Sonic Space Presents Farewell Phoenix, Heirloom, Pile Scraper, and Quiet Evenings
December 19 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
$10
Friday, October 19, 2025
Doors 7PM | Music 8PM | $10 suggested donation
Farewell Phoenix is the experimental music project of Vietnamese-American artist, video animator, writer, composer and synthesist Lynn Nguyễn Fister. She often combines layered and processed choral vocals, sampled with granular and modular synthesis techniques, feedback noise and field recordings. Prior to Farewell Phoenix, Lynn recorded as Aloonaluna, often on her own now defunct label Watery Starve Press. It was featured on NPR’s All Songs Considered and Pitchfork’s the Out Door. Reviews describe her work as angelic, fuzzy soundscapes like moss-covered feathers, stretching and breathing with atmospheric beauty. Currently based in Marshall, NC she co-runs Drones in the Garden in Asheville, since 2021. Lynn is now recording her second full-length album as Farewell Phoenix, processing a Celtic harp through her modular synthesis system and pairing it with her dense vocal work and field recordings.
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Heirloom
Since 2005 Andrew Chadwick has performed as Ironing in hundreds of shows all over the USA, and even in Europe. An elderstatesman of the noise and experimental underground of the Southeast, he’s an archivist, actively documenting literally every show (not just the ones he’s orchestrated) for more than 20 years now. Andrew co-founded Action Research in 2007 with Hal McGee, with guidance from Christopher Miller of Electronic SubSouth. You can watch more than 1200 Action Research videos on YouTube, and the show posters are an artform all on their own. Playing an Actions Research is a rite of passage, but seeing its engineer perform is truly a treat! As Heirloom, Andrew takes his everything and the kitchen sink approach and applies it to craft warm ambience soundscapes.
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Pile Scraper
Since 2005 Jeffry Astin has been true to one of his most original and renowned monikers, Xiphiidae, migrating as the swordfish in that family of marine life do. The bulk of his discography, like the majority of his equally legendary label Housecraft, was captured and let loose across the South and the world from his humble residences in Gainesville, FL. Xiphiidae is the long-running solo project by Jeffry Astin, label head of underground cassette institution Housecraft. His highly abstract style, spanning over 40 releases, draws from modern and ethnic drone, tape music, musique concrète, kosmische, and lo-fi aesthetics, creating work that defies easy categorization. In the last few years he’s been joined by collaborator JP Wright as Ahem and Brian Kinkaid as I, Conduit. Currently residing in Athens, GA, Pile Scraper is a new trio effort between Jeff, Chase and Sean. If it’s anything like what we’ve come to expect from Jeff’s various solo and collaboratory projects, it’ll likely include loops of samples pulled from the outskirts of funk, soul, jazz, and pop treated with massive doses of warped pitch, delay and distortion. And you’ll likely be left feeling like you just tuned into someone else’s head trip, cause you did, and it is all the things it should be: sweaty, disorienting, blurred patterns pulsing, and most of all downright beautiful.
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Quiet Evenings
Active since 2009, Quiet Evenings is the longtime ambient project of Grant and Rachel Evans. With releases on Preservation (Australia), Aguirre Records (Belgium), Tranquility Tapes (NYC), and their own boutique label, Hooker Vision, the pair have developed a hazy, synthesizer-driven sonic stew, often enriched by field recordings, guitar, cello, & Rachel’s vocals. Grant and Rachel are also each successful solo recording artists. Together their shared discography includes more than 200 musical works on vinyl, CD and cassette labels across the globe since over the close to two decades since e they met. Their releases have been reviewed in The Wire, Pitchfork, the Quietus, Time Out New York, NPR, and Brainwashed.com to name a few. They have also performed at prestigious venues like John Zorn’s The Stone, and been invited to participate at festivals including Hopscotch, SXSW, and Slingshot. Locally they have performed at the GA Museum of Art, and had visual works and musical performances exhibited at ATHICA, Cine, and Tiny ATH galleries.