overdrive|5 — Festival for Experimental Electronic Music and Multimedia Art
Founded in 2024 by Itzá García and Tobias Fandel as a concert and exhibition event in Midtown Manhattan, overdrive aims to bring artistic practices into contact with contemporary and cutting-edge media technologies, challenging the established boundaries of artistic disciplines.
This year’s Spring edition features a concert dedicated to works with electronics by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho, co-hosted with the Barry S. Brook Center and presented in collaboration with the conference “Voicing Innocence.” It also features three ensembles from the New York City scene committed to technologically demanding, cross-disciplinary experimentation: [Switch~ Ensemble], PinkNoise Ensemble, and Noise Catalogue.
For more information: https://overdrive.nyc/
All events are free and open to the public.
April 8th, 2026
Opening Concert: Saariaho with Electronics
with Tuija Hakkila, Olga Heikkilä, Joann Whang, and Hannah Collins
Hosted in collaboration with the Barry S. Brook Center
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
6:30 PM
Opening Concert: Saariaho with Electronics
with Tuija Hakkila, Olga Heikkilä, Joann Whang, and Hannah Collins
Hosted in collaboration with the Barry S. Brook Center
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
6:30 PM
April 8th–14th, 2026
Exhibition: Fine Art and New Media
Elebash Recital Hall Lobby, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
Exhibition: Fine Art and New Media
Elebash Recital Hall Lobby, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
April 9th, 2026
Concert: [Switch~ Ensemble] I
with Grant Beale, Louis Goldford, and Teté Leguía
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
Concert: [Switch~ Ensemble] I
with Grant Beale, Louis Goldford, and Teté Leguía
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
April 10th, 2026
Concert: [Switch~ Ensemble] II
with Jason Thorpe Buchanan & Christopher Chandler, Itzá García,
Concert: [Switch~ Ensemble] II
with Jason Thorpe Buchanan & Christopher Chandler, Itzá García,
Kitty Xiao, and Tobias Fandel
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
April 11th, 2026
Concert with PinkNoise Ensemble
with Michael Beil, Cathy van Eck, Kanzler & Uesaka, and Itzá García
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
3:30 PM
Concert with PinkNoise Ensemble
with Michael Beil, Cathy van Eck, Kanzler & Uesaka, and Itzá García
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
3:30 PM
April 14th, 2026
Exhibition Closing with Reception
Elebash Recital Hall Lobby, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
6:30 PM
Exhibition Closing with Reception
Elebash Recital Hall Lobby, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
6:30 PM
April 14th, 2026
Concert & Screening
with Janet Biggs, Noise Catalogue, and Tobias Fandel
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
Concert & Screening
with Janet Biggs, Noise Catalogue, and Tobias Fandel
Elebash Recital Hall, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
April 15th, 2026
Concert: Live Electronics
with winners of the call
Skylight Room, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
Concert: Live Electronics
with winners of the call
Skylight Room, The Graduate Center
365 5th Ave, New York, NY
7:30 PM
April 17th, 2026
Concert: Live Electronics with Percussion
with winners of the call
Presented in collaboration with Sō Laboratories
Sō Percussion Space
20 Grand Ave #205, Brooklyn, NY
7:30 PM
Concert: Live Electronics with Percussion
with winners of the call
Presented in collaboration with Sō Laboratories
Sō Percussion Space
20 Grand Ave #205, Brooklyn, NY
7:30 PM