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on April 23
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #17SILENT BARN NEWSLETTER #14: SPILT MILK
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Ok here are the big questions
1. Its almost been a year. Why isn't there a new silent barn yet?
2. What are you guys doing?
3. Where is my shirt?
http://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing/newsletter/issues/spiltmilk
Includes a sweet real estate ballad by G Lucas Crane, relationships with the Queens Museum / Gottscheer Hall / Outpost, A maze-like game about avoiding taxes, archival photos from Gang Font feat. Interloper at the Silent Barn, Kickstarter rewards news, and an introduction to the new chefs in the Silent Barn Kitchen!
ABOUT THE LOGO ARTIST
Reg Bloor is a member of the Glenn Branca Ensemble and of THE PARANOID CRITICAL REVOLUTION, the latter of which performed at The Silent Barn in 2007, 2010 and 2011.
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on March 27
Castle Oscar
commented on a projectStickers? They are currently being made! Should be in our hands in 2-3 weeks.!! :) Shirts? Materials will be purchased this week and production will start this month! :) Show posters? My man, Rob Chabebe, is preparing to make additional prints so we have enough for everyone :) Tapes are next on the agenda. The materials will be purchased this week! But our duper is broken so we need to find a duper to make copies of everything :( does anyone have one they could sell to us? or lend to us? or fix ours?
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on February 24
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #16We are holding a Public Meeting
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We are excited to announce that we are going to hold a Public Meeting on March 2nd. The purpose of this meeting is to answer any questions you may have about our progress while we are still looking for a permanent space to call home. This is the first of a series of Silent Barn public meetings, which we think of as an experiment in group participation!
SHOW DETAILS:
★ $7 - $20 Sliding Scale Donation
★ 8pm - 2am @ The Gottscheer Hall
★ 657 Fairview Avenue ( M to Forest Avenue, L to Myrtle/Wyckoff )
★ http://gottscheerhall.com/
★ http://g.co/maps/4dqqsThis is an opportunity for us to share all of our progress with you in person, and hear your thoughts. This is an opportunity to think about, talk about, and collaborate to imagine the future of DIY art culture in New York, including the some-day real new Silent Barn. This is an opportunity for you to get directly involved in many new Silent Barn projects and put your hands in with us. This is an opportunity for all to be a host again to an incredible music moment in New York, such as Ava Luna's release party for their new record on Infinite Best. This is an opportunity get down to business with the finest krainerwurst in all of Queens, at the Gottscheer Hall.
Get ready to schuhplattle.
AVA LUNA - ICE LEVEL - ALBUM RELEASE PARTY w/ TWIN SISTER & ACLU BENEFIT
http://www.midheaven.com/item/ice-level-by-ava-luna-cd
http://aclubenefit.bandcamp.com/
We finished a new album, "Ice Level," and now it's time to show it to everyone we know. Every time we've finished a record, we've held a release show at the Silent Barn... so for Ice Level, we're proud to celebrate at the first Public Meeting. I'm imagining everyone I know and love and respect gathered together, just like on Wyckoff -- this isn't a permanent space but it's a beautiful step in that direction. and I wouldn't dream of showing our album to our friends for the first time in any other setting.
We just finished a month of touring with Twin Sister and are extremely excited that they're playing with us... and believe it or not, ACLU Benefit played with us at our very first record release show, in the basement of Silent Barn in 2009. This all makes so much sense! - Ava Luna
DIY: IS IT A THING? A PANEL DISCUSSIONhttps://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing
As part of this public meeting, we'd like to bring together the insight and experience of other arts & music organizations in New York City. The practice of being a space for cultural acitivity is always in evolution. Every year, we try to understand art as it it emerges, and how to be a home for new kinds of art; how to maintain cultural meaning in a new space; the evolving forms of support for DIY art; how to handle financial and legal relationships; how our city goverment will choose to relate to us; how being a venue will improve the city and for whom; what makes us stable in our vision and what makes us vulnerable; the kinds of communities that can be a part of our space; our direct relationship to our neighborhood; the value of our real estate; the value of our history; and the general cultural path of our city.
As we envision the next Silent Barn, and as we envision the next New York City, it will valuable to share our stories, speak our opinions, learn from everybody here, and take a look together at the larger cultural patterns in New York.
If you’d like to participate in this discussion, please email djkgamc@gmail.com!
BARN EXAM SCIENCE FAIR
http://silentbarn.org/barnexam
Over 100 people have submitted incredible and absurd project ideas to our BARN EXAM and this is our first chance to take this 3D! We're soliciting project proposals for the evening — from art installations to social experiment parties — to create a larger discussion about projects that might live in the future Silent Barn space, and in any of the performance and art spaces throughout Brooklyn.
We're currently developing even more opportunities for feedback throughout the night, from help wanted tear-outs in the bathroom to a quick door poll about what is important to you all in the new Silent Barn, so feel free to jump in and be part of the process at: shhhbarn@googlegroups.com
PARTY LAB PLANTS POTS
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/projects/party-lab
G Lucas Crane and James Clark will be manning a mobile Party Lab setup to help take minutes for this meeting experiment, by hiding mics in flower pots throughout Gotscheer Hall. They will also have a LISTENING STATION set up for new techs, as well as having past data analysis available for review. Posters of our new Party Lab plans for the future Silent Barn space will also be on view!
KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/in-the-soup/newsletter
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/is-it-a-thing/soup-recipe
We've been publishing our meetings' minutes and progress newsletters for some time now, but the internet really just doesn't cut it. We'll have all our chefs (volunteers that handle different projects) on hand to help answer questions and talk about issues we're dealing with.
GROVE of DICTIONARY TREES
https://sites.google.com/site/paestheticsllc/home/dictionary
Nick Chatfield-Taylor and G. Lucas Crane team up to help share some of our vocabulary with the general public, cassette-style. Check out a sneak peek of Nick's trees at the final Parts and Labor show this weekend!
FOR MORE INFO READ OUR NEWSLETTER
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on December 25
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on December 19
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #14Silent Barn Update
Post CommentThe new Silent Barn Newsletter is out. This week featuring news and pictures from our most recent real estate ventures in Queens, news on the Bed Stuy Community Board Meeting, and an open call to host and be apart of our weekly monday meetings.
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on December 9
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #13New Newsletter Up & Kickstarter Award
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We've been looking at some great spaces. Think about all the possibilities!
KICKSTARTER UPDATE
Can you believe it? We won Village Voice’s Web Award for the Best Kickstarter Campaign. Nat Roe accepted the award on our behalf. Check it out: Village Voice Web Awards
Want to know what we've been working on? For more updates check out the new Silent Barn newsletter distributed on 12/8. If you want to know even more about our progress check out our minutes updated on 11/28.
Once again, thank you for all the support! Its because of all of you that all of this is happening!!!
xxx, The Silent Barn
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on November 27
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #12Smurf Villages
Post CommentUpdate on everything happening at The Silent Barn; our new Bike Gang, Legal Experiments, Website Accidents, a Buke and Gass video from the Archives, another hypothesis about Jordan Michael Amc proven with Party Lab, a and photos of a new Party Lab expansion in Rotterdam!
Smurf Villages - In The Soup
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on November 19, 2011
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #11Gifts in the works!
Post CommentTo everyone that supported us through Kickstarter, thank you all for being so patient! We've been focusing almost the entirety of our attention on real estate, since this project means very little without a physical space, but we're as excited to make stickers and cassettes and t-shirts as I'm sure you all are to receive them and we'll be working on getting some of the rewards ready to mail out before the new year.
If you wanna check out all of the stuff we've been working on in the meantime, check out the In The Soup section of our in-the-works Paesthetics website!
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on September 23, 2011
Castle Oscar
Posted project update #10Thank You
Post CommentThe Kickstarter is closed! The campaign is over! Expect some surveys soon about getting you all those wacky rewards :)
Now we just continue to search like mad for the amazing space to unroll our next incarnation (Old german beerhalls! Delapidated churches! Get a bike a join the hunt with us!), while working on opening a local bank account (at this Bushwick/Bed Stuy-only bank called Brooklyn Co-Operative) for our newly formed LLC named Paesthetics LLC (the term is shorthand for how we’ve described the interior decor and mentality of Silent Barn) and finalizing of fiscal sponsorship (i.e. becoming a legitimate non-profit) through Flux Factory (an inspiring alternative arts and residency space in Queens).
This will be our last official Kickstarter update. After some development of a website for this project, we’ll have a newsletter for you all to join if you’d like, but in the meantime, please visit our volunteer group to be involved with all the planning and brainstorming: groups.google.com/group/shhhbarn
Also, if you haven’t yet taken the BARN, you should give it a whirl. It’s a brief list of questions for people interested in being more directly involved with the Silent Barn for it’s next incarnation, which is going to be run by a much broader base of people: silentbarn.org/barnexam
Speaking of, we wanted to try and name everyone who’s been helping us out in this difficult time in the last email, because this isn’t just an amorphous “scene,” but a finitie group of incredible individuals that makes this possible. Of course, this can inevitably backfire, and we want to acknowledge everyone that we unfortunately left out of the last one:
Thanks to Patty Conway for letting us stash the last of our valuables in her basement for this entire time, and making Pizza Forest live up to its’ name during our darkest weekend.
Thanks to Joe Salina for being a great guy and helping out with our move from The Husk.
Thanks to Jeremy Krinsley for helping get out the word through IMPOSE.
Thanks to all everyone that helped with DJ Keili’s barnraiser out at Maxwell’s in NJ. Thanks to Harpoon Forever, Brick+Mortar, Abstract Artimus, Shark?, and Dan Friel for playing, thanks to Supercrush Studio for helping organize and advertise it, thanks to Maxwell’s (and especially Todd-O-Phonic Todd of WFMU) for donating the space, food, and drinks. Thanks to DJ son for spinning :)
Thanks to Paul Haney, and Obsolete Units, for putting together an amazing compilation CD called The Noise From Ridgewood, and to Telecult Powers, Chapels, Long Distance Poison, Mike Shiflet, Aaron Dilloway, The Tenses (Ju Suk and Oblivia from Smegma), Phil Julian, Derek Rogers, Chaos Majik (Todd Pendu), Explosive Improvised Device (Anthony Saunders), OPPONENTS, Rust Worship, Remnants, WZT Hearts, Doron Sadja, Zilmrah, Tomutonttu (Jan of Avarus/Kemialliset Ystävät), Glomag, Seabat (John Also Bennett and Forest of Arid Hunter), Pulga, Lazurite (Megan Moncrieff), Id M Theft Able, Travis Johnson, Tom Smith (To Live And Shave In L.A.), rahrahree! (Tamara Yadao and Kurt Gottschalk), C. Spencer Yeh, Bunny Brains, Cellular Chaos, P L U S H I E S, Satanized, Pussy Kontrol, 100 lbs. (Andy and Jordan of Totally Dad), MV Carbon, Excepter, Andy Ortmann (Panicsville), Pregnant Spore, Terrier (Bob Bellerue and Wm. Berger), Fossils, Ben Miller/degeneration, Liquid State Bypass, Richard Kamerman, Millions, Marc Edwards & Slipstream Time Travel, Human Resources, Art by Graham Lambkin and Benjamin Parrish for generously donated recordings for this stellar compilation.
If you’ve been helping us out and we STILL forgot you, email us right away! Sending out thank yous all the time is really fun. We just can’t say it enough. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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on September 18, 2011Funded!
Rebuilding The Silent Barn by Castle Oscar
The Silent Barn was an all-ages music venue in NYC, home to experiments in music and social culture for 7 years, and hopefully more.
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101% funded $40,595 pledged
- 753 backers
- Funded Sep 18, 2011
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Castle Oscar
Ridgewood, NY
The Silent Barn is an immersion into the art of New York City as it lives. It's a double-floor music venue inside of a kitchen, an independent video games arcade, an art theater & performance space, a party surveillance system, a zine library, a museum of gigantic murals, and a home for Castle Oscar.
