Joy Guidry, SCRAAATCH, MAYSUN in Quartet
Joy Guidry • SCRAAATCH • MAYSUN
Saturday, May 10, 2025
169 BOWERY NYC
7:00 pm




Joy Guidry, SCRAATCH, and MAYSUN join together for an experimental quartet performance, following an opening set by Myles Ortiz-Green. This performance will be rooted in Black experimentalism, Afrofuturism, and technology.
About the Artists
Myles Ortiz-Green is a multidisciplinary artist, pianist and composer who explores the ideas of interconnectedness, digital identity, decadence, and the “in-between” in their work. As a pianist with a background in classical and jazz studies, they combine analogue and digital electronics and improvisation to manipulate samples and field recordings. A native of Los Angeles, they’ve been able to collaborate on a variety of films, multimedia projects, and installations, and aims integrate a “filmic sensitivity” into their music. Ortiz-Green’s Electronic Improvisations was born from a desire to communicate how their reality has been inescapably shaped by a saturation in contemporary technologies. Like many young adults living in urban spaces, they are an avid technology user. These technologies mediate the interface between themself and the urban environment, rendering the digital audio-visual space synonymous with urbanity. To that end, they want to represent these modern aural practices and aesthetics through digital and analog manipulation.
SCRAAATCH is the duo project of MHYSA and chuki. Making multimedia art and performances, experimental music, and hybrid DJ sets from their studio in Brooklyn, NY, their releases have included Teardrops EP (2019), ‘DON’T TALK TO ME REMIXES’ (2022), Distortion Études (Bunny Jr. Tapes, 2024) and contributions to compilation albums by Parisian label ParkingStone’s “Virgō” (2021), artist Kevin Beasley’s “A View of a Landscape” (2023), New York collective and label PTP’s “RESIST” (2024) and most recently ‘“Only Sounds that Tremble Through Us (To all those we are indebted to, before and after us)” (2025) for the Bilna’es platform. Residents of London’s NTS Radio since 2017, they’ve received support from DJs including Fauzia, Mistervacation, Laurel Halo, Kode 9, and others.
Etienne Mason, known professionally as MAYSUN, is a composer and sound artist known for his unique blend of drumming expertise and sound design, creating immersive atmospheric soundscapes. With a focus on the use of physical space to shape and manipulate sounds, he crafts compositions that serve as soundtracks to his life events. MAYSUN’s work is characterized by an innovative approach that transforms real-life sounds into musical tones, skillfully interweaving the dimensions of time and space within his compositions. His artistic journey is driven by a deep passion for exploring spatial audio, technology and a desire to create meaningful emotional connections through his music.In addition to his artistic pursuits, MAYSUN has been serving on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Electroacoustic Community (CEC) since 2023 and is a proud member of the international artist collective Inland Ocean. He completed the prestigious 2024 ITP/IMA Fellowship at New York University and is currently a mentor at New Inc.
Joy Guidry is a bassoonist, versatile improviser, performance artist, and composer of experimental, daring new works that embody a deep love of storytelling; Joy’s music channels her inner child in honor of their ancestors and predecessors. The San Diego Tribune has hailed her performances as “lyrical and haunting…hair-raising and unsettling.” Joy was born in Houston, Texas, into a creative family that has shaped who she is today. Joy has presented her original work at The Whitney Museum for American Art, Hauser & Wirth, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Kitchen, Redcat, among many other venues. She has been commissioned by The National Sawdust, Long Beach Opera, JACK Quartet, Gaudeamus Festival, and the I&I Foundation. Joy has been featured in festivals, including the La Biennale di Venezia, A’Larme Festival, Cologne Jazz Week, Spoleto Festival USA, Big Ears Festival, and many more. Joy holds a bachelor’s degree in Bassoon Performance from the Peabody Conservatory and a Graduate Performance Diploma from the Mannes School of Music, and is currently a Doctoral Fellow at the University of California San Diego. In addition, Joy Guidry is the winner of the 2021 Berlin Prize for Young Artists. She is currently playing on a Heckel Bassoon number 6101.