Natural Information Society @ The NCH Studio

Wed, 29 Oct, 2025 at 08:00 pm UTC+00:00

National Concert Hall, Dublin, Ireland | Dublin

Enthusiastic Eunuch Promotions
Publisher/HostEnthusiastic Eunuch Promotions
Natural Information Society @ The NCH Studio
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Enthusiastic Eunuch Proudly Presents The Irish Debut Of
NATURAL INFORMATION SOCIETY
Wednesday 29th October
The Studio@ NCH
Tickets via NCH Box Office
Natural Information Society (NIS) is a band led by composer & multi-instrumentalist Joshua Abrams. The group’s music is grounded in Abrams’ hypnotic & interwoven writing. Performing with Lisa Alvarado’s free hanging paintings as mobile sets, NIS create environments at once meditative & propulsive. NIS navigates forms that emphasize simultaneous differences, rhythm & collective listening. The group has released six records, including descension (Out of Our Constrictions) 2021, for eremite records.
Video: Natural Information Society – Society Sideways Falls

Video: Natural Information Society Live @ Café Oto 2016 -


NIS tours as a quartet with Abrams on guimbri, Alvarado on harmonium, Mikel Patrick Avery on drums & Jason Stein on bass clarinet, occasionally appearing in larger formations & with guests.
Outside of NIS Abrams has played & recorded with a broad range of artists including Fred Anderson, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Nicole Mitchell & The Roots. He has composed scores to ten feature films including the Oscar nominated Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. Abrams was a recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts 2018 Grants to Artists award.

“...it’s patient, layered music that’s always heading somewhere, sometimes spare and sometimes complex and shimmering. - Ben Ratliff, New York Times
“Abrams discovers new levels of mood and tone; his pieces seem to escape time completely.”
- Marc Masters, Pitchfork
“It feels startlingly new, in terms of how the music is extrapolated, how the players relate, even as it feels like an ur-music, primal, body-centered, essential.” - David Keenan, The Wire
“The first live recording of the NIS, this is a performance of extraordinary power and vision, its relationship to the music of John Coltrane almost always magical. Occasionally there will be direct quotations (as with A Love Supreme’s principal motif appearing at the end of part two), but this is not some kind of successful imitation. Rather, it’s genetic fraternity, Parker and Abrams, Stein, Alvarez, and Avery crossing boundaries, arriving in that special otherness, that same Interzone once called “India.” - Stuart Broomer, Point of Departure
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