Friday: Doors open at 5pm | Saturday: Doors open at 4pm

STUDENTS! Use code STUDENT2025 for discounted tickets on Friday and Saturday.

LOCALS! Use code 12534 for discounted tickets on Friday and Saturday.

TICKETS AVAILABLE IN ADVANCE OR AT THE DOOR

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Basilica SoundScape — Basilica Hudson’s signature music festival presented in collaboration with The Creative Independent — is proud to present a weekend of music and art within our beautifully reclaimed  post-industrial setting right at the Hudson River’s epic waterfront, presenting some of the world’s most exciting and boundary-pushing performers with a special emphasis on ecstatic noise, poets, and the written word. 

Curated by Melissa Auf der Maur, Brandon Stosuy, and Tony Stone, along with guest curation from David Castillo of St. Vitus and writer Jenn Pelly, 2025 marks Basilica Hudson’s 15 year anniversary, and marks the 10th iteration of Basilica SoundScape. A decade in, and Basilica SoundScape continues to look for ways to bring together various kinds of dark, heavy, surprising sounds from different corners of your record collections.

In keeping with its reputation as “the anti-festival,” this year Basilica SoundScape will continue to push the boundaries of how attendees traditionally experience festival-going. Stitching together a sonic tapestry that moves between dark hip hop, black metal, bedroom ambient, minimalist experimental folk, reconfigured ‘90s dance music, glitchy R&B, chamber pop, horrorcore and punk, and more, Friday and Saturday evening offer site-specific inspired work as other local musicians and poets flesh out the rest of the programming. Basilica SoundScape aims to foster an environment that encourages these artists to tap into true creative freedom without limits and to immerse themselves in a weekend in Upstate NY – and invites the audience to discover new sounds.

“When Basilica SoundScape was launched in 2011, the idea was to present a carefully curated, cross-genre music and arts festival. We saw it as an antidote to the larger, faceless corporate festivals of that (and this) time, all featuring basically the same lineups. It was meant to be more mixtape, less hierarchical Coachella flyer. We also weren’t interested in endless expansion: We wanted to house the event in an 18,000-square foot converted factory on the Hudson River, a space that felt essential to the SoundScape experience.

In 2025, the vision remains the same.” 

— Brandon Stosuy, Co-Founder

About The Creative Independent: Launched in September 2016, The Creative Independent is a growing resource of emotional and practical guidance for creative people. Led by Co-founder and Editor in Chief Brandon Stosuy, TCI’s goal is to educate, inspire, and grow the community of people who create or dream of creating through discussions with working artists leading creative, independent lives. TCI publishes interviews, how-to guides, surveys and worksheets, advice and wisdom and other creative tools; organizes live events and workshops and curates publications that align with our mission. The Creative Independent is ad-free and published by Kickstarter, PBC.

LIGHT LOUNGE

VISUAL ART: Diana Lehr. “Worlding: Elemental Currents” Video Installations 

For Basilica SoundScape 2025, Diana Lehr presents a multi-part, site-responsive projection installation that activates the upper and lower windows and alcove, transforming the site into a dynamic canvas of light and motion, visible both inside and out, setting the stage for an immersive encounter with shifting light and time.

Drawing from her ongoing Worlding series, Lehr extends her videos beyond the screen, across the building’s architectural surfaces. Integrating her moving-image work of elemental forces—air, water, fire, and earth—with Basilica’s architecture, she creates dimensional fields of movement and atmosphere that merge with the building’s industrial past, underscoring its transformation into a vibrant cultural and ecological center.

Lehr’s compositions, which include recurring sequences of air currents combining with rainfall, seafoam erupting from a blowhole, blinking constellations of fireflies, and spinning sparks from a fire rippling through the space, open perceptual thresholds to phenomena that often go unnoticed. Technology functions as a conduit—reconnecting audiences with a living world it often obscures. 

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Previous artists to have played Basilica SoundScape include Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Irreversible Entanglements / Zannie / DJ Alima Lee / Jenny Hval / FlucT / Zsela / Grouper / Hanif Abdurraqib / Low / M Lamar / Haxan Cloak x Nick Zinner / Lightning Bolt / Stephen O’Malley’s Un Vide Dans Le Ciel / Gang Gang Dance / Richard Hell / Jack Walls / Julianna Barwick / Swans / Tim Hecker / Deafheaven / White Lung / Julia Holter / Thor Harris / Matthew Barney / Dorothea Lasky / Ariana Reines / Perfume Genius / Hilton Als / Kris Perry / Wolves in the Throne Room / Angel Olsen / Explosions in the Sky / Mike Renaud / The Body / Bell Witch / Deradoorian / Sterling Ruby / Mary Lattimore / Amber Tamblyn  / Emel Mathlouthi / Jlin / Moor Mother / serpentwithfeet / Eileen Myles / Morgan Parker / Marianne Vitale

“The absence of long lines, corporate sponsorships, and flower crowns have made [Basilica SoundScape] a banner weekend for adventurous listeners, and the program, as usual, is stunning.”

The New Yorker

“SoundScape is certainly unlike most festivals, emphasizing strong live sound, broad genre representation, and a legitimately diverse lineup; there just aren’t many other settings where an unusual post-punk/electronic band like Boy Harsher can capture a sizable audience at a headlining time. By asking audiences to pay close attention to heady, drawn-out, sometimes abrasive performances, SoundScape challenges the notion that festivals exist more for partying or networking than serious artistic experiences.”

Brooklyn Vegan

“It was a wild, exhilarating place to read my work. I would’ve expected it to be hard to get a music audience to focus on words but it was all pure energy, the space great and flowing, the overlap of that act to mine and the next created this really unique attention to sound that I was so glad to be a part of.”

Eileen Myles

“SoundScape, for me, feels honest, useful, communal, and real. It’s more a show than a festival. It’s more a family gathering than a show…Basilica Soundscape is, without a doubt, also the most fulfilling curatorial project of my life.”

Brandon Stosuy, Basilica SoundScape Co-Curator and Co-Founder of The Creative Independent

Past Supporters & Partners

WGXC // Varyer // Market New York // Red Bull // Consulate General of Iceland // Kickstarter // Poets & Writers // Savi // Sacred Bones Records // River Valley Arts Collective // Triptych // Pitchfork // The Collaborative // Bread Alone // Cottage Treasures // Sloop Brewing // Trapp Brewing // King’s Highway Fine Cider // H0l0 // PS21