Welcome to Sound Garden, a pop-up nightclub nurturing new worlds and sonic landscapes in Texas. 

Curated by Future Front for the Fusebox Festival hub at Distribution Hall, the club’s open from 9 PM to 1 AM, featuring transformational DJ sets and performances by Juliana Huxtable, MATTIE and Belial.

Think international performance festival meets underground techno function meets experimental digital high art. 🧚

Bring your best look. All are welcome. Free and open to the public. 21+

WHAT TO EXPECT

• 9:00 PM CT — DOORS

• 9:15 PM CT — BELIAL (HOUSTON)

• 10:00 PM CT — MATTIE (DALLAS)

• 11:00 PM CT — JULIANA HUXTABLE (BRYAN)

Throughout the performances, you can enjoy installations, food, art and other experiences curated by Fusebox, currently on exhibition at Distribution Hall.

Wear something that makes you feel good—that gives you permission to be yourself.

HOW TO ATTEND

Thanks to Fusebox Festivals’s gracious partners and Future Front, this event is free and open to the public. 21+.

To attend this nighttime event, you are encouraged to RSVP. When you RSVP, you have the option to donate to our work.

Name your own ticket price at check-out below:

MEET OUR LINEUP:

Using the structures of music as mediums in her multi-media universe, Juliana Huxtable (Bryan, Texas) is a DJ and musician singular in her approach. Where her visual art and poetry navigate the complexification of desire in a life increasingly mediated by technology, her music utilizes the sounds of technology itself to construct parallel realities to be inhabited and embodied in rhythm and harmonic tableaux.

Her sets skillfully deploy the notion of sampling, and re-blogging as DJ strategies, ecstatically mixing an array of influences that frolic at the boundary of genre- intuition and experimentation. At once an assertion of freedom and an ode to the evolutionary structure of electronic music subcultures, she aspires to the sublime in what can often only be described as witchcraft behind the decks; seance from the stage.

MATTIE (Dallas) is a mirror. She is an oracle of the SOL, and a watchperson over the keys to liberation guiding your experience via modalities of introspective visuals, lyrical self-inquiry, melody/harmony, experimental instrumentation, movement, meditation, and performance art.

Belial (Houston) is the stage name of multidisciplinary artist and musician Matty Zarate. Their works explore themes of autonomy, spirituality, ritual and technology, and how the marriage of the cybernetic and organic worlds have have shaped the performance of modern transgender identity.

MEET THE PRODUCERS

Future Front is a 501c3 nonprofit, homegrown in Austin, Texas. We nurture spaces where women and LGBTQ+ creatives, founders and leaders can grow together. Currently, we produce The Front Market and Festival, host year-round workshops and meet-ups, as well as create resources for resilience in creative industries. You’re invited to join us, of course. You can learn more about how it all works, our team and what we do: futurefronttexas.org

The Fusebox Festival hosts adventurous performances from local, national, and international artists at locations across Austin. This year’s festival runs from April 13 to April 17, 2022. Learn more at fuseboxfestival.com.

PREPARE YOUR VISIT TO SOUND GARDEN AT THE FUSEBOX FESTIVAL HUB

Distribution Hall is located at 1500 E 4th St, Austin, TX 78702—and operates as an event space and production studio. Originally constructed to house Austin's first German beer importer, this thoughtfully restored mid-century structure now features a 7,000 sq-ft studio warehouse, a 3,000 sq-ft open-air hangar, and a beautiful 7,500 sq-ft courtyard and lawn.

WHERE TO PARK: Distribution Hall is located in the heart of East Austin. There's City street parking, as well as parking in surrounding neighborhoods. We always recommend carpooling and/or utilizing public transportation, if you can, though, to be conscious of traffic and congestion for our neighbors and vendors! There's also bus stop nearby.

OUR COMMUNITY SAFETY GUIDELINES —

• All FFTX staff, volunteers and guests will be required to practice mutual respect, as well as demonstrate an alignment with Future Front’s code of conduct and values.

• All sessions are held online or in outdoor, open-air spaces. Capacity is limited to reduce crowding of any kind.

• All guests are required to practice mutual respect and social distancing, as well as follow APH’s COVID-19 Guidelines, which currently include:

  • At all levels, people can wear a mask based on personal preference, informed by their personal level of risk.

  • People with potential COVID-19 symptoms and/or exposure to someone with COVID-19 should wear a mask, regardless of a negative test.

  • People with a positive COVID-19 test and/or not fully vaccinated should not participate in an in-person Future Front event or visit a Future Front location until they test negative and/or they are fully vaccinated and no longer at risk.

ACCESSIBILITY NOTES: The market is wheelchair-accessible. ASL interpreters can be provided upon request. Si necesita traducción al español para participar en este evento, envíenos un correo electrónico a hello@futurefronttexas.org.

GOT QUESTIONS? Shoot us a note at hello@futurefronttexas.org. We're happy to help and will get back to you!