Active Listening New York Performances

“Active Listening” lands at National Sawdust as an electronic program that treats attention as method, not mood. Presented under the name makemake, it brings Joy Guidry’s hybrid practice—moving between DJ structure and classical-influenced live playing in New York spaces like Nowadays—into dialogue with the Austrian pop-rock band the Makemakes, with Marcus J. Moore framing the encounter. The piece is less a concert than a study in how pacing, texture, and confirmation shape meaning. In a city built on noise, it makes clarity a cultural argument.