MEMPHIS DRONE

A 6-hour wave of uninterrupted sound featuring 12+ artists in a meditative, immersive drone at Memphis Print Shop. Bring cozy things! MEMPHIS DRONE will feature 12+ local artists performing interlocking sets to create a durational, unbroken wave of sustained sound and music over the course of 6 hours. Attendees are free to come and go, but we hope you will join until the last note rings out to experience the meditative effects of extended, uninterrupted sound. Memphis Print Shop is a wide open warehouse-style space. Performers will be in the center of the room with attendees/ droners on the floor, surrounding in a circle. Bring comfy things! Yoga/camping mats, cushions, blankets, sleeping bags and pillows are all welcome – many droners choose to lay on the floor. Chairs will be available for those who prefer to be seated. Feel free to bring books, journals, drawing supplies, a deck of cards…anything you’d like to enter a creative space. We recommend warm and comfortable clothes, and water bottles for refilling. Drinks and snacks will be available for purchase. Please do not bring motorized/inflating air mattresses, chairs, coolers, or alcohol. In the interest of animal care and safety, no pets are allowed. As always, we are deeply inspired by the 24-hr Drone in Basilica Hudson, our north star drone! Artist lineup coming soon! 5:30PM: Doors 6PM-Midnight: DRONE Follow us on Instagram: @_tennesseedrone_ ********** Tickets: Tickets are offered on a Pay-Your-Wage system. Pay-your-wage is a progressive, honor-system based sliding scale admission model for live events. The notion: pay what you make in an hour. With this model, artistic revenue rises as average wages rise, but performances remain accessible and affordable for all. Address: Memphis Print Shop, 325 Wagner Pl, Memphis, TN Parking: Street parking is available along Vance. Using a rideshare like Lyft/Uber or carpooling is also encouraged! ********** NASHVILLE DRONE is a collaborative presentation by chatterbird, Hyasynth House, Gezellig Arts, Unmanageable Arts, Jenny Davis, and Robert Traxler: JENNY DAVIS is a Memphis-based musician, arts administrator, and community arts organizer. A flutist by training, she has worked across performance, music education, and nonprofit arts leadership. She is interested in creating collaborative, accessible arts experiences that bring together artists, organizations, and audiences through experiences that encourage connection, curiosity, and collaboration. ROBERT TRAXLER started the Memphis Concrète experimental electronic music festival in 2017. He sometimes makes his own music. CHATTERBIRD is a chamber music ensemble that explores alternative instrumentation, stylistic diversity, and interdisciplinary collaboration in order to create thoughtful, intimate, and inventive musical experiences. Formed in 2014, chatterbird performs classical music that skirts traditional boundaries, sliding between classical, jazz, hip-hop, rock, avant-garde, and country, creating a thoughtful and inventive way to discover and experience modern classical music. HYASYNTH HOUSE was founded in 2018 and is a Nashville-based electronic music collective that serves to empower female and LQBTQIA+ artists in the community through the curation of public workshops, showcases, and live music performances. IG: @hyasynth_house GEZELLIG ARTS is the live event services branch of Gezellig Records, an internationally-minded/Knoxville-based independent record label run by Ben Smith, who also organized the 12-Hour Drone events as part of the 2018 + 2019 editions of the Big Ears Festival. UNMANAGEABLE ARTS is a 501c3 non-profit whose mission is to mobilize resources and build power for artists engaged in social change work. We support artist-driven projects that connect across history, culture, and communities, and prioritize projects that are anti-racist and rooted in feminist ideology. ********** This event is supported in part by funding from the Tennessee Arts Commission!