What about our stars has kept us enchanted for thousands of years? These lights, a glowing, moving lattice work which hovers and comforts through the darkness, have been studied and interpreted by all of Earth's cultures; they are our signposts of change, for the passage of time but also our faithful guide. They’re an eternal constant, shared by and uniting us all in their charted motion, containers of our collective dreams yet proof of our limitations in their beckoning, distant wink. Enemies and redeemers, worlds unto their own, unknowable however prevalent. They remind us of our divine, faultless placement within all that exists. Our contemporary planet is a mysterious and lamented one—at odds with its past, with the sacredness of its inhabitants, unsure of the direction of its next steps. Did Kepler expunge the wonder from our world forever when he rationalized our cosmos? Did the Age of Enlightenment simply shift our fervor from the pasts’ modes of understanding to a new realm of facts and unarguable truth through inference and observation? Astrology, Zoroastrian cosmology, divination, magic… all taken from us, replaced by knowledge and science with capital K’s and S’s. Where, how, does the past meet the present? Starting Saturday. October 24th, Joe Claussell and Paul Nickerson unite Cosmic Arts and Dope Jams yet again for an answer to our current cultural malaise and existential stagnation: DREAMONS. A new series inspired by their past PASSAGES collaboration, this event will focus on what can’t be expressed through traditional dance music. Gatherings will fall on the Saturdays of each month aligned with the changing signs of the zodiac—12 in all. Listeners will be asked to surrender to the changing tides of universal energy by bringing pillows, blankets, yoga mats, caidal tents or any other unwinding aid to soothe themselves into a state of calm to accompany the voyage over the course of 2 distinct 1.5 hour sets. Join us, the devout and the secular, amongst the light-pollution concealed New York City stars, for a night of sound and vibration to replenish the body and spirit.