🕚 Date & Time: Thursday, November 6th, 2025 @ 7 pm
📍 Location: Harvestworks Studio, 596 Broadway Unit 602, New York, NY 10021
🎟️ Free with limited seating
Smells Like Paint and Letter Racers is an ambisonic turntable performance by 2025 Harvestworks TIP Resident Yo Vinyl Richie, inspired by Rammellzee’s Gothic Futurism. Through themes of Ikonoklast Panzerism, vocoder language, and sonic world-building, Richie transforms vinyl into spatial graffiti—where letters race, collide, and reassemble within a shifting universe of sound and resistance.
Performed entirely on turntables, the piece reimagines Rammellzee’s linguistic warfare through layered vinyl manipulations, spatialized sound design, and the reconstruction of sonic graffiti in motion. Each rotation of the record becomes an act of resistance and reprogramming—where letters race, collide, and reshape the aural space into a new mythology of frequency and code.
Bio
Yo Vinyl Richie, born in the Bronx and currently living in New York City, is a composer and turntablist whose passion for the turntable began at an early age. Inspired by DJ competitions and parties as a child, he honed turntablism techniques and embraced the turntable as his primary instrument, both solo and in collaboration with others. Richie has showcased his artistry at esteemed venues such as Roulette, The Kitchen, Princeton University, and Queens Town Hall. He is currently a Harvestworks TIP resident and also a recipient of the NYSCA 2025 grant as a composer.
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