DADA

Ambient artists Saapato, Ian MacPhee, and Many Hands will stop at Dada Bar NYC on April 23 for a night on their Northeast tour.

Saapato is the music project of upstate New York–based sound artist Brendan Principato. His work explores the intersection of ecology and music, weaving manipulated field recordings with lush electronic soundscapes that invite listeners to reconsider their place within nature.

Ian MacPhee is a musician, video artist, and photographer based in Los Angeles, California. His music blends acoustic instruments, electronics, and field recordings to create dense, textural soundscapes. MacPhee’s studio work centers on process-based compositions that explore harmony, movement, and intricate layering, while his live performances reinterpret these works in a fluid and improvisational manner.

Many Hands (David Henderson) is a record collector, radio host, and ambient musician. His radio shows are as likely to pull transcendence from a piece recorded by an ambient musician in a studio last year, as one recorded by an ethnographer in an unknown fiddler’s kitchen decades ago.