Local Waves at The Local is a new free series at The Local curated by Mike Amari/Chosen Family in partnership with Wave Farm's WGXC featuring Hudson Valley artists performing original music.

Sunbeam of No Illusion is Thayer and Seretan’s first official collaboration on record, though they’ve performed together in a wide variety of contexts since 2023. Drawing on the resplendent natural world of their shared upstate New York the pair calls forth the specters of the valley.

Ben Seretan (Climax, NY) makes music that is always very something: loud, cathartic, gentle, serene, open-hearted, off-the-cuff. Centering joy, his work takes many forms - a 24-hour-long atlas of guitar clouds, secular praise exploding into crash cymbals, tremendously gentle piano chords on a bed of bugs. He also maintains a correspondence project called My Big Break featuring new sounds and new writing every Thursday.

John Thayer is an audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist (chiefly drums and percussion) whose experiential compositions are inspired by a deep attention to the sounds of the natural world. His recordings, centered around a hybrid of studio techniques and improvisatory performance, range from long-form, multilayered ambience to polyrhythmic electro-acoustic collage. Having been a very active member of the New York experimental scene, his compositions and installations bear wide-ranged influences drawn from his many collaborators over the years.

"We need to think small. We need to think local. When all the music ever created is a swipe away on your phone, it's easy to miss the incredible original artists who are making and releasing music right here in the Hudson Valley. This series will serve as an expansion of the Local Waves radio show I co-created with WGXC (which plays all new, local music every Friday 8pm) to further highlight these acts with a free, monthly concert in a fantastic venue at The Local. I hope that folks will use this series as a way of discovering new artists, and getting to know their neighbors in the process." - Mike Amari

More about Local Waves here.

RSVP for the August 12th show here.

Join the Catskill Writing Group for the 3rd in a 3-part series of reading and performance events for Summer 2026.

This one takes place at MissKarret, and features Ric Royer, Angela Moore, Marianne Shannon, and Miriam Atkin.

7pm.

Join Wave Farm and New Ear for an extraordinary Drive-in event at the historic four-screen Hi-way Drive-in, Coxsackie, NY, presented in collaboration with EAI.

Performances from Leila Bordreuil, Evicshen X Anamorph, Kyp Malone (TV on the Radio), Brian Chase (Yeah Yeah Yeahs), Geologist (Animal Collective), Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Gladsone Deluxe, and Victoria Keddie.

Moving images including silent selections from the EAI Collection with live soundtracks by performing artists.

DJ sets from Theo Baker and Mayuko Fujino.

Read more about the artists, organizers, and purchase tickets here here.

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SCHEDULE

5 p.m. Doors

DJ Theo Baker is an artist and researcher excavating overlooked technologies and vernacular culture to create work across writing, sound, and software. He is host of Infinite Contact on Wave Farm R adio WGXC 90.7-FM.

DJ Mayuko Fujino is an artist and the host of Beakuency: Meet Bird People in Hudson Valley! on Wave Farm Radio WGXC 90.7-FM.

Leila Bordreuil is a cellist, composer, and sound-artist based in Brooklyn.

Victoria Shen (Evicshen) is a San Francisco–based experimental sound artist and performer who builds self-designed instruments to push the physical and expressive limits of turntablism, noise, and embodied sonic practice. Anamorph is the visual art practice of digital artist Brendan Dawes (UK) and filmmaker Gary Hustwit (USA). Their work merges design, code, and video to create experiential projections and systems-based cinema.

Kyp Malone

Brian Chase drums for rock band Yeah Yeah Yeahs and NYC’s experimental music community, as well as directing the record label Chaikin Records.

Brian Weitz, also known by his stage name Geologist, is a musician best known as a member of the experimental pop group Animal Collective.

Brendan Canty is the drummer in the Messthetics and Fugazi.

Gladstone Deluxe is a New York-based artist working with percussion and electronics.

Victoria Keddie is an interdisciplinary artist working across sound, video, installation, and performance, whose practice explores the architectures of communication—acoustic, spatial, and technological.

11 p.m. Close

A trail run and walk to raise funds for the Preserve and the Rensselaerville Library! The Ramble starts and ends at the Huyck Preserve's Eldridge Research Center and will take you through the Huyck Preserve's beautiful forests for distances of 2 miles, 5 miles, or 8 miles.