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Max

La Meme Young. teacher, composer.
“the Nadia Boulanger for Ableton weirdos.”
Group Critique Fight Club
@critical_listening

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I’m in your area. Upcoming appearances with @vildava_ @dandeacon and bunch of other heavy hitters. c u.


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I’m in your area. Upcoming appearances with @vildava_ @dandeacon and bunch of other heavy hitters. c u.


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3 weeks ago

I’m in your area. Upcoming appearances with @vildava_ @dandeacon and bunch of other heavy hitters. c u.


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3 weeks ago

I am but a humble music teacher who your husband/wife is losing sleep over whether or not they should email me and schedule private instruction sessions in a variety of topics including but not limited to music composition, studio improvisation, audio engineering, album pipeline preparation, and portfolio review for both college and graduate school programs. don’t lose sleep.


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7 months ago

I am but a humble music teacher who your husband/wife is losing sleep over whether or not they should email me and schedule private instruction sessions in a variety of topics including but not limited to music composition, studio improvisation, audio engineering, album pipeline preparation, and portfolio review for both college and graduate school programs. don’t lose sleep.


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7 months ago

I am but a humble music teacher who your husband/wife is losing sleep over whether or not they should email me and schedule private instruction sessions in a variety of topics including but not limited to music composition, studio improvisation, audio engineering, album pipeline preparation, and portfolio review for both college and graduate school programs. don’t lose sleep.


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7 months ago

Durham NC! I will be in you this weekend for a brief residency at @_boomclub

Friday 5/22 - performing more new material with a DAW 😩😩😩 in support of @colloboh

Saturday 5/23 - the Field Recording Field Trip workshop series returns for the first time outside of NY! we will spend the morning gathering sounds throughout downtown Durham and then head back to the Boom Club lab and turn them into communal composition and production projects, register at the link in flyer or on the Boom Club site.

music is social so be social. goats unrelated.


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1 days ago

Durham NC! I will be in you this weekend for a brief residency at @_boomclub

Friday 5/22 - performing more new material with a DAW 😩😩😩 in support of @colloboh

Saturday 5/23 - the Field Recording Field Trip workshop series returns for the first time outside of NY! we will spend the morning gathering sounds throughout downtown Durham and then head back to the Boom Club lab and turn them into communal composition and production projects, register at the link in flyer or on the Boom Club site.

music is social so be social. goats unrelated.


701
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1 days ago


Durham NC! I will be in you this weekend for a brief residency at @_boomclub

Friday 5/22 - performing more new material with a DAW 😩😩😩 in support of @colloboh

Saturday 5/23 - the Field Recording Field Trip workshop series returns for the first time outside of NY! we will spend the morning gathering sounds throughout downtown Durham and then head back to the Boom Club lab and turn them into communal composition and production projects, register at the link in flyer or on the Boom Club site.

music is social so be social. goats unrelated.


701
17
1 days ago

Durham NC! I will be in you this weekend for a brief residency at @_boomclub

Friday 5/22 - performing more new material with a DAW 😩😩😩 in support of @colloboh

Saturday 5/23 - the Field Recording Field Trip workshop series returns for the first time outside of NY! we will spend the morning gathering sounds throughout downtown Durham and then head back to the Boom Club lab and turn them into communal composition and production projects, register at the link in flyer or on the Boom Club site.

music is social so be social. goats unrelated.


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1 days ago

Experimental mixed bill coming to the room June 8th

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others. He has released music of Whited Sepulchre Records, Deathbomb Arc, and through self-release.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence.
Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Caleb Flood is an artist from VA who explores composition as compost, using acoustic and electronic sounds in an attempt to puncture the membrane.

IRS is a Richmond experimental electroacoustic improvisation trio.

Flyer by @pcedove


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3 days ago

Hosting our friends @vildava_ and @peretsky at 2223 fish in Fishtown! With support from @sohmeproduction and @waterworld_part2. Visuals by @midi_lizard and @signaletc. Tickets at the door. See you there!


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4 days ago

Some highlights from our riveting conversation with @maine.music.alliance , available now on all platforms besides the Swedish app. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe to the show for monthly bonus episodes and access to our discord server at patreon.com/criticallistening


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Some highlights from our riveting conversation with @maine.music.alliance , available now on all platforms besides the Swedish app. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe to the show for monthly bonus episodes and access to our discord server at patreon.com/criticallistening


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4 days ago

Some highlights from our riveting conversation with @maine.music.alliance , available now on all platforms besides the Swedish app. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe to the show for monthly bonus episodes and access to our discord server at patreon.com/criticallistening


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Some highlights from our riveting conversation with @maine.music.alliance , available now on all platforms besides the Swedish app. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe to the show for monthly bonus episodes and access to our discord server at patreon.com/criticallistening


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4 days ago

Some highlights from our riveting conversation with @maine.music.alliance , available now on all platforms besides the Swedish app. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe to the show for monthly bonus episodes and access to our discord server at patreon.com/criticallistening


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4 days ago

Some highlights from our riveting conversation with @maine.music.alliance , available now on all platforms besides the Swedish app. If you enjoyed the episode please subscribe to the show for monthly bonus episodes and access to our discord server at patreon.com/criticallistening


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4 days ago

@peretsky @vildava_ @d0minant_hand @c44277788833999 at @olympus_theater_detroit 6/12 Doors 7 p.m. $10.

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others. He has released music of Whited Sepulchre Records, Deathbomb Arc, and through self-release.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence.
Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Dominant Hand is an abrasive ambient music duo based in Detroit, Michigan. Formed in 2020 by Maritza Figueroa-Garibay and Austin T. Richey, they build their own homemade and modular synthesizers to craft immersive electronic soundscapes.

caitlin c. harvey is a sound artist currently living in Detroit, MI. She creates collaged electronic music, sourcing from original field recordings and rhythms. harvey’s practice of Cyborganics amalgamates her interests in the natural world, spirituality, feminism, and reflections of the post-industrial environment of Detroit. She continues to further her music career in spatial sound, djing, audio technology, linguistics, and releasing her solo work.


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Fuck it, another show. Peretsky and Vildava rolling through from NYC to a new house spot that may be familiar to those who enjoy a good view. DM or email me for the address.


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6 days ago

premiering new works for voice, digital harmonium, and tape this afternoon as part of this backyard fest for @portraitureplatform in Kingston music starts at 2 I’m on around 3:30 come say hi


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premiering new works for voice, digital harmonium, and tape this afternoon as part of this backyard fest for @portraitureplatform in Kingston music starts at 2 I’m on around 3:30 come say hi


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premiering new works for voice, digital harmonium, and tape this afternoon as part of this backyard fest for @portraitureplatform in Kingston music starts at 2 I’m on around 3:30 come say hi


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Peter McLaughlin of the Maine Music Alliance breaks down the amazing experience provided by America’s favorite concert promoter! Psych.

For Episode 17, Peter and co-organizer Scott Mohler explain how local musicians in Portland, Maine successfully stopped Live Nation from opening a 3300-cap venue in their town. It is a truly inspiring story involving musicians organizing to save local spaces during the COVID-19 lockdown, and eventually turning that network out in massive numbers—building a broad coalition, showing up to city council meetings, and convincing local government to modify city building codes that ultimately stopped the development. “It was a good day for the little guys,” they told us. Peter and Scott get into the weeds with us to explain how and why it all went down, and advice for other artists who want to organize against Live Nation in their towns.

Learn more about their org at mainemusicalliance.com. And if you enjoy this episode please consider becoming a subscriber at Patreon.com/criticallistening so we can keep interviewing artist-organizers about pushing back against corporate power in music!


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WED. 6.10: Peretsky / Vildava / Joseph Allred / Spellward

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others.

He is the founder of Group Critique Fight Club, an online class for working musicians that is hosted via Patreon and YouTube, and is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author Liz Pelly. Alper has held teaching positions at The City University of New York, The New York Film Academy, and Atlantic University of Puerto Rico. He has given lectures at New York University, Bard College, Berklee College of Music, The Royal College of Art of London, Robert Schumann Hochschule, SUNY Purchase, and many others.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence. Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, aswell as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.

Spell Ward is a solitary dungeon synth/ dark ambient project weaving dark fantasy atmosphere through minimalist melodies and ancient moods.

All ages
$15 adv / $18 day of
Tickets sold via Resident Advisor until midnight on 6.9
Cash and card accepted at the door on 6.10
NOTAFLOF

3rd photo by Max Branigan


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WED. 6.10: Peretsky / Vildava / Joseph Allred / Spellward

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others.

He is the founder of Group Critique Fight Club, an online class for working musicians that is hosted via Patreon and YouTube, and is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author Liz Pelly. Alper has held teaching positions at The City University of New York, The New York Film Academy, and Atlantic University of Puerto Rico. He has given lectures at New York University, Bard College, Berklee College of Music, The Royal College of Art of London, Robert Schumann Hochschule, SUNY Purchase, and many others.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence. Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, aswell as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.

Spell Ward is a solitary dungeon synth/ dark ambient project weaving dark fantasy atmosphere through minimalist melodies and ancient moods.

All ages
$15 adv / $18 day of
Tickets sold via Resident Advisor until midnight on 6.9
Cash and card accepted at the door on 6.10
NOTAFLOF

3rd photo by Max Branigan


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WED. 6.10: Peretsky / Vildava / Joseph Allred / Spellward

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others.

He is the founder of Group Critique Fight Club, an online class for working musicians that is hosted via Patreon and YouTube, and is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author Liz Pelly. Alper has held teaching positions at The City University of New York, The New York Film Academy, and Atlantic University of Puerto Rico. He has given lectures at New York University, Bard College, Berklee College of Music, The Royal College of Art of London, Robert Schumann Hochschule, SUNY Purchase, and many others.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence. Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, aswell as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.

Spell Ward is a solitary dungeon synth/ dark ambient project weaving dark fantasy atmosphere through minimalist melodies and ancient moods.

All ages
$15 adv / $18 day of
Tickets sold via Resident Advisor until midnight on 6.9
Cash and card accepted at the door on 6.10
NOTAFLOF

3rd photo by Max Branigan


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1 weeks ago

WED. 6.10: Peretsky / Vildava / Joseph Allred / Spellward

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others.

He is the founder of Group Critique Fight Club, an online class for working musicians that is hosted via Patreon and YouTube, and is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author Liz Pelly. Alper has held teaching positions at The City University of New York, The New York Film Academy, and Atlantic University of Puerto Rico. He has given lectures at New York University, Bard College, Berklee College of Music, The Royal College of Art of London, Robert Schumann Hochschule, SUNY Purchase, and many others.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence. Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, aswell as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.

Spell Ward is a solitary dungeon synth/ dark ambient project weaving dark fantasy atmosphere through minimalist melodies and ancient moods.

All ages
$15 adv / $18 day of
Tickets sold via Resident Advisor until midnight on 6.9
Cash and card accepted at the door on 6.10
NOTAFLOF

3rd photo by Max Branigan


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5
1 weeks ago

WED. 6.10: Peretsky / Vildava / Joseph Allred / Spellward

Max Alper aka Peretsky is a composer, educator, and technologist. He holds an MFA in Sonic Arts from The Conservatory of Music at Brooklyn College, where he studied under David Grubbs, Morton Subotnick, Ben Vida, Marina Rosenfeld, and others.

He is the founder of Group Critique Fight Club, an online class for working musicians that is hosted via Patreon and YouTube, and is the co-host of the Critical Listening podcast with author Liz Pelly. Alper has held teaching positions at The City University of New York, The New York Film Academy, and Atlantic University of Puerto Rico. He has given lectures at New York University, Bard College, Berklee College of Music, The Royal College of Art of London, Robert Schumann Hochschule, SUNY Purchase, and many others.

Vildava is a kinetic industrial pop project from New York City led by Dan Lawrence. Fusing pummeling hardware electronics with dynamic vocals and bracing melodic phrasing, Vildava eschews conventional notions of form and genre and aims for sonic liberation.

Joseph Allred is a Tennessee-based guitarist, singer, multi-instrumental composer, and visual artist with deep roots in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky. Their guitar playing draws from diverse musical styles including Appalachian folk, bluegrass, blues, flamenco, and classical guitar, aswell as from folk iconoclasts John Fahey and Robbie Basho, figures of the 20th century avant-garde like Albert Ayler, Derek Bailey and Henry Flynt, and the musical traditions of India, Iran, and the Arab world.They have released music on Feeding Tube Records, Worried Songs, Scissor Tail Editions, AKTI, Island House, Blue Hole Recordings, Garden Portal, Reverb Worship/Future Grave, and their own Meliphonic Records imprint.

Spell Ward is a solitary dungeon synth/ dark ambient project weaving dark fantasy atmosphere through minimalist melodies and ancient moods.

All ages
$15 adv / $18 day of
Tickets sold via Resident Advisor until midnight on 6.9
Cash and card accepted at the door on 6.10
NOTAFLOF

3rd photo by Max Branigan


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Incredibly proud of all 30 students who signed up for my sample based composition course last month and contributed to this 360+ mega sample pack and mixtape, now available for free at lamemeyoung.bandcamp.com, shout outs to Adrian, Chris C, Chris M, Christina, Danny, Dylan, Ethan, Gabriela, J Linden, Jared, Jordan, Keith, Logan, Maya, Mert, Mike, Mikita, Nikita, Patrick, Philip, Stephen, Taeghan, Zina, and everyone else who attended the lectures even if they weren’t able to contribute to the pack I hope you had fun and learned something. Please tag yourself, and for everyone else I encourage you to download the pack and please share with me the compositions you make with it! Proud of everyone, more classes with more teachers coming soon, 2026 is the year we create our alternative institution for sonic arts education. More soon!


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