Stereo Mandrax (FREE w/ RSVP): Austin Sley Julian • John Blum + Ryan Sawyer • Dan Gitlin + Rose Tang Duo — live event on Aug 9, 2026

Stereo Mandrax (FREE w/ RSVP): Austin Sley Julian • John Blum + Ryan Sawyer • Dan Gitlin + Rose Tang Duo

Ryan Sawyer live at Pianos, New York on Sun, Aug 9, 7:00 PM. Free entry. Lineup, start time and tickets on Ckord.

**Austin Sley Julian** Using prepared guitar, handmade instruments, discarded artifacts and found debris, Austin Sley Julian creates kinetic, physically jagged sound structures that propel at their audiences. Evoking feelings of anguish, frustration, and inherent conflict, confronting the ugly/beautiful instability of our moment and condition. • **John Blum + Ryan Sawyer** **John Blum** is one of New York's most distinctive voices in creative improvised music. A pianist and composer with more than three decades of international performance experience, Blum has developed a fiercely individual style that draws from the legacies of Cecil Taylor, McCoy Tyner, bebop, stride piano, and the free jazz tradition while remaining unmistakably his own. A longtime fixture of New York City's downtown music scene, he has performed and recorded with luminaries including Sunny Murray, Marshall Allen, Han Bennink, David Murray, Peter Brötzman, Dave Liebman, and many others. His performances are celebrated for their explosive energy, technical brilliance, and emotional depth, earning him recognition as one of the most compelling improvising pianists of his generation. **Ryan Sawyer** is an acclaimed drummer, percussionist, and composer whose adventurous musical voice bridges the worlds of free improvisation, jazz, rock, and experimental music. Originally from San Antonio, Texas, Sawyer has been an integral part of New York's creative music community since the late 1990s. His wide-ranging collaborations include performances with Marshall Allen, Charles Gayle, Thurston Moore, Gang Gang Dance, TV on the Radio, Rhys Chatham, and Nate Wooley, among many others. Renowned for his remarkable command of texture, dynamics, and rhythmic invention, Sawyer brings an unmistakable blend of sensitivity, power, and spontaneity to every performance, making him one of today's most versatile and sought-after improvising drummers. • **Dan Gitlin + Rose Tang Duo** **Dan Gitlin** (he/him/they) is a Brooklyn-based Chapman Stickist, guitarist, and general noise making guy. **Rose Tang** is a multi-disciplinary artivist. Her current main toys are piano, electric guitar, voice and words. She's the founder/host of Fuck Fascism Festival.

Starts: Sun, Aug 9, 7:00 PM

Ends: Sun, Aug 9, 11:00 PM

Where: 158 Ludlow Street, New York, New York 10002, United States

Price: Free

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