Cyrille, or Surreal, or Sublime

Room: History, Biography & Religion, 2nd Floor

In his second consecutive appearance at Night in the Library, the inimitable poet, scholar & author/theorist Fred Moten discusses Andrew Cyrille, one of the great musicians of our time. A Haitian-American native of Brooklyn, his work has continually revolutionized Afro-diasporic percussion's practiced entanglement of terror and beauty. We'll meditate on the palimpsestic rhythm of his playing and the palimpsestic sound and semantics of his name, which join in refusal of the opposition of the dynamic and the mathematical.

Fred Moten is an NYU Professor in the Departments of Performance Studies and Comparative Literature, where he teaches courses in black study, poetics and critical theory. He works with lots of social and aesthetic study groups including Stefano Harney & Fred Moten, the Black Arts Movement School Modality, Le Mardi Gras Listening Collective, the Center for Convivial Research and Autonomy, Moved by the Motion, the Institute of Physical Sociality and the Harris/Moten Quartet.