2 Evenings
3 Performances
Tuesday, September 23rd - 18h00-21h00
- Fingers On The Pulse, by Pearl M Wong
- 32 attendee limit
- Activities begin at 18h30 sharp
Wednesday, September 24th - 18h00-21h30
- Sculpting The Collective Body, by Chris Lunney
- Pacing, by Sandro Petrillo
- 40 attendee limit
- Activities begin at 18h30 sharp
About THRESHER
Our hypothesis: underground trust-based networks of ritual can bypass conventional discovery and distribution, creating accessible sacred space for the safe reimagining of self and relationality, toward a kinder world.
THRESHER is an invitation to commit to ritual: we harvest the fruits of the care we have given our meandering curiosities, we distill the qualia that lie in wait, and we convene trusted family to soak in moments of collective ferment, all in hopes that wisdom may take root. Until then, we tend to the soil and strive towards attunement with our contexts. Three pansensorial interventions are being designed to challenge the boundaries often unexamined - between senses, between silences, between bodies, between breaths… is there an intuitional field of potential relating that can be revealed? We have no answers, but we sense the clues calling. Join us on the shores of the portal.
This is an invite only event. As an act of gratitude for our existing relationship, you have been chosen as a seed member of this inaugural network of trust. In the future, you may be welcomed to invite friends, on the conditions that you are vouching for their character and adherence to the intention of the rituals being enacted. For this inaugural edition, we request that you come with this spirit first. This network is actively attempting to create space that allows for the safe reimagining of self and relationality, towards a kinder world. We are deliberate, and we are imperfect, so we appreciate your solidarity, grace and patience as we stumble forth in service of our most vivid dreaming.
• Shift the moment together.
• Summon new ways of feeling.
• Slide into spirit, experience & communion.
- Ritual as Everyday Gesture: small acts hold sacred weight
- Relational Influence: others' practices enrich and shape your own
- Emergent Balance: spiral between opposites to align with cosmic dance
- Memory & Ancestry: all timelines can be sensed from here & now
- Presence over Perfection: there are no wrong moves
Core Ingredients
The Performances
Fingers On The Pulse - Tuesday, September 23
by Pearl M Wong
What arises when we distribute and coordinate the operation of the clock itself - what do we become if we practice grooving as one, taking turns wielding the power to move the arm of time forward, each depending on the last to keep the groove alive and interesting?
Players will be invited to listen and keep time together in a seated circle, with touching hands rested on electro-acoustic piezo mics. These piezo triggers step forward the internal clock of a multimodal modular synthesizer, steered by the Thresher Trio, assembled with the intent to investigate the perceptual edges between paradigms of synthesis (analog & digital sonics, East/West coast, sampling, dub feedback, spectralist signal processing, scent, light). Each player will await the finger tap of the player before them, the signal call of the incoming pulse train, and will then respond by tapping with their other hand, rested against the next player’s hand. As such, each player is actively folding and posturing the skeleton of the collected rhythm, while listening for what it is trying to say.
Can we bring the spacetime that exists between moments and inside ourselves into sharper focus? What voice emerges when identity is a “yes-and” timing protocol between friends?
Perhaps your bones will learn some math. If not, maybe you’ll have a laugh. In this cosmos, there is but one song, and we all only carry subsections of it. With luck and grace, we can learn to make our transitions sound sweet, together.
Sculpting the Collective Body - Wednesday, September 24
by Chris Lunney
What does it mean to move on your own or to be moved by another? Where does one's identity end and another's begin? What occurs when we move in support of the other and/or in support of the collective?
There's something transformative about moving to support somebody or something else. Our form needs to complement theirs and their form complements ours in reciprocation. When we listen deeply to the needs of another or the needs of the collective, our role seems to dissolve from an egoic "me" into the collective "we." Here emerge forms of meaning that we couldn't have created ourselves.
Over 90 minutes, we'll explore these questions through hands-on movement, investigating deep listening for our own needs and others', cultivating care and understanding, practicing sensitive leadership, and experiencing the dissolving and reconstructing of identity. We'll begin moving in pairs, then groups of three, gradually increasing until we're moving as one collective body. At intervals, we'll pause to reflect and sense into what is occurring developing shared language, both verbal and physical, to express what we're discovering.
This practice involves the careful moving and being moved by others, similar to partnered dancing. We will respect and acknowledge physical boundaries and needs so everyone feels comfortable. If the concept sounds exciting or interesting but you do not want to participate in moving or being moved, it is enough to be in the space and witness as a participant, as this too is being part of the collective body.
Come explore what it means to belong, to move through space together, and to discover the forms that emerge when we listen deeply enough to dissolve into something larger than ourselves.
Pacing - Wednesday, September 24
by Sandro Petrillo
Pacing is an immersive performance that unfolds across sound, light, and scent, guiding participants through states of stillness, motion, and return. Over ninety minutes, ambience gives way to pulse and rhythm before softening again into quiet presence. Smoke and aromatic oils shape the air, while shifting atmospheres invite both inner reflection and embodied movement.
The work emerges from years of practice in sensory and spatial design — creating experiences at the intersection of ritual, community, and the ephemeral arts of light and fragrance. Drawing on a lineage of underground music, earth-based wellness, and experiential installation, Pacing offers a space where the body can attune to cycles of dissolution and renewal.
At its heart lies the recognition of a universal rhythm: the descent into stillness, the pulse that animates, and the gentle return. Like the alchemical journey through darkness toward illumination, Pacing invites participants to inhabit their own inner forest, moving through shadow into resonance, and back into the quiet glow of self-awareness.
Who We Are
We're motivated to build a creative playground that can spark the momentum to deepen craft, nurture relationships, and respond to spirit. The rave taught us that meaningful change starts from inside each of ourselves, rippling out via community resonances to the broader world. We are choosing to honour both the nerd itch for exploration & the divine call to be the spaces that we would want to inhabit, together.
Pearl M Wong - Lisboa, Portugal
Chris Lunney - New York, USA
Sandro Petrillo - Toronto, Canada
NO PRESSURE // FULL THRESHER