Andrew Toy w/ Jeremy Ray + Signals Under Tests

Name: Andrew Toy w/ Jeremy Ray + Signals Under Tests
Start: 2025-09-12T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 1508 North Capitol Street NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20002

Schedule

Fri, 12 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1508 North Capitol Street NW, Washington D.C., DC, United States, Washington, District of Columbia 20002 | Washington, DC

Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM (All ages)
no refunds; a limited amount of tickets will be sold after doors open if availability permits - first come, first served
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Andrew Toy
Andrew Toy uses percussion as a starting point for composition and sonic exploration. In the studio and on stage, Andrew twists, distorts, and re-arranges the sound of the drums beyond recognition to create soundscapes that are both intense and atmospheric. By re-imagining instrument roles and creative processes, Toy has crafted a sound that blends post-rock, minimalism, world music, and electronica with the energy of live drums. His newest album, Spontaneous Ritual, will be released on 9/5/25. For fans of Battles, Nine Inch Nails, Tortoise.

Jeremy Ray
Jeremy Ray, a performer, artist, and multi-talented musicia,n creating sets unlike the ones before - a true explorer of sound in all forms never ceasing to conjure up a new way of expression that leaves us in awe.

Signals Under Tests
Graham pioneered a live performance system for multichannel guitar at STEIM while completing his Ph.D. at Ulster University. He later served as an Assistant Professor of Music and Technology at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. His scholarly articles on performance systems design and electroacoustic theory have appeared in prestigious journals and conference proceedings including NIME, EMS, ISSTA, and publications by MIT Press. His musical portfolio includes the album Nascent, with compositions featured at national and international festivals like NYCEMF, ICMC, and SEAMUS. In 2017, as an artist-in-residence at EMS, he produced Disrupt/Construct in collaboration with Hellmut Neidhardt, released by Denovali Records. His recent self-published album Land Of Youth contains tracks penned during the pandemic. Graham’s academic research has been showcased at Bauhaus-Universität, Nokia Bell Labs, and MIT, covering topics including spatial audio in augmented reality, and live performance systems design, to sonification. He has presented at conferences like TIES, AES AVAR, and KEAMSAC, and lectured at institutions including SARC at Queen’s University and MMT at Trinity College. Currently based in Washington, D.C., Graham works under the alias, “Signals Under Tests,” and collaborates with Edwin Park on developing music production software.