Non-Event is a Boston-based concert series devoted to the presentation of the finest in experimental, abstract, improvised, and new music from New England and around the world.
Non-Event are pleased to partner with Mobius, Inc to present the Tom Plsek Memorial Concert on Friday, June 12th, 2026, at the Cambridge Foundry. The concert will feature work by Jane Wang; Joanne Rice and Scott Fessler; Steve Norton; Larry Johnson and David Miller; and John Voigt and Josh Rosen. These are just a few of the many artists in the jazz and sound art communities with whom long-time Mobius Artists Group member Tom Plsek collaborated in more than 40 years of performing in Boston and beyond. Please join us in honoring his legacy.
Non-Event presents a program of music for children at the Codman Square branch of the Boston Public Library. Learn about experimental music and the ajaeng (Korean zither) and hear a short performance by local ajaeng player and composer, Yoona Kim. Free and open to children up to the age of 13!
Non-Event is pleased to present two nights of experimental music in the extraordinary acoustics of the Great Engines Hall of the Waterworks Museum.
Night 1: Doors 7pm, Music 7:30pm (listed in alphabetical order)
A. Campbell Payne
The Bicentennial Memorial Accordion Choir (expanded version)
Bob Bellerue
Dave Seidel
SUTUR
Night 2: Doors 7pm, Music 7:30pm (listed in alphabetical order)
Amirtha Kidambi & Music Research Strategies
Bill Nace & David Watson
Greg Kelley presents “A Fanfare for Non-Event” featuring Kelly Bray, Eric Dahlman, Ellwood Epps, Forbes Graham, Lemuel Marc, and Kimmie Sabio
Jesse Kenas Collins x Michael Rosenstein x Yoona Kim (trio)
Michiko O.
Non-Event is pleased to present the return of bassoonist Dafne Vicente-Sandoval and cellist Charles Curtis. In this concert, Vicente-Sandoval will premiere a new version of Tashi Wada's Witness, in which a series of microtonally inflected scales and tetrachords are explored through repetition, variation and improvisation. Vicente-Sandoval's own Minos Circuit Rewired, for microphone feedback, voice and disassembled bassoon, will close the evening. Curtis will intersperse short performances, possibly including Tashi Wada, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Alvin Lucier and/or other works-in-progress.
Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present an evening of deep bass, avant ajaeng, site responsive electronics inside Boston’s iconic, Brutalist City Hall.
Non-Event and the Mayor’s Office of Arts and Culture present a free concert of textured improvisation and experimental electronics.
Non-Event and the Goethe-Institut Boston present an evening of idiosyncratic & circuit bent electronics in the amazing acoustics of the Great Engines Hall at Waterworks.
Videos of recent Non-Event concerts. Find our extensive video archives on our YouTube channel.