Bar Laika presents Playback 0028 with Tyler Friedman

Join us at Bar Laika on Wednesday, March 4 from 6pm for the twenty-eighth edition of Playback with Tyler Friedman. The artist will present his forthcoming album METLASR–a double LP of microtonal idiophones and fm synthesizer geometries–to be released March 27, 2026 on Radicant_Editions.

Tyler Friedman’s music vacillates between cosmic impulses and analytical inclinations. Escaping the rift between post-club experimentalism and the theory-driven partition of contemporary art, his output spans numerous releases, soundtracks, installations, collaborations and performances and draws on an unwieldy arsenal of divergent references and tactics. Friedman’s solo output focuses on a lysergic strain of dubbed minimalism, equally indebted to late-00s techno and the downtown avant-garde.  Created largely in a feedback loop with modular synthesizers and Max/MSP, his sequences and generative patterns are infused with an intuitive complexity and alchemical formalism. Current trajectories point further away from the strictures of club music and have been increasingly oriented towards alternative tunings and uncanny harmonic interactions.  His music has been released on Sweden’s Kontra Musik, Arjuna Records, Tokyo-based Protection and Radicant_Editions.  In the context of contemporary art, Friedman works to manifest conceptual constellations in sonic form. He has been responsible for the sonics of collaborative projects that have been commissioned and presented worldwide, including at dOCUMENTA(13), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Manifesta, Cycle Music & Arts Festival and the Yokohama Triennale among others.

Playback is a series of informal listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities. 

For more information, contact laika [​at​] e-flux.com.