lineup
menu
salads
- Elote-style Pasta Salad with Black Beans and Cotija
- Squash Carpaccio with Trini seasoning, capers, and pink peppercorn (vegan)
- Kohlrabi and Cabbage Salad with cashew dressing, spring onions, and snow peas (vegan)
mains
- Red Palm Oil Farofa
- Black Eyed Peas with Black Tucupi (vegan)
- Savory White Corn Pudding (Acaçá) (vegan)
- Spiced Stewed Nopales with Peanuts, Raisins, and Papalo (vegan)
- Beetroot and Tofu Terrine with Field Garlic (vegan)
- Roasted Peppers, Onions, and Zucchini, fajita-style (vegan)
- Mexican Pizza with Refried Beans and Peppers
desserts
- Yuca and Coconut Cake with Guava and Orange Compote (vegan)
- Brazilian Carrot Cake (Bolo de Cenoura) with Chocolate Ganache
lore
As we all draw back from pimping ourselves on social media, we want to use this space for more writing – about our artists, whom we’re hype to host, about our food and why it means so much to us, about some ideas for building community that we hope to foster, and about what our Fiber fam, past and present, is up to. This is just the beginning. We’d love to hear from you, if you have anything you wanna contribute, or rap out about.
Some housekeeping, first, as Fiber resident fuge aka música de tensão is hosting A.B.E.L.A. tonight at L&SD. A.B.E.L.A. or the Asociación de Bateristas ElektrónikXs de Latinoamerika, is a true collective – they call it a sindicato, or union – and they push as equally for the rights of musicians as they push the boundaries of the diverse embodied Latin American rhythmic traditions through electronic innovation. One of our friends, the sindicalista Matük, put us onto them last year and we catch them every chance we get. You can’t find A.B.E.L.A.’s music online, and that’s intentional, you have to be there for the ritual of its performance.
Below you can find a description of our next party, some more Fiber lore, and info on our artists.
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 6p, PTP edition
with:
FAUZIA (hybrid)
fuge (dj)
KING VISION ULTRA (live)
myu 無 (dj)
subt.le (live)
Swaya (live)
This Fiber is a collaboration with PTP (Purple Tape Pedigree) one of the best incubators of NYC’s underground edges since 2009, a label and multimedia platform informed by the various new music genres of hip hop, noise, metal, club music, bedroom pop, and every release tends to draw from a combination of all of this. PTP truly embodies the experimental and chaotic spirit of the best that this city has to offer. Expect a night of experimental soundscapes that pull from ambient, deconstructed club, field recordings, folk, industrial, jazz, ritual music, poetry, techno, torch songs, and trap. We’re gonna make the studio as comfortable as possible, and make a big spread of plant-based food so that you can really go auditory traveling. DJ sets from Fiber residents fuge and myu 無 will bookend a night of live sets by PTP crew members KING VISION ULTRA (aka GENG PTP), subt.le, Swaya, and a hybrid set by FAUZIA, in from the UK. The NY Cultural Solidarity Project will be tabling and speaking with us.
The NY Cultural Solidarity Project is a mutual aid project and generative community hub for cultural workers organizing in the imperial core. We aim to make the cultural movements for liberation sustainable through collaborative event curation, community-oriented structures, popular education, and direct aid via our Cultural Solidarity Fund. We especially look to uplift cultural workers currently facing repression for their artistic, vocal, and demonstrable support for Palestine. If you want to support them directly via Venmo…
PTP (aka Purple Tape Pedigree aka Power Through People aka Protect The Peace) is an artists’ collective and label made up of counter-industrial purveyors of weaponized media and information. In addition to their deep catalog of releases (including 2024’s RESIST COLONIAL POWER BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY, a 95-track compilation raising funds to put into Gaza and Haiti), they hosted the 12-hour RESISTANCE STREAM and the performance series called Silent Weapons to raise money for organizations including Books Through Bars, The Bronx Freedom Fund, Black Alliance for Just Immigration, and Kids in Need of Defense.
LORE: 點心 [DIM SUM]
We often go together to this restaurant Bodhi in order to get 點心 [dim sum], and have most of our off duty parties there. It’s here that we plot Fiber. We also get ideas about how to eat and how to share. Chinatown still has NYC’s beating heart in it, and the way that prices are fixed and their shops are open is a powerful history about community control.
Dim sum, when translated literally, means to touch the heart. The concept of dim sum goes around the concept of 飲茶 [yum cha], meaning literally to drink tea. Yum cha is a ritual communal practice in Chinese culture. Locals would regularly go to tea houses, often open from earlier than the break of dawn through late at night, to have tea and dim sum to commune around the joys and woes of home, community, society. This is what we do at Bodhi, a vegan/buddhist spot that’s like our diner, they’re open all day long, there’s (almost) always a table, the food comes fast and is relatively cheap for such high vibrational fare. Eat your veggies, and slow down. This is breaking bread.
飲茶 [yum cha]:
Tea is not just a beverage. It’s an interruption in the day, a happy one, perhaps. To brew tea, you are to match your pace with the pace of the tea. The leaves dictate your time for a moment, during which you commiserate or chat or both with yourself and/or others. During that rupture, connection is made. Then you drink the tea, and it flows through you and your tea partners. In that moment, time is unified.
點心 [dim sum]:
Dim sum follows with the tea, as tea nourishes the appetite. Each time one goes to dim sum, the mood may be different, the cravings may be different, and there’s no shortage of selection. Over the centuries, dim sum has grown to encompass almost more than two thousand different dishes broadly. It’s a melting pot of cuisines, practices, local ingredients, all thrown together under the desire to sate the post-tea appetite. If tea is the opener, then dim sum is the closer.
一盅兩件 [jat zung loeng gin]:
Together, when yum cha and dim sum are married, they make a Chinese idiom 一盅兩件 [jat zung loeng gin], meaning: one pot [of tea], two items [of dimsum]. These create a shared space in which one can find a moment of rupture to fulfill their needs: physical, mental, spiritual. Maybe we don’t have many third spaces in New York City, but what happens when music and dance merge with the underlying fabric of any community, one woven through food, drink, music, and dance? Maybe there’s the chance to find a moment of rupture, of wholeness in a fragmented modernity, to surrender to the tea leaves. For oolong (a favorite), two minutes, 194 degrees Fahrenheit, as many flushes as you want and can. Then move your body with your people.
ARTISTS
(We’ve got a full house, and might even get some special guests stepping in, so we’ll keep this as reasonably brief as possible, but each one of these artists is a world and you should follow the links and read more. We’re always thinking of the concept of the new alongside the concept of roots and honoring where things come from while carving out directions where they might go, and tonight is going to be a big reflection of this.)
FAUZIA is a multidisciplinary artist working in music and sound arts. Her extensive range of musical expression challenges the arbitrary division of genre, and her gossamer voice makes her a singular figure in contemporary electronic music. She’s a composer, a DJ (with a wide-ranging NTS show), a producer, and a vocalist who’s held down prestigious global residencies and graced some of our era’s most advanced stages. She’s preparing a special hybrid set for this show and it’s gonna sound so alive in here.
KING VISION ULTRA aka GENG PTP is a sonic explorer, legacy worker, wordsmith, educator, organizer, a born and raised New Yorker, and the founder of PTP. In the legacy of the Wu-Tang Clan, you might dig a little deeper and see that Geng has many aliases and figures in the credits behind a few dozen releases. We saw Geng play a set at a Tarka fundraiser for Palestine at L&SD and knew we wanted to get him to play at Fiber – it was a murky longform collage that flooded over us, filling out every frequency spectrum of the Klipschorns and literally flooring us. Though you might hear something of what we’re describing in his “slowness as a vehicle” tapes, you really wanna feel this live.
myu 無 is the darkest one in the Fiber family; and their always cinematic sets are built as hymns to a broken world. From Nordic war drums to microtonal folk laments to solitary koto dirges, they combine ancestral memory with industrial pain over a cacophanous palette that encompasses rhythmic noise, experimental DnB, and contemporary classical. Dystopian electronics and archaic atmospheres merge in politically-charged rites that never fully resolve but doggedly drive forward into an unwritten future.
subt.le is a multidisciplinary artist whose multimedia installations explore African diasporic identities and honor his ancestors who comfort him, using archival and found materials, sound collages, visual arts, and other forms to that alchemize harm, disrupt despair, and create audio-visual pathways to an unrepressed spectrum of flourishing feeling. Come sit with us as he leads us through space-time-travel, into a deeper plane of possibility.
Swaya is a producer, DJ, and engineer, whose work encompasses banger club edits, hip-hop beatmaking, and some of NYC’s most dramatic and introspective solo work that synthesizes bossa nova, noise, r&b, kuduro, grime, and ambient through emotive, futuristic sound design. Her restraint, her hazy nightscape vibes, the way that she twists samples so that melodies mutate and voices rise out of the fog, are object lessons for how we try to build sexy tension at Fiber – trust us, we’ve already rinsed her stuff on the system and it is so rich in grain, so detailed, so stylish and yearning, this is sound you wanna be inside of.
We’ll see you all on the 10th. Come early to feed your body, mind, and soul.