HEFT TRANSMISSION: 29 SPEEDWAY presents LARGE! [Alex Zhang Hungtai x medium.], SCRAAATCH, Dekalb Works

​New York-based performance series 29 Speedway is excited to curate an evening at HEFT Gallery as a part of TRANSMISSIONS, a four-week installation featuring Joe Doucet’s new diffusion-based sculptural listening system 'Volumes'.

There will be two shows with limited seating.

​Early Show @ 5PM | Late Show @ 8PM

​Live performances by LARGE! [Alex Zhang Hungtai x MEDIUM.], SCRAATCH, and Dekalb Works

​29 Speedway (29S) is a music series, art collective, and record label with a focus on experimental electronic music and anti-disciplinary art. Founded in 2020 by Ben Shirken (a.k.a. Ex Wiish), 29S has hosted 50+ shows worldwide, working with artists such as Evicshen, James K, Flora Yin-Wong, Orchestroll, Dorothy Carlos, James Hoff, Jake Muir, Arushi Jain, Poncili Creación, Young Boy Dancing Group, and others. 29S has curated at Dripping Music & Arts Festival, Sustain Release, WSA, Rhizome, Pioneer Works, Market Hotel, IRL Gallery, Public Records, Light And Sound Design, and across Europe.

​SCRAAATCH consists of E. Jane and chukwumaa, aka MHYSA and lawd knows. SCRAAATCH focus on Black diasporan intra-communication, generational traumas, social upheaval, and the social conditions of urban environments. They source sounds, images, and physical objects that represent ever-morphing urban and digital landscapes, reflecting on the socio-political dynamics within these spaces.

​Alex Zhang Hungtai is a musician and composer. A member of a free jazz trio, he has also recorded film soundtracks for several documentaries and directs music videos. He previously released several albums and EPs under his now retired alias Dirty Beaches. He is currently exploring improvised music, working predominantly with saxophone, synthesizers, and percussion. Hungtai lives and works in New York City.

​medium. is a NYC-based “death ambient” and hardcore project by non-binary interdisciplinary creative partners yaz lancaster & gg200bpm. They perform longform experimental compositions and ritualized improvisations utilizing unique electroacoustic instrumentation: suspended buzz saws, handmade oxygen tank bells, violin, voice(s), synthesizers, keyboards, sample(r)s, DJ controllers, and sequencers. Their live music considers tension and release; spiritual energies; and collective experiences – situated in the extremes of harsh noise and glacially-paced ambient drones.

​Dekalb Works’ is the collaborative project of AC Williams (Vision Fortune) & Daniel Creahan (Alien D). Born out of a shared deep sociological interest of dialects and cultural frameworks, and the effects these have on meaning within modes of speech, the pair here delve into the dialects of their own beginnings, mining US/British regional accents and weaving these situational scenes through a textured, intentionally disjointed, hand made soundscape of bass tension and fleeting, glistening melody – adding additional layers of emotion and meaning to everyday observations of language.