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Sometimes we don't need to travel all around the city to alleviate cabin fever, for those of us in Ridgewood, world-class shows happen only a few steps from our doorsteps. Alice Does Computer Music is a serious champion of DIY culture, organizer of consistently compelling shows, kind person, and a genuinely great composer working at the intersection of contemporary classical music, art pop, and experimental electronics.
Alice recently posted about trying to torrent the Benedictine mystic Hildegard von Bingen's music on Soulseek, only to mistakenly download a record by a 90's neofolk ensemble doing trip-hop edits of her sacred monophony. This might've been completely accidental, but it reveals the aesthetic territory Alice operates in: a computer musician who downloads Gregorian chants alongside the Addison Rae album, someone who could feasibly share a bill with Kali Malone or Kelly Lee Owens or Frou Frou and make the programming feel inevitable.
Alice is playing "new works in progress," which sounds like an ideal way to spend a cold Thursday evening. Jadelain, who played on Montez with Alice a few months ago, makes some of the most exquisite music-box-counterpoint-MIDI-music I've encountered—delicate, architecturally precise, completely absorbing. I haven't spent much time with Joan Kelsey or Mutual Benefit yet, but I'm planning to arrive early. Then I'm going to the Oli XL show.
Alice recently posted about trying to torrent the Benedictine mystic Hildegard von Bingen's music on Soulseek, only to mistakenly download a record by a 90's neofolk ensemble doing trip-hop edits of her sacred monophony. This might've been completely accidental, but it reveals the aesthetic territory Alice operates in: a computer musician who downloads Gregorian chants alongside the Addison Rae album, someone who could feasibly share a bill with Kali Malone or Kelly Lee Owens or Frou Frou and make the programming feel inevitable.
Alice is playing "new works in progress," which sounds like an ideal way to spend a cold Thursday evening. Jadelain, who played on Montez with Alice a few months ago, makes some of the most exquisite music-box-counterpoint-MIDI-music I've encountered—delicate, architecturally precise, completely absorbing. I haven't spent much time with Joan Kelsey or Mutual Benefit yet, but I'm planning to arrive early. Then I'm going to the Oli XL show.
Feb 5, 2026