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RABBLE: Black Aesthetics X FourOneOne
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Judson Memorial Church
The result of a yearlong conversation between FourOneOne and Black Aesthetics curators Arien Wilkerson and Malcom-x Betts, RABBLE is an extended, evening length program exploring manifold states of radical creativity as they meet the present political moment. RABBLE invites you to listen, hang out, watch, socialize, take refuge from and confront our political realities together across five hours of happenings, showcasing the decolonial noise-lyricism of Philadelphia's Asphalt Savannahs, ambient/improv duo HxH in collaboration with experimental filmmaker Laura Sofía Pérez and dancer/choreographer Kayla Farrish, Palestinian folk songs reimagined by Sijal Nasralla's Durham, NC-based dream pop band Dunums, the animistic feedback ritual of noise-technologists Qiujiang Levi Lu and Kwami Winfield, and an agit-prop dance/electronics set by Black Aesthetics founder/curator Arien Wilkerson. Free w RSVP.
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Year End Celebration
December 10, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Trans Pecos
Save the date for a year-end celebration with Luke Stewart, Lesley Mok, Alexis Marcelo, DJ Jeff Brown, Che Chen & more.
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أحمد [Ahmed] in Residence
February 19, 2026 at 8:00 PM
ShapeShifter
FourOneOne is proud to present the UK, Sweden, and France-based أحمد [Ahmed] for a three-day residency in New York. أحمد [Ahmed] is a jazz quartet conceptually grounded in the life of Ahmed Abdul-Malik, the visionary 20th-century New York City bassist, oudist, composer, educator and philosopher. While their approach does include playing compositions written by Abdul-Malik, أحمد [Ahmed] is no repertory band. The group—pianist Pat Thomas and saxophonist Seymour Wright, both from the UK, Swedish double bassist Joel Grip and French drummer Antonin Gerbal—consider themselves improvisers first, using Abdul-Malik’s thematic material as jumping off points for radical extrapolations. Together they explore, in Wright’s words, the “aggregate awkward wealth” of Ahmed’s traces, including his recordings, teachings, writings, ethics, and practices of experimentation.
