lineup

• myu 無
• Matthew Cha
• kō-an

menu

appetizers

• Korean Water Kimchi (vegan, gluten-free)
• Jasmine Rice Sourdough (vegan)
• Chive Butter

salads

• Crunchy Thai Vegetable and Quinoa Salad (vegan, has peanuts)
• Celtuce Wood Ear Mushroom Tofu Skin Salad (vegan)

mains

• Lo Mein with Vegetables (vegan, has sesame)
• Tteokguk (Korean Rice Cake Soup; vegan, gluten-free)
• Braised Seitan with Bok Choy and Shiitake (vegan, has sesame and peanuts)
• Roasted Adzuki Tempeh and Broccoli with Wild Mustard Dressing (vegan)
• Bean Curd Scallion Fried Rice (vegan, has peanuts)

desserts

• Ginataang Bilo-Bilo (Filipino Dessert Soup w/ Coconut Milk, Sago, Yams and Glutinous Rice Balls; vegan, gluten-free)
• Thai Tea Coffee Cake
• Japanese Chocolate Castella Cake
• Milk Oolong Bread Pudding
• Vietnamese Coffee Brownies
• Mala Baklava (has cashews and sesame)
• Citrus Fruit Salad with Jasmine Tea Jelly and Cashew Molasses Cream (vegan, gluten-free)

beverages

• Sujeonggwa (Korean Cinnamon Punch; vegan, gluten-free)
• Hojicha Hot Cocoa (vegan, gluten-free)
• Lychee Tea Kombucha Sprtizer (vegan, gluten-free)

post-midnight snacks

• Shiitake Mousse Nests with Water Chestnuts, Shaved Salted Egg Yolks and Chives
• Mini Tofu Musubi with Smoky Maple Glaze (vegan)
• Kamut Chamomile Shortbread Cookies

lore

Hey all! We’re back for 2026! This time, we’ll be dancing until 2am to welcome the Lunar New Year. Come ready to stay late, freaks and geeks, and you might be greeted with some treats from an all-Asian menu ;).

Shoutout to the Live!Sun!Day! and live canteen crews last time for our 24-hour, year-end extravaganza, and all of you for coming through to a special edition of Fiber (sets from that volume are here). Looking back, we never really thought about what Fiber could end up becoming. We’re so grateful to the artists, the crew, and also all of you deep listeners and dancers for the support and inspiration.

To capture some of the memories from our parties over the last year and a half, we’re proud to announce the launching of our web archive at https://fiber.casa. We’re about to have our fifteenth (!) installation, so we thought it was important to have something online to showcase what we’ve done and how far we’ve come along. Every party has its own page, on which you can find links to the various sets that we’ve recorded, as well as the lore and recipes published in each newsletter. We keep trying to move away from extractive tracking commercial apparati, and having a static archive where you can follow the evolution of this community is an important part of that.

We’ve been resting from nightlife this past month, trying to take our bearings, gauge the state of the community, and think about the future of the party. We sit in a place that’s an alternative to nightlife as it usually exists. First of all, nobody is trying to get you to spend money from the minute you get in the door until the minute you leave, although if you can, please support the party at the level you most feel comfortable, because it costs more throwing the party than it brings in in tickets, and we care about paying our artists and the workers fairly. We start our gatherings early and go as late as it makes sense to, which requires a lot of hands. Nothing is rushed or crammed, so everyone can relax and stretch out. There’s time for Fiber and whatever late night adventures you might get into, but you can also go home afterwards completely satisfied and mostly retain your sleep schedules. We also hope you think of Fiber as the whole evening, because we give our all to you, and we love the energy that y’all bring. We have great food all night long, political organizing, hot people, music across the energy spectrum, and freaky dancers. We host sets that you won’t see in a club setting, or can’t experience the same way, and are focused on what the forward-thinking artists are producing and dreaming of in our own city. In a way there’s a little bit of everything, but maybe there’s more to be had, and we haven’t covered everything yet. We read this interview with Anjali Prashar-Savoie about her book Club Commons (anyone want to go in on a bulk order? Shipping from the UK is £40), and learn that queer collective Sistermatic in the UK had professional childcare during their 12 hour parties, or another group, Lilith, built edible swamp landscapes for their raves. What else should we all be yearning for in our parties? What does our Rauschenbergian realist style lack and where is there room for expansion? How can we better fulfill our needs and desires, and even make more, deeper, more pressing desires?

The day after Fiber there’s another Live!Sun!Day, and then, the next Saturday the studio will host the second edition of Endless Spill, this time for Valentine’s Day. You can expect a romantic gathering of ravers looking to get close together and experience some hyperemotionality in the flesh, with Fiber fam Música de Tensão, DJ Synclaire, Kroba, and the incredible downtempo duo coming in all the way from Seattle, Sage, for their NYC debut. We’re looking forward to seeing SLINK back in the studio, and of course February brings Dweller back all across Brooklyn. Happy Lunar New Year and Fuck ICE.

There’s an option at checkout to donate money directly to Tending the Soil, a Minnesota-based community organization, and it goes directly to the resistance on the ground fighting ICE in the Twin Cities.

Fiber brings together music, food, movement, and solidarity at your favorite deep listening space. Inspired by block parties, house parties, and other improvised friends and family celebrations, from the salões de festas of Salvador, Brazil, to the parks and apartments of New York City, we invite our favorite DJs and producers to play personal sets, digging deep into their bags to play music they love that doesn’t fit easily in a club setting, letting them move you in expanded ways. There is a 4-point Klipschorn system, in a lovely and comfortable space, and there is a homemade buffet of high-vibrational vegetarian food to keep you fueled throughout the night. We’re in no hurry, so come early, bring comfortable layers, the food will be good and plentiful.

Opening this Vol 15, Fiber resident myu 無, (lately seen on flyers as myeow 喵), will be starting us off with a selection of neoclassical and jazz from New York through Copenhagen through Tokyo and around the world, crossing modern sound design sensibility with acoustic and folk influences. When the food slows and the stomachs are fed, expect the music to follow the twilight down as deconstructed jazz, punk experimental, IDM, and half-time drum-and-bass cross the threshold into dance.

Matthew Cha, a performer and composer on saxophone and buchla, is gonna run his kit through the Klipschorns for a two-hour live set. Matthew’s driving, frenetic sets take us deep into analog sound married with acoustic power, aka. technojazz. The Buchla was created by a lunatic (in the best sense of the word) physicist who wanted to create an electronic musical instrument, not a synthesizer of acoustic sounds. Defined by complex oscillators with integrated waveshaping, dynamic depth FM, lowpass gates, two-stage looping envelope generators, touchplate control decks (as opposed to chromatic keyboards), Buchlas have a “how to fuck with sound” design perspective that allows for almost completely novel electronic music. Be ready to tunnel and spin through this alien landscape with wet bass drums, sax dialogue, and bloops and bleeps with the one and only Sax Machine.

Taking us through a three hour journey until closing will be Ko-ān, fka Luwan, who will be dialing up the intensity with low-spectrum tectonic frequencies spanning jungle, left-field techno, and electro. With a new name to accompany a new selection focus, Ko-ān’s recent style has focused on kinetic textures that spiral and swerve in a sustained build towards embodied awareness and ecstatic release. Lately they’ve been showing a wide range, from a present sounds session focusing solely on the productions of Japanese artist Lemna, to their recent listening set at Silence Please that emphasizes an eclectic span and versatility. We’re excited to welcome them back almost exactly one year since they first played Fiber.

We also have the Cultural Solidarity Project back tabling with us (see below).

PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT: FUCK ICE

As a daily reminder to everyone, please take the opportunity in your time to fuck ICE up. For a truly inspiring account of how the citizens of Minneapolis have come out in force on behalf of their neighbors to fight against this depraved force, quickly building mutual aid and rapid response networks, read this account by Margaret Killjoy. ICE has become an experiment of federal overreach and authoritarianism in our city and country. The political battleground is clear: this regime and administration wants to consolidate executive power and erode all remaining checks and balances on their impunity and corruption by holding the country hostage. They want the right to detain and execute both non-citizens and citizens with no due process. They want the right to sell out your rights to corporations and call it policy. They want the right to traffick and exploit humans with no consequence, and they don’t believe in the social contract. They want the right to go beyond simple government repression, they literally want to sow terror. Everyone is an extralegal target, and anyone can end up in handcuffs, in a black site prison like alligator alley, and dead, executed by the alienated death squad thugs of the executive branch.

We are living history in one of the key flashpoints that will determine whether the world will develop wisdom and draw the line around our collective rights as global human rights, or if we let the billionaire, technofascist, politician, and Epstein class hunt our citizens, our friends and families, our neighbors, our relatives, our nature, our earth, our global humanity into a bleaker age for their profits. Remember to follow your local ICE watch. If we as civilians cannot protect our civilian rights in the US, then the rest of our beloved earth will be even more unsafe as well. We’re in this together for the long-run.

For us in NYC, it’s @nycicewatch. Some key shit when responding to ICE to keep in mind:

Whenever reporting activity, ensure you include SALUTE (size, activity, location, units, time, equipment) as information. You are providing information that organizers will use to design tactics and strategy. They cannot organize without that minimum information.

Film ICE. Do NOT film anyone who is not against you: organizers, civilians, observers, participants, protestors, de-arresters, rioters. Do NOT police your own people. When in observation, ignorance is bliss when it’s people from your own community acting, but make sure you’re a watchdog and witness of ICE’s impunity. As a rule of thumb for Operations Security (OpSec), assume that all recorded and documented information via electronic and cloud-based means are publicly accessible and retrievable and will be compromised by both friendly and unfriendly parties, meaning be smart about what you want exposed and what you don’t.

Know your rights (KYRs)! Remember, you have the rights to:

• Remain silent and not answer questions,
• Refuse searches or entry when not presented with a judicial warrant signed by a judge (this is not an administrative warrant),
• Know if and why you are being detained or arrested,
• Refuse to sign anything and ask to speak with an attorney,
• Record what is happening to you and others.

Solidarity of goals over solidarity of identity and tactics. Before you act, ask, “Is this action going to move forward our goals?” There are many categories of goals, and many of us are exceptional in one or two specific categories based on our skillset and backgrounds. Goals, just as some examples, can span:

Humanitarian assistance: protecting due process of fellow New Yorkers by showing up during ICE Alerts organized with your neighbors; jamming ICE lines; showing up to immigration court; handing out KYRs; mutual aid; offering housing and meeting spaces; jail support;

Legal power-building: building legal pressure by pressuring municipal, state, and national government through chamber of commerce, town halls, community boards, and general litigation; gathering your neighbors to build a constituency;

Development building: building your rapid response networks; building operations for housing, food, and medical supply chains for vulnerable neighbors; identifying vendors, supporters, and suppliers in the neighborhood; networking known friendly services together; creating a sustainable need-to-service pipeline; archiving and documenting resources and open-source intelligence

Organized subversion: unionizing company colleagues; organizing union policy and pressure around solidarity; strategic direct action; soft/hard boycotts; switching products; creating tech products for civilian good; consolidating open-source intelligence; consolidating power on vendor and supply chain control in your company; whistleblowing;

Electoral pressure: calling representatives to demand no compromise/no funding, primarying non-aligned representatives, running for local offices, pressuring Republican representative overreach by voting them out, pressuring representatives to push for enforcement and investigation of coverup of the Epstein files, and demanding the whip to discipline and expel from the Democrat caucus pro-ICE representatives who cross the civilian picket line (Tom Suozzi and Lauren Gillen in NY).

Communities in NYC are building up towards a civilian Incident Command System (ICS), and that requires people to figure out where to best fit in. There are many roles in an ICS, depending on the scale of the operation, but the key design is that it’s modular, scalable, and agency-enabling. From taking over the Democrat machine to direct action, think about what your resources, coalitions, and tactics can enable you, either as an individual or as a group, to achieve your values and objectives, while also acting with imperfect information. Organizations such as Cultural Solidarity Project, NYC Migrant Solidarity, and New York Immigrant Coalition are ways to start and tap-in to figure out what objectives are needed. If you have friends who are actively organizing, reach out to them. You don’t need a plan in the beginning, you just need to be willing to show up and make or work on a plan.

Remember, keep your objectives achievable, identify your risk level, find your action community that matches your risk level, and plug in with the closest feasible link around you to your neighborhood or network. We can’t all make moves at the federal and national level, but enough states and municipalities and companies and networks with counter-pressure becomes national and international counter-pressure. It takes us all to create a powerful counter-answer across the system.

LORE: THE COOKING (PER ANGEE)

During Fiber, I often overhear remarks about the food we offer:

“It’s one thing to serve food at a party, but the food is actually good.”

“They always have so much food, I don’t know how they do it.”

“There’s MORE?”

“ANOTHER CAKE?”

Yes, we are infinitely proud of our abundance. And yes, we are also pleased by the fact that what we serve is, by all accounts, pretty delicious. But beyond that, it’s really just the fact that by nourishing our guests, Aline and I are also being nourished in turn. We thrive off the ability to provide for you. Knowing that you are consuming and enjoying the love and care in our cooking makes us really fucking happy, and more importantly, it gives us meaning in this life.

I wasn’t much of a cook when I was younger, and this ability didn’t even manifest until I was in my mid-twenties. However, I do remember the amount of cooking that my mother did in my childhood, as there were always family gatherings, social parties, and neighborhood potlucks to attend. My mother always hosted these functions, and I distinctly remember the way that she’d continuously be in the kitchen for hours at a time. Even after the main courses were served — family-style on our lazy susan — she’d still remain in the kitchen, with several other dishes still to come.

My aunties and uncles would chide, “Cathy, come join us! Come eat! We’re waiting for you!”, but my mother would simply laugh and shake her head, tell them to start eating without her, and disappear back into the kitchen. At the time, it bothered me that she would do this, and wasn’t there already enough food on the table? Wasn’t it enough that there were eleven dishes right before us, glistening and gleaming with the wok hei of her talent? I wanted my mother to eat with us, so that we could compliment her cooking and let her know how much we were enjoying it. I wanted my mother to stop working so hard. I wanted her to see and hear our thanks. I wanted her to be part of the experience.

I didn’t understand it then, but I get it now. I understand it all. I’ve become my mother in the exact same way.

You see, it’s not the verbal praise that I necessarily want or need. Although, don’t get me wrong, it’s extremely kind when someone comes up to Aline or me to remark on our cooking — the affirmations are valuable and welcome, and we are moved that anyone is compelled to even say something. But, for me, the want and need is something two-fold: the first part is the ambient processing of everything that’s going on… the eating, the noshing, the drinking, the chattering, the sound of whomever is playing at the moment, the moving chairs, the clinking forks, the exclamations.

And the second part? It’s my giving. It’s my endless, tireless presence in the work of actualizing the menu, whether it’s in the hours earlier in the week from the grocery shopping, the produce acquisition, the bulk purchasing across two warehouses, or from the food preparation, the dried mushroom soaking, the vegetable cutting, the dishwashing, measuring dried goods on a scale, the mixing in the bowl, the scraping sound of my sauté pan against the gas stove, the sweet-hot air from my oven as two cakes bake and turn golden. It’s packing my car with several pounds of food, transporting it all up the stairs to LSD, reheating and stirring and placing them in the right-sized platters and making sure there’s a serving spoon for each dish and gently dusting powdered sugar on a dessert or cutting up tarts into squares so you don’t have to cut it yourself.

It’s the experience of this all that I need.

None of this is that hard. It’s physically taxing, yes, because I cook for fifteen to twenty cumulative hours in the week leading up to Fiber. It’s also mentally taxing, because I’m calculating how many servings I have to make and how many of each ingredient I need to purchase. I even create a planning schedule for myself so that I am cooking enough of the menu every day, so that when it’s the night of and everything is ready to go, I still have enough time to do my makeup and look cute for my own party.

If you ask me why I go through all this trouble for the end result experience that is Fiber? The answer is fairly simple.

I do it because I want to. I stay in the kitchen and keep preparing food while all my friends and all my guests are eating and dancing because I am at total peace and happiness. I do it because I’m caring for people and making them feel good. I do it because I’m able to give people a little moment of comfort and security and a full stomach. I do it because you all have given me a way to express my love and gratitude for the community. I do it because it’s life-affirming.

We live in a really scary time right now. We need to be with good people, good food, good music, good things. If I’m able to make you feel safe, even for just a couple of hours, then that’s what I want to keep doing.

So, thank you for eating our food. And don’t be offended if I’m always in the kitchen!