Three days in the Black Rock Desert, then a long flight east, then forty-eight hours in a Brooklyn warehouse and a Hudson iron foundry. The same energy, two different rooms.
Burning Man is the Western world's largest non-permanent venue. For one week a year the Black Rock Desert in Nevada hosts a temporary sound system the size of a small city. The week ends, the city is dismantled, and the desert is dust again. This route follows the energy east. Burning Man week-one, then a re-entry to architecture in New York: Basilica Hudson's 1880s iron foundry on the river, Elsewhere's three-room Bushwick warehouse, the Village Vanguard's basement triangle. From the largest non-permanent venue to the smallest permanent jazz cellar in ten days.
An 1880s riveted-iron foundry on the Hudson River, repurposed by Melissa Auf der Maur into a year-round arts venue. Industrial cathedral, all forged steel and broken light.
Wedge-shaped basement jazz club on 7th Avenue South, opened 1935. 123-capacity. More than 100 live records cut here, Coltrane and Bill Evans among them.
70,000-person temporary city on an ancient lakebed in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Built and burned annually. Robot Heart's sunrise sets are the world's most-photographed dawn in electronic music.
Three-room Bushwick venue opened 2017, ex-warehouse, rooftop, two indoor floors. Heir to the New York underground after the closure of Output and 285 Kent.
Stitch your own week of beautiful music.