Soup & Sound

08/05/2026

Save the Date!
CRISTINA VALDÉS (piano) and MARIA MÄNNISTÖ (soprano) play the music of WAYNE HORVITZ

Thursday
September 10
8pm

Valdes and Männistö will be presenting works for solo piano and piano and soprano voice including "For Piano, Alone , In Four Parts", and songs from "Smokestack Arias", "The Heartsong of Charging Elk" and "Joe Hill"

Soup & Sound
292 Lefferts Avenue
Brooklyn, NY

$20 suggested donation
+ soup

Wayne Horvitz
Continuum Culture & Arts
Andrew Drury

07/17/2026

07/03/2026

SAVE THE DATE!
SOUP & SOUND

July 19, 8pm
$20 suggested donation

Elsa Nilsson (flute) &
Ravi Coltrane (saxophone)
& electronics

+ soup!

292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn NY

Elsa Nilsson and Ravi Coltrane will be exploring sounds through wind and electronics, bending perceptions of what a Sax and Flute duo can do when one combines them with the power of octave pedals and distortions.

Come enjoy a set of spirit forward improvised songs with this adventurous and playful duo. Who knows where the night will take you.

Elsa Nilsson & Ravi Coltrane - Soup & Sound!
Ravi Coltrane
Elsa Nilsson
Continuum Culture & Arts
Andrew Drury

06/12/2026

THIS SUNDAY!

transparency series @ Soup & Sound

June 14
2:30 open rehearsal
4pm performance

292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn NY

$10-$20 sliding scale

patrick brennan's
transparency kestra

musicians include: Claire deBrunner • bassoon , On Ka'a Davis • guitar , Andrew Drury • percussion, Haruna Fukazawa • flutes, Nick Gianni • bass flute, Hilliard Greene • contrabass , Kris Gruda • guitar, Lloyd Haber • percussion, Jason Kao Hwang • violin + viola, Dmitry Ishenko • contrabass, Westbrook Johnson • trombone, Frank London • trumpet, Nick Lyons • clarinet, Mara Rosenbloom • piano, Josh Sinton • baritone saxophone, Michael T.A. Thompson • percussion, Bill Ylitalo • flutes & piccolo, pb • composition + conducting + alto saxophone.

multidirectional creative music
A social & musical experiment in the possibilities of consensual self organization.

Transparencies
overlay
rhythmelodic patterns
that can be
recombined
in a decentralized way
though
improvisation and conducted signals.

Continuum Culture & Arts
Patrick Brennan's Transparency Kestra
Andrew Drury

06/09/2026

Friday, June 26, 8pm

BURTON, FIRST, RIGLER
Three improvisers who explore minutiae and channel invisible forces.

Soup & Sound
292 Lefferts Ave
Brooklyn NY

$20 suggested donation

JILL BURTON voice
DAVID FIRST electric guitar and other instruments
JANE RIGLER flutes

Noted as "One of the great foundation improvisors of America" (LaDonna Smith, Improviser Journal), JILL BURTON has recently relocated to the Hudson Valley and delightedly resumed performance activities after a long hiatus in Florida. Current and recent collaborators include Jane Scarpantoni, Viv Corringham, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Chris Cochrane, Andrew Drury, David First, Jane Rigler, Al Margolis, Walter Wright, Brian Charles, and Michael Bisio.

Composer/performer DAVID FIRST is perhaps best known for his longstanding “Dave’s Waves Sonic Restaurant” audio/video installation which has been presented in Berlin, Belgium, Moscow, The Netherlands, and since 2018 has been open to the public over a dozen times at the Sunview Luncheonette (Greenpoint). First was recently named a New Music USA Creator Fund Awardee for 2025. He has also been the recipient of the Herb Alpert/Ragdale Award for Music Composition for 2019 and a 2019 NYFA/NYSCA Fellowship.

Internationally recognized JANE RIGLER, flutist/composer, weaves movement, languages, and ancestral songs into immersive soundworlds. She thrives at residencies like Civitella Ranieri, The Fulbright Commission, US-Japan Friends Commission, Montalvo, (etc) that promote her collaborative nature and interdisciplinary Deep Listening® based community projects.

David First
Continuum Culture & Arts

06/03/2026

Hey Seattle! We hope to see you there!

The acclaimed concert series Soup & Sound comes to Seattle! Jason Kao Hwang - violin/violaKen Filiano - bassAndrew Drury - drum setWith origins reaching back to the Asian Arts Movement and New York Loft scenes of the 1970s, and work in ensuing decades in Jazz, opera, film, and with artists such....

06/01/2026

In Oakland? Join us at Wyldflower Arts

Jason Kao Hwang's Human Rites Trio
In Oakland, CA

June 7
Wyldflowr Arts
809 37th St
Oakland, CA

$20

Jason Kao Hwang, violin, viola, composer
Ken Filiano, bass
Andrew Drury, drums

Following this performance, Francis Wong, saxophonist and co-founder of Asian Improv Arts, will moderate a discussion/Q&A with the Human Rites Trio. He will talk about his long-time friendship with Jason Kao Hwang, the evolution of Asian American jazz, and the music of the Human Rites Trio.

Wyldflowr Arts
Andrew Drury
Jason Kao Hwang
Asian Improv Arts
Soup & Sound
Mo' Connections