New Nothing

In response to the (age-old) complaint that there’s nothing new happening in music, EMPAC modestly announces New Nothing, a series of concerts featuring national and international musicians working in the hybridized terrain of experimental-leaning popular music. These groups exemplify a global reality in which music hasn’t just crossed borders but made them irrelevant. Popular music will never be the same.

New Nothing - Boredoms: BOADRUM 9 plus DEERHUNTER

Friday September 11, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall

The New Nothing series kickoff includes two bands, nine (make that ten) drummers, and an evening of noise/music that's experienced not just with the ear but the entire body.

New Nothing: Zs + Little Women

Friday October 30, 8:00 PM | Concert Hall

Zs, the scariest band from EMPAC’s Between a Rock and a Tiny Bell concert, returns on Halloween for a careening set of "[sputtering] Morse code dots of percussion and saxophone"

New Nothing: Prefuse 73 w/ Imnopf, Skeleton$ + Luciano Chessa

Friday November 13, 7:30 PM | Concert Hall

Memories are made of this-Musical time as an escape from being stuck in the past-The absolute relativity of time between now and then-Repetition and the fiction of symmetry in time-The beauty of woven time-Rhythm and meter: how measure and flow communicate-Constructing time: machine vs. man.