Josephine Foster with No Land

Josephine Foster

Josephine Foster is a Colorado composer and performer whose “music plays games with our ideas of time and space” says The Guardian. The Nashville Scene describes her work a “fusion of art song and American folk music” and the former opera student is “known to breathe new life into archaic forms, embodying the cultural archaeology of Harry Smith’s old weird America, and has lent her characteristic mezzo-soprano and interpretive wit to over two decades of recordings” writes Blank Forms.

“You might call Ms. Foster’s eerie warbling old-fashioned, except that it evokes a scrambled past that exists only in her own vision: mountain songs that never were, spaced-out hybrids that never will be.” – The New York Times

A “Vibrating Voice to Shake the Soul” – NPR

No Land

No Land is a poet, artist and filmmaker whose work continues in the lineage of the downtown NYC avant garde— honoring an intuitive vow towards creation. Her art evokes reverence for mystery in the forms of her paintings, drawings, poet-performances with musicians, photographic works, and films. Born in NYC & devoted to its histories, she has been guided by spirit encounters with downtown artists, poets, elders and activists. No Land is a 2024-2025 Roulette Commissioned Artist.

Her book publications include: Authentic Artifice (Newest York Press, 2018), Threadbare (Translucent Flower Press, 2025) and The Velvet Wire with Anne Waldman (Granary Books, 2024) which can be found in the collections of the Beinecke at Yale, the Getty, the Library of Congress, New York Public Library and elsewhere.

As a poet & vocalist, and often bandleader, No Land has performed at The Whitney Museum, Lincoln Center, the William Burroughs Bunker (Giorno Poetry Systems), Rewire Festival, Jazzfest Berlin, Crossing Borders Festival (the Hague), Enclave Festival (Mexico City), Roulette, LaMaMa Galleria (NYC), The Kennedy Center (DC), The Poetry Project, Pioneer Works, Fotografiska NY Museum, & on NYC street corners. In 2024, No Land was a performance artist-in-residence at La Casaforte in Naples, Italy & in 2025 her Sonic-Poem Double Twilight was commissioned by Roulette Intermedium.

No Land has worked internationally at the intersections of music, poetry, and voice— fusing realms of jazz, noise, rock, improvisation, and ancient poetical text. She performs her poem-mosaic- ruminations with different formations of musician collaborators, all of whom are deeply entrenched in historic lineages of the avant garde, jazz, rock, and experimental music communities— Shahzad Ismaily, Luke Stewart (Irreversible Entanglements, Moor Mother), Daniel Carter, Oliver Ray (Patti Smith Group) & others. Her audio collaboration with musician Oliver Ray, “Cremation Piece,” was released as a track on the Fall of America Volume 2 album from the Allen Ginsberg Estate in 2023, alongside works from Philip Glass, Ai Weiwei, and Thurston Moore. More of her work can be found at www.maepoe.com

Oliver Ray

Oliver Tompkins Ray is a poet who works with text, sound, and image. His book Source Vagrant is published by Sonorous Anchorite Press, and his new album being gone will be released in early 2027. From 1995 to 2005 he collaborated with Patti Smith, cowriting many songs and touring as a member of her band; in 2024 he directed and composed Woolgathering, a spoken-word opera based on her book, which premiered at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.

He frequently works with the poet and artist No Land; their composition “Cremation Piece” appears on Allen Ginsberg: The Fall of America, Vol. II. Recent talks include “The Archive as Master Work: The Viral Shamanism of William S. Burroughs” at INTERZONE London and “Anthroposophical Anarchism and the Decentralization of the Spirit” at Harvard Divinity School’s 100 Years of Rudolf Steiner. His essays appear on his Substack, Rimbaud’s Lost Papers.

Oliver Ray will be joining No Land on guitar.

Rachelle Rahmé

Rachelle Rahmé is a Lebanese-American writer and translator interested in collaborative liberation methodologies. Her first book of poems Mercurial, or Is That Liberty? was published by Fonograf Editions (Portland, OR) in 2025. Her next book of prose Dionysus the Prairie is due out from 1080Press (Kingston, NY) in late 2026. A long time employee of Anthology Film Archives in NYC, she currently teaches in Culture & Media Studies at The New School. She has released two records of musical experiments under the name Roe Enney.

Rachelle Rahmé will be offering an opening reading of poetry.