Join artists-in-residence Floy Krouchi and James Brandon Lewis as they present their work-in-progress collaborative project, FKBass Meets Molecular Systematic Music. Blending electroacoustic experimentation with jazz, the duo explores biological principles—selection, repetition, mutation, and chance—to compose a bold, new multi-movement work. In this special session, they’ll share insights into their creative process alongside producer and engineer Mark Bingham, who has been collaborating with and supporting them throughout the project.
Date: Saturday, April 19, 2025 at 3pm
Location: Harvestworks Studio, 596 Broadway, Suite 602, New York, NY 10012
About the Artists:
Floy Krouchi is a sound artist, bass player, and electroacoustic composer. She co-founded Mafucage, a collective ensemble of experimental women musicians, in the 1990s in Paris.
She leads her project, “Bass Holograms,” in various forms—either solo or collaboratively—forming the “Bass Holograms Ensemble,” as in New York with Chess Smith, Mark Bingham, or Emilie Lesbros, as well as in New Orleans, or in a duo with drummer Benjamin Sanz.
James Brandon Lewis is a critically- acclaimed composer, saxophonist, and writer. He has received accolades from NPR, ASCAP Foundation,Macdowell, and The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. He has been described as “ a saxophonist who embodies and transcends tradition” by The New York Times, and a promising young talent having listened to the elders by Jazz Legend Sonny Rollins. The saxophonist has balanced a deep, gospel -informed spirituality with Jazz- abandon and hard-hitting funk-meets-hip-hop underpinning – Rolling Stone Magazine.
Floy Krouchi