Kali Malone & Stephen O’Malley Talk About Time, Space & Music

The composer and organist Kali Malone and the guitarist and producer Stephen O'Malley share a lot in common. They are both drawn to amplification, harmony, distortion, and volume. They are both minimalists, adding structure and texture to repetitive polyphonic tones. Neither is afraid of performing for an extended amount of time. When writing about either of their work, people tend to use words like focused, introspection, fog, patient, drone, and, from time to time, sorcery. They first worked together on Does Spring Hide Its Joy, an immersive drone-based composition with roots in the isolation of the global pandemic in 2020, and have performed together many times since then.

On the occasion of their performances at Lincoln Center as part of Unsound New York, Kali and Stephen talk about time, space, and music—about each other's music, about other people's music, about their own music, about making music collaboratively, and about artist-directed festivals and record labels.

The conversation is moderated by Andy Battaglia.

Note: this event is free, but RSVP capacity is now full.