Weird Music Night Returns to Ely Center for Contemporary Art
Thursday, April 10, 2025
7:00 PM
Ely Center for Contemporary Art, 51 Trumbull St, New Haven, CT
FREE and open to all!
“An audacious manifesto of chaos, care, and catharsis.”
— Cafeteria, January 15, 2025
“Weird, wacky, and wildly entertaining.”
— New Haven Independent, August 9, 2024
Weird Music Night returns to the Ely Center for Contemporary Art, offering an eclectic evening of experimental music, performance art, and unexpected happenings. Curated by artist and organizer John O’Donnell, the event provides a space for musicians to push beyond the boundaries of conventional venues while introducing visual art audiences to experimental soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from the diverse punk scenes of the 1980s and the mythology of Japanese noise music, Weird Music Night embraces a radical, genre-defying approach to performance.
An Evening of Sonic Experimentation and Visual Synthesis Join us for an electrifying night of audiovisual exploration featuring Andrei Jay and Skull Tower 4E, two groundbreaking projects at the forefront of experimental sound and image.
Andrei Jay, a visionary artist, engineer, and educator, will present interactive video synthesizers inviting participants to engage directly with live, evolving visuals. With a background in mathematics and a passion for creative coding and analog video synthesis, Andrei creates systems that transform code into color, glitches into gestures, and signal into sensation. Their work offers a rare opportunity to play inside the circuitry of visual art.
Closing the night, Skull Tower 4E—the collaborative sound project of visual artists John O’Donnell and Peter Fulop—will deliver a live performance of spontaneous sonic composition. Responding to the imagery of silent film, Skull Tower 4E constructs immersive soundscapes using violin, guitar, circuit-bent toys, and analog tape loops. Their glitch-populated audio environments shift between melody and texture, inviting the audience into a space where experimental sound meets the ghostly flicker of early cinema.
This event celebrates the intersection of technology, improvisation, and art—where visual code becomes music, and noise becomes narrative.
ALSO: The New Haven, CT musician who goes by “Funkbucket will be playing a set. In a recent interview he said, “I am always delighted to play music.” So let’s see what that is all about! How Delightful.
ALSO: There will be a listening party for Pervertert Savant’s new album “Pretentious Detention,” not to be missed!
About Weird Music Night:
Each event features a diverse lineup of artists, from avant-garde musicians and experimental noise acts to theatrical performers and multimedia creators. Expect the unexpected in an evening where sound, performance, and visual art collide.
For press inquiries, interviews, or further information, please contact:
John O’Donnell |. weirdmusicnight@gmail.com | @weirdmusicnight
Join us for an evening of boundary-pushing performance and experimental sound!
