Rhythm & Space 9/28 -

Rhythm & Space is an immersive deep listening experience where sound and your surrounding space becomes a portal to introspection, inspiration, and connection. This gathering blends the meditative and the uplifting, guiding you through a landscape of a variety genres on vinyl and live music. We encourage you to slow down, engage, and let the rhythm and space inspire you.

For this gathering, we will have a flow of live music, along with vinyl record DJ sets, with Coulou on the trumpet / guitar, offering rain/melika davé on vocals, synth and drum machine, Erik Kantar on percussion, and Vikmatic on synth, keys, effects. All musical artists will be playing vinyl sets throughout the session.

In addition, we welcome a special guest from Los Angeles (and former Fort Greene resident) Krystie Yen who will help us usher in the fall equinox with an optional journaling experience featuring Fuzziworld journals.

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About the organizers and participants:

Vikmatic is a Brooklyn-based DJ & producer. He grew up surrounded by the sounds of Indian classical, jazz, and fusion music. This has an influence on his DJ sets today and overall sound that he produces. He is a resident on the music listening platform Boxout.fm and frequently DJs in NYC, at venues such as: Eavesdrop, Night Club 101, Commune, Suono and The Brooklyn Museum. He also recently released his first EP of original music, in collaboration with Danilo Braca - titled Whoosh. Vik is continuously inspired by spaces which allow for creation, introspection and interaction. The Loft party, Cosmic Arts, and of course Head Hi are some of the spaces in NYC that Vik frequents for inspiration and community connection. @vikmatic   @rhythm___space

Coulou is a Brooklyn-based musician and producer. He has a YouTube series called ‘coulou’s cafe trumpet meditations’ (with over 55K subscribers) and frequently performs around NYC. He has original music up on all streaming platforms - his latest album, ‘only flowers because they fall’ was released in September of 2024. He also frequently collaborates with other artists and producers, such as his latest collaboration with Danilo Braca on Danilo’s ‘Say Hi’ EP. @coulou_

Erik Kantar's sound bring global sounds together, blending '70s funk, samba-rock, disco, afro-beat, '80s boogie, '90s hip hop, favela funk, R&B and soulful house, to find a common groove that makes for a dynamic musical experience. His musical story began with Brazilian percussion as a toddler and has led him to explore music as a multi-instrumentalist and a filmmaker, spent 7 years documenting and researching ancestral music traditions around the world, like remote nomadic Saharan desert tribes and their ritual music, anti-patriarchal women’s music in Morocco, New Orleans brass bands, Afro-Cuban percussion, Andalusian folk music, South Asian oral music traditions and more. For the last three years Erik has been making a feature length music film in Salvador, Brazil, about ancestral memory and rhythm through the perspectives of various artists and masters. @rik.kan @funkin.donut

Music producer, artist and tastemaker offering rain (melika davé) is a multi-hyphenate artist of Gujarati & Ecuadorian heritage. born and bred in the heart of New York City and with roots stretching across the global south, offering rain draws from their background and environment to craft experimental and poly-cultural soundscapes as a form of offering. @offeringrain

Krystie Yen (she/her) is a creativity coach whose work sits at the intersection of community, creativity, and storytelling. As a curious multi-hyphenate, she’s on a mission to cultivate creative confidence in the next generation of BIPOC dreamers and doers. She’s also the Founder and Executive Director of Slant’d, a non-profit AAPI publishing house, and a seasoned storytelling instructor for The Moth. For Rhythm & Space, she will be sharing her junk journaling process: a playful, low-stakes creative practice that remixes journaling and scrapbooking and celebrates messy, free-form self expression using recycled and repurposed materials. @createwithkrystie

Fuzziworld is a stationary brand rooted in mental wellness and designed to be your personal safe space where chaos softens into clarity and big dreams take shape! Fuzziworld isn’t just stationery—it’s a movement to make mental wellness conversations lighter, easier, and free from stigma. @fuzziworld

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 Hi Fi enhances the experience of sound in the space with its vintage Klipsch La Scala speakers. @headhi_ny

Photo above by Aya Junussova.