Engagement

The Street Studio model takes the basic elements of the music studio to a public place, making the process accessible to anyone in the surrounding community: musicians, babies, old men with canes, horses, tourists, pantomimes and non-musicians alike.

FSN creates site-specific experiences which engage the public with sound in new and exciting ways

In FSN labs, our team of musicians collaborate with specific groups of people — third graders in a Mexican village, incarcerated women in southern Italy, beatmakers in Senegal, and more — to create, produce, and perform original music. We also train musicians and educators to run socially engaged music programming in their communities.

Operating under the overarching FSN ethos that encourages the diminishing of boundaries in music-making and music-listening – be they ethnic, cultural, or stylistic – this concert series features a diverse curation of artists, both local and international, showcased at venues across New York City. Audiences and performers alike are invited to experience something out-of-the-ordinary as this collection of traditional and contemporary artists, community members and visitors, congregates in a unique kind of concert environment to engage in the intimate offering of sound. Unless otherwise listed, the following performances all took places within the stunning space at Pioneer Works in the Red Hook Neighborhood of Brooklyn.