Language At An Angle Album Listening Event

Lobby Art Editions and Head Hi invite you to the listening of the new album Language At An Angle by multidisciplinary artist - composer - pedal steel guitar player Sam Wenc. Join us Sunday, March 15 from 4-6pm to listen to the full album together as part of the Head HiFi deep listening series.

More about the album:

Language At An Angle is an eight-part tone poem. It is a journey through the heart, and, as the title suggests, a reflection on meaning itself. It views language not as a monolith–something concrete, unchanging and knowable–but rather as a process enlivened through the making of itself. Sharp angles, round edges, shifting patterns that live their own lives in one phrase before becoming something totally new in the next. Its meaning dances between the interactions between players, the surfaces of cymbals and strings, the transformation of motifs and time itself. And the music itself is gorgeous. The album was recorded February - May 2025 in Philadelphia, PA and released on January 30, 2026

Mixed by Sam Wenc

Mastered by John Dieterich

Sam Wenc - pedal steel guitar, vibraphone, tapes, metallaphones, cymbals, banjo, guitar.

Sam Yulsman - piano.

Will Henriksen - violin.

Stefano Grasso - drums, gongs.

Matthew Lee - bass, clarinet. Roman Norfleet - saxophone.

Jack Braunstein - clarinet.

Language At An Angle is dedicated to Susan Alcorn, the revered pedal steel guitarist who brought the instrument beyond its traditional role in country music, who passed in January 31 2025.

More about the artist:

Sam Wenc is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, performance and installation. He has released music on Longform Editions, Where to Now, Moone Records, Noumenal Loom, Sweet Wreath, and Obsolete Staircases, amongst others. His work has been supported by Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm, Sweden), Art OMI (Ghent, NY), Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Roulette Intermedium (NYC) and has performed throughout the US, Canada, Peru, and Japan.

About the organizers:

Lobby Art Editions is a record label that highlights and releases works by artists exploring boundaries of genre and media. It was co-founded by Sam Wenc and Ximena Bedoya. @lobbyarteditions

M:sco Disco is a Mexican-American artist-record collector-DJ and HiFi enthusiast. He's the co-founder of Head Hi and musical director of the Head HiFi series. Music has always being part of M:sco's life, exploring different scenes from punk-rock to cumbia, attending raves in México City, San Francisco and New York City in the 1990's. In 1997, he worked at a record distributor in San Francisco, bought his first pair of Technics 1200s turntables and learned to beat-match while living in a sail boat. In the early 2000's, he had a web-radio show called Clandestino. He has DJed in countless underground parties, bars and lounges in NYC, as well as The Lot Radio, Public Records, H0L0, Sans Solei - Montreal Canada, and in cultural institutions like Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, El Museo del Barrio. Listen to M:sco Disco.

Head Hi is an organization dedicated to art, architecture, design and sound specializing in publications and cultural programming with an espresso bar located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn by the Navy Yard. We feature a curated selection of publications from around the globe. Working with local and international artists, designers, publishers, and organizations in various fields, Head Hi is a space for exploration and interaction that hosts talks, book launches, exhibitions, music, performances and other events. Head HiFi enhances the experience of sound in the space with its vintage Klipsch La Scala speakers. @headhi_ny