Philosophy and Magic New York Performances

At Public Records, “Philosophy and Magic” folds electronic performance into a live forum for ideas. Meredith Graves, working between listening-room sets and sound as inquiry, is joined by Offal Literary Salon with philosopher Simon Critchley and writers Joseph Earl Thomas, Elvia Wilk, and Sasha Ravitch. The program treats the club as a lecture hall without abandoning the physical logic of bass, tone, and duration. In New York’s long tradition of downtown cross-genre salons, it reads as a contemporary study of how thinking happens in public and in sound.