Stereo Mandrax (FREE w/ RSVP) Hisham Akira Bharoocha & Ka Baird Duo • Ben Vida & Alex Zhang Hungtai Duo • Chuck Bettis & Bonnie Baxter Duo

Stereo Mandrax is a rock/pop outfit heard in New York City club rooms such as Pianos, often presenting short sets built around tight coordination and quick shifts in texture. Their bills frequently align them with downtown-leaning collaborators, including duos featuring Hisham Akira Bharoocha with Ka Baird, Ben Vida with Alex Zhang Hungtai, and Chuck Bettis with Bonnie Baxter.

Stereo Mandrax is a rock/pop group heard in New York City rooms such as Pianos, often on bills that blur the line between club rock and downtown experimental music. Their recent appearances have placed them alongside Council Of Foreign Relations, Excepter, Marcia Bassett and Taralie Peterson, as well as Pink Must Animal, Surrender, Jeff Tobias, and Chris Forsyth’s What is Now.

Hisham Akira Bharoocha is a multimedia artist based in New York City. His work touches on the intricacies of mental architecture and self-made symbolism.

Ka Baird is a New York–based musician working at the edge of rock/pop and electroacoustic experiment. At Pianos, she appears in close-format collaborations, including a duo with Hisham Akira Bharoocha alongside pairings like Ben Vida with Alex Zhang Hungtai and Chuck Bettis with Bonnie Baxter.

Ben Vida is a New York–based artist and composer with an MFA from Bard College. For roughly two decades he has moved through the international experimental music community, working across electroacoustic composition, drone, musique concrète, and other avant-garde forms.

Alex Zhang Hungtai is an individual artist whose work moves between composition and performance, often presented in intimate club settings in New York City. At Cassette, he has appeared in bills such as ALEX ZHANG HUNGTAI & LEO CHANG, alongside collaborators including Leo Chang, Medium, Melissa Achten, and Misty.