S&S Presents is thrilled to be hosting a double album release show with two extraordinary duos -- Adam Schatz/Booker Stardrum and Ben Seretan/John Thayer. Adam Schatz's new album "Civil Engineering Vol. 1" is an improvised adventure featuring Carmen Quill (upright bass) and Qasim Naqvi (drums) recorded at the legendary Power Station in New York City, out April 25th on Jealous Butcher records. Sunbeam of No Illusion is Thayer and Seretan’s first official collaboration on record, though they’ve performed together in a wide variety of contexts since 2023, and draws on the resplendent natural world of their shared upstate New York. Sunbeam of No Illusion is out March 27 on AKP Recordings. 

TROY LISTENING ROOM
Friday, May 8
7:00 PM - doors open
7:30 PM - music starts

PLEASE NOTE: the venue address will be provided in the confirmation email sent to all ticket-buyers. We are located in South Troy, NY, a few blocks south of the canal. If you have any questions about the location or event before purchasing tickets, please contact us at sspresents518@gmail.com.

* All ages welcome
* BYO (feel free to bring your own drinks/snacks)
* This venue is not ADA accessible and requires walking up a short flight of stairs to enter.
* Tickets are sliding-scale and support the artists. Please select the price tier that you feel most comfortable with. 

Adam Schatz

Adam Schatz is a multi-instrumentalist, composer & producer from New England.

His new album "Civil Engineering Vol. 1" is an improvised adventure featuring Carmen Quill (upright bass) and Qasim Naqvi (drums) recorded at the legendary Power Station in New York City, out April 25th on Jealous Butcher records.

Last year marked the release of his 5th Landlady album on Jealous Butcher records, featuring a magic crew including Max Jaffee, Erica Shafer, Will Graefe, Buck Meek, Jenn Wasner, Kristin Slipp and more.

Schatz has played saxophone, clarinet & keyboards on recent releases from Neko Case, Wild Pink, Miley Cyrus, Caroline Rose, and Wye Oak.

He’s produced records from Casey Dienel, Sarah Goldstone, Allegra Krieger & Renata Zeiguer, with more fun stuff coming out in the near future.

His writing has appeared in the New York Times, The Talkhouse, McSweeney's and CREEM Magazine. He & journalist Adam Shatz occasionally get confused with each other and will let each other know when that happens.

Schatz has an improvising duo with Meg Duffy who will try and record this year when their ridiculous schedules line up. Other common improvising collaborators include Ian Chang, Spencer Zahn, Macie Stewart, and he recently performed duo with Greg Cohen in Los Angeles on a blind date arranged by Steven Buono, and it went quite well.

Additional recording credits: Hand Habits, Why?, Lala Lala, Y La Bamba, The Tallest Man On Earth, This Is The Kit, Becca Mancari, Buke & Gase, Those Darlins, Man Man.

Schatz composed the original score for The New Yorker's documentary short "The Candy Factory" and is currently at work on additional scores, including one for an upcoming indie video game from Case Jernigan titled “Bub.”

Booker Stardrum

Booker Stardrum is a composer, drummer/percussionist, and producer. Stardrum has been involved with countless experimental and improvisational collaborations, pop projects, film scores, and sound design productions, and has released four solo records (’Close-up On The Outside’ in 2026, ‘Crater' in 2021, ‘Temporary etc.’ in 2018, and ‘Dance And’ in 2015). Stardrum’s music is a highly personal amalgamation of electro-acoustics, minimalism, ambient, jazz, and contemporary experimental electronic music. His compositions are sculptural, carved from the dense layering of instruments and manipulated samples, a pantonal harmonic sense, and an intuitive approach to rhythm.

Stardrum’s frequent collaborators include SML, Lisel, Photay, Horse Lords, Wendy Eisenberg, Amirtha Kidambi, Ben Vida, Will Epstein, Jefre Cantu-Ledesma, Chris Williams, Patrick Shiroishi, Carl Stone, Lee Ranaldo, and Nels Cline. Stardrum has scored films by Suneil Sanzgiri and Miranda Javid. He was a OneBeat fellow, a New Amsterdam Composer fellow, a Pioneer Works resident and a Denniston Hill resident. Stardrum has had new works commissioned for The Smithsonian American Art Museum (Washington D.C.), National Sawdust (Brooklyn, NY) and Indexical (Santa Cruz, CA). He has toured in the US, Europe, Asia, and South America and has performed at such festivals as Big Ears (US), Rewire (NL), Le Guess Who (NL), BRDCST (BE), Moers (DE), Meltdown (U.K.), Brighton (U.K), Festival Bo:m (ROK), Hopscotch (US) and Ecstatic Music (US). His discography includes solo and collaborative releases on independent labels such as International Anthem, We Jazz, NNA Tapes, Northern Spy Records, Mexican Summer, Saddle Creek, Luminelle, Prom Night Records and Home Tapes. Booker lives in the Hudson Valley in New York State.

Ben Seretan & John Thayer

Ben Seretan (Climax, NY) makes music that is always very something: loud, cathartic, gentle, serene, open-hearted, off-the-cuff. Centering joy, his work takes many forms - a 24-hour-long atlas of guitar clouds, secular praise exploding into crash cymbals, tremendously gentle piano chords on a bed of bugs. He also maintains a correspondence project called My Big Break featuring new sounds and new writing every Thursday.

John Thayer is an audio engineer and multi-instrumentalist (chiefly drums and percussion) whose experiential compositions are inspired by a deep attention to the sounds of the natural world. His recordings, centered around a hybrid of studio techniques and improvisatory performance, range from long-form, multilayered ambience to polyrhythmic electro-acoustic collage. Having been a very active member of the New York experimental scene, his compositions and installations bear wide-ranged influences drawn from his many collaborators over the years.