makemake presents Ben Tweel's Continuum: Listening Session and Happy Hour
About This Event
The Makemakes, an Austrian pop-rock trio who represented Austria at Eurovision 2015, present Ben Tweel’s Continuum: a listening session and happy hour at National Sawdust. The format pairs focused listening with an informal reception, highlighting a crossover between the Makemakes’ pop background and the event’s Classical billing.
About The Continuum
The Continuum is a live electronic and DJ-focused program currently running at Moondog Hifi in New York City, with featured sets by the SPS Collective. It treats the room as an instrument, using transitions, repetition, and pressure shifts to map a shared timeline rather than a fixed playlist. There is no widely documented NYC premiere history attached to the title, but it sits in a local lineage of hi‑fi listening bars where club culture meets close attention. The clearest critical note is its restraint: it asks for concentration, not spectacle.
About the Artists
makemake
makemake is a New York City–based project working across dance, opera, and electronic and classical music, often built through collaboration and clear formal structures. At National Sawdust, they have presented programs ranging from the NYC premiere of the new musical *Wholly Unwinding* to a concert presentation of Bellini’s *La Sonnambula* with Opera Praktikos and VisionIntoArt.
Ben Tweel
Ben Tweel is an individual artist whose work moves between classical framing and the language of jazz, reflected in Spotify tags that range from bebop to cool jazz. In New York City, he has appeared at National Sawdust, including a listening-session format presented with the Austrian trio makemake for *Continuum: Listening Session and Happy Hour*.