VEENA.NYC PRESENTS: IN IMPROVISATION FT. Heems, Lee Ranaldo, Hisham Bharoocha & More!

VEENA.NYC’s In Improvisation brings a one-night, cross-scene gathering to The Sultan Room. The billed participants are Heems, Lee Ranaldo, Hisham Bharoocha, Saudi Oil, Anand Wilder and Babas, with the event presented as a special improvised performance rather than a conventional bill of separate sets. The night draws together artists associated in the listing with experimental music, hip-hop, punk, indie rock and folk, leaving room for those different approaches to meet in real time. It is a rare bill built around collaboration and open-ended playing, with the emphasis on what this particular combination of musicians makes together.

The listing identifies the performers as New York artists. Lee Ranaldo is specifically described as Sonic Youth’s guitarist, placing him in the group’s long-running experimental rock legacy. Heems, Ranaldo and Bharoocha are singled out as the core of the special improvised performance, while Saudi Oil, Anand Wilder and Babas are also named on the lineup. Beyond those details, the event information does not assign fixed roles, instruments or a predetermined repertoire to the musicians. That is central to the premise: a meeting across several strands of New York music, shaped on the night by the artists involved rather than by a standard songbook.