No Idea
Festival 2025
- October 23 — Dallas
- October 24-26 — Austin
No Idea 2025 presents artists engaged in the peripheries of Free Improvisation, Composition, Noise, Free Jazz, and Sonic Intervention. To highlight artists' working methods, musicians move through No Idea’s format of established groups, emerging collaborations, and festival curated first-meetings.
Dallas Program
Music: 8pm
- Set 1 - Sherrie Zantea
- Set 2 - Aaron González + Joshua Cañate
- Set 3 - Fred Moten + Brandon López
Austin Program
Music: 8pm
- Set 1 - Brandon López + Michael Foster
- Set 2 - Fred Moten + Joe McPhee
- Set 3 - Richard Kamerman + Dromez
Music: 2pm
- Set 1 - Fred Moten (talk + performance)
Music: 8pm
- Set 1 - Joe McPhee + Christina Carter
- Set 2 - Fred Moten + Brandon López
- Set 3 - Juan García + Bhob Rainey (No Idea commission)
- Set 4 - Michael Foster + Richard Kamerman
- Closing - David Watson
Continuing our tradition of presenting music in idiosyncratic, distinctive spaces for our Sunday program, No Idea 2025 presents:
For Lenny
Conceived as a continuous piece winding through 3 distinct locations
in the Bouldin Creek neighborhood, For Lenny moves through 2
houses to a rugged, unconsidered patch of the Bouldin Creek Greenbelt.
The piece features a mixture of first-time duos, solos, and silence.
- 2pm start time
-
Set 1 -
Juan García
+
Michael Foster
(first-time duo)
Ben’s house - 1709 South 5th Street (map) -
Set 2 -
Bhob Rainey
Stella + Leon’s house - 1017-A West Milton Street (map) -
Set 3 -
David Watson
+
Rebecca Novak
(first-time duo)
That spot in the Greenbelt on S. 7th with the broken cross, kinda by Ralph’s old place…
— For Lenny is an homage to the 3-block radius where No Idea was conceived in 2003
This project is supported in part by the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
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