What: Flandrew Fleisenberg’s unretirement show!+id m theft able+Bhob Rainey+DJ Robo Rob
When: Saturday March 21st, 2026 Doors open at 7:30 pm, music at 8 pm
Where: fidget space, 1714 N. Mascher St., Phila
$10-20 suggested
Flandrew Fleisenberg is a practitioner of chance and uncertainty. While drums exist at the periphery of his work, he is primarily invested in coaxing out the inherent material characters of mundane things. Through the wide manipulation of external implements, Fleisenberg constructs an aural architecture that responds to the physical movement of the embodied performer within the space. He is intrigued by rhythms that originate from natural phenomena, activated through material conjuring to create an evocative discourse within a constantly breathing, tactile environment.
Fleisenberg plays percussion on an ever-changing assortment of ephemera, surfacing textures and tones that range from the familiar to the bizarre. Attentive to room acoustics, organic resonance, collaborator, and the presence of the audience, he playfully utilizes physical phenomena—precession, gravity, angular momentum, friction, and chaos—to explore the relationships between space and time. A graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) with a focus on conceptual art, Fleisenberg is a self-taught musician who has developed a singular cadre of idiosyncratic techniques.
A fixture in the experimental and non-idiomatic free improvisation community since 2001, he has performed solo and in collaborative groupings across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Currently based in Philadelphia and following a nine-year hiatus, Fleisenberg has returned to the experimental scene, bringing a renewed focus to the evocative discourse between the performer, the object, and the breathing space.
https://lifeoffleisenberg.blogspot.com/
Id M Theft Able is a composer, musician and performer active within and without the realms of avant-improvisation, noise, sound poetry, sound art and performance art using extended vocal techniques, found objects, homemade instruments, various electronics, and whatever else is he might happen to find useful in the moment.
He has given well over a thousand performances across 4 continents in over 40 different countries in settings ranging from the filthiest of basements to the fanciest of festivals and has over 100 album releases (both solo and collaborative) to his name.
https://idmtheftable.bandcamp.com/
https://www.kraag.org/
Bhob Rainey is a Philadelphia-based composer, saxophonist, and sound designer celebrated for his innovative contributions to contemporary, experimental, and improvised music. A recipient of the prestigious Pew Fellowship in the Arts and co-founder of the influential improvisational duo nmperign, Rainey has garnered acclaim for his groundbreaking work across disciplines, including collaborations in theater, dance, and visual art. With performances and commissions spanning prestigious venues and festivals worldwide, his work continuously challenges boundaries of musical thought and instrumental technique.
https://bhobrainey.bandcamp.com/
https://nmperign.bandcamp.com/
http://bhobrainey.com/