John Zorn founded The Stone, a project space for experimental music, in 2005. At its former location in the Lower East Side, the venue hosted more than 7,500 music performances, spanning genres from avant-jazz to contemporary classical. In anticipation of The Stone’s move to its Greenwich Village space at the New School for Social Research, The Drawing Center hosts a number of performances by the venue’s alumni, including: Marco Capelli and VJ Andrea Lapsus Pennisi, Zeena Parkins and Thomas Dunn, Marc Ribot, Ikue Mori and Craig Taborn, Sara Serpa, and Brian Marsella.

Zorn previously organized the 2016 series Basement Performances for The Drawing Center, six nights of events that explored the relationship between drawing, music, and cinema. The Stone at The Drawing Center: Music and Visuals will build on interest generated by this series as well as highlight The Drawing Center’s support of projects that explore connections between visual art and music.

Tuesday, September 12, 2017 at 7:30pm

Marco Cappelli and VJ Andrea Lapsus Pennisi

Marco Cappelli is a guitarist known for his intricate compositions that blend psychedelic washes and funk rhythms. VJ Andrea Lapsus Pennisi is a producer, performer, musician, DJ, and VJ who creates visuals for performances by remixing live footage and found audio. At The Drawing Center, Cappelli and Pennisi present Ricercari & Improvisations, for which Cappelli draws on early-Baroque compositional style to create an intuitive musical performance complemented by a color and light environment constructed by Pennisi. Cappelli was a resident at The Stone in 2015.

Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 7:30pm

Zeena Parkins is a pioneering harpist whose practice has links to performance art and avant-garde traditions. In her piece for The Drawing Center, she performs with an installation by light designer Thomas Dunn, whose work has been featured in recent venues in New York, including The Kitchen, Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace, BRIC Arts, and BAM, among many others. Parkins, who had a residency at The Stone in 2015, will also be a resident in August 2017.

Thursday, September 14, 2017 at 7:30pm

Marc Ribot is a genre-crossing guitarist who began his career playing at local bars in Maine during the early 1970s. Ribot was active in New York’s experimental Downtown scene in the 1980s and has collaborated with jazz and soul artists Brother Jack McDuff, Wilson Pickett, and Solomon Burke. Evading categorization, Ribot’s stripped-down, mercurial style is marked by beat poetry and the blues, influences that shine in projects like the Marc Ribot Trio (featuring Henry Grimes and Chad Taylor); Young Philadelphians (featuring Jamaaladeen Tacumah and Calvin Weston); and Ceramic Dog. At The Drawing Center, Ribot presents a performance of live scores for New York-based filmmaker Jennifer Reeves’s Shadows Choose Their Horrors and a selection of Reeves’s short films. Ribot was a resident at The Stone in 2014.

Friday, September 15, 2017 at 7:30pm

Ikue Mori is best known as a member of the seminal No Wave band DNA, and her works combine drum machines and improvisation. Mori is paired with Craig Taborn, a pianist and electronic musician whose projects build outward from traditional jazz performance. At The Drawing Center, Mori and Taborn present Pomegranate Seeds, a film by Mori with a live score by Mori and Taborn. Both artists were residents at The Stone in 2016.

Saturday, September 16, 2017 at 7:30pm

Originally from Lisbon, Sara Serpa is a singer, composer, and improviser, who has received widespread recognition for her wordless singing. Since moving to New York in 2008, she has been performing and composing jazz as well as improvised and experimental music. At The Drawing Center, Serpa presents Recognition, with Zeena Parkins on harp and Mark Turner on tenor sax, a performance that combines projected images with written and improvised music and invites viewers to reflect on Portugal's colonial past. Serpa was a resident at The Stone in 2015.

Sunday, September 17, 2017 at 7:30pm

Brian Marsella is a composer and musician who was influenced early on by ragtime and classical music. Known as a versatile pianist, he has toured internationally with Brazilian percussionist Cyro Baptista’s bands, Beat the Donkey, and Banquet of the Spirits, and is also the leader of the sonic theater supergroup, iMAGiNARiUM. At The Drawing Center, Marsella presents a live score for the 1920 German Expressionist film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Marsella was a resident at The Stone in 2016.