Sunik Kim is a musician, writer and filmmaker currently based in Los Angeles. Their recent work attempts to unfold problems of perceptual and temporal distortion through computer-generated sound. Their writing on subjects ranging from Korean communism to Conlon Nancarrow has been featured in The Wire Magazine, Pitchfork, and elsewhere. Their latest CD, Formenverwandler, was released on London-based label Feedback Moves in 2025. Tonight they will present Fragments from EVANESCENT SEQUENCE, in which music counts in other music, approximates an infinitesimal limit, and continues counting. Accompanied by a new long form essay on class struggle and cognition, to be distributed in-person.

Matt Carlson is a composer, synthesist, and pianist known for his work as Golden Retriever with Jonathan Sielaff. His work is influenced by the American experimental tradition, minimalism, electronic abstraction, and jazz. He is interested in music’s capacity to articulate ideas that have no equivalent in other forms or mediums. For this concert he will be performing a new composition for piano and electronics, emerging from a process of improvisation over shifting harmonic fields derived from layered string textures. Gradually, these materials coalesce into a set of interwoven themes, where acoustic piano gestures are refracted through electro-acoustic transformations, blurring the boundary between sampled ensemble and synthesized sound. The result is a work that balances structural clarity with textural ambiguity—at once intimate and expansive—revealing a more overtly lyrical and elegiac dimension than much of the artist’s recent output, while maintaining a continuity with the sensibility of earlier projects.

Curated by RM Francis for Nonsequitur’s NonSeq series.