VARIATIONS FOR DUSK 03.20.2025
VONDISY is the collaborative project of Kodomo and Micah Frank. The EP emerged from their shared love for '80s film music, densely stacked textures, and early industrial music.
CHET DOXAS & BLANKFOR.MS: Chet Doxas & Blankfor.ms have been orbiting around each other for a while now. They have collaborated on stage and in the studio, most recently on the Blankfor.ms-composed score for the sublime and heartbreaking video game Pine. Tonight marks their first official live collaboration, with the duo exploring both existing and brand-new compositions.
QASIM NAQVI: Pakistani-American drummer and composer Qasim Naqvi is perhaps best known as a member of acoustic trio Dawn of Midi. Outside of his work in DOM., Naqvi is an accomplished solo artist with a passion for analogue and modular synthesizer systems. His concert music has been performed/commissioned by The BBC Concert Orchestra, Jennifer Koh, The London Contemporary Orchestra, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Crash Ensemble, The Helsinki Chamber Choir, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra(MusicNOW Season) and others. Qasim’s soundtracks for film have appeared on HBO, Showtime, New York Times Op-Docs, VICE Media, at The Tribeca, Sundance, Toronto, Rotterdam and London Film Festivals, at dOCUMENTA 13 and 14, The Guggenheim Museum, The Tate Britain (Turner Prize 2018), Berlinale and others. Acoustic trio Dawn of Midi have released two albums. Their last record, Dysnomia, was acclaimed by Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Spin, The Guardian and the New Yorker. Radiohead personally picked Dawn of Midi as their support band for two sold out concerts at New York's Madison Square Garden for their Moon Shaped Pool tour.
Variations for Dusk
is a concert series created and co-hosted by Micah Frank and Chet Doxas of the duo LARUM. After a post-COVID hiatus, this one-of-a-kind series is back. VFD is thrilled to continue featuring some of the most important names in experimental music.