vol 14: december 13, 2025

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lineup

Ayanna Heaven
Chaia (Hybrid)
Fuge
Jacky Sommer
Janus Rose (Live)
KG
MIRA MIRA
Omar Ahmad (Live)
Relaxer
Zebrablood

Aline’s Pão de Queijo (GF)
Persimmon Caldo (vegan, GF)
Congee (Chinese Rice Porridge) with traditional toppings (vegan, GF)
Savory Egg Bites
Scallion Focaccia (vegan, contains sesame)
Feta and Charred Scallion Dip (GF)
Grilled Cheese Sticks
Corn Muffins
Fruit and Yogurt Mini Cups (GF)
Pumpkin Crumb Cake
Yuenyeung (Cantonese Oat Milk Tea with Coffee; vegan, GF)

live canteen

Yogurt with Mulberry and Goji Berry Granola, Apples and Grapes
Ginger and Pinenut Cookies
Chocolate and Rye Sunseed Bars
Chestnut Olive Oil Loaf Cake
Blueberries and Cream Coffee Cake
Tamagoyaki Sandwich: Citrus Dutch crunch roll scallion Tamagoyaki (omelet) with mustard greens, yuzu kosho/shisho mayo marinated Japanese mother grain tempeg aged cheddar with Nukazuke (rice bran pickles) Japanese potato salad
Vegan Sandwich: Pumpkin seed oil and cranberry bread, marinated Japanese mother grain tempeh suf (sunflower seed jalapeño dressing), mustard greens and carrot ribbon pickles
Homemade Vermont Style Japanese Curry with Multigrain Rice and Pickles

lore

We’re back and partnering with the Live!Sun!Day! crew for maybe the biggest event that the studio has ever hosted. You can think of it as a party if you want, but we’re kind of thinking of it as a 24-hour rave restaurant extravaganza – a celebration of our partnership with the studio (all the love to the party professionals who make the space happen and help at Fiber: KG, Benji, Greg, Hervé, Eli, Allison, Helen, Kartik, Ale, and Uma) – and we got a wild lineup on the way! After this blowout we’ll be taking a break until February 7, so come celebrate with us and say goodbye to a fucked up year.

Last month, we talked a lot about being inspired by all the art, the artists, and the people. We came out of that Fiber with hearts full of affection and love! It was the first cold Fiber in a bit, and we hope everyone felt warmed and cared for. Thank you to everyone who came to offer kind words and tips to the chefs, the workers, our venue partners, and of course, thank you party-ppl for supporting Fiber! We are flattered, y’all. Our little post-party retrospective was full of giddy moments and saccharine emotions; it’s been beautiful and moving to watch us grow into a small community over the last year and a half. <3

We also have live recordings up from Antron and —, so you can listen more closely to these sets that were too rich to fully comprehend in one listen. Put on your best headphones and close your eyes. We also have – for a LIMITED TIME ONLY – the full 3hr freaky dance set from Fiber faves Bryce Hackford and Dominika Mazurová.

There’s some cool stuff happening at the studio over the next week, things which for us really define the space, and if we weren’t busy cooking for you all, we’d be there every day. Tonight, some of our experimental favorites like Joy Guidry, Yatta, and SCRAAATCH are serving up ambient music unlike anyone else’s. Tuesday is the next installment of the worker’s coop for nightlife initiative. Wednesday, Greg aka Greesh, is spinning for the great bi-weekly Dance Practice, with guided movement from his partner Robin (we love romance), and KG is doing Present Sounds Thursday, bringing it back to where it all began. (We went to the first present sounds at the studio and became immediately hooked). Finally, on Friday Bliss Point will be celebrating 5 years (!!!!!), with a night of live lush electronic sets by musicians who are important to us and have helped shape Fiber.

Then the following week, there’s the seasonal tradition of the solstice sleepover. Come get cute with us and sleep and dream inside of the studio’s holographic sound, drawn out over the course of the longest night of the year. Matük is playing downtempo, and right after música de tensão (aka Chris and Aline) will play one of their rare horizontal sets.

We have the Cultural Solidarity Project back tabling with us, helping bridge the realms of cultural production, mutual aid, and resistance to imperialism and an art that refuses to be co-opted. They are an organization that has been at the forefront of the ongoing Boiler Room boycott, and who support artists and activists facing repression for their artistic, vocal, and demonstrable support for Palestine. They’re actively recruiting people who wanna agitate at the intersection of culture and politics, which certainly is some of y’all. If you want to support them there is an add-on in the cart, which goes directly towards their mutual aid efforts. They’re joined by DJs Against Apartheid, a group of musicians and cultural workers who are committed to using their voices, spaces, and practices to stand in solidarity with the people of the world and Palestinians, with the goal of stopping the genocide and ending 75 years of occupation and apartheid. Some of their most active organizers are starting the night out for us.

Chaia is going to open the night with a hybrid set that fills dreamy techno soundscapes with anti-state and revolutionary Yiddish songs via archival samples, live instrumentation and voice. With a musical background from the klezmer tradition, Chaia’s music, like that of Omar after her, creates ritual spaces that exercise intergenerational trauma and the echoes of ancestral memory.

Omar Ahmad, a Palestinian-American musician and artist, will play a live set of the new music he wrote while in residence at Pioneer Works. Using a combination of rich recorded instrumentation and live manipulation, Omar aims to invoke a proto-genre, natural atmosphere that envelopes his audience in a dark, ritualistic sense of community.

Janus Rose has been involved in the NYC DIY scene for a long time, and is part of Soft Reset and Delusional Records, and she’s bringing a cephalopodic live hardware set for all of us freaks and faeries. A prolific writer, she presented a thoughtful piece at the recent Writing For Raving event about the commercialization of connection and expression in techno-capitalist machinery and code, and the resistance inherent in visceral presence, soundtracked symbolically by a new ambient cassette release.

Relaxer follows Janus to take us deep into the night. We’ve long been a fan of his range, from the live ambient poetry project, In Softening Air, to the cathartic explosions of Cry and Black Eyes, and every fuzzed out swerve between them, executed with the same intensity that he puts into organizing Dripping with Baby Leo and aka-Sol, the latter of which, Sol, will take over and play b2b with fuge, carrying us into dawn with a psychedelic trip that draws tenderness and hyperemotionality out of global sound system music.

After dawn the Live!Sun!Day part of our big celebration officially begins. We love the morning hours of a long party, to chill and to dance in that clean early light, having come through a dark and wild night or having woken up fresh from sleep. Ayanna Heaven’s travels have taken her from the dancehall 1990s of St. Mary’s, Jamaica, through the golden years of Dirty South hip-hop in Atlanta, into the studies in ethnomusicology here in New York where she’s a DJ and Lot Radio resident. She’s a regular at the studio and can dig in across all energy levels. We’re excited to see what she’ll bring to soundtrack the morning.

Zebrablood, one half of the roving Reggae party Blazer Soundsystem, has been playing dub, dancehall, and ragga across the underground and for a long time monthly on NTS. He’s playing with KG, and they’re gonna bring their gnarliest drum n’ bass out to rock the afternoon into an early sundown, but knowing his history, expect some dubplates, dubstep, dub and more dub, and all around deep cuts of the highest vibrations.

Jacky Sommer is simply one of the core DJs of New York City, she’s been shaping the sounds of the underground here for decades both on her own and as Analog Soul with her twin sister, Dat Kat. She’s going to be playing with MIRA MIRA, a multi-instrumentalist and vinyl sorceress who’s done some of the coolest one-woman-band type things we’ve seen behind that booth, and KG, for a completely core L!S!D! experience. For anyone who’s been there for any of KG’s sometimes marathon closings at the studio, you already know, and for those who don’t, you can find some of the best dancers in the city gliding across the waxed floor.

LORE: THE DANCE

We all came together as dancers. You can probably find any of us out on any given weekend in a front corner somewhere that nobody can treat as a hallway, locked in and zoned out, at the furthest point from ingress. We’re dancing, whether in the dark or under a spotlight, eyes open, eyes closed, eyes obscured by sunglasses. Our bodies are taut and loose, responding to whatever is pouring from the speakers, responding to the exercise of our mortal coil, the brush of contact from friends and strangers. We like to stretch and flex every muscle, to stay out there longer than we should, pushing ourselves to become instruments for the music. After some time, our bodies are in a mode of constant and delicious duress, as there’s pleasure in this pain, peace in pain, this stylized pain.
Dancing is intimate in our society; it’s not treated as the natural response to music, when likely for millennia it was the primary one. Many people nowadays are afraid to dance: go to a concert and you’ll see a bunch of people standing still. But it’s probably because they’re afraid to express – to have all these limbs react in unison to the prompt of the music. Afraid to make oneself vulnerable and open to the witness from others, even if the lights are dim and you can barely see anything through the fog, shadow, breath, and noise.

At the latest Writing on Raving event at L&SD this past Wednesday, our much-loved stalwart coordinator/manager/jack-of-all-trades extraordinaire and beautiful dancer Benji, was invited to read a piece he’d written for the occasion. We think his words encapsulate the feelings we share about the importance of dance and the liberation it allows, and the way that we cultivate an environment to make it happen, and so we share this below snippet without further comment. Hopefully it will be published in full somewhere soon:

“I lament the rarity of dance in the wild. There is no wrong way to experience music as long as you are actually experiencing it. If standing still and letting waves of bass wash over your body while your mind is free… well, that is a beautiful thing. But, to be clear, this is not dancing. Even those who are moving to the sounds are not necessarily “dancing.” Dancing begins when you start to express what is inside of you. When you add. When you contribute. Even veteran ravers who deeply love and understand the music and community can find it difficult to fully express themselves through movement for so many different reasons. Safety and judgment being the most common.

Dance is a non-verbal language and as a language, it is used for conversation. It can be a monologue or a soliloquy. You can have a great conversation with yourself. Certainly that is the first step in expression of dance and movement. Dancing freely by yourself, eyes closed, immersed in fog and waves of sound. Flowing, surging, moving, feeling. But there is another level of creativity, connection, and straight up validation that comes with having a conversation with someone who really understands you. Dancing with another person is such an intensely intimate and sensual experience. Often from the outside, dance is portrayed in media and pop culture for sexuality, particularly in white culture. In the 2000s model of consumerist nightlife, any type of dancefloor contact was potentially sexual in nature. Perhaps, that is why all too often our dancefloors feel like a sea of individuals. People dancing close by but not with each other. When instead, a dancefloor at its highest level is a collective of humans deeply engaging with each other and those around them through dance and movement over their shared love of music and celebrating the ephemeral and present community they have created on the floor.”

Y’all, we’re already cooking for our December party! Some pickles are fermenting and Aline’s freezer is slowly getting packed with broths, pulps, and homemade goods that will only feel the heat of the oven over a week from now. This time around, the Fiber crew will again welcome a guest chef: our beloved friend Vivian, who worked as a professional pastry chef in NYC for years, is joining us on the kitchen “decks.”

Just to shake things up a little, here’s a teaser of what we’ll be offering anywhere between 8pm and 8am: Japanese milk bread, sourdough with a neri goma swirl, tofu kare, hot and sour soup, cupuaçu cocoa pave (look it up!), pão de queijo, corn mochi cake, congee, grilled cheese sticks, tucupi culantro soda, yuenyeung and so much more.

!!!! Aline, Angela, and Vivian are totally out of control and nobody is trying to stop them !!!!

Eli and her live canteen project will return to the studio for the Live!Sun!Day! part of the extravaganza. Although we haven’t seen her menu yet, it’s safe to guess that there’ll be incredible baked and fermented goods to keep you all on cloud nine throughout Sunday.

vol 14: december 13, 2025

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