Basilica Hudson & LGW present the return of 24-HOUR DRONE

The event activates the entire Basilica Hudson campus through audio/visual art installations and food pop-ups, with music centered in Basilica Hudson’s 6,000 sq. ft. Main Hall. Performers will be situated in the center of the room at floor level with attendees surrounding them, dissolving the usual hierarchy between performer and audience. More info about 24-HOUR DRONE via Basilica Hudson's website. 

Program

As longtime 24-HOUR DRONE co-curators, Le Guess Who? will present a special set by Dragonchild. The solo project of Ethiopian saxophonist DA Mekonnen (of Debo Band fame), whose eponymous 2023 debut was celebrated as a pioneering and genre-hopping effort by outlets including FADER, The Guardian, Bandcamp, and more.

Furthermore, the all-encompassing and immersive event will feature curated performance blocks from cultural partners. Visionary record label and Brooklyn-based music institution RVNG Intl. presents sets by poet and healer Rena Anakwe’s A Space for Sound and Black Deccelerant, a duo fearlessly improvising ambient meditations on Black being and non-being. Eclectic, international, and cutting edge booking agency Heavy Trip presents sets by both Alex Zhang Hungtai and Nadah El-Shazly. Dripping, the genre-breaking club promoters present unearthly gong vibrations from Sphente, Butoh movement from azumi O E, interstellar sax from Earthen Sea, and balearic departures from Space Tak.  

Additional performers including: renowned orchestral and electronic composer Tyondai Braxton; ethereal torch song atmospheres of Ana Roxanne; adventurous new music collective Ghost Ensemble performing the work of Ben Richter and late, great composer Phill Niblock; druid-inspired Irish psychedelic drone folk duo Moundabout; psychedelic space rockers White Hills; Cowboy Sadness, the “jambient” supergroup featuring Peter Silberman (The Antlers), David Moore (Bing & Ruth), and Nick Principe (Port St. Willow); mirrored fatality, an underground interdependent experimental noise punk farmer duo mobilizing a warrior community for mutual aid and other liberations; and Push for Night & Jon Mueller, a great team-up of the experimental electronic duo and revered percussion innovator. 

For a full outline of the program, visit Basilica Hudson's website. 24-HOUR DRONE will be broadcast live on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM in the Upper Hudson Valley and online at wavefarm.org/listen.