[Oct 11th] LIVE PERFORMANCE - FKBass Meets Molecular Systematic Music

A collaborative duo project between the French bass player Floy Krouchi and the American Saxophonist James Brandon Lewis

🕚 Date & Time: Saturday, October 11th, 2025 at 3 PM ET

📍 Location: Harvestworks Art and Technology Program, Building 10a, Nolan Park, Governors Island

🎟️ Free and open to the public

The meeting between James Brandon Lewis and Floy Krouchi unfolds in an unknown territory at the frontiers of electroacoustic music, jazz/free jazz, and contemporary music. Both passionate improvisers, they have collaboratively explored a singular sonic identity, drawing on principles from Molecular Systematic Music—a system developed by Lewis based on molecular biology—and Space/Time/Vibrations from the FKBass, a hybrid bass instrument augmented with sensors designed by Krouchi.

Together, Lewis and Krouchi have recorded a musical work composed as a collage of several movements that is currently in production and will be mixed by Mark Bingham. The release is scheduled for the spring 2026, followed by a European tour. Harvestworks hosted the duo in their studios for a ten-day residency as part of their annual artist-in-residence program.

New York, 2025 , Produced by Soluble dans l´Air, co-produced by the Albertine Fund for Jazz and New Music, Harvestworks Residency, NYU studios.

Reevaluation is always on the agenda for James Brandon Lewis, a tenor saxophonist with an impassioned and deeply centered sound” writes Nate Chinen about Molecular (Intakt), his latest quartet release.

“There’s no easy shorthand for James Brandon Lewis’ musical M.O. Ever since his early releases… the saxophonist has balanced a deep, gospel-informed spirituality with free-jazz abandon and hard-hitting funk-meets-hip-hop underpinnings.” Rolling Stone

“Krouchi’s non-figurative experimentalism is often permeated by a seemingly sincere cosmic inquisitiveness. Playing an instrument that, in itself, allows for immersions in ultra-low frequencies, Krouchi has turned the bass into a technological hybrid warranting considerable timbral expansion through electronics. Mixing those nuances with the concreteness of extended techniques, the results are inevitably intriguing when not out-and-out momentous.“

“Floy Krouchi does possess a strong electroacoustic individuality. Dynamic pregnancy, surrealist ritualism, buzz-and-drone pulse, subsonic enhancement of the psyche. Via consecutive spins, one risks losing control over corporeality; on the other hand, who needs corporeality when a skilled musician provides alternative dimensions to live in, equally tangible yet ineffable? ” Massimo Ricci (for Touching Extremes)

🌐 WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS

https://floykrouchi.org/

https://jblewis.com/

https://www.facebook.com/floy.krouchi

https://www.instagram.com/floy.krouchi

COLLABORATORS

Mark Bingham : Recording and Mixing

PAST INTERVIEWS AND PRESS COVERAGE

James Brandon Lewis