyofone spy noir surf punk, Hudson Valley, NY)
💥 Collin Crowe (@crowecrowechanel synthpop noir, Brooklyn, NY)
💥 and me, your hostess and enfant terrible 💃🏻

PRESENTED by Stamford’s fabulous indie station @thepull_wpul et moi!

20 cash @ door
6:30 doors, 7:00 freakout

Marcia Bassett is a musician // artist based in NYC. Her work explores sound collage, improvisation, and audiovisual environments. She explores and connects uncharted realms filled with strange ideas and abstractions. She is the founder of Yew Recordings and is also known for her solo
work as Zaïmph, a project she initiated in 2005. She frequently collaborates with others, including Samara Lubelski, Chuck Bettis, Taralie Peterson, Ted Gordon, Thomas Dimuzio, and Ursula Scherrer.

Scott Helland is a Hudson Valley guitarist known as Guitarmy of One. With his Fender Acoustasonic Jazzmaster, he pivots from the guitar’s built-in acoustic/electric features and adorns and grounds the sound with loop pedals and electronic percussion. He is the co-founder and bassist of the legendary 80s Hardcore Punk band Deep Wound with J Mascis and Lou Barlow (Dinosaur jr) and also the guitarist of the Post-Punk duo Frenchy And The Punk.

Collin Crowe is a New York-based electronic musician known for his dark, beat-driven analog synthesizer tracks. He creates punky electronic noise pop for the end times using a raw, unfiltered approach. His new album Endmusik blends minimal synth, post-punk, industrial, and Italo disco, juxtaposing human vulnerability with societal decay.

Glockabelle shreds two Casio VL-Tones, a glockenspiel with eight thimbles and likes to shout in French.

HUGE thanks to @__eva__green__ for making this incredible poster 💕

Hope to see you there!!! 🎷🎹📼🎶🥁 by @lilyruskroda

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Morning mushroom pics at Silver Lake 🏕️💛🌕🍄🍁 by @lilyruskroda

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Amazing weekend in Putney VT. Wrapped up the trip stopping in to visit Jon Hendricks and pick up some goodies for the archive. A few envelopes were opened revealing collaged Beatles record covers sent by fans to the Nutopia Embassy. Can’t wait to open the rest of the envelopes sent to One White Street and sealed since Aug 14 1974! 52 years!

The Nutopian Embassy operated out of One White Street and also served as the headquarters of the National Committee for John and Yoko, established by Jon Hendricks on a volunteer basis to build public and artistic support against the Nixon administration’s politically motivated efforts to deport John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

Fun fact, Jon and I have worked together since 2013, but we soon realized we also had a Putney, VT, connection. I’ve been going to Putney every summer since the early 1970s, staying at various houses just down from Jon’s house! Jon and I have also been intersecting since the late 90s, when I was writing about Fluxus and ended up working for Barbara Moore at Bound and Unbound, where I also met Michael Bernstein @michaelrbernstein and invited him to come out and jam with Double Leopards. The air is clear and exhilarating. Let the bridges that are built be varied. Transformation is real. #nutopia #Youbetterfreeyourmind

The concept of Nutopia was announced on April 1 1973 We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NUTOPIA.
Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NUTOPIA.
NUTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people.
NUTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic.
All people of NUTOPIA are ambassadors of the country.
As two ambassadors of NUTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and its people.

#johnlennon #yokoono by @lilyruskroda

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Alpha State with @keithfullertonwhitman is up for streaming @thelotradio had a blast spinning LPs played some records I picked up at @lionvibes_shop in Brixton and wrapped things up with “Marijuana Summit”Don Cherry & Terry Riley LP I picked up from @ergotrecords last week. Lots of other oddities and rarities played and selected in real time with Keith who also had just been @humanheadnyc and picked up a bunch of new LPs. Share music with friends and support your local shops! ✨🎚️❤️ https://www.thelotradio.com/shows/alpha-state/2026-08-10-1900 by @lilyruskroda

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October 3: talk and performance with @lilyruskroda at the @museum_of_music_technology_mmt !

This is part of their extraordinary Buchla exhibition, “Instruments that Talk Back,” which will feature 100, 200, 300, 400, 500 series systems & modules, custom EEG modules, the infamous Sili con Cello, several incredibly rare prototypes, at least 4 historical Music Easels, and contemporary instruments! Well worth the trip up from Philly or down from NYC!

Other events will feature Todd Barton, Ezra Buchla, Suzanne Ciani, Joel Davel, Ryan Gaston, Mark Goldstein, Steve Horelick, Mike Hunter, Steve McQuarry, the MEMS Project, Ami Radunskaya, Sarah Belle Reid, David Rosenboom, Stephen Ruppenthal, and Barry Schraeder—everything live-streamed as well!

(And while you’re down in Harleysville, please do yourself a favor and book a tour of the MMT, which has one of the most complete, if not *the* most complete, collection of electronic music instruments on the planet!)

Link in bio for tickets & livestream :) by @lilyruskroda

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