Jennifer Herrema Enlists Kurt Vile, MGMT, Hot Chip, More For Installation Soundtrack

Jennifer Herrema, frontwoman of Black Bananas and formerly of Royal Trux, recently curated a group of artists for an immersive soundtrack to be used in artist duo Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe’s new installation at Red Bull Studios in New York– an interactive installation called “Scenario in the Shade”. The installation debuts September 12 and will run through December 6.

“Scenario in the Shade” features a series of rooms that visitors can wander through while enjoying a soundtrack provided by the different artists on Herrema’s soundtrack, which features Devendra Banhart, Kurt Vile, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzi Bougatsos, Brian McKinley and Neil Hagerty (her partners from Royal Trux), RTX and the Black Bananas, MGMT’s Benjamin Goldwasser and Andrew VanWyngarden, Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie, OFF!’s Mario Rubalcaba, and others.

The installation was designed to give visitors a glimpse of the youth cultures of San San International, a fictional city that “sits somewhere between San Diego and San Juan”. 

According to the New York Times, the display includes everything from “a Moroccan-themed, sunken living room fit for a bachelor pad and a Victorian space complete with a player piano and shelves of jars filled with random books and magazine pages” to an exit through “a modified Port-a-Potty” that lands in “the San San International courtroom; it’s situated next to a deli/arcade/performance area” where Herrema and a few of the contributors will play. “The soundtrack is completely integral,” Herrema told the Times. “Basically it will guide through these scenarios that there will be multiple intentions. Because we can make a mix for every day of the week, and you would feel differently about the space.”

Listen to Black Banana’s “My House”:

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